Dyachenko, Serhii
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 DYADyachenko, Marina
Summary: "Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DYAPlokhy, 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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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 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: "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 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 PLORudenko, 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 RUDSerrie, Jonn.
Contents: Gentle, the night -- Fantasy passages -- And the stars go with you -- And with you 2 Bonus track -- The far river -- Stratos.
Format: sound recording-musical
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 SERSereni, Vittorio.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Guernica 1999
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 851.912 SERRachmaninoff, Sergei
Contents: Symphony no. 1 in D minor, op. 13 -- The isle of the dead : op. 29 -- Symphony no. 2 in E minor, op. 27 -- Vocalise : op. 34, no. 14 -- Aleko. Intermezzo ; Women's dance -- Symphony no. 3 in A minor, op. 44 -- Symphonic dances : op. 45 .
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Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Classics 1993
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RACServid, Carolyn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milkweed Editions 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.82 SERSergi, Zachary
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 MERRachmaninoff, Sergei
Contents: Piano concerto no. 1 in F sharp minor, op. 1 (26:02) -- Piano concerto no. 4 in G minor, op. 40 (24:35) -- Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini : op. 43 (23:44) -- Piano concerto no. 2 in C minor, op. 18 (32:26) -- Piano concerto no. 3 in D minor, op. 30 (38:23).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2004
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Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Classical 1994
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Contents: Isle of the dead, op. 29 -- Symphonic dances, op. 45.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 1984
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Contents: Piano concerto no. 4 in g minor, op. 40 -- Piano concerto no. 1 in f sharp minor, op. 1.
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Publisher / Publication Date: EMI Records Ltd., dist. by BMG Direct Marketing, Inc 1990
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL RACSethi, 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 SETParadjanov, Sergei
Summary: In a remote nineteenth century Carpathian mountain village, Ivan falls for the daughter of the man who murdered his father, but is separated from her by poverty and a sorcerer's curse.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2008