Search Results: Returned 18 Results, Displaying Titles 1 - 18
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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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2023., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: GN 623.4 SHE Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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2018., Juvenile, Square Fish/Roaring Brook Press Call No: 623.4 SHE Edition: First Square Fish edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: In December of 1938, a chemist in a German laboratory made a shocking discovery: When placed next to radioactive material, a Uranium atom split in two. That simple discovery launched a scientific race that spanned 3 continents.
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-- Race to build--and steal--the world's most dangerous weapon2012., Juvenile, Flash Point Call No: FIC SHE Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: Recounts the scientific discoveries that enabled atom splitting, the military intelligence operations that occurred in rival countries, and the work of brilliant scientists hidden at Los Alamos.
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1997, Lucent Books Call No: 973.922 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: World History SeriesSummary Note: Examines the events preceding, during, and after the confrontation between the United States and Cuba over the presence of Soviet missiles there.
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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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-- Spies, superbombs, and the ultimate Cold War showdown2021., Pre-adolescent, Roaring Brook Press Call No: 972.91 SHEINKIN SHE Edition: First edition. Availability:3 of 3 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. The two nations begin a neck-and-neck competition to build even more destructive bombs and conquer the Space Race. The Cold War game grows more precarious util the decades-long showdown culminates in the Cuban Missile Crisis, the world's close call with the third-and final-world war.
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-- Growing up behind the Iron Curtain2021., General, Candlewick Press Call No: 921 YEL Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "Drama, family secrets, and a KGB spy in his own kitchen! How will Yevgeny ever fulfill his parents' dream that he become a national hero when he doesn't even have his own room? He's not a star athlete or a legendary ballet dancer. In the tiny apartment he shares with his Baryshnikov-obsessed mother, poetry-loving father, continually outraged grandmother, and safely talented brother, all Yevgeny has is his little pencil, the underside of a massive table, and the doodles that could change everything. With equal amounts charm and solemnity, award-winning author and artist Eugene Yelchin recounts in hilarious detail his childhood in Cold War Russia as a young boy desperate to understand his place in his family."-- Provided by publisher.
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c2006, Pre-adolescent, Houghton Mifflin Call No: B Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "... offers rare insight into the life of a teenage girl in Stalin's Russia, where fear of arrest was a fact of daily life."--Inside flap of dust jacket.
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[2021]., Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers Call No: HI-INT 629.40 CHE Edition: First edition. Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: "You've heard of the space race, but do you know the whole story? The most ambitious race humankind has ever undertaken was masterminded in the shadows by two engineers on opposite sides of the Cold War--Wernher von Braun, a former Nazi officer living in the US, and Sergei Korolev, a Russian rocket designer once jailed for crimes against his country--and your textbooks probably never told you. Von Braun became an American hero, recognized the world over, while Korolev toiled in obscurity. These two brilliant rocketeers never met, but together they shaped the science of spaceflight and redefined modern warfare. From Stalin's brutal Gulag prisons and Hitler's concentration camps to Cape Canaveral and beyond, their simultaneous quests pushed science--and human ingenuity--to the breaking point. From Amy Cherrix comes the extraordinary hidden story of the space race and the bitter rivalry that launched humankind to the moon"--From the publisher's web site.
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1990, F. Watts Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: An Impact BiographySummary Note: A biography of the Soviet leader, focusing on his formative years in Soviet Georgia, his rise to the top of the Communist party, and his leadership during World War II.
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[2016]., Juvenile, An imprint of Capstone Press Call No: HI-INT 796.9 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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c1991., Juvenile, Chelsea House Call No: 92 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A biography of the tsar who began the transformation of Russia into a modern state in the late seventeenth-early eighteenth centuries.
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[2014], Juvenile, Capstone Press Call No: 629.45 4 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s)Click here to watch Series Title: You choose.Summary Note: Describes the space race and the moon landing with readers' choices revealing various historical details.
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c1983., Childrens Press Call No: 947 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Summary Note: A history of the largest country in the world, from early days to 1917.
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1988, Juvenile, M. Cavendish Call No: 947.08 CLA Edition: Reference ed Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: Wars that changed the worldSummary Note: Examines how the Russian Revolution changed the course of history.
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c1983., Childrens Press Call No: 947 .453 Availability:1 of 1 At Location(s) Series Title: World at warSummary Note: Describes the nearly 900-day siege of the Baltic port city of Leningrad, during which more than one million Russian civilians died from stravation, cold, and German shells.
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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.
