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Communism Fiction Czechoslovakia Drama Czechoslovakia History 1938-1945 Fiction Czechoslovakia History 1968-1989 Fiction Defectors Fiction Foreign films Czechoslovakia Man-woman relationships Fiction Suicide Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Czechoslovakia Drama World War, 1939-1945 Social aspects Czechoslovakia FictionSummary: In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIRSummary: Inspired by the real life heroics of Nicholas Winton who saved hundreds of Czech Jewish children from the Nazis. The Silberstein's are a large and close knit extended family living in Czechoslovakia. Believing in the decency of mankind, they don't pay heed to the Nazi threat. They finally realize the true horror of what is coming, but it is too late. Making the toughest possible decision, they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALLSummary: During WWII, nurse Eliska is part of a secret resistance movement with her lover, surgeon Richard. When he is discovered, she is forced to leave the hospital in order to hide from the Nazis as well. A sympathetic colleague sends her off with a patient whose life she saved, to the remote Moravian mountain village of Zelary, where time has stopped, as he has agreed to hide her as his wife. They...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ZELMawer, Simon.
Summary: Jewish newlyweds Viktor and Liesel Landauer build their dream home, and despite the low hum of the German war machine reverberating through the land, the two look forward to a life of promise. But as war becomes inevitable, their lives are transformed in profound ways.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MAWSummary: Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLOSummary: Perličky na dně: These five eccentric tales take the viewer on a journey from a motorcycle race to a rain-soaked wedding party to an unexpected cross-cultural romance. -- Sedmikrasky: "Two teenage girls decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them."--O...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PEAIturbe, Antonio
Summary: Follows Dita Kraus from age fourteen, when she is put in charge of a few forbidden books at Auschwitz concentration camp, through the end of World War II and beyond. Based on a true story.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Godwin Books, Henry Holt and Company 2017
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION ITUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ITUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA Fiction Iturbe 2017Mawer, Simon.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAWMiller-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"--
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Carolrhoda Lab 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC MILSummary: This fateful love story is set in Prague during the late 1930s and subsequent Nazi occupation. It focuses on radio journalist Emil, who is deeply in love with his glamorous Jewish movie star wife Hana. When the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia is established, Hana's career is cut short and Emil's radio station put under German control. Emil chooses to collaborate with the occupiers in order...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PROKundera, Milan.
Summary: Interweaves story and dream, past and present, and philosophy and poetry in a sardonic and erotic tale of two couples--Tomas and Teresa, and Sabina and her Swiss lover, Gerhart.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNSlouka, Mark.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC SLOSummary: A young restaurant worker does whatever it takes to become a millionaire, only to realize that by accomplishing his goal he has wound up in prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IHrabal, Bohumil
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: New Directions 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HRAHrusinsky, Rudolf
Summary: A crematorium worker in Prague, believing his work liberates souls, takes action while Nazis gather at the Czechoslovakian border.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Distribution 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CREKundera, Milan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Aaron Asher Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNKundera, Milan.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1974
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUNGable, Michelle
Summary: "1944, Rome. Newlywed Niki Novotnà is recruited by a new American spy agency to establish a secret branch in Italy's capital. One of the OSS's few female operatives abroad and multilingual, she's tasked with crafting fake stories and distributing propaganda to lower the morale of enemy soldiers. Despite limited resources, Niki and a scrappy team of artists, forgers, and others--now nicknamed...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Graydon House 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GABKovály, Heda
Summary: "In 1985, Czech Holocaust memoirist, literary translator, and political exile Heda Margolius Kovaly turned her pen to fiction. Inspired by the stories of Raymond Chandler, Kovaly knit her own terrifying experiences in early 1950s Socialist Prague--her husband's imprisonment and wrongful execution, her own persecution at his disgrace--into a gorgeous psychological thriller-cum-detective novel....
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Crime 2015