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1) The keep
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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • "Part horror tale, part mystery, part romance ... utterly fantastic.”—O, The Oprah Magazine • The bestselling, award-winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad brilliantly conjures a world from which escape is impossible and where the keep—the tower, the last stand—is both everything worth protecting and the very thing that must be surrendered
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In the volatile and shifting political atmosphere of Eastern Europe after World War II, an inexperienced homicide detective fresh out of the academy is assigned a homicide that no one wants to solve. Set in a bombed-out city in an unnamed country formerly occupied by the Germans and now by the Russians, the story follows Emil Brod as he unravels the threads of the cover-up of a brutal murder, while supporting his grandparents, his only family, in...
4) Chesapeake
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English
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The four-hundred-year saga of America's Eastern Shore, from its Native American roots to the present. The central scene of Michener's historical novel is that section of Maryland's Eastern shore, hardly more than 10 miles square. To this point come the founders of families that will dominate the story. A panoramic narrative of human and animal life on Maryland's Eastern Shore focuses on a ten-square-mile area at the mouth of the Choptank River and...
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"After being stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, a young woman finds herself alone in 1941 after her kidnapper dies. Her solitary existence is interrupted, however, when she happens upon a group of Jews fleeing the Nazi terror. Stunned to learn what's happening in the outside world, she vows to teach the group all she can about surviving in the forest - and in turn, they teach her some...
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Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
©2007
Physical Desc
xvii, 232 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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English
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In Erased, Omer Bartov uncovers the rapidly disappearing vestiges of the Jews of western Ukraine, who were rounded up and murdered by the Nazis during World War II with help from the local populace. What begins as a deeply personal chronicle of the Holocaust in his mother's hometown of Buchach--in former Eastern Galicia--carries him on a journey across the region and back through history. This poignant travelogue reveals the complete erasure of the...
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The classic novel of a boy's struggle for survival in WWII Poland, from the National Book Award–winning author of Steps and Being There. Originally published in 1965, The Painted Bird established Jerzy Kosinski as a major literary figure. With sparse prose and vivid imagery, it is a story of mythic proportion and timeless human relevance.
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English
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In the follow-up to her previous book "Gulag," the author, a journalist, delivers a history of how Communism took over Eastern Europe after World War II and transformed in frightening fashion the individuals who came under its sway. At the end of World War II, the Soviet Union, to its surprise and delight, found itself in control of a huge swath of territory in Eastern Europe. Josef Stalin and his secret police set out to convert a dozen radically...
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Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxii, 376 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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English
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"In light of Russia's aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed--from pre-Christianity to the fall of Communism--illuminating the remarkable cultural significance and richness of a place perpetually lost to the margins of history. Eastern Europe, the moniker, has gone out of fashion since the fall of the Soviet Union. Ask someone...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
358 p. ; 24 cm.
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English
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In 1920, Edward Mason is making a call upon Miss Mary Bayly, the current owner of the Mason family estate, the Retreat. Miss Mary is dying. She plans to give the Retreat to the closest direct descendant of the original immigrant owner that she can find. Edward thinks he can charm Miss Mary, secure the estate, and be back in Baltimore by lunchtime. Instead, over the course of a day, Edward hears the stories that will forever bind him and his family...
15) Eastern Europe
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Raintree Steck-Vaughn
Pub. Date
c1997
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47 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm.
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English
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Looks at the geography, history, culture, and economy of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Slovakia.
17) Red kayak
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Living near the water on Maryland's Eastern Shore, thirteen-year-old Brady and his best friends J.T. and Digger become entangled in a tragedy which tests their friendship and their ideas about right and wrong.
18) Rising tides
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Of three brothers, it was Ethan who shared his father's passion for the Maryland shore. With his father gone, Ethan is determined to make the family boatbuilding business a success, but amidst his achievements lie the most important challenges of his life. There is young Seth, who needs him more than ever. A woman he has always loved but never believed he could have. Ethan must learn to see around his dark and painful past and accept who he is.
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