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1) Torch
Author
Language
English
Description
When 17-year-old Pavol fatally sets himself on fire in Prague in 1969 to protest the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, his three best friends must figure out how to survive an oppressive regime without him.
3) Wild ginger
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2002.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Author
Series
Foul lady Fortune volume 1
Language
English
Description
1931, Shanghai. Four years ago Rosalind Lang was brought back from the brink of death, but the experiment that saved her also stopped her from sleeping and aging-- and allows her to heal from any wound. Desperate for redemption from her traitorous past, she uses her abilities as an assassin for her country. Code name: Fortune. When the Japanese Imperial Army begins its invasion march, Rosalind's mission pivots. A series of murders is causing unrest...
5) Liquidation
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
129 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
On the eve of China's Cultural Revolution and her sixteenth birthday, Mei dreams of becoming a model revolutionary. When the Communist Party recruits girls for a mysterious duty in the capital, she seizes the opportunity to escape her impoverished village. It is only when Mei arrives at the Chairman's opulent residence--a forbidden city unto itself--that she learns that the girls' job is to dance with the Party elites. Ambitious and whip-smart, Mei...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
1955.
Physical Desc
182 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
The Rice-Sprout Song portrays the horror and absurdity that the land-reform movement brings to a southern village in China during the early 1950s. Contrary to the hopes of the peasants in this story, the redistribution of land does not mean an end to hunger. Man-made and natural disasters bring about the threat of famine, while China's involvement in the Korean War further deepens the peasants' misery. Chang's chilling depiction of the peasants' desperate...
Author
Series
Ellis Voigt novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Washington D.C., 1945. Victory in the war looms, but a new fear transfixes the wartime capital. Fear of communist spies and the atomic secrets they covet. When the corpse of a Navy Intelligence officer is found on a cobblestone back alley, Lt. Voigt is called in to investigate. It's his first murder, but in the plot that he quickly begins unraveling, it won't be his last. Pursuing crosses and double-crosses, Voigt goes undercover and the fragments...
Author
Publisher
Roaring Brook Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Russia, 1918. With the execution of Tsar Nicholas and his family, the empire crumbles. Russia is on the edge of civil war. Anna, a bourgeois girl, narrowly escaped the massacre of her entire family in Yekaterinburg. Desperate to get away from the Bolsheviks, she offers a peasant girl a diamond to take her as far south as possible-- not realizing that the girl is a communist herself. With her brother in desperate need of a doctor, Evgenia accepts Anna's...
11) Night work
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Michael Cassidy, a New York cop plagued by dreams that sometimes come true, escorts a prisoner accused of murder to Havana on the cusp of Fidel Castro's successful revolution against the Batista dictatorship. After delivering the man to La Cabana prison and rescuing Dylan McCue, a Russian KGB agent and his now-married former lover, from her scheduled execution, Cassidy returns to New York and retreats into the comforts of alcohol and sex. The arrival...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First United States edition.
Physical Desc
xi, 201 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"A compact masterpiece dedicated to the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich--Julian Barnes's first novel since his best-selling, Booker Prize-winning The Sense of an Ending. 1936: Shostakovich, just thirty, fears for his livelihood and his life. Stalin, hitherto a distant figure, has taken a sudden interest in his work and denounced his latest opera. Now, certain he will be exiled to Siberia (or, more likely, shot dead on the spot), he reflects on...
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