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Summary: Winner of the Special Jury Prize at the 2023 Venice Film Festival, Green Border immediately drew controversy from the Polish government for its depiction of the European migrant crisis on the Poland-Belarus border. Shot in stark black-and-white, this riveting thriller explores the intractable conflict from multiple perspectives: a Syrian family fleeing ISIS caught between cruel border guards in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2024

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Summary: Young Florya willing joins the Partisans fighting the Nazis in Byelorussia, USSR during World War II. Seperated from his comrades during a paratroop attack and struck deaf by German artillery, Florya, in the company of peasant girl, Glascha, wanders the battle-scorched Russian prehistoric forests and man-made slaughter. He witnesses an SS unit's spontaneous, self-congratulatory appause at their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2001

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COM

Stambach, Scott

Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Ivan Isaenko is a life-long resident of the Mazyr Hospital for Gravely Ill Children in Belarus. Born severely deformed, yet mentally keen with a frighteningly sharp wit, strong intellect, and a voracious appetite for books, Ivan is forced to interact with the world through the vivid prism of his mind. For the most part, every day is exactly the same for Ivan. That is until...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STA

Kent, Kathleen

Summary: "It is 1990 when Melvina Donleavy arrives in Soviet Belarus on her first undercover mission with the CIA, alongside three fellow agents--none of whom know she is playing two roles. To the prying eyes of the KGB, she is merely a secretary; to her CIA minders, she is the only one who can stop the flow of nuclear weapons from the crumbling Soviet Union into the Middle East. For Mel has a secret;...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mulholland Books/Little, Brown and Company 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KEN

Hood, Susan

Summary: Based on the lives, rescue, and continuing friendship of British evacuees Bess Walder, 15, and Beth Cummings, 14, who spent fourteen hours in the North Atlantic with their hands grasped across their overturned lifeboat after the Nazis torpedoed the SS City of Benares en route to Canada in 1940. Includes historical notes.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers 2024

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