Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/novels/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0003 407424 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/novels/engine/rss.php:0 Leah Kaminsky - Free Library Land Online - Novels https://novels.library.land/ ru Leah Kaminsky - Free Library Land Online - Novels DataLife Engine The Hollow Bones https://novels.library.land/leah-kaminsky/496849-the_hollow_bones.html https://novels.library.land/leah-kaminsky/496849-the_hollow_bones.html The Hollow Bones
'I remember you once told me about mockingbirds and their special talents for mimicry. They steal the songs from others, you said. I want to ask you this: how were our own songs stolen from us, the notes dispersed, while our faces were turned away?'
Berlin, 1936. Ernst Sch�fer, a young, ambitious zoologist and keen hunter and collector, has come to the attention of Heinrich Himmler, who invites him to lead a group of SS scientists to the frozen mountains of Tibet. Their secret mission: to search for the origins of the Aryan race. Ernst has doubts initially, but soon seizes the opportunity to rise through the ranks of the Third Reich.
While Ernst prepares for the trip, he marries Herta, his childhood sweetheart. But Herta, a flautist who refuses to play from the songbook of womanhood and marriage under the Reich, grows increasingly suspicious of Ernst and his expedition.
When Ernst and his colleagues finally leave Germany in 1938, they realise the world has...]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 04:18:18 +0200 Doll's Eye https://novels.library.land/leah-kaminsky/686143-dolls_eye.html https://novels.library.land/leah-kaminsky/686143-dolls_eye.html Doll's Eye
'I am a sucker for books that take European sensibility and bury it deeply in the Australian bush. Doll's Eye is a great and engrossing novel from a woman richly qualified to write it.'
TOM KENEALLY

Germany, 1933.
Anna Winter returns home to find a note from her father, warning her of grave danger. She flees overnight, taking her precious doll collection with her, and sets sail for Australia. She lands a job at the Birdum Hotel and carves a new life, hiding her past from the world – until a chance encounter with an eccentric stranger, Alter Mayseh, changes everything.
Australia, 1938.
A Yiddish poet fleeing persecution, Alter has seen the writing on the wall for his people. Armed with a letter of introduction from Albert Einstein, he manages his own escape from Europe and arrives in Australia in search of a safe place to call home. When fate leads him to Anna, he's convinced he's found his future with her. But a...]]> Wed, 14 Jun 2023 16:05:18 +0300 Writer, M.D. https://novels.library.land/leah-kaminsky/311485-writer_m_d_.html https://novels.library.land/leah-kaminsky/311485-writer_m_d_.html Writer, M.D.
From Chekhov to Maugham to William Carlos Williams, doctors have long given voice to their unique perspectives through literature. Writer, M.D. celebrates this rich tradition with a collection of fiction and nonfiction by today's most beloved physician-writers, including,

• Abraham Verghese, on the lost art of the physical exam
  • Pauline Chen, on the bond between a med student and her first cadaver
  • Atul Gawande, on the ethical dilemmas of a young surgical intern
  • Danielle Ofri, on the devastation of losing a patient
  • Ethan Canin, on love, poetry, and growing old

    These essays and stories illuminate the inner lives of men and women who deal with trauma, illness, mortality, and grief on a daily basis. Read together, they provide a candid, moving, one-of-a-kind glimpse behind the doctor's mask.]]> Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:50:11 +0200