Stones from the River - Large Print Author:Ursula Hegi Trudi Montag is born during WWI in the small town of Burgdorf in Germany. She is a dwarf. All her life she yearns to grow like everyone else. But as she matures and becomes the towns librarian, unofficial historian, conscience, and purveyor of gossip, she comes to learn that like the stones at the bottom of a river that are seen only when one di... more »ves deep beneath its surface being different is a secret everyone shares, especially the Jews she harbors in her cellar during the Nazi regime.« less