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Cold War Drama Espionage Soviet Union Drama Espionage, Soviet United States Drama Intelligence service Soviet Union Drama Soviet Union Soviet Union Foreign relations United States Drama Soviet Union Politics and government 1945-1991 Drama Subversive activities United States Drama United States Foreign relations Soviet Union Drama United States Politics and government 1945-1989 DramaMaffeo, Steven E.
Summary: In one brief hour of one specific day, in a tiny spot of ocean, the entire course of human events was nearly altered. Altered ... catastrophically. This book is dramatically inspired and heavily informed by true historical occurrences which took place in October 1962. In play were the USSR's "Operations Anadyr and Kama." It all later became known, in the West, as the Cuban Missile Crisis.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Focsle, LLC 0000
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAFSasgen, Peter T.
Summary: The untold story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War, as experienced by the commanding officer of an active submarine. Few individuals outside the intelligence and submarine communities then knew anything about these top-secret missions, now known as the U.S. Navy's "silent service." Cloaking itself in virtual invisibility to avoid detection,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2009
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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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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Danger, disillusionment, and betrayal reach an all-time high in the suspense-laced fifth season of The Americans. KGB agents Philip and Elizabeth Jennings' unwavering dedication to their work comes at even more of a personal cost than before. And as Paige is drawn deeper into the reality of her parents' secret job, she realizes she will never have a normal life. Meanwhile, as Cold War tensions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD AMEBarrow, Randi G.
Summary: Twelve-year-old Ivan has escaped from the siege of Leningrad, but when the town he has taken refuge in is occupied by Hitler's troops, he sees his chance to help the partisans he has met--and to rescue two German shepherd puppies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scholastic Press 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Sharp, David H.
Summary: Recounts Project AZORIAN, the clandestine Cold War efforts of the CIA, under the guise of an undersea mining operation, to recover the sunken Soviet ballistic-missile submarine K-129 from the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.9164 SHAO'Neil, Carolyn Tara
Summary: Set during the height of the Russian Revolution and told in alternating voices, sixteen-year-old Evgenia--a peasant and proud member of the Bolshevik party--agrees to help a seventeen-year-old bourgeois girl traverse the war-torn countryside in search of safety, but Anna is harboring a secret that could cost them their lives. Includes historical note and author's note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC O'NEOhler, Norman
Summary: Harro Schulze-Boysen and Libertas Haas-Heye met in the summer of 1935, and soon the two lovers were leading a network of antifascist fighters that stretched across Berlin's bohemian underworld.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.53 OHLHadfield, Chris
Summary: "NASA is about to launch Apollo 18. While the mission has been billed as a scientific one, flight controller Kazimieras 'Kaz' Zemeckis knows there is a darker objective. Intelligence has discovered a secret Soviet space station spying on America, and Apollo 18 may be the only chance to stop it. But even as Kaz races to keep the NASA crew one step ahead of their Russian rivals, a deadly accident...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC HADEastland, Sam, (Paul Watkins)
Summary: Inspector Pekkala investigates the death of a top Russian military engineer who was building a formidable weapon, a case with ties to dangerous secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 2011
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC EASSmith, Dan
Summary: In 1920s Russia, a deserter from the Red Army returns home to find his village empty, the men murdered, and the women and children gone, and searches the forests in the bitter cold, desperate to find his wife and sons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMIUlitskaya, Ludmila
Summary: An orphaned poet, a gifted pianist and a budding photographer meet in a mid-20th-century Moscow school and eventually embody the heroism, folly, compromise and hope of the Soviet dissident experience.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ULIHunter, Stephen
Summary: "Bob Lee Swagger is in love--with a woman who died 70 years ago. Ludmilla "Mili" Petrova was a great Russian sniper in World War II until she disappeared on a mission and was virtually erased from history. When Kathy Reilly of the Washington Post encounters a brief mention of Petrova in an old Russian propaganda magazine, she begins building a story around the legendary female sniper, who was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime and the local priest find that family jewels were hidden in a chair, one in a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the rest of the fortune.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWEBarnes, Julian
Summary: "A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin,hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BARPowers, Zach
Summary: "A stunningly imaginative novel about the Cold War, the Russian space program, and the amazing fraud that pulled the wool over the eyes of the world. It's 1964 in the USSR, and unbeknownst even to Premier Khrushchev himself, the Soviet space program is a sham. Well, half a sham. While the program has successfully launched five capsules into space, the Chief Designer and his team have never...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Powers 2019Sepetys, Ruta.
Summary: In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Philomel Books 2011
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2 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEPHadfield, Chris
Summary: 1973: a final, top-secret mission to the Moon. As Russian and American crews sprint for a secret bounty hidden away on the lunar surface, old rivalries blossom and the political stakes are stretched to the breaking point back on Earth.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books, Little, Brown and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HADAnatoli, A.
Summary: Babi Yar is a ravine outside the Ukrainian capital of Kiev and a site of massacres carried out by German forces and by local Ukrainian collaborators during their campaign against the Soviet Union in World War II. The first and best documented of the massacres took place 29-30 September 1941, killing 33,771 Jews. This book records the author's experience under the Nazis in the Ukraine. Anatoli...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1970
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ANARyan, William
Summary: As Stalin's great terror begins, a killer strikes. Moscow 1936. A young woman's mutilated body is found on an alter in a deconsecrated church. Korolev is asked to investigate. The victim is discovered to be an American citizen, and now one false move will mean exile to the Zone, the frozen camps of the far north.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Minotaur Books 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC RYASummary: It is 1987, and an imminent Gorbachev-Reagan nuclear arms summit promises to ease world tensions. But life for the Jennings family is more precarious than ever: Elizabeth's relentless dedication as a KGB agent has dealt a potentially lethal blow to her marriage to Philip, who has left espionage behind. As Philip's friendship with FBI agent Stan Beeman grows, the danger of exposure of the family...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV AMESummary: Secrets can be deadly in this suspenseful thriller about undercover Russian spies in 1980s Washington D.C. Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings seem to be a typical suburban couple, but they're actually lethal KGB agents plotting to bring down America. As the Cold War escalates, Philip and Elizabeth must take extreme measures to continue their mission to keep their true identities hidden. But when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014