Sepetys, 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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Summary: The poor but proud Dunne family and their friends struggle to survive on the dust-plagued prairies of the Oklahoma Panhandle, but discover bitter disappointment in the orchards and vineyards of the so-called promised land of California.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Oklahoma Press 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BABSteinbeck, John
Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2006
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Summary: Novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the 1930's.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1998
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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: Thorndike Press 2020
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEPVanderLugt, Dana
Summary: Based on a true story and told in alternating voices, follows the growing friendship between thirteen-year-old American Claire and Karl, a young German POW hired to work on her family's Michigan apple farm in October 1944.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zonderkidz 2023
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Summary: Depicts the hardships and suffering endured by the Joads as they journey from Oklahoma to California during the Depression.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 1999
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Summary: January 1945, the war is not yet over : the Soviets begin the deportation of the German minority from the labor camps in Ukraine. This is the story of seventeen year old Leo Auberge, who went to the camp with the naive unawareness of the boy eager to escape provincial life. The last five years however he experienced daily hunger and cold, extreme fatigue and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Co. 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MULGolden, Christopher
Summary: "Christopher Golden's Road of Bones is a stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOLLehane, Dennis
Summary: Working as a consigliere to the Bartolo crime family, traveling between Tampa and Cuba, former crime kingpin Joe Coughlin, who has everything -- money, power, anonymity and a beautiful mistress -- is forced to pay for his lifetime of sin when the dark truth of his past emerges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2015