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In the collection's title story, a pack of girls raised by wolves are painstakingly reeducated by nuns. In "Haunting Olivia", two young boys make midnight trips to a boat graveyard in search of their dead sister, who set sail in the exoskeleton of a giant crab. In "Sleepaway Camp for Disordered Dreamers", a boy whose dreams foretell implacable tragedies is sent to a summer camp for troubled sleepers (Cabin 1, Narcoleptics; Cabin 2, Sleep Apneics; Cabin 3, Somnambulists . . . ).

They are voices lost to time. Beginning in the late 1970s, five veteran airmen sat for private interviews. Decades after the guns fell silent, they recounted in vivid detail the most dangerous missions that made the difference in the war. Ed Haydon dueled with the deadliest of German aces - and forced him to the ground. Robert Johnson racked up 27 kills in his P-47 Thunderbolt, but nearly lost his life when his plane was shot to ribbons and his guns jammed. Cigar-chomping Curtis LeMay was the Air Corps general who devised the bomber tactics that pummeled Germany's war machine.

Tom Sawyers bester Freund Huck war lange Zeit ein Herumtreiber, bis er durch den Fund eines Schatzes zu plötzlichem Reichtum gelangte. Das Geld lockt jedoch seinen nichtsnutzigen und gewalttätigen Vater an, so dass Huck zusammen mit dem entlaufenen Sklaven Jim die Flucht ergreift. Zusammen fahren die beiden Außenseiter auf einem Floß den Mississippi entlang und erleben dabei zahlreiche Abenteuer. Mark Twains Klassiker von 1884 wird oft als einer der größten und wichtigsten amerikanischen Romane bezeichnet.