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The Grapes of Wrath is a landmark of American literature. A portrait of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless, of one man's fierce reaction to injustice, and of one woman's stoical strength, the novel captures the horrors of the Great Depression and probes into the very nature of equality and justice in America. Although it follows the movement of thousands of men and women and the transformation of an entire nation, The Grapes of Wrath...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route to supply the USSR with a readily available workforce, and over time hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the midst of their labors. Their bodies were buried where they fell, plowed under the permafrost, underneath...
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Language
English
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In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil. Based on the author's family, includes a historical note.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"During the Great Depression, wretched labor camps crop up in remote areas of the expansive pine forests throughout the American South. Destitute workers live and toil under terrible conditions to harvest pine gum, hacking into tree trunks, drawing out the sticky sap that gives the Tar Heel State its nickname, and hauling it to stills to be refined into turpentine. Subsistence living means racking up huge debts they are forced to work off, creating...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 338 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In the ninety-ninth district of a sprawling reeducation compound, freethinking artists and academics are detained to strengthen their loyalty to Communist ideologies. They are forced to carry out grueling physical work and are encouraged to inform on each other for dissident behavior. The prize: winning the chance at freedom. They're overseen by preadolescent supervisor, the Child, who delights in reward systems and excessive punishments. When agricultural...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 290 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
January 1945, the war is not yet over : the Soviets begin the deportation of the German minority from the labor camps in Ukraine. This is the story of seventeen year old Leo Auberge, who went to the camp with the naive unawareness of the boy eager to escape provincial life. The last five years however he experienced daily hunger and cold, extreme fatigue and death.
Author
Publisher
Kunati
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
437 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"A fictional account of an escape from a Stalinist labor camp, showing the harsh and inhuman conditions of the Gulag and the heroism of the five unjustly condemned prisoners as they cross Siberia in a bid to reach America"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 2007, Saket Soni received an anonymous phone call from an Indian migrant worker inside a Mississippi labor camp. He and 500 other men were living in squalor in Gulf Coast "man camps," surrounded by barbed wire, watched by armed guards, crammed into cold trailers with putrid portable toilets, forced to eat moldy bread and frozen rice. Worse, lured by the promise of good work and green cards, the men had desperately scraped together up to 20,000...
Author
Publisher
Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
333 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"A heroic love story and an unprecedented inside view of one of Stalin's most notorious labor camps, based on a remarkable cache of letters smuggled in and out of the Gulag."
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1941, fifteen-year-old Lina, her mother, and brother are pulled from their Lithuanian home by Soviet guards and sent to Siberia, where her father is sentenced to death in a prison camp while she fights for her life, vowing to honor her family and the thousands like hers by burying her story in a jar on Lithuanian soil.
20) Harvest of shame
Series
Publisher
CBS Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 55 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This 1960 exposé on the plight of migrant farm workers led to permanent changes in the laws protecting workers' rights.
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