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(0)Kate Brown
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Language
English
Description
In Plutopia, Brown draws on official records and dozens of interviews to tell the stories of Richland, Washington and Ozersk, Russia--the first two cities in the world to produce plutonium. To contain secrets, American and Soviet leaders created plutopias--communities of nuclear families living in highly-subsidized, limited-access atomic cities. Brown shows that the plants' segregation of permanent and temporary workers and of nuclear and non-nuclear...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
198 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The author "wanders the Chernobyl Zone of Alienation, first on the Internet and then in person, to figure out which version -- the real or the virtual -- is the actual forgery. She also takes us to the basement of a hotel in Seattle to examine the personal possessions left in storage by Japanese Americans on their way to internment camps in 1942. In Uman, Ukraine, we hide with Brown in a tree in order to witness the male-only Rosh Hashanah celebration...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
High in the hills of Valencia, a forgotten house guards its secrets. Untouched since Franco's forces tore through Spain in 1936, the whitewashed walls have crumbled, and the garden, laden with orange blossom, grows wild. Emma Temple is the first to unlock its doors in seventy years. Emma is London's leading perfumer, but her blessed life has taken a difficult turn. Emma's free-spirited mother, Liberty, who taught her the art of fragrance making, has...
Author
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
xii, 308 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This is a biography of a borderland between Russia and Poland, a region where, in 1925, people identified as Poles, Germans, Jews, Ukrainians, and Russians lived side by side. Over the next three decades, this mosaic of cultures was modernized and homogenized out of existence by the ruling might of the Soviet Union, then Nazi Germany and finally, Polish and Ukrainian nationalism. By the 1950s, this "no place" emerged as a Ukrainian heartland, and...
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2000, Gabriel Lambert is a celebrated painter who hides a dark secret. Sophie Cass, a journalist struggling to begin her career and with a family connection to Lambert, is determined to find the truth about his past and the little known story of the real Casablanca."--
6) Chernobyl
Author
Series
Publisher
Core Library, an imprint of Abdo Publishing
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
48 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
In 1986, a test at a Soviet Union nuclear reactor plant went terribly wrong. A reactor exploded, releasing deadly radiation into the surrounding area. Chernobyl examines the scope of the disaster, its causes, and how people can keep a similar disaster from happening again.
Author
Series
Alex Rider adventure volume 5
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Lexile measure
GN 480L
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Teenage spy Alex travels to Venice to discover the truth about his past. But the truth lies with a criminal organization known as Scorpia, and Alex must make a choice--work for MI6 once more, or betray everything he believes in.
