| International Standard Book Number |
9798891648326 (large print)
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| Personal Name |
Shipman, James D., author.
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| Title Statement |
Crossing the line / James D. Shipman.
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| Edition Statement |
Center Point Large Print edition
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2026
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| Physical Description |
444 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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| General Note |
Includes historical notes and discussion questions.
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| General Note |
Regular print version previously published by: Kensington Publishing Corp.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"In the Podgorze district of Krakow sits the Under the Eagle Pharmacy, a family-run business that has long served Jews and Poles alike. Since Poland's occupation by German forces, Irena, a pharmacist, has watched and worried as the store's access to medications is reduced to a trickle. But now come rumors that there is more to fear than dwindling supplies. A Jewish ghetto is under construction in Krakow, and Under the Eagle lies within its limits. Choosing to stay rather than move to the city's "Aryan" section, the pharmacy workers offer what medicine, food, and help they can to a population crammed into ever more desperate conditions. Among the ghetto's new residents is Natalia, once a medical student from a wealthy Jewish family. Securing a job at the pharmacy offers her a chance to do the work she has dreamed of and affords her loved ones some protection from the threat of relocation. But in the ghetto there can be no such thing as real safety. For Elsa, a young German woman, recruitment to the SS was the only way to avoid jail after a deep betrayal. Assigned to the ghetto, confronted with the casual cruelty and violence of her commanders, she feels her convictions about the Fatherland crumbling. As restrictions and penalties grow worse each day, Irena, Natalia, and Elsa are drawn toward unexpected alliances -- and decisions that could save or jeopardize not just their own lives, but the lives of countless others."-- Provided by publisher.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Large type books.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
World War, 1939-1945 Women Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) Poland Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Drugstores Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Jewish ghettos Poland Krakow Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Poland History Occupation, 1939-1945 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Krakow (Poland) Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Historical fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Large print books.
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