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Saab, Gabriella

Summary: Russia 1917: Beautiful, educated Svetlana Petrova defied her stifling aristocratic family to join a revolution promising freedom. Now, released after years of imprisonment, she discovers her socialist party vying for power against the dictatorial Bolsheviks and her beloved uncle, a champion of her cause, was murdered by a mysterious assassin named Orlova. Her signature? Blinding her victims...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SAA

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.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC O'NE

Saab, Gabriella

1 hold on 2 copies

Summary: Decades after defying her aristocratic family to join the Russian revolution, Svetlana Petrova opens her home to her eighteen-year-old granddaughter, Mila, who falls under the spell of the resistance when their remote village is overrun by Nazi invaders.

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SAA

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SAA

Goldberg, Paul

Summary: "A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel; he sits "in refusal"...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOL

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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LOC

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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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC CHE

Turnbull, Bryn

Summary: As unrest simmers, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov and her three sisters hide from the world on account of their mother's ill health, their brother Alexei's secret affliction, and rising controversy over Father Grigori Rasputin, the priest on whom the Tsarina has come to rely. As war approaches, Olga and her sisters trade their gowns for nursing habits, assisting in surgeries and tending to the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mira 2022

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TUR

Rich, Roberta

Summary: "A sweeping, New York-set historical novel following a Jewish cigarette girl who moonlights as a spy and attempts to bring justice to her family on the eve of World War II"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Gallery Books 2023

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Quinn, Kate

2 holds on 4 copies

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC QUI

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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MIL

Alpsten, Ellen

Summary: "Ellen Alpsten's stunning new novel, The Tsarina's Daughter, is the dramatic story of Elizabeth, daughter of Catherine I and Peter the Great, who ruled Russia during an extraordinary life marked by love, danger, passion and scandal. Born into the House of Romanov to the all-powerful Peter the Great and his wife, Catherine, a former serf, beautiful Tsarevna Elizabeth is the envy of the Russian...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ALP

Quinn, Kate

7 holds on 1 copy

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Diamond Eye and The Rose Code returns with a haunting and powerful story of female friendships and secrets in a Washington, DC, boardinghouse during the McCarthy era"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Hannah, Kristin

11 holds on 5 copies

Summary: Women can be heroes. When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances "Frankie" McGrath hears these unexpected words, it is a revelation. Raised on idyllic Coronado Island and sheltered by her conservative parents, she has always prided herself on doing the right thing, being a good girl. But in 1965 the world is changing, and she suddenly imagines a different choice for her life. When her brother...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Kass, Linda Stern

Summary: "Just days after the close of World War II, Bess Myerson, the daughter of poor Russian Jewish immigrants living in the Bronx, is competing in the Miss America pageant. At stake: a $5,000 scholarship. The tension and excitement in Atlantic City's Warner Theatre are palpable, especially for traumatized Jews rooting for one of their own. So begins Bessie. Drawing on biographical and historical...

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Publisher / Publication Date: She Writes Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAS

Mackintosh, Sophie

Summary: "From the Man Booker-nominated author of The Water Cure comes an elegant and hypnotic new novel of obsession that centers on the real unsolved mystery of the 1951 mass poisoning of a French village. Still reeling in the aftermath of the deadliest war the world had ever seen, the small town of Pont-Saint-Esprit lost its mind. Some historians believe the mysterious illness and violent...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAC

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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC GON

Barenbaum, Rachel

Summary: "An epic love story and heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about a brilliant young scientist racing against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2019

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC BAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BAR

Gilmore, Olesya Salnikova

Summary: "In this stunning debut novel, the maligned and immortal witch of legend known as Baba Yaga will risk all to save Russia and her people from Tsar Ivan the Terrible-and the dangerous gods who seek to drive the twisted hearts of men. As a half-goddess possessing magic, Yaga is used to living on her own, her prior entanglements with mortals having led to heartbreak. She mostly keeps to her hut in...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Ace 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Stacks, Call number: FIC GIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GIL

Quinn, Kate

Summary: "The New York Times bestselling author of The Rose Code returns with an unforgettable World War II tale of a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. Based on a true story. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC QUI

McDermott, Alice

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: Tricia is a shy newlywed, married to a rising attorney on loan to navy intelligence. Charlene is a practiced corporate spouse and mother of three, a beauty and a bully. In Saigon in 1963, the two women form a wary alliance as they balance the era's mandate to be "helpmeets" to their ambitious husbands with their own, inchoate impulse to "do good" for the people of Vietnam. Sixty years later,...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Rash, Ron

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Summary: "It's 1951 in Blowing Rock, North Carolina. Blackburn Gant, his life irrevocably altered by a childhood case of polio, seems condemned to spend his life among the dead as the sole caretaker of a hilltop cemetery. It suits his withdrawn personality, and the inexplicable occurrences that happen from time to time rattle him less than interaction with the living. But when his best and only friend,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAS

Schrempp, Skyler

Summary: "Dust Bowl refugee Gloria Mae Willard finds herself uprooted and working on a California peach orchard, where she tries to join the secret, all-boys baseball team that she's desperate to play on"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Margaret K. McElderry Books 2022

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Loesch, Kristen

Summary: "A haunting, remarkable debut about secrets, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land... ...Rosie lived peacefully in Moscow and her mother told her fairy tales. Magical stories that could have been the folklore of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LOE

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Loesch

Kizis, Deanna

Summary: Penelope the Pug accompanies Lady Diggleton to Windsor Castle, but when the Queen's diamond ring goes missing and the snooty dog Duchess stands accused, Penelope finds a way to prove her innocence.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2024

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1 available in Beginning Readers - Independent Reader (Red), Call number: JBR RED KIZ

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