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The dream jar
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Bonnie Pryor |
After emigrating to America, each member of a Russian family works hard to contribute to the family's dream of someday owning and running a store. |
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Winter garden
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Kristin Hannah,Susan Ericksen,Inés Belaustegui Trias |
Can a woman ever really know herself if she doesn’t know her mother?
From the author of the smash-hit bestseller Firefly Lane and True Colors comes a powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates t… |
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Super sad true love story
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Gary Shteyngart,Adam Grupper,Ali Ahn |
From the New York Times [review][1] written by Michiko Kakutani, June 2010:
*"Gary Shteyngart’s wonderful new novel, “Super Sad True Love Story,” is a supersad, superfunny, superaffecting performanc… |
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Gifts to treasure
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Tehilla Greenberger |
When twelve-year-old Raizel, eleven-year-old Moshele, and nine-year-old Chaya Rabinovich arrive in North Dakota in 1897, each must try to discover how to use the special gifts their grandparents gave… |
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Anya's ghost
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Vera Brosgol |
Anya, embarrassed by her family and lacking confidence in her body and her social skills, finally finds a friend after falling down a well, but quickly learns there are drawbacks to having a ghost fo… |
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Memoirs of a muse
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Lara Vapnyar |
Obsessed by Dostoyevsky and the woman who became his muse, Tanya emigrates to New York City from the former Soviet Union and falls in with Mark Schneider, a writer for whom she is determined to be bo… |
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Journey to Ellis Island
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Carol Bierman |
An account of the ocean voyage and arrival at Ellis Island of twelve-year-old Julius Weinstein who, along with his mother and younger sister, immigrated from Russia in 1922. |
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Russian Americans
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Steven Ferry |
Provides a history of Russian immigration to the United States and discusses Russian customs and contributions to American culture. |
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Rosyjska baletnica
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Danielle Steel |
The story of a Russian woman who emigrated to the US. Her granddaughter uncovers her life in Russia when she sifts through the mementos left behind after hehr grandmothers death. |
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Forty rooms
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Olga Grushin |
Follows the life of a woman born in Moscow who leaves for the United States, where she finds happiness and love but must also deal with the ghosts of her youth. |
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The new sweet style
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Vasiliĭ Pavlovich Aksenov |
The adventures of a Russian actor in 1980s California--from parking attendant to film director. In the process he assesses the Russian emigré scene, the twilight of the Soviet Union and American cult… |
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One-way to Ansonia
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Judie Angell |
At the turn of the century, ten-year-old Rose immigrates from Russia to America and eventually finds that her emergence into adolescence brings employment, marriage, motherhood, and self-determinatio… |
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Here Come the Russians
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Stewart Lillard |
vii, 97 pages : 23 cm |
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Independence Avenue
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Eileen Bluestone Sherman |
Elias, a fourteen-year-old Russian immigrant, arrives alone in Kansas City in 1907, finding new employment and friends but also receiving bad news about his family back in Russia. |
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Century's Son
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Robert Boswell |
"In the small college town of Hayden, Illinois, Morgan and Zhenya have settled into a loveless, stagnant marriage. He is a former labor organizer who now works as a garbage collector, and she is a po… |
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The Russians in America, 1727-1975
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Vladimir Wertsman |
A history of Russians in America in chronology format, with a selection of illustrative documents, appendices, and bibliography. |
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The store that Mama built
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Robert Lehrman |
In 1917 twelve-year-old Birdie and her siblings, the children of Jewish immigrants from Russia, help their recently widowed mother run the family store, picking up where their father left off in his … |
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The Russian Americans
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Paul R. Magocsi |
Discusses the history, culture, and religion of the Russians, factors encouraging their emigration, and their acceptance as an ethnic group in North America. |
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Russian Americans
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Nichol Bryan |
Provides information on the history of Russia and on the customs, language, religion, and experiences of Russian Americans. |
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Russian Americans
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C. Ann Fitterer |
A brief introduction to Russian Americans, their historical backgrounds, customs and traditions, their impact on society, and life in the United States today. |
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