"When Nati's cousins arrive from South America on very short notice, they ask one small favor of him and Osnat--to watch their six-year-old son while they go to kivrei tzaddikim. They go, but they don't come back. From that moment on, Nati and Osnat's lives become one big nightmare. Strange occurrences, people following them, disgruntled relatives. Nati and Osnat have fallen into a horror story from which they cannot extricate themselves. All their attempts to part from the boy who entered their life so suddenly meet with failure. Why are menacing criminals after the boy? What happened to his parents? Who is behind all this and what do they want? A time to give. A time to receive. A time for revenge. A time to be silent. A time to accept. A time to fight. A time to run" -- GreenfieldJudaica.com.

In this book the author tells the story of a flood of near biblical proportions; its destruction, its heroes and victims, and how it shaped America's natural disaster policies for the next century. Fourteen states in all were hit, along with every major and minor river east of the Mississippi. The storm began March 23, 1913, with a series of tornadoes that killed 150 people and injured 400. Then the freezing rains started and the flooding began. It continued for days. Some people drowned in their attics, others on the roads when they tried to flee. It was the nation's most widespread flood ever, more than 700 people died, hundreds of thousands of homes and buildings were destroyed, and millions were left homeless. The destruction extended far beyond the Ohio valley to Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, West Virginia, New York, New Jersey, and Vermont. In the aftermath, flaws in America's natural disaster response systems wer