Elmer, Robert
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A nighttime meeting with a stranger could change everything…Dov Zalinski has learned quickly that the Jerusalem of 1948 is a dangerous place for every
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one, whether Jew, Arab, or British. Yet not even the threat of sniper attacks can keep the young Holocaust survivor from searching for his family—or what’s left of it. Dov’s growing involvement with the Haganah, a Jewish resistance movement, may be just the added help he needs to locate his brother, Natan, lost during the war. Will God answer his prayer?Emily Parkinson has watched the city she loves turn ugly with violence. Her parents are anxious to send her on the next ship to England, but Emily cannot face the thought of leaving her home in Jerusalem to return to a place she barely remembers. With every bomb blast and nighttime raid, though, the fight for Palestine hits closer to home, until it is only a matter of time before Emily’s own family is affected. When the day comes to say goodbye, will she be brave enough to go?
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