title: Songbird: A Novel
author:  Walter Zacharius 
description: Many within the publishing industry and some without will recognize the author, for he's the near legendary founder of numerous houses and imprints including Kensington, Zebra and Arabesqueand at age 80, is publishing his first novel. But it's what's between the covers that counts, and Zacharius has written a romantic tale of a young Jewish woman's struggle with the Nazis that will entrance many readers. The novel divides into three sections, following, respectively, the destruction of the life of privileged young Polish Jew Mia Levy as the Nazis invade Poland and, eventually, send her family to Treblinka, even as she takes refuge with the Resistance and escapes to America; Mia's sojourn in Brooklyn, where she falls in love with a young musician, then is recruited by American military intelligence; and her return as a spy to Europe, where she joins a brothel catering to high-ranking Nazis and takes her revenge. The longest, strongest section is the first, distinguished by Zacharius's meticulous recreation of Polish Jewish life under early Nazi occupationscenes set within Jewish ghettos are harrowing and unforgettable. The American sequence offers welcome respite from the previous horrors. The final section occasionally slides into luridness, as Mia works as a dominatrix binding and whipping Nazis, but here and throughout, the narrative will sweep readers along with its large passions and clever plotting; also worthy is the author's ability to narrate convincingly from the POV of a young woman. This is one of this year's more unusual and captivating debut novels. <br />Copyright  Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
zlib_text: The Searching Songbird
  Book 2  of The Shendri Series
  E.P. Stavs
  
  Copyright ©  2 0 2 0  Erin Stavrides
  All rights reserved
  The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real
  persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
  No part of this book may be reproduced, or stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in
  any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise,
  without express written permission of the publisher.
  ISBN:  9 7 9 8 6 8 6 9 9 8 9 0 2
  Cover design by:  The Cover Collection
  Library of Congress Control Number:  2 0 1 8 6 7 5 3 0 9
  Printed in the U nited States of America
  
  For my parents. 
  Without you, I'd never have become the bookwork I am today.
  
  Contents
   
  Title Page
  Copyright
  Dedication
  Chapter One
  Chapter Two
  Chapter Three
  Chapter Four
  Chapter Five
  Chapter Six
  Chapter Seven
  Chapter Eight
  Chapter Nine
  Chapter Ten
  Chapter Eleven
  Chapter Twelve
  Chapter Thirteen
  Chapter Fourteen