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 MILO'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'NEKrugler, 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 KRUPetterson, 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 LEVShepherd, 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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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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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 2015Mah, 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: 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 MINDurbin, 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 DURHua, 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 HUAMario, 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