Fitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITAdams, Alina
Summary: "Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria - born Dvora Kaganovitch - has fulfilled her mother's dreams. But a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness... Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADASepetys, 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.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC SEPRunyan, Aimie K.
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