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When Strega Nona leaves him alone with her magic pasta pot, Big Anthony is determined to show the townspeople how it works.
"This author's previous book, "Making Bombs for Hitler", was a somewhat balanced view of the peoples living in eastern Poland, western Ukraine during the Second World War. This included Poles, Ukrainians, Jews, ethnic Germans, all who were deeply a..."
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When twelve-year-old Ellie and her family lose livelihood and move to a mountain cabin in 1934, she quickly learns to be an outdoors woman and, when needed, a healer.
In the winter of 1924 two sled dogs, Togo and Balto, race against time to deliver a diptheria antitoxin to Nome, Alaska and stop the deadly illness from spreading.
"Totally enjoyed. Both for remembering how it felt to be a child who grated at the easy parental advice to "be good", which deeply discouraged her when said by a loving parent because it didn't describe her or her aspirations. Also interesting for..."
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