Miller-Lachmann, Lyn

Summary: "When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022

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Chen, Wendy

Summary: "At the turn of the twentieth century, Yun Hong is born into a loving family in the southern China countryside, but as Communism consumes her older brothers, it threatens her stability-and her love affair with the son of a wealthy landlord. The line of women who later descend from Yun Hong share the burden of a family birthmark and are also each forced to reckon with both dramatic political...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill 2024

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O'Neil, Carolyn Tara

Summary: Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia--a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party--agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

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Locke, Katherine

Summary: Csilla has felt protected by the Duna river her entire life, and especially during the Holocaust of World War II, but that magic seems to have broken when Communists took control of Hungary. When her parents are killed by the secret police, Csilla's deep feelings of betrayal and disconnection cause her to plan her escape from her unrecognizable homeland. They are posthumously exonerated,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2022

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Gong, Chloe

Summary: In 1931 Shanghai, two Nationalist spies pose as a married couple to investigate a series of brutal murders causing unrest in the city.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022

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