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Author
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 260 pages)
Language
English
Description
"Throughout the 1920's and 30's Prague was the intellectual center of Ukrainian emigres in Europe, not least because of significant financial support from the Czech government and its first president, Tomas Gerrigue Masaryk for emigre students and intellectuals."--
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
359 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The extraordinary story of the Russian slave girl Roxelana, who rose from the role of concubine to become the only queen in Ottoman history In Empress of the East, historian Leslie Peirce tells the remarkable story of a Christian slave girl, Roxelana, who was abducted by warriors at age twelve from her Ruthenian homeland, and brought to the harem of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in Constantinople. Suleiman became besotted with her, and forsook...
Author
Series
Publisher
Amsterdam University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 online resource (222 pages)
Language
English
Description
This book is about migration as a form of risk-taking. Based on Ukrainian women's experiences in the Polish domestic work sector, it presents a new approach to analyse movements of female migrants responding to the demand for household labour around the world. Risks involved in migration and in migrant domestic work are accounted for in detail alongside an analysis of the migration decision-making processes. This study shows how social ties and migrant...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue Ukrainian 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 from joining NATO by assassinating a deputy minister of...
Author
Series
Lexile measure
760L
Language
English
Description
In 1943, ten-year-old Lida is torn away from her home in the Ukraine, separated from her little sister Larissa, and sent to a slave labor camp in Germany, but when she is moved and set to making bombs, she sees a way to strike back at the Nazis.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
346 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
The story of an immigrant family trying to build a life in an unforgiving new world, Under This Unbroken Sky is a mesmerizing and absorbing first novel of love and greed, pride and desperation. Award-winning writer Shandi Mitchell based this evocative and compelling narrative of struggle and survival on the Canadian prairie on her own family history.
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
355 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
It is August of 1963, the year of the Taylor/Burton film epic Cleopatra, showcasing a passion too grand to be contained on the movie screen. The women of the Kalyna Beach cottage community gather for gin and gossip, trading the current racy bestsellers among themselves as they seek a brief escape from the predictable rhythms of children and chores. But dramatic change is coming this summer as innocence falters and the desire for change reaches a boiling...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
740L
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Luka, a Ukrainian boy working in a slave labor camp, plays dead after an explosion at the factory and escapes, eventually joining a resistance group that opposes both the Nazis and the Soviets, and through the danger of the guerrilla fighting he has two overriding goals--find out if his parents are still alive, and reunite with Lida, a girl who was a friend in the labor camp.
10) Stolen girl
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First American edition.
Lexile measure
680L
Physical Desc
194 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
When Nadia arrives in Canada in 1950 with Marusia, the woman she calls mother, she is glad to finally be out of the displaced persons camp where she has lived for five years, but troubled by confused memories of World War II. She speaks Ukrainian, but she seems to remember living with a German Nazi family who called her by a different name--and as she tries to settle into the Canadian-Ukrainian community of Brantford, she is haunted by questions:...
Author
Publisher
Union Square & Co
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
HL 740L
Physical Desc
120 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"An inspiring memoir of resilience by a young survivor of the war in Ukraine, as told through her diary entries -- a harrowing and ultimately hopeful survival story. Yeva Skalietska's story begins on her twelfth birthday in Kharkiv, where she has been living with her grandmother since she was a baby. Ten days later, the only life she'd ever known was shattered. On February 24, 2022, her city was suddenly under attack as Russia launched its horrifying...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 301 pages : map ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In July 1944, as the Red Army drives the Nazis out of Poland, sixteen-year-old Maria Kamińska must work with a captured Ukrainian nationalist to find her brother, who is a special operations agent and leader of a Polish Resistance squad, when he disappears while on a mission.
Poland, July 1944. Sixteen-year-old Maria is making her way home after years of forced labor in Nazi Germany, only to find her village destroyed and her parents killed in a...
13) Monarch
Author
Series
Grimstone volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
297 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In a desperate bid to get out of town, twenty-seven-year-old virgin and bookstore nerd Elena Zelenska becomes the world's most unlikely mail-order bride. Her gamble pays off when she's swept off her feet by Lorne Ronson, handsome single father and (gasp!) actual published author. Elena's new fianč seems almost too good to be true. Her life is turning into a fairytale, especially once Lorne starts building her a castle in the woods. But when Elena...
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