Summary
After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces. Full description
Summary: |
After her kind mentor is arrested because of his Jewish heritage, a young baker's apprentice in Normandy engages in discreet resistance activities, baking contraband loaves of bread for the hungry using surplus ingredients taken from occupying forces. |
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Physical Description: |
309 pages ; 24 cm |
ISBN: |
9780062369581 006236958X |
Author Notes: |
Stephen P. Kiernan is a journalist who graduated from Johns Hopkins University and the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. He has been a journalst for over twenty years and won many awards including the Brechner Center's Freedom of Information Award, The Scripps Howard Award for Distinguished Service to the First Amendment, and a George Polk Award. He is also an auhtor of both fiction and nonfiction. His title, The Baker's Secret, made the Best Seller List. (Bowker Author Biography) |