Littell, Robert
Summary: "In March 1953, four women meet in Room 408 of Moscow's deluxe Metropole Hotel. They have gathered, not altogether willingly, to reminisce about Vladimir Mayakovsky, the poet who in death had become a national idol of Soviet Russia. In life, however, he was a much more complicated figure. Each of these ladies loved Mayakovsky in the course of his life, and as they piece together their memories...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LITPickhart, Kalani
Summary: In 1913, a Russian ballet incited a riot in Paris at the new Théâtre de Champs-Elysées. "Only a Russian could do that," says Aleksandr Ivanovich. "Only a Russian could make the whole world go mad." A century later, in November 2013, thousands of Ukrainian citizens gathered at Independence Square in Kyiv to protest then-President Yanukovych's failure to sign a referendum with the European Union,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Two Dollar Radio 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PICUrlocker, M. Z.
Summary: 1950. The Cold War simmers, and ex-GI Jack Waters is called in to investigate a fatal accident at a research lab in California. When Waters recognizes the victim, he realizes he must revisit his hidden past in World War II to solve a murder and prevent Nazi scientists from creating a terrible, new weapon in America. Blending noir detective fiction with post-WWII history, The Man from Mittelwerk...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Inkshares, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC URLRunyan, Aimie K.
Summary: "Russia, 1941. Katya Ivanova is a young pilot in a far-flung military academy in the Ural Mountains. From childhood, she's dreamed of taking to the skies to escape her bleak mountain life. With the Nazis on the march across Europe, she is called on to use her wings to serve her country in its darkest hour. Not even the entreaties of her new husband, a sensitive artist who fears for her safety,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RUNHaratischwili, Nino
Summary: "'That night Stasia took an oath, swearing to learn the recipe by heart and destroy the paper. And when she was lying in her bed again, recalling the taste with all her senses, she was sure that this secret recipe could heal wounds, avert catastrophes, and bring people happiness. But she was wrong.' At the start of the twentieth century, on the edge of the Russian Empire, a family prospers. It...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribe Publications 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARGoldberg, Paul
Summary: "A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel; he sits "in refusal"...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOLFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITPaul, Gill
Summary: If you loved "I Am Anastasia" by Ariel Lawhon, you won't want to miss this novel about her sister, Grand Duchess Maria. What really happened to this lost Romanov daughter? A new novel perfect for anyone curious about Anastasia, Maria, and the other lost Romanov daughters, by the author of The Secret Wife. 1918: Pretty, vivacious Grand Duchess Maria Romanov, the nineteen-year-old daughter of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAUShaara, Jeff
Summary: "In one of his most accomplished, compelling novels yet, acclaimed New York Times bestseller Jeff Shaara accomplishes what only the finest historical fiction can do - he brings to life one of the most consequential figures in U.S. history - Theodore Roosevelt - peeling back the many-layered history of the man, and the country he personified. From the mid-nineteenth century to the early...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHAHan, Kang
Summary: Follows the aftermath of a young boy's shocking death during a violent student uprising as told from the perspectives of the event's victims and their loved ones.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hogarth 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HANJenoff, Pam
Summary: 1942. Sadie Gault is eighteen and living with her parents amid the horrors of the Krakow Ghetto during World War II. When the Nazis liquidate the ghetto, Sadie and her pregnant mother are forced to seek refuge in the perilous sewers beneath the city. One day Sadie looks up through a grate and sees a girl about her own age buying flowers. Ella Stepanek is an affluent Polish girl living a life of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harlequin Audio 2021
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CDA FIC JENLu, Marie
Summary: "Talin is a Striker, a member of an elite fighting force that stands as the last defense for the only free nation in the world: Mara. A refugee, Talin knows firsthand the horrors of the Federation, a world-dominating war machine responsible for destroying nation after nation with its terrifying army of mutant beasts known only as Ghosts. But when a mysterious prisoner is brought from the front...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puck 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH LURosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "Marcus Ryker has spent his entire career studying killers. One thing he knows for sure: a peace summit is the ultimate stage for an assassination. President Andrew Clarke is determined to announce his historic peace plan from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. But when senior American officials who support the plan begin violently dying, Clarke orders Ryker and his team of CIA operatives to hunt...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ROSRosenberg, Joel C.
Summary: "With the unexpected death of Russian President Aleksandr Luganov and Iran's efforts to acquire fully operational nuclear warheads successfully thwarted, American President Andrew Clarke decides the moment has come to unveil his comprehensive proposal to achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians. However, when a series of senior American officials involved in the peace process are...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC ROSAlcott, Louisa May
Summary: "The March sisters have grown from little women to young adults. Now that the Civil War has ended, Meg is getting married, Beth still struggles to regain her health, and Jo and Amy are pursing their dreams, encountering love and heartbreak along the way"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Aladdin 2019
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ALCAbulhawa, Susan
Summary: "From the internationally bestselling author of the "terrifically affecting" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) Mornings in Jenin, a sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ABUKoestler, Arthur
Summary: Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006
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Summary: "Running from her father's brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin's daughter defects to the United States against the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel is inspired by the true story of Svetlana Alliluyeva. In one of the most momentous events of the Cold War, Svetlana Allilyueva, the forty-one-year-old daughter of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Schwartz 2019Messner, Kate
Summary: Ranger the time-traveling Golden retriever was trained for search-and-rescue and even though he did not pass the tests he has used his training on his many trips to help people caught up in disasters; now he has arrived at the World Trade Center on the morning of September 11, 2001 just as the first plane hits, and he must rescue fifth-graders Risha and Max who are trapped in the wreckage,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Inc. 2020
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC MESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J FIC MESBrock, Kimberly
Summary: "Based on real history and alternating between the story of war widow Alice searching for identity in the 1940s and excerpts from Eleanor Dare's Commonplace Book and the tale of her harrowing survival, The Lost Book of Eleanor Dare explores the meaning of female history and the sacrifices every mother makes for her daughter"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BROArcher, Jeffrey
Summary: "Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: Should they board a container ship bound for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC ARCEl Rashidi, Yasmine
Summary: "A young Egyptian woman chronicles her personal and political coming of age in this debut novel. Cairo, 1984. A blisteringly hot summer. A young girl in a sprawling family house. Her days pass quietly: listening to a mother's phone conversations, looking at the Nile from a bedroom window, watching the three state-sanctioned TV stations with the volume off, daydreaming about other lives....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tim Duggan Books 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ELRJiles, Paulette
Summary: In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. An elderly widower who has lived through three wars and fought in two of them, the captain enjoys his rootless, solitary existence. In Wichita Falls, he is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning 2016