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Author
Publisher
Perennial
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
American college student Jonathan Safran Foer sets out, along with Ukranian travel agent Alex Perchov, Alex's depressive grandfather, and the family dog, in an attempt to find the village where a Ukranian woman might or might not have saved Jonathan's grandfather from the Nazis during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In late March 1944, as Stalin's forces push into Ukraine, young Emil and Adeline Martel decide they must run in retreat from their land with murderous Nazi officers they despise to escape the Soviets and go in search of freedom.
Author
Publisher
Marysue Rucci Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Shortly after his thirtieth birthday in 2018, John Turner accepts a job offer from an old college friend to move to Ukraine to teach customer service agents there how to sound American, but with no knowledge of the language and struggling to understand the culture and customs, he finds himself in a romantic entanglement with disastrous consequences.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
An epic novel exposing the ugliness of war and the beauty of hope. The city of Kiev was bombed in Hitler's blitzkrieg across the Soviet Union, but the constant siege was only the beginning for her citizens. In this sweeping historical saga, Kelli Stuart takes the reader on a captivating journey into the little-known history of Ukraine's tragedies through the eyes of four compelling characters who experience the same story from different perspectives....
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the war-ravaged borderlands of Ukraine, a Russian military unit has gone rogue. Its members, conscripted from the worst prisons and mental asylums across Russia, are the most criminally violent, psychologically dangerous combatants to ever set foot upon the modern battlefield. With all attention focused on the frontlines, they have pushed deeper into the interior to wage a campaign of unspeakable barbarity. As they move from village to village,...
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Language
English
Description
When Nazi forces occupy the beautiful coastal city of Yalta, Crimea, everything changes. Eighteen-year-old Filip has few options; he is a prime candidate for forced labor in Germany. His hurried marriage to his childhood friend Galina might grant him reprieve, but the rules keep shifting. Galina’s parents, branded as traitors for innocently doing business with the enemy, decide to volunteer in hopes of better placement. The work turns out to
...Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Protecting the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has escaped police custody in the aftermath of a brutal murder, Danish Red Cross nurse Nina Borg struggles with a belief in the woman's innocence as she learns more about her violent past.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Alex Dryden is a writer who can please everyone from fans of old le Carré to students of current affairs."
-James Grippando, New York Times bestselling author of Afraid of the Dark
"Ex-KGB Colonel Anna Resnikov is a terrific heroine."
-Phillip Margolin, New York Times bestselling author of Supreme Justice
"Alex Dryden is the real thing. If he got any realer, he would step out of the pages and physically punch you, with both elegance and...
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