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2019., Linda Leith Editions Call No: QWF Fic Rav Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: A stolen house on a Polish square. A pop bottle on Vancouver's east side. Nadia Baltzan knows a few things about theft. THE GIRL WHO STOLE EVERYTHING is a fresh and telling portrait of the relationship between prewar Polish shtetl life and Jewish lives today. In Poland, a house stands empty on a village square seventy-five years after its owners were killed. In Vancouver, the aftermath of a murder overturns the life of the victim's niece. In these old and new worlds, a mystery lurks--and Norman Ravvin lovingly recovers the past of both.
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2015., Biblioasis Call No: Fic Add Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Malcolm is a hairdresser who is dealing with his partner's worsening Alzheimer's and Alison is the salon receptionist, and the story's ingenue. Both are shaken by a brutal event that leaves Alison diving into the history of the Holocaust, and Malcolm even more unable to recover from the loss of his lover. Both are plagued by remembering what others would rather forget: for Malcolm it is personal history, and for Alison, social history, which all of the sudden, has become personal.