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Pickhart, 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

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PIC

Kortchik, Lana

Summary: While on a train headed for labor camps under Nazi command, Lisa, a young Russian woman, is rescued by resistance fighters and falls in love with Maxim, one of the battalion members, who has dark secrets, while Maxim's wife, Irina, trapped in a government job back in Kyïv, risks her life to help her neighbors, and both women must face a hard decision.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kortchik 2021

Litteken, Erin

Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LIT

Masih, Tara Lynn

Summary: "A riveting story of courage and strength in the face of Nazi terror ... about Hanna, a young Jewish girl, age 14, from a small Ukrainian village and how she and her family survived the Holocaust and eventually emigrated to America."--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Mandel Vilar Press 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MAS

Litteken, Erin

Summary: Inspired by her own family's experiences in Ukraine before, during and after World War II, the author reimagines their story, following the life and experiences of 16-year-old Katya, beginning in 1929 Kyiv and then, seventy years later, a young widow uncovers long-hidden family secrets about their past.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Boldwood Books Ltd. 0000

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Book Club Kit, Call number: FIC LIT (Book Club Kit - 8 paperbacks)

LeBrun, Cynthia

Summary: "Black Sunflowers illuminates one of the darkest times in Ukrainian history: the Holodomor or Great Ukrainian Famine. The book begins in 1928, in Soviet occupied Ukraine, where Veronika and her family live on their farm in the close knit village of Kuzmin. Life is good, despite the Soviet occupation, but soon everything they have known and loved is not just altered, but demolished. Black...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited 2024

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1 available in New YA Materials, Call number: YA FIC LEB

Matios, Maria

Summary: "The best contemporary Ukrainian novel written since Ukrainian Independence in 1991. It reveals a family saga that is much more dynamic than classical sagas and at the same time is much more touching and engaging. It is an emotional history of Ukraine with a very well researched and vivid historical background that gives the reader the opportunity to understand not only the characters and their...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Spuyten Duyvil 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MAT

Seiffert, Rachel

Summary: "From the award-winning author of the Booker Prize-short-listed The Dark Room, a startling portrait of the Nazis' arrival in Ukraine as they move to implement the final solution Otto Pohl, an engineer overseeing construction of a German road in Ukraine, awakens to the unexpected sight of SS men herding hundreds of Jews into an old brick factory. Inside the factory, Ephraim anxiously scans the...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Pantheon Books 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SEI

Fraser, George MacDonald

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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf; [distributed by Random House] 1973

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRA

Kortchik, Lana

Summary: "Watching the Red Army withdraw from Ukraine in the face of Hitler's relentless advance, Natasha Smirnova realises her life is about to change forever. As Kiev is cast under the dark cloud of occupation, Natasha falls in love with Mark, a Hungarian soldier, enlisted against all his principles on the side of the Nazis. But as Natasha fights to protect the friends and family she holds dear she...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HQ 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kortchik 2020

McMahon, Katharine.

Summary: In 1854, beautiful, adventurous Rosa Barr travels to the Crimean battlefield with Florence Nightingale's nursing corps--then disappears without a trace. When Mariella Lingwood, Rosa's cousin, leaves her surgeon husband's side to follow the trail of her elusive cousin to Sebastopol, she encounters Rosa's dashing stepbrother, a reckless cavalry officer whose complex past -- and future -- is...

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Publisher / Publication Date: G. P. Putnam's Sons 2009

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MCM

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: Sailing beneath the ominous cloud of war between Turkey and Russia, the frigate Trojan is on her way to the Black Sea, carrying on board a mysterious passenger, a young woman whose identity must be concealed by orders of the Admiralty. Although First Lieutenant Phillip Hazard is captivated by the charming young woman, he has a far more pressing concern: the Trojan's captain is a sadistic despot...

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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: The Crimean War rages on, and determined to break the stalemate, the British decide to send a spy into Odessa. And who better for this perilous mission than Captain Phillip Hazard, newly promoted to command of the steam-powered Huntress and fluent in Russian? Hazard bravely takes on the task, but saddled with a surly first lieutenant whose previous captain died mysteriously and with his crew...

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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: The Crimean War is at its peak as the winter of 1854 sets in, and Commander Phillip Hazard of the 31-gun, steam-screw frigate Trojan is sent to bring troop reinforcements from Constantinople to Eupatoria. On the way, he must handle an overbearing young nobleman with a taste for blood and the pitiless power of a raging storm.

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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Pohl, Frederik.

Summary: For Simyon Smin, Deputy Director, the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Station was a source of great pride. For Leonid Sheranchuk, engineer, it was a place where he could put his vast skills to the best use. For Tamara Sheranchuk, doctor, it was a place where she longed to work in order to be closer to her husband. But on April 26, 1986, Chernobyl forever became someplace very different for these three...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bantam Books 1987

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC POH

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: As the Russian cavalry prepares to launch a full-scale attack to seize Balaclava, the British find themselves in desperate straits. Dangerously outnumbered, they are hoping for reinforcements, but in the meantime they must hold their ground, calling for heroism that will test the courage of even the bravest man. Dodging bursting shells and Russian Cossacks, Hazard proves that the bluejackets...

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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Stuart, V. A.

Summary: Spring 1855, the height of the Crimean War, and the siege of the Russian city of Sebastopol continues. In a desperate attempt to cut the Russians' supply line at the Sea of Azoff, the Allies commit 15,000 troops, five batteries of artillery, and virtually every ship of their Black Sea fleets. Commander Phillip Hazard and HMS Huntress undertake the crucial mission of marking a new channel for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: McBooks Press 2004

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC STU

Sullivan, Mark

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: "In late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel must make a terrible decision: Do they wait for the Soviet bear's intrusion and risk being sent to Siberia? Or do they reluctantly follow the wolves - murderous Nazi officers who have pledged to protect "pure-blood" Germans? The Martels are one of many families of German heritage whose ancestors have farmed...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC SUL

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Sullivan 2021

Appelfeld, Aharon

Summary: Battling numbing cold, ever-present hunger, and German soldiers determined to hunt them down, four dozen resistance fighters--escapees from a nearby ghetto--hide in a Ukrainian forest, determined to survive the war, sabotage the German war effort, and rescue as many Jews as they can from the trains taking them to concentration camps. Their leader is relentless in his efforts to turn his ragtag...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Schocken Books 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC APP

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Appelfeld 2020

Kilworth, Garry.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2003

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIL

Sullivan, Mark T.

1 hold on 3 copies

Summary: In late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel decide they must run in retreat from their land with murderous Nazi officers they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lake Union Publishing 2021

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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SUL

Arnold, Elana K.

Summary: From Michael L. Printz honoree & National Book Award finalist Elana K. Arnold comes the harrowing story of a young girl's struggle to survive the Holocaust in Romania. Frederieke Teitler and her older sister, Astra, live in a house, in a city, in a world divided. Their father ran out on them when Rieke was only six, leaving their mother a wreck and their grandfather as their only stable family....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Balzer + Bray 2023

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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARN

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC ARN

Kurkov, Andreĭ

Summary: A perplexing mystery introduces rookie detective Samson Kolechko in Kyiv as he is tackling his first case, set against real life details of the tumultuous early 20th century.

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KUR

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KUR

Vasilyuk, Sasha

Summary: In 2007 Ukraine, after Yefim Shulman, beloved husband, grandfather and World War II veteran, passes away, his widow Nina finds a letter to the KGB in his briefcase that reveals his lifelong secret, which forces them to reassess the man they thought they knew and the country he defended.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC VAS

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Vasilyuk

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