Steinhauer, Olen.
Summary: Struggling with writer's block and a suspicion that his wife is cheating on him, Comrade Inspector Ferenc Kolyestar investigates the disappearance of a party member's wife and fears the woman may have run away from her abusive husband.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STECoyle, Harold
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COYSteinhauer, Olen.
Summary: A member of the homicide department of the people's militia, State Security Officer Brano Sev is sent to the village of his birth to interrogate a potential defector, but his mission is complicated by a murder in which he becomes the prime suspect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STESavit, Gavriel
Summary: A historical fantasy that follows Eastern European teens Yehuda and Bluma on a journey through the Far Country, the Jewish land of the dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC SAVHarmel, Kristin
Summary: "After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021
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Summary: A coming-of-age story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis, until a secret from her past threatens everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC HARZyzak, Magdalena.
Summary: Possessing romantic delusions of grandeur and desperate to attract a voluptuous Gypsy concubine, a smitten young swineherd from a fictional backward country rides his short-legged steed through a series of scandals and misadventures marked by an eccentric cast of characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ZYZLustbader, Eric.
Summary: With an exceptionally sharp mind and seemingly unnatural powers, Jack McClure works as a Special Advisor to his good friend, the U.S. President. When a distinguished senator is found dead on the island of Capri, Jack scours Eastern Europe for clues. However, after discovering that the Russian mob has ties deep within his own government, Jack finds himself on the run from a world-beating...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan, Audio 2010
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LUSLustbader, Eric.
Summary: Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible companions--Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President's daughter--and finding the people responsible for murdering an American senator who was supposedly on a political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2010
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Summary: When a plane carrying a People's Militia homicide investigator is hijacked by Armenian terrorists and explodes in midair, the two detectives assigned to the case find their investigation leads to a seven-year-old killing and to a web of political intrigue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Minotaur 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 2001
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Summary: Magda Lazarus searches with her fallen angel husband for a gem that can help them defeat the demon Asmodel and prevent the terrible holocaust envisioned by her sister.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2013
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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2007
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Summary: Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2006
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Summary: Madga Lazarus, a reluctant witch, believes there is a chance to save millions of people during World War II and with the help of her gaurdian angel, Raziel, who has come to Earth and renounced his immortality to become her soul mate, she summons spirits to help defeat the Nazis before they invade Poland.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tor 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LANWestlake, Donald E.
Summary: Master criminal John Dortmunder sets out on ahilarious escapade to steal a religious relic for an EastEuropean government. As often happens in theDortmunder series, things go wrong and Dortmunder iscaptured by police, but escapes to get back the relic. Bythe author of more than 60 novels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 1993
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WESHubbard, L. Ron (La Fayette Ron)
Summary: American arms merchant Blacky Lee is wanted by nearly every government in 1930s Europe especially the Nazis. They want Blacky's head for selling them dud weapons, prompting his rapid escape across the Balkans to the kingdom of Aldoria with his business partner in tow. Aldoria is well chosen. Years before, Blacky discovered he was the spitting image of the country's Prince Philip, learned the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Galaxy Audio 2008
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HUBKrimstein, Ken
Summary: When I Grow Up is New Yorker cartoonist Ken Krimstein's new graphic nonfiction book, based on six of hundreds of newly discovered, never-before-published autobiographies of Eastern European Jewish teens on the brink of WWII-found in 2017 hidden in a Lithuanian church cellar. These autobiographies, long thought destroyed by the Nazis, were written as entries for three competitions held in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 KRIApplebaum, Anne
Summary: Discusses the creation of the Communist regimes that took hold in Eastern Europe at the end of World War II and describes what daily life was like in these countries.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2012
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Summary: "In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2023
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Summary: "In the nineteenth century, the largest Jewish community the modern world had known lived in hundreds of towns and shtetls in the territory between the Prussian border of Poland and the Ukrainian coast of the Black Sea. The period had started with the partition of Poland and the absorption of its territories into the Russian and Austro-Hungarian empires; it would end with the first large-scale...
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Pennsylvania Press 2005