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Miramar Bay ; 5
Language
English
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"Sometimes life flips the script... Billy Walker is a North Carolina boy whose Hollywood star is beginning to shine. His rough past is in the rearview. Now seeing the world from the back seat of a limousine, Billy has no regrets about what he had to do, and the choices he made, to get there. But all it takes is one death-defying moment for Billy's world to shift. When an on-set accident leaves him shaken, plagued by haunting dreams, he's in desperate...
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Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
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"Set in depleted, post-recession suburbia, with its endlessly interlocking cul-de-sacs, mega-parking lots and big box stores, The Infinite Tides tells the story of star astronaut Keith Corcoran's return to earth. Keith comes home from a lengthy mission aboard the International Space Station to find his wife and daughter gone, and a house completely empty of furniture, as if Odysseus had returned to Ithaca to find that everyone he knew had forgotten...
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Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
The story of an immigrant family trying to build a life in an unforgiving new world, Under This Unbroken Sky is a mesmerizing and absorbing first novel of love and greed, pride and desperation. Award-winning writer Shandi Mitchell based this evocative and compelling narrative of struggle and survival on the Canadian prairie on her own family history.
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Publisher
Harper Paperbacks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
It is August of 1963, the year of the Taylor/Burton film epic Cleopatra, showcasing a passion too grand to be contained on the movie screen. The women of the Kalyna Beach cottage community gather for gin and gossip, trading the current racy bestsellers among themselves as they seek a brief escape from the predictable rhythms of children and chores. But dramatic change is coming this summer as innocence falters and the desire for change reaches a boiling...
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English
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Nominated for the Man Booker Prize
“A charming comedy of eros . . . A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty.” —Los Angeles Times
“Charming, poignantly funny.” —The Washington Post Book World
'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four...
“A charming comedy of eros . . . A ride that, despite the bumps and curves in the road, never feels anything less than jaunty.” —Los Angeles Times
“Charming, poignantly funny.” —The Washington Post Book World
'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four...
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Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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In 1943 ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
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Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Nadia's daily life in south Brooklyn is filled with small indignities: as a senior home attendant, she is always in danger of being fired; as a part-time nanny, she is forced to navigate the demands of her spoiled charge and the preschooler's insecure mother; and as an ethnic Russian, she finds herself feuding with western Ukrainian immigrants who think she is a traitor. The war back home is always at the forefront of her reality. On television,...
10) Dead man's hand
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Series
Pike Logan thriller ; 18
Language
English
Description
"Brad Taylor and Pike Logan face off against Putin's agents and a group of rogue Ukrainian partisans plotting to assassinate a Swedish deputy minister"--
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Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kamińska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission."--
12) Lesia's dream
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
" Fifteen-year-old Lesia can hardly bear it. She and her family must leave their beloved Baba in their Ukranian hometown in order to flee to Canada. Dreaming of wealth, security and gold fields of wheat, Lesia looks forward to a life in Canada free from poverty and the rumors of war." -- Cover [pg. 4].
13) Stolen girl
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Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II; she speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford she is haunted by one question:...
14) The war below
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Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and forced him into a labor camp. Now Luka has smuggled himself out--even though he left behind his dearest friend, Lida. Someday, he vows, he'll find her again. Racing through the mountains, Luka evades capture by both Nazis and Soviet agents. When he meets the underground Ukrainian Insurgent Army, he knows that's where he belongs: fighting Nazis and Soviets alike. But the desperate rescues and guerilla...
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Publisher
Boldwood Books Ltd
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"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. In the 1930s, Stalin's activists marched through the Soviet Union, espousing the greatness of collective farming. It was the first step in creating...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"In the fall of 1961, a KGB agent defected to West Germany. The slim 30-year-old man in police custody had papers in the name of an East German, Josef Lehmann, but claimed that his real name was Bogdan Stashinsky, and he was a citizen of the Soviet Union. On the orders of his KGB bosses, he had traveled on numerous occasions to Munich, where he singlehandedly tracked down and killed two enemies of the communist regime. He used a new, specially designed...
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Zelensky got his start as an actor, running for president of Ukraine as a populist candidate in 2019. He seemed an unlikely hero, yet he quickly revealed his resolve as Putin's forces threatened his homeland. Learn more about his life, his background, and his . . . devotion to Ukraine"--
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by warriors at age twelve from her Ruthenian homeland, and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Constantinople. Suleyman became besotted with her, and forsook all other mistresses. Then, in an unprecedented step, he made her the first and only queen in the Ottoman court. Although shrouded in scandal,...
