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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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2008., Viking Call No: 813 .54 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.
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2008., Viking Call No: [Fic] Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Seventeen-year-old Lev Beniov, having been arrested for looting the corpse of a German paratrooper, is given the opportunity to be released from jail if he, along with a soldier imprisoned for desertion, can secure twelve eggs to be used in the colonel's daughter's wedding cake by traversing the dangerous streets of Leningrad.
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[2009]., Plume Call No: Historical FIC Benioff Genre: Historical Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Two very different young men who wait for execution in a Leningrad prison are freed to carry out a difficult task which is to find a dozen eggs for a powerful colonel to use in his daughter's wedding cake. They must return from their quest in five days which is nearly impossible due to the brutal conflict of war all around them.
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2022., Adolescent, Farrar Straus Giroux Call No: HISTORICAL F SCO Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: When her best friend disappears in the summer of 1942, Liza resolves to rescue her no matter the cost, entangling herself in an increasingly dangerous web with two former classmates, one a member of the militia and the other forced to live in Leningrad's tunnels.
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2015., Candlewick Press Call No: WAR Edition: 1st ed. 2015. Availability:1 of 1 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"--OCLC.
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2015., Candlewick Press Call No: WWII Edition: 1st ed. 2015. 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"--OCLC.
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2015., Candlewick Press Call No: 940.54 21 Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In September 1941, Adolf Hitler's Wehrmacht surrounded Leningrad in what was to become one of the longest and most destructive sieges in Western history. Trapped between the Nazi invading force and the Soviet government itself was composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who would write a symphony that roused, rallied, eulogized, and commemorated his fellow citizens - the Leningrad Symphony. This testament of courage was copied onto microfilm, driven across the Middle East, and flown over the deserts of North Africa to be performed in the United States - where it played a surprising role in strengthening the Grand Alliance against the Axis powers.
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2017., Adolescent, Candlewick Press Call No: B Shostakovich Edition: First paperback edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Summary Note: Relates how the siege of Leningrad inspired composer Dmitri Shostakovich in his creation of the "The Leningrad Symphony" which was then smuggled out of Russia to the United States where it helped to strengthen the Grand Alliance against the Axis powers during World War II.
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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.
