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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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Russian immigrants, 1860-1915
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Helen Frost |
Discusses the reasons Russian people left their homeland to come to America, the experiences the immigrants had in the new country, and the contributions this cultural group made to American society.… |
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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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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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Inconvenient
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Margie Gelbwasser |
While fifteen-year-old Russian-Jewish immigrant Alyssa tries desperately to cope with her mother's increasingly out-of-control alcoholism by covering for her and pretending things are normal, her bes… |
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Sunny Sweet is so dead meat
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Jennifer Ann Mann |
When Sunny Sweet, age six, devises a science experiment that requires her big sister Masha to look weird all day, Masha will try almost anything to get them home from the science fair without causing… |
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Sunny Sweet is so not sorry
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Jennifer Ann Mann |
Follows eleven-year-old Masha and her "evil genius" little sister, Sunny, through one very adventurous day, as Masha faces scary situations, meets new people, and gains new insight into life with her… |
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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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The rising star of Rusty Nail
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Lesley M. M. Blume |
In the small town of Rusty Nail, Minnesota, in the early 1950s, musically talented ten-year-old Franny wants to take advanced piano lessons from newcomer Olga Malenkov, a famous Russian musician susp… |
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Dancer, daughter, traitor, spy
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Elizabeth Kiem |
After a harrowing defection to the United States in 1982, Russian teenager Marya and her father settle in Brooklyn, where Marya is drawn into a web of intrigue involving her gift of foresight, her mo… |
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Panic in a suitcase
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Yelena Akhtiorskaya |
"A dazzling debut novel about a Russian immigrant family living in Brooklyn and their struggle to learn the new rules of the American Dream. In this account of two decades in the life of an immigrant… |
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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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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 gold coin
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Pamela Dell |
In 1901, thirteen-year-old Dimitri, his younger brother, and their parents are beginning to feel at home in New York City's Lower East Side, where they have lived since their Jewish faith led them to… |
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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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Cursing Columbus
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Eve Tal |
In 1907, fourteen-year-old Raizel, who has lived in New York City for three years, and her brother Lemmel, newly-arrived, respond very differently to the challenges of living as Ukrainian Jews in the… |
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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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