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Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba the lion cub, Lula the bear, and countless others, faithfully depicted by acclaimed, award-winning journalist Louise Callaghan in her trade publishing debut.Combining a true-to-life narrative of humanity in the wake of war with the heartstring-tugging account of rescued animals, Father of Lions will appeal to audiences of bes...

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This is a story of human decency in the midst of barbarism - how the zookeeper of Mosul Zoo saved the animals during the Isis rule of the city between 2014 and 2017.

Father of Lions is the powerful true story of the evacuation of the Mosul Zoo, featuring Abu Laith the zookeeper, Simba the lion cub, Lula the bear, and countless others, faithfully depicted by acclaimed, award-winning journalist Louise Callaghan in her trade publishing debut.Combining a true-to-life narrative of humanity in the wake of war with the heartstring-tugging account of rescued animals, Father of Lions will appeal to audiences of bes...

This is a story of human decency in the midst of barbarism - how the zookeeper of Mosul Zoo saved the animals during the Isis rule of the city between 2014 and 2017.

This is a story of human decency in the midst of barbarism - how the zookeeper of Mosul Zoo saved the animals during the Isis rule of the city between 2014 and 2017.

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In The Ninth House explores the minute and magical detail of life. Many of these poems are personal, where the author resurrects ghosts and travels with them. As poet Anne Stevenson says of the poems, "they are personal in a good way." Travel, a theme important to the astrological Ninth House, is everywhere in the collection. From a lakeside summer cottage in Finland to the mountainous landscape of Bhutan, from Goya's Andalucia to Van Gogh's A...

Early Waking' and 'Evening' frame a collection that explores family and friends, birth and death. In Louise C. Callaghan's second collection, the poems speak of her life and go beyond that, inviting the reader inside.

The poems in this first collection range from poignant accounts of adult children leaving home, of a granddaughter and those heart searing poems which map the geography of love -- loneliness, desire, and loss. These poems resonate with passion and sorrow. They look quietly but bravely, and on occasion almost fiercely, at loneliness. But, here also are poems of simple pleasure, of joy in the changing of the seasons.