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As part of his doctoral research, Albert Schatz, a twenty-three-year-old graduate student at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, diligently worked alone in a basement laboratory to find an antibiotic to treat tuberculosis. In October of 1943, Schatz discovered streptomycin. But his professor, Selman Waksman, took the credit, relegating Schatz to the footnotes of history.

Over fifty years later, German-born Inge Auerbacher read an article that named Schatz as co-discoverer of the drug. As a young Jewish girl during World War II, Auerbacher was a prisoner at Terezin...

They call Lisa Stack the Asphalt Angel and more often The Bitch On Wheels. But deep down, she s soft as mush. She drives on the sometimes lonely and dangerous highways across America in her Freightliner, making the asphalt cry out beneath her. Lisa s heart-pounding lady trucker adventures begin when she is the subject of a brutal mugging. She gets caught in the web of the notorious N.Y.G. (New York Gang), whose slogan is: Comply or you die She witnesses the explosion of a gas tanker and the murder of its driver by ski-mask wearing hoodlums. Lisa gets a tour of New York City with a gun to her...

Inge Auerbacher wchst als Kind einer jdischen Familie in einem schwbischen Dorf auf. Sie ist sieben, als sie mit ihren Eltern in das Konzentrationslager Theresienstadt deportiert wird. Sie erzhlt aus der Sicht des Kindes, von ihren Freunden und ihrer Familie. Wie ihr Vater nach der Reichspogromnacht sein Geschft aufgeben und sie den gelben Stern tragen mu. Von der schrecklichen Zeit im Lager, von der Verzweiflung und der stndigen Angst. Aber immer noch gibt es Spiele, die das berleben ertrglicher machen.

Inge Auerbacher's childhood was as happy and peaceful as that of any other German child--until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and because Inge's family was Jewish, she and her parents with sent to a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia. The Auerbachers defied death for three years, and were finally freed in 1945. In her own words, Inge Auerbacher tells her family's harrowing story--and how they carried with them ever after the strength and courage of will that allowed them to survive.

"A moving story . . . The author's] perspective, while chilling, pierces the heart...