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[2024]., Adolescent, Carolrhoda LAB Call No: HISTORICAL F MIL Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Living under the Salazar dictatorship in 1960s Portugal, Sonia must find her voice as a poet and an activist after the government arrests her boyfriend and shuts down her family's business.
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2019., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Historical FIC SEP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule"--Provided by publisher.
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2019., Philomel Books Call No: HISTORICAL F SEP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule.
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[2019]., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Historical FIC Sepetys Genre: Historical Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1957, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson arrives in Madrid to connect with his mother's homeland through his photography. When he meets a young woman named Ana, he sees the harsh impact of the Spanish Civil War that still affects her family. Daniel finds himself facing difficult decisions as dangerous secrets from the past emerge, revealing a dark side of Spain hidden from tourists.
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2019., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "At the Castellana Hilton in 1957 Madrid, eighteen-year-old Daniel Matheson connects with Ana Moreno through photography and fate as Daniel discovers the incredibly dark side of the city under Generalissimo Franco's rule"--Provided by publisher.
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2022., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: HISTORICAL F SEP Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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2022., Juvenile, Philomel Books Call No: Historical Fic Sepetys Availability:2 of 3 At Location(s) Summary Note: In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
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2023., Juvenile, Philomel Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to view Summary Note: In 1989, Romanian teenager Cristian Florescu dreams of being a writer but lives within the confines of a tightly controlled communist regime. When he's blackmailed by security forces to become an informant spying on his mother's client, an American diplomat and their family, he wagers how to use his newfound position against those in authority and joins the ranks of political dissenters within the country to an uncertain future.
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[2019], Juvenile, Atheneum, Atheneum Books for Young Readers Call No: Fic Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In Romania in 1989, when people who say or do the wrong thing disappear, ten-year-old aspiring writer Ileana copes with fear, hunger, and cruelty by writing new endings to stories, including her own.
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-- Strong manÃ2020., Adolescent, Square Fish, Henry Holt and Co. Call No: WORLD HISTORY NF DAV Edition: 1st Square Fish ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "By profiling five of the most notoriously ruthless dictators in history--Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Joseph Stalin, Mao Zedong, and Saddam Hussein. . . Davis examines the forces in these strongmen's personal lives and historical periods that shaped the leaders they'd become"--Back cover.