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By Shepard, Jim2015., Alfred. A. Knopf Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: After the Nazis take his parents away, Aron is rescued by Janusz Korczak, the head of an orphanage, who tries to help Aron escape before he is sent to Treblinka.
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By Shepard, Jim2017., Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Penguin Random House, LLC Call No: REALISTIC F SHE Edition: First Edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Collection of ten stories in which diverse characters, including 19th century arctic explorers, frontier housewives, and 18th century french balloonists, face everything from the emotional pitfalls of everyday life to historic catastrophes on a global scale. .
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By Shepard, Jim2021., Adolescent, Alfred A. Knopf Call No: DYSTOPIA F SHE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "A spare and gripping novel about the next pandemic--completed by the award-winning Jim Shepard before COVID-19 even emerged--that reads like a fictional sequel to our current crisis. In a tiny settlement on the west coast of Greenland, 11-year-old Aleq and his best friend, frequent trespassers at a mining site exposed to mountains of long-buried and thawing permafrost, carry what they pick up back into their village, and from there Shepard's harrowing and deeply moving story follows Aleq, one of the few survivors of the initial outbreak, through his identification and radical isolation as the likely index patient. While he shoulders both a crushing guilt for what he may have done and the hopes of a world looking for answers, we also meet two Epidemic Intelligence Service investigators dispatched from the CDC--Jeannine, an epidemiologist and daughter of Algerian immigrants, and Danice, an MD and lab wonk. As they attempt to head off the cataclysm, Jeannine--moving from the Greenland hospital overwhelmed with the first patients to a Level 4 high-security facility in the Rocky Mountains--does what she can to sustain Aleq. Both a chamber piece of multiple intimate perspectives and a more omniscient glimpse into the megastructures (political, cultural, and biological) that inform such a disaster, the novel reminds us of the crucial bonds that form in the midst of catastrophe, as a child and several hyper-educated adults learn what it means to provide adequate support for those they love. In the process, they celebrate the precious worlds they might lose, and help to shape others that may survive"--Provided by the publisher.
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-- Disney.p2011., Juvenile, Walt Disney Records : Distributed by Disney Press Call No: KIT CD E DIS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Read-along storybook and CD.Summary Note: "Pooh is on a mission to feed his very rumbly tummy when he discovers poor Eeyore has lost his tail. The friends look high and low, but their search takes another turn when it appears Christopher Robin is also in need of their help"--Book.
