Diane Ackerman, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses and An Alchemy of Mind, received the 2008 Orion Book Award for The Zookeeper's Wife: A War Story. This ground breaking work of nonfiction recounts the story - as powerful as Schindler's List - of Jan and Antonina Zabinski, Christian zookeepers horrified by Nazi racism, who saved over 300 doomed Jewish refugees and Polish resistance fighters by hiding them in the bombed-out cages of the Warsaw Zoo.  The Washington Post called it "a true story - of human empathy and its opposite - that is simultaneously grave and exuberant, wise and playful." Courtesy of Borders, copies of her books will be available for purchase and signing at this event.

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