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By Shepard, Jimc2015., Adult, McClelland & Stewart Call No: Fic She Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A deeply affecting novel about the Holocaust and the children whose lives were caught up in it. Aron is a beguiling and perceptive and not always happy young boy coming into awareness of himself and his family's struggles. When they are driven from the countryside into Warsaw, their lives are changed forever. Aron and others risk their lives scuttling around the ghetto, smuggling and trading things to keep their people alive, while they are hunted by blackmailers and Jewish, Polish and German police, as gradually things catastrophically worsen, people begin to disappear, and survival is threatened on all sides.
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-- So you think that's badBy Shepard, Jim2011., Alfred A. Knopf Call No: Fic She Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Following Like Youœd Understand, Anywayawarded the Story Prize and a finalist for the National Book AwardJim Shepard returns with an even more wildly diverse collection of astonishingly observant stories. Like an expert curator, he populates the vastness of human experiencefrom its bizarre fringes and lonely, breathtaking pinnacles to the hopelessly mediocre and desperately below averagewith brilliant scientists, reluctant soldiers, workaholic artists, female explorers, depraved murderers, and deluded losers, all wholly convincing and utterly fascinating.
