4
0
Support the library.
Your support helps keep books free for everyone ❤️
📍 Noticed
The Hunger Between Us
by Marina Scott
Sponsored
Synopsis
A novel about a girl’s determination to survive during the Nazi siege of Leningrad—and to save her best friend from a horrible fate.There are some lines that should never be crossed—even in a city ruled by hunger. The black market is Liza’s lifeline, where she ...
A novel about a girl’s determination to survive during the Nazi siege of Leningrad—and to save her best friend from a horrible fate.
There are some lines that should never be crossed—even in a city ruled by hunger. The black market is Liza’s lifeline, where she barters family heirlooms and steals whatever she can get her hands on just for enough food to survive. Morality, after all, has become a fluid thing since the Nazi siege has cut off her city from the rest of the world. Hope for a quick liberation is obliterated as the Soviet government focuses on sustaining the Red Army and not the city, subjecting its people to unimaginable cruelties at the hands of the secret police. When Liza’s best friend Aka proposes that they go to the same bullying officials, rumored to give young women food in exchange for “entertainment,” Liza thinks there surely must be some other way. Then Aka disappears and Liza resolves to rescue her no matter the cost, entangling herself in an increasingly dangerous web with two former classmates, one a policeman, the other forced to live underground.
There are some lines that should never be crossed—even in a city ruled by hunger. The black market is Liza’s lifeline, where she barters family heirlooms and steals whatever she can get her hands on just for enough food to survive. Morality, after all, has become a fluid thing since the Nazi siege has cut off her city from the rest of the world. Hope for a quick liberation is obliterated as the Soviet government focuses on sustaining the Red Army and not the city, subjecting its people to unimaginable cruelties at the hands of the secret police. When Liza’s best friend Aka proposes that they go to the same bullying officials, rumored to give young women food in exchange for “entertainment,” Liza thinks there surely must be some other way. Then Aka disappears and Liza resolves to rescue her no matter the cost, entangling herself in an increasingly dangerous web with two former classmates, one a policeman, the other forced to live underground.
You May Also Like
The Minimalist Home: A Room-by-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life
Joshua Becker
Cute Elephant Coloring Pages For Kids
MR Gaurav jhunjhunwala
The Black Stallion
Walter Farley
The Frightful Fifty, Part One: 25 Dreadful Singles
Steve Dustcircle
The Odds of Getting Even
Amanda Sellet
100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Teiva Harsanyi
Religion Picks
View All
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: Anatomy of a Jerusalem Tragedy
Nathan Thrall
Powers and Thrones: A New History of the Middle Ages
Dan Jones
The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism
Tim Alberta
These Impossible Things
Salma El-Wardany
Toxic Empathy: How Progressives Exploit Christian Compassion
Allie Beth Stuckey
Seeing the Supernatural: Investigating Angels, Demons, Mystical Dreams, Near-Death Encounters, and Other Mysteries of the Unseen World
Lee Strobel