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 MILChim, Wai
Summary: "Ming survived the famine that killed his parents during China's "Great Leap Forward", and lives a hard but adequate life, working in the fields. When a group of city boys comes to the village as part of a Communist Party re-education program, Ming and his friends aren't sure what to make of the new arrivals...But despite his reservations, Ming befriends a charming city boy called Li. The two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC CHIO'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'NEMah, Ann
Summary: "From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAHCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction MahMin, Anchee
Summary: The beautiful, iron-willed Wild Ginger is only in elementary school when we first meet her, but already she has been singled out by the Red Guards for her "foreign-colored eyes." Her classmate Maple is also a target of persecution. It is through the quieter, more skeptical Maple, a less than ardent Maoist whose father is languishing in prison for a minor crime, that we see this story to its...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2002
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MINSolzhenit͡s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich
Summary: Recounts the experiences of Shukhov, a prisoner at a Soviet work camp in Siberia, as he struggles for survival.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1995
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SOLSolzhenit͡s︡yn, Aleksandr Isaevich
Summary: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich brilliantly portrays a single day, any day, in the life of a single Russian soldier who was captured by the Germans in 1945 and who managed to escape a few days later. Along with millions of others, this soldier was charged with some sort of political crime, and since it was easier to confess than deny it and die, Ivan Denisovich "confessed" to "high...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1982
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SOLDurbin, William
Summary: In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orchard Books 2004
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC DURKrugler, David F.
Summary: "In a gripping World War II mystery set in Washington, D.C., a young naval intelligence officer goes undercover to solve a murder and prevent the Soviets from stealing the secrets of America's atomic bomb project. Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes the wartime capital. Fear of communist spies and the atomic secrets they covet. When the corpse of a Navy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Crime 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRULocke, 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 LOCPetterson, Per
Summary: Anticipating a divorce against a backdrop of the fall of communism, Arvid Jansen is further dismayed by his mother's diagnosis with cancer, a situation that prompts his emotionally charged quest for understanding and balance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PETLevine, Kristin (Kristin Sims)
Summary: In a small town near Chicago in 1953, twelve-year-old Tommy faces escalating problems at home, among his Catholic school friends, and with the threat of a communist living nearby, but taking over his hospitalized sister's paper route introduces him to neighbors who he comes to rely on for help.
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Publisher / Publication Date: G.P. Putnam's Sons, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) 2014
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LEVBarnes, Julian
Summary: "A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin,hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARShepherd, Megan
Summary: Nina, a young girl unsure of her role in her communist society, befriends a dog named Laika, who dreams of finding a home and is being studied in Nina's father's lab as part of the Soviet space program
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Mario, Helaine.
Summary: "Late in the Cold War, a young woman escapes from Communist Hungary, vanishing into the night with a priceless painting and a baby girl--setting events in motion from a decades-old secret that will change lives for generations to come. Many years later, classical pianist Maggie O'Shea is drawn to Cornwall in search of a long-lost Van Gogh and the truth behind her husband's death. A journal from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oceanview Publishing 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MARHua, Vanessa
Summary: "A teenage girl living in 1960s China becomes Mao Zedong's protégée and lover--and a poster child for the Cultural Revolution--in this provocative, poignant novel from the bestselling author of A River of Stars On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2022
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HUAAvi
Summary: "It's 1951, and twelve-year-old Pete Collison is a regular kid in Brooklyn, New York, who loves Sam Spade detective books and radio crime dramas. But when an FBI agent shows up at Pete's doorstep, accusing Pete's father of being a Communist, Pete is caught in a real-life mystery. Could there really be Commies in Pete's family?"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Algonquin Young Readers 2015
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Avi 2015Muller, Herta.
Summary: From the winner of the IMPAC Award comes a fierce novel about a young Romanian woman's discovery of betrayal in the most intimate reaches of her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metropolitan Books 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULGong, 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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Place a hold to request this item.Yelchin, Eugene.
Summary: In the Stalinist era of the Soviet Union, ten-year-old Sasha idolizes his father, a devoted Communist, but when police take his father away and leave Sasha homeless, he is forced to examine his own perceptions, values, and beliefs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2011
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Yelchin 2011Thornton, Stephanie
Summary: "A thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incredible true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States, from USA Today bestselling author Stephanie Marie Thornton. 1963: Reeling from the death of her mother and President Kennedy's assassination, Catherine Gray shows up on Elizabeth Bentley's doorstep demanding answers to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC THOKundera, Milan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aaron Asher Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNScruton, Roger.
Summary: "Set in the twilight years of the Czechoslovak communist regime, recalled from the suburbs of Washington, this novel describes a doomed love affair between two young people trapped by the system. Roger Scruton evokes a world in which every word and gesture bears a double meaning, as people seek to find truth amid the lies and love in the midst of betrayal. The novel tells the story of Jan...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Midpoint Trade Books Inc 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SCRYanagihara, Hanya
Summary: When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2015