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Vampire Academy #4Beer, Daniel
Summary: "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 364 BEEFrazier, Ian.
Summary: Here, travel writer Ian Frazier trains his eye for detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the forty-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. More than just a historical travelogue, this is also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 957 FRACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 957 FRATurk, Jonathan.
Summary: A scientist relates the story of how Moonynaut, an elderly shaman in a remote Siberian village, healed his fractured pelvis after invoking the Spirit Raven, a healing that prompted the author to traverse the frozen tundra where the shaman was born and record the spiritual stories of bands of reindeer herders.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915 TurkWallance, Gregory
Summary: "After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day. In a book that ranks with the greatest...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023
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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 957 RASSummary: A stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There's no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAPSepetys, Ruta.
Summary: In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2011
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION SEPCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEPJenkins, Mark
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.7 JENAdams, Alina
Summary: "Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria - born Dvora Kaganovitch - has fulfilled her mother's dreams. But a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness... Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADAMagoon, Scott
Summary: A team of genetically enhanced extinct animals embark on their first big mission to Siberia to retrieve an ancient unicorn horn from the thawing permafrost, but things don't go as planned when they are faced with a mysterious enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAGSilber, Alexandra
Summary: "A sweeping historical novel in the grand tradition of Russian literature that imagines what happens to the characters of Fiddler on the Roof after the curtain falls"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Silber 2017Golden, Christopher
Summary: "Christopher Golden's Road of Bones is a stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLMorris, Heather
Summary: Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORThubron, Colin
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 957 THUKaminsky, Stuart M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press/Warner Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAMMorris, Heather
Summary: Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Morris 2019Sepetys, Ruta
Summary: "In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SEPLondon, Jonathan.
Summary: Amba, a Siberian tiger cub, is separated from his mother by a forest fire in the Siberian wilderness.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Marshall Cavendish Children 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE Fiction London 2012Mead, Richelle.
Summary: Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RazorbillPenguin Group 2009
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC MEAWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2003
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Whelan 2003Haven, Josh
Summary: Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, travel to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, moving town to town with suitcases full of cash, until the Russian mafia and Gazneft catch wind of their successes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction HavenRingo, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Baen 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RINCoyle, Harold
Summary: A powerful doomsday weapon originally designed by the Soviets falls into the hands of nationalist fanatic General Likatchev, who threatens to unleash a global holocaust in order to topple the current Russian regime.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COYLichtarowicz, Paula
Summary: "Lena has lived a long, quiet life on her farm in Wales, alongside her husband and child. But as her end approaches, buried memories begin to return. Of her childhood in Poland, and her passion for science. Of the early days of her marriage, reluctant wife to an army officer. Of the birth of her daughter, whose arrival changed everything. Memories less welcome return, too. Her Polish village,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2023