Krimstein, 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 KRIWolf, Ryan
Summary: "Russia and the Eurasian Republics is a distinctive region that spans two continents, eleven time zones, and five biomes. This massive landscape is home to mountains, rivers, deserts, and even exciting cities like Moscow. Readers will learn how people have adapted to survive in harsh climates, and how they've affected the land around them. This book includes amazing maps and photographs to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PowerKids Press 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 947 WOLApplebaum, 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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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947 APPGregorio, Katharine
Summary: "Illuminating a thrilling untold chapter of the Cold War, The Double Life of Katharine Clark shares the forgotten story of a remarkable woman who pioneered a career in a male-dominated profession. In 1955, Katharine Clark became the first female American wire reporter behind the Iron Curtain, forging a career as a journalist, befriending a leading Communist, and risking her life to smuggle away...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 CLARK, KATHARINE GRERudenko, 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 RUDMikanowski, Jacob
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
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940 BARBrabazon, James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Syracuse University Press 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 SCHWEITZER, ALBERT BRAWurmbrand, Richard.
Summary: "This classic story of amazing faith in shocking circumstances has been updated for a new generation. Its message remains urgent and relevant: thousands of Christians are still persecuted and tortured around the world today, suffering solely for their belief in Jesus Christ. Richard Wurmbrand endured months of solitary confinement, years of periodic physical torture, constant suffering from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hodder & Stoughton 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 272 WURPhillips, Timothy
Summary: "An epic people's history of Europe's fraught East-West divide, by an intrepid author who followed its path from the Arctic to Turkey"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Experiment 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.04 PHIUnger, Miles.
Summary: "The life of perhaps the most famous, most revolutionary artist in history, told through the stories of six of his magnificent masterpieces"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MICHELANGELO BUONARROTI UNGMegellas, James.
Summary: What World War II Lieutenant Megellas's memoir lacks in narrative force and elegance it makes up for in its unvarnished contribution to the historical record. Megellas was a senior at Ripon College in Ripon, Wis. during the Pearl Harbor attack; barely six months later, he had reported for duty and soon was enlisted in the storied 82nd Airborne Division. Landing in Italy on the eve of the Anzio...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 MEGFerguson-Kosinski, LaVerne.
Summary: Europe by Eurail has been the train traveler's one-stop source for visiting Europe's cities and countries by rail for more than forty years. This comprehensive guide provides the latest information on fares, schedules, and pass options, as well as detailed information on more than one hundred specific rail excursions. The book contains information readers need to enjoy visits in historic...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Globe Pequot 2023
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Summary: "This entertaining and enlightening graphic narrative tells the exciting story of the seventeenth-century thinkers who challenged authority--sometimes risking excommunication, prison, and even death--to lay the foundations of modern philosophy and science and help usher in a new world ... Heretics! tells the story of their ideas, lives, and times in a vivid new way. Crisscrossing Europe as it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 NADSteves, Rick
Summary: Presents a travel guide to Central Europe, with recommendations for lodging, restaurants, events, tours, and sightseeing highlights, along with travel tips and cultural information. Includes fully updated comprehensive coverage on the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia, Austria, and Slovakia, plus side trips to Croatia, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Montenegro, Bulgaria, and Romania.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Avalon Travel, Hachette Book Group 2024
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Summary: Twenty years after the fall of the Berlin Wall, many still believe it was the words of President Ronald Reagan, Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall! that brought the Cold War to an end. Meyer disagrees, and in this compelling account, explains why.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2009
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 943.0009 MEYGabis, Rita
Summary: "Gabis follows the trail of her grandfather's collaboration with the Nazis--a trail riddled with secrets, slaughter, mystery, and discovery"--Dust jacket flap.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 GABGreengrass, Mark
Summary: "This latest addition to the landmark Penguin History of Europe series is a fascinating study of 16th and 17th century Europe and the fundamental changes which led to the collapse of Christendom and established the geographical and political frameworks of Western Europe as we know it. From peasants to princes, no one was untouched by the spiritual and intellectual upheaval of this era. Martin...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 GRESummary: Rick Stevens is your perfect travel partner, guiding you through 60 hours of discoveries in his favorite European cities, villages, and off-the-beaten-path destinations. The complete DVD set brings you every one of Rick's half-hour TV shows- plus his highly acclaimed, hour-long TV specials.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914 RICGarrett, Leah
Summary: "The incredible World War II saga of the Jewish refugees who fought in Britain's most secretive special-forces unit-but whose story has gone untold until now"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 GARGigliotti, Jim
Summary: Presents the life of an Albanian girl, Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, who became known as Mother Teresa and spent most of her life serving "the poorest of the poor" in Calcutta, India.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2015
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT People Who MotherBikont, Anna.
Summary: "The devastating story of Jedwabne, which was the basis of Jan Gross's controversial Neighbors (2001). Based on the author's encounters with witnesses, survivors, murderers, and their helpers between 2000 and 2004, The Crime and the Silence raises important questions about the responsibility of Poles for the Holocaust"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.53 BIKContents: Disc 1: The other Europe: deep roots of diversity -- Formative migrations: Mongols to Germans -- Clashing Golden Ages, 1389-1772 -- The great crime of empires: Poland divided -- The origins of nationalism, 1815-1863 -- The Age of empires, 1863-1914 -- disc 2: Jewish life in the shtetl -- World War I: destruction and rebirth -- From democrats to dictators, 1918-1939 -- Caught between Hitler and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015