Search Results: Returned 16 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 16
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2019., Adolescent, Penguin Books Call No: FIC SEPETYS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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[2021]., Juvenile, Philomel Books Call No: 741.5 DON Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2011., Juvenile, Scholastic Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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2011., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: FIC SEP Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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c2011., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: Historical fiction FIC SEPETYS Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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c2011., Philomel Books Call No: [Fic] Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: 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.
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c2011., Adolescent, Philomel Books Call No: HISTORICAL FICTION Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In 1941, Lina and her family 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.
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[2013]., Adolescent, Scholastic Press Call No: [Fic] Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is 1982 and nineteen-year-old Laura Reid is spending a semester in Leningrad studying Russian, but when she meets Alyosha she discovers the dissident Russia--a world of wild parties, underground books and music, love, and constant danger.
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2004, Pre-adolescent, Orchard Books Call No: [Fic] Edition: 1st American ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In the 1930s, a young Finnish-American boy reluctantly moves with his family to Karelia, a communist-Finnish state founded in Russia, where his idealistic father soon realizes that his conception of a communist utopia is flawed.
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c1968, 1987., Juvenile, HarperTrophy Call No: WAR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: During World War II, when she was eleven years old, the author and her family were arrested in Poland by the Russians as political enemies and exiled to Siberia. She recounts here the trials of the following five years spent on the harsh Asian steppe.
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-- Spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown2021., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: HI-INT 972.91 SHE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "As World War II comes to a close, the United States and the Soviet Union emerge as the two greatest world powers on extreme opposites of the political spectrum. After the United States showed its hand with the atomic bomb in Hiroshima, the Soviets refuse to be left behind. With communism sweeping the globe, the two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. In their battle for dominance, spy planes fly above, armed submarines swim deep below, and undercover agents meet in the dead of night. The Cold War game grows more precarious as weapons are pointed towards each other, with fingers literally on the trigger. The decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world's close call with the third--and final--world war"--Provided by the publisher.
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Juvenile Call No: GAMES & SPORTS NF BUR Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "1980 Winter Olympics hockey game for the gold between the United States and Soviet Union"--
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2004., PowerKids Press Call No: 973.04 THO Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Primary sources of immigration and migration in AmericaSummary Note: Explores religious intolerance towards Jewish immigrants in America and includes information on their arrival from Russia and immigrant aid societies, jobs and life in the cities, raising children, and being a part of a community.
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2019., LITTLE, BROWN AND COMPANY Call No: HI-INT 327 FAV Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "An account of the Cold War spies whose survival depended on carefully orchestrated deceptions as they fought in the shadows to help avert global nuclear war and, in so doing, changed the global landscape in ways that are still felt today"--Provided by the publisher.
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-- Dmitri Shostakovich and the siege of Leningrad2015., Candlewick Press Call No: HI-INT 940.54 AND Availability:2 of 2 At Location(s) Summary Note: An account of the Siege of Leningrad reveals the role played by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich and his Leningrad Symphony in rallying and commemorating their fellow citizens.
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By Brown, Box2016., Adolescent, First Second Call No: GN 794.8 BRO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistable, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Computer scientist Alexey Pajitnov had big ideas about games. In 1984, he created Tetris in his spare time while developing software for the Soviet government. Once Tetris emerged from behind the Iron Curtain, it was an instant hit.
