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British Ukraine Fiction Crimean War, 1853-1856 Fiction FICTION / Historical Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Fiction Great Britain. Royal Navy Officers Fiction Hazard, Phillip Horatio (Fictitious character) Fiction Jewish historical fiction Ukraine Ukraine History Famine, 1932-1933 Fiction United StatesPickhart, 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 PICLitteken, 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
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LITLitteken, 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
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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 LEBKortchik, 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
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kortchik 2021Seiffert, 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 SEIStuart, 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 STUKortchik, 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 2020Pohl, 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 POHAppelfeld, 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: Fiction Appelfeld 2020Stuart, 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 STUMasih, 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
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: Y FICTION MASMatios, 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