Higginbotham, Adam

Summary: Journalist Adam Higginbotham's definitive, years-in-the-making account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster--and a powerful investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters. Early in the morning of April 26, 1986, Reactor Number Four of the Chernobyl Atomic Energy Station exploded, triggering...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

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Trofimov, Yaroslav

Summary: Since Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Yaroslav Trofimov has spent months on end at the heart of the conflict, very often on its front lines. In this authoritative account, he traces the war’s decisive moments—from the battle for Kyiv to more recently the gruelling and bloody arm wrestle involving the Wagner group over Bakhmut—to show how Ukraine and its allies have turned the tide...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2024

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Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt boss has relegated him to a desk job. And he is having trouble with his dexterity and balance. A visit to his...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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Plokhy, Serhii

Summary: "As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine's sovereignty. ... This revised edition contains new material that brings this...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021

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Summary: Set against the explosive, war-torn backdrop of 1930s Ukraine, this action-filled epic follows a young artist as he battles famine, imprisonment, and torture to save his childhood love and free his country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Marsh, Katherine

Summary: In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, thirteen-year-old Matthew discovers a shocking secret about his great-grandmother's past as he learns about her life during the Holodomor famine in Soviet Ukraine.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Roaring Brook Press 2023

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Hall, Benjamin

Summary: "When veteran war reporter Benjamin Hall woke up in Kyiv on the morning of March 14, 2022, he had no idea that, within hours, Russian bombs would nearly end his life. This is the story of how he survived--a story that continues to this day. For the first time, Hall shares his experience in full--from his ground-level view of the war to his dramatic rescue to his arduous, and ongoing, recovery....

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023

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Mendelsohn, Daniel Adam

Summary: For five years, Daniel Mendelsohn traveled the globe searching for an answer to the question he had first asked as a boy decades earlier: What really happened to his great-uncle's family during the Holocaust? Here, Mendelsohn weaves together his discoveries about the past, family secrets and Judaism itself. He visits nearly a dozen countries on four continents in pursuit of the truth,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.049 Mendel

Lichtman, Johannes

Summary: 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.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Marysue Rucci Books 2023

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Thor, Brad

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2023

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Thor, Brad

Summary: 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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION Thor

Kimmel, Eric A.

Summary: Katrusya's family cannot afford Christmas, but they cut a small pine tree in the forest, decorate it with buttons, and, when baby spiders hatch in its branches, they especially enjoy the silvery webs that appear.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2010

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Brett, Jan

Summary: Several animals sleep snugly in Nicki's lost mitten until the bear sneezes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Putnam 1989

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Frank, Anne

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 1989

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Litteken, Erin

Summary: "Summer 1941. War rages in Europe. The Germans march towards Ukraine. Vika lives in fear for her children...Liliya has lost too much in her seventeen years...Twelve-year-old Halya is struggling to discover who she is...These daughters of Ukraine will face devastation and loss as they fight to survive and protect the ones they love."

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Publisher / Publication Date: Boldwood Books Ltd.,  0000

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Baker, Mark

Summary: "Lonely Planet's Eastern Europe is your passport to the most relevant, up-to-date advice on what to see and skip, and what hidden discoveries await you. Walk Dubrovnik's city walls, discover history in Krakow, and explore Moscow's Red Square; all with your trusted travel companion. Get to the heart of Eastern Europe and begin your journey now!"--publisher's website.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lonely Planet Global Limited 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 914.704 Baker

Taylor, Brad

Summary: To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue Ukranian band of partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian national guard to root them out. It's a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden...

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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2024

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION Taylor