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Germany History 1918-1933 Fiction Grand Duchess, daughter of Nicholas II, Emperor of Russia Anastasii͡a Nikolaevna 1901-1918 Fiction Great Britain History George V, 1910-1936 Fiction Great Britain Social life and customs 1918-1945 Fiction Large type books Saint Petersburg (Russia) History Siege, 1941-1944 Fiction Soviet Union History Revolution, 1917-1921 Fiction Spain History Civil War, 1936-1939 Fiction Twentieth century Fiction United States History 1913-1921 FictionDickinson, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITBelfoure, Charles
Summary: "St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BELFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FITCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITFitch, Janet
Summary: Pregnant and adrift in the countryside amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War, Marina returns to a decimated Petrograd, where her work caring for war orphans inspires her emergence as a poet. -
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITBennett, Vanora
Summary: "St. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle, but revolution is in the air, and as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENDunmore, Helen
Summary: Intertwines the love stories of two couples whose lives are forever changed after the 1941 siege on Leningrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DUNSimons, Paullina
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Publisher / Publication Date: Morrow 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMDunmore, Helen
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DUNSimons, Paullina
Summary: Tatiana is eighteen, pregnant, and widowed when she escapes war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America. Oceans away in the Soviet Union, Alexander has escaped execution-- and is determined to take his men through the ruins of Europe in one last desperate bid to escape Stalin's death machine and somehow find his way to Tatiana once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avon 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SIMDean, Debra
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC DEATurnbull, 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 TURDean, Debra
Summary: In a novel that moves back and forth between the Soviet Union during World War II and modern-day America, Marina, an elderly Russian woman, recalls vivid images of her youth during the height of the siege of Leningrad.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2006
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DEAFollett, Ken.
Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLFollett, Ken.
Summary: This novel picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families, American, German, Russian, English, Welsh, enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von Ulrich,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FOLCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION FOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Follett 2012Bradford, Barbara Taylor
Summary: "James Falconer -- a tycoon and a self-made man -- seems to have the world in the palm of his hand. But the Great War looms, and James decides to fight for king and country. The fighting is bloody and brutal, and James returns a changed man, with wounds both physical and mental. His beloved wife is dead, but a new woman returns to help nurse him back to health. Georgiana Ward once held James in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2024
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC BRACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction BradfordO'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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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC O'NEChen, Katherine J.
Summary: "1412. France is mired in a losing war against England. Its people are starving. Its king is in hiding. From this chaos emerges a teenage girl who will turn the tide of battle and lead the French to victory, an unlikely hero whose name will echo across the centuries. In Katherine J. Chen's hands, the myth and legend of Joan of Arc is transformed into a flesh-and-blood young woman: reckless,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction ChenLawhon, Ariel
Summary: In this "historical suspense, Ariel Lawhon unravels the extraordinary twists and turns in Anna Anderson's 50-year battle to be recognized as Anastasia Romanov. Is she the Russian Grand Duchess, a beloved daughter and revered icon, or is she an imposter, the thief of another woman's legacy?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Fellowes, Jessica
Summary: "1937. War with Germany is dawning, and a civil war already rages in Spain. Split across political lines, the six Mitford sisters are more divided than ever. Meanwhile their former maid, Louisa Cannon Sullivan, is now a private detective, working with her ex-policeman husband Guy Sullivan. Louisa and Guy are surprised when a call comes in from novelist Nancy Mitford requesting that they look...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC FELGregorio, Michael.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GREFollett, Ken.
Summary: Follows the fates of five interrelated families-- American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh-- as they move through the dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution, and the struggle for women's suffrage. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams enters a man's world in the Welsh mining pits. Gus Dewar finds a surprising new career in Woodrow Wilson's White House. Brothers Grigori and Lev...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Follett, Ken.
Summary: Winter of the World picks up right where the first book left off, as its five interrelated families--American, German, Russian, English, Welsh--enter a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the rise of the Third Reich, through the Spanish Civil War and the great dramas of World War II, up to the explosions of the American and Soviet atomic bombs. Carla von...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FOLBarenbaum, 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