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Diplomatic relations High school students Interpersonal relations Special forces (Military science) Special forces (Military science) United States Fiction Special operations (Military science) Special operations (Military science) Fiction Terrorism Prevention Fiction Ukraine United StatesPickhart, Kalani
Summary: In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICKurkov, Andreĭ
Summary: Sergey Sergeyich is one of the last residents of a Ukrainian village in the "Grey Zone," a no-man's-land between loyalist and separatist forces in Crimea. Sergeyich's one pleasure in life is taking care of his bees. As spring approaches, he knows he must move the bees to a place they can safely collect pollen. On his journey, he will meet people on both sides of the battle lines in a country...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Deep Vellum Publishing 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KURRafeenko, Vladimir
Summary: "A mondegreen is something that is heard improperly by someone who then clings to that misinterpretation as fact. Fittingly, Volodymyr Rafeyenko's novel Mondegreen: Songs about Death and Love explores the ways that memory and language construct our identity, and how we hold on to it no matter what. The novel tells the story of Haba Habinsky, a refugee from Ukraine's Donbas region, who has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RAFSummary: A beautiful musical comedy that follows one young man's journey as he experiences the true spirit of Ukraine on his search for a woman to call his wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HUTTaylor, Brad
Summary: "Former Special Forces Officer and New York Times bestselling author Brad Taylor delivers a heart-pounding thriller featuring Taskforce operators Pike Logan and Jennifer Cahill as they come face to face with a conspiracy where nothing is as it seems. Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TAYCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC TAYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TAYTaylor, Brad
Summary: "Hot on the trail of a North Korean looking to sell sensitive US intelligence to the Syrian regime, Pike Logan and the Taskforce stumble upon something much graver: the sale of a lethal substance called Red Mercury. Meanwhile, North Korea has its own devastating agenda: a double-cross that will dwarf the attack in Syria even as it lays the blame on the Syrian government. Leveraging...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TAYTakamatsu, Misaki
Summary: "While Mitsumi adjusts to big city life, her cheerful and forthright personality brings joy to her classmates. Now that she's getting the hang of high school, her circle expands even further."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SKILitteken, Erin
Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LITMasih, Tara Lynn
Summary: "A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MASZabuz͡hko, O. S. (Oksana Stefanivna)
Summary: "Oksana Zabuzhko, Ukraine's leading public intellectual, is called upon to make sense of the unthinkable reality of our times. In this breathtaking short story collection, she turns the concept of truth over in her hands like a beautifully crafted pair of gloves. From the triumph of the Orange Revolution, which marked the start of the twenty-first century, to domestic victories in matchmaking,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Amazon Crossing 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZABLitteken, Erin
Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Boldwood Books Ltd. 0000
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1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC LIT (Book Club Kit - 8 paperbacks)Urlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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Summary: "In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC THOCameron, Marc
Summary: On a crowded tourist beach in Portugal, US operatives use a high-tech drone to watch a French arms dealer flirt with a beautiful woman. It's only when she leaves that they realise she has shot him dead. In Iran, protests are growing against the oppressive regime, whipped up by a charismatic student. Most external observers are excited, but on the ground a spy of questionable loyalty senses...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Large Print 2018
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC CAMMoss, Todd
Summary: "A timely international thriller by the former deputy assistant secretary of state and bestselling author. When four American sport fishermen stray into Cuban waters and are promptly arrested by Castro's navy, State Department crisis manager Judd Ryker finds himself called in to negotiate their release. But the more Ryker digs in to the situation, the more things he discovers that just don't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOSCameron, Marc
Summary: "Father Pat West, S.J., was a buddy of the young Jack Ryan when they were both undergraduates at Boston College. As young men, they worked together at the CIA, but their lives diverged when West felt the call to the priesthood. Decades later, Father West left a comfortable job in the philosophy department at Georgetown to work with the poor in Indonesia. Now he's been arrested and accused of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House Audio, an imprint of the Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group 2019
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC CAMMaden, Mike
Summary: "When China stakes a dubious claim in the hotly disputed waters of the East China Sea, the prime minister of Japan threatens to dispatch the country's naval assets and tear up its antiwar constitution unless the Americans forcefully intervene. The war-weary Americans are reluctant to confront the powerful Chinese navy directly, but if the Japanese provoke a military conflict with their historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MADRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Summary: Tensions escalate between China and the United States, bringing the two superpowers to the brink of destruction in this thrilling military adventure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperAudio 2012
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Johnson, Maureen
Summary: "Senior year at Ellingham Academy for Stevie Bell isn't going well. With the cold case of the century solved, Stevie is adrift. There is nothing to distract her from the questions pinging around her brain--questions about college, love, and life in general. Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Katherine Tegen Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2022
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC JOHYang, Kelly
Summary: "They're called parachutes: teenagers dropped off to live in private homes and study in the United States while their wealthy parents remain in Asia. Claire Wang never thought she'd be one of them, until her parents pluck her from her privileged life in Shanghai and enroll her at a high school in California. Suddenly she finds herself living in a stranger's house, with no one to tell her what...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC YANTakamatsu, Misaki
Summary: The critically acclaimed romantic comedy about a country girl chasing her dreams in Tokyo! Mitsumi is bound for high school in Tokyo! She's got book smarts, but this small-town girl is about to find out she's massively unprepared for the social norms of big city high schoolers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Seven Seas Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: YA 741.5 SKIInouye Huey, Emily
Summary: With the recent death of her mother and the possibility of her family losing their farm, Samantha Sakamoto does not have space in her life for dreams, but when faced with prejudice and violence in her Washington State community after Pearl Harbor, she is determined to use her photography to document the bigotry around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC INOHenderson, Eleanor
Summary: "Cotton County, Georgia, 1930: In a house full of secrets, two babies - one light-skinned, the other dark - are born to Elma Jesup, a white sharecropper's daughter. Accused of her rape, field hand Genus Jackson is lynched and dragged behind a truck down the road to the nearby town. In the aftermath, the farm's inhabitants are forced to contend with their complicity in a series of events that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperLuxe, a trademark of HarperCollins Publishers 2017