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When Ivan, a gorilla who has lived for years in a down-and-out circus-themed mall, meets Ruby, a baby elephant that has been added to the mall, he decides that he must find her a better life.

Doctor-tested breakthroughs that can ease --even erase-- diabetes and its symptoms. --taken from front cover.

German-Jewish critic and philosopher Walter Benjamin tries to flee the Nazi invasion of Paris in 1940 by escaping through the Pyrenees into Spain. Interwoven in this tale are views of his life , including his youth in Berlin, his years with the German Youth Movement, his university days, his friendship with Gershom Scholem, his love affair with Asja Lacis, and his friendships with Bertolt Brecht and other artists and intellectuals.