Rudenko, Serhiĭ
Summary: "Three years after the political novice Volodymyr Zelensky was elected to Ukraine's highest office, he found himself catapulted into the role of wartime leader. The former comedian has become the public face of his country's courageous and bloody struggle against a brutal invasion by Russia. Born to Jewish parents in central Ukraine, Zelensky campaigned for the presidency in the 2019 election...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Polity Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ZELENSKY, VOLODYMYR RUDYiddish Glory (Musical group)
Summary: These songs tell the story of resistance during the darkesh chapter of European Jewish history. Yiddish Glory marks the first time they have been performed in over 70 years.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Six Degrees 2018
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD INTERNATIONAL/EUROPEAN YIDZ͡Hadan, Serhiĭ
Summary: "When Russia invaded Ukraine on February 24, 2022, Serhiy Zhadan took to social media to coordinate a network of resistance workers and send messages of courage to his fellow Ukrainians. What began as a local organizing effort exploded onto the international stage as readers around the globe looked to Zhadan as a key eyewitness documenting Russian atrocities."--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.7086 ZHAPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: A major new history of the eight days in February 1945 when FDR, Churchill, and Stalin decided the fate of the world. Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy goes against conventional wisdom--cemented during the Cold War--and argues that an ailing Roosevelt did better than we think. Much has been made of FDR's handling of the Depression; here we see him as wartime chief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5314 PLOPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: "As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine's sovereignty. ... This revised edition contains new material that brings this...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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Summary: "Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war--and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2023
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Summary: Disfigured and cursed by a mysterious man after killing an innocent student in a duel, Egert, an egotistical member of an elite guard, embarks on an odyssey to undo the damage he has caused and seeks forgiveness from the student's grief-stricken fiancee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYAPlokhy, Serhii
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.085 PLOPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: An in depth look at the stories of firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who worked to extinguish the nuclear inferno of Chernobyl identifies the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 363.1 PLOTavengerwei, Rutendo
Summary: After her journalist-father's mysterious death in 2008, fifteen-year-old Shamiso must leave England for boarding school in Zimbabwe, where she and Tanyaradzwa, who is fighting cancer, form an unexpected friendship.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Teen 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC TAVPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: "A chilling account of seventy years of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the "definitive" (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Nuclear energy was embraced across the globe at the height of the nuclear industry in the 1960s and 1970s; today,there are 440 nuclear reactors operating throughout the world, with nuclear power providing 10 percent of world electricity. Yet as the world...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 621.48 PLOPlokhy, Serhii
Summary: "A dramatic re-creation and urgent examination of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclearstrikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must return to the lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban Missile Crisis....
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton & Company 2021
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920.9106 PLOSerrie, Jonn.
Contents: Gentle, the night -- Fantasy passages -- And the stars go with you -- And with you 2 Bonus track -- The far river -- Stratos.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New World Music 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD NEW AGE SERSerrin, Judith.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Press 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 306 SERServid, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2000
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Summary: The reader makes choices for four college-bound best friends who take an occult-centered road trip and embark on a mystical scavenger hunt across the West Coast, uncovering the mysteries of their tarot deck.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RP Teens 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SERMerhi, Farah
Summary: Design, entrepreneur, Instagram star, and founder of Inspire Me! Home Decor, Farah Merhi shares her creative and elegant interior design secrets so you can create a glamorous yet cozy home without spending a fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tiller Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 747 MERCorrieri, Sergio
Summary: In the early 1960s, a Europeanized Cuban intellectual, too idealistic to leave for Miami, is also too decadent to fit into the new Cuban society.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection Inc 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MEMLuzzatto, Sergio
Summary: A historical appraisal of the life of the controversial twentieth-century saint examines the miracles he is believed to have performed, as well as detracting reports, offering insight into the relationship between modern Catholicism and politics.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 PIO, SAINT LUZRuzzier, Sergio
Summary: Fox enjoys quiet boat rides and watching the sunrise, but Chick is noisy and hyperactive and frequently disrupts their adventures--nevertheless they remain friends and enjoy their time together.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chronicle Books 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE RUZSethi, Mira
Summary: "An exhilarating debut by a young writer from Pakistan: provocative, funny, disarmingly original stories that upend traditional notions of identity and family, and peer into the vulnerable workings of the human heart. From the high-stakes worlds of television and politics to the intimate corridors of home--including the bedroom--these wryly observed, deeply revealing stories look at life in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SETRuden, Sarah.
Summary: Explores the ways in which Apostle Paul's edicts may have been misinterpreted, in an account that translates his writings from Koine Greek to assess how he may have been wrongly perceived as a misogynist and social conformist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2010
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Contents: (Sittin' on) the dock of the bay / S. Cropper, O. Redding (3:10) -- Viola / V. Enluarda, M. Valle, P. Valle (3:48) -- Song of no regrets / L. Hall, S. Mendes (3:55) -- Salt sea / L. Hall, S. Mendes, S. Neto (2:29) -- Empty faces / L. Hall, M. Nascimento (2:49) -- Pretty world / A. Adolfo, T. Gasparo, A. Bergman, M. Bergman (3:18) -- Dois dias / D. Caymmi, N. Motta (2:28) -- You stepped out of a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & M Records 2006
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD EASY LISTENING MENOlguín, Sergio
Summary: "Two foreign girls are murdered after a high society party in Yacanto del Valle, northern Argentina. Their bodies are found in a field near sacrificial offerings, apparently from a black magic ritual. Verónica Rosenthal, an audacious, headstrong Buenos Aires journalist with a proclivity for sexual adventure, could never have imagined that her holiday would end with her two friends dead. Not...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bitter Lemon Press 2021