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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 Kristin Hannah's powerful, heartbreaking novel that illuminates the intricate mother-daughter bond and explores the enduring links between the present and the past
Meredith and Nina Whitson are as different as sisters can be. One stayed at home to raise her children
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English
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When Oksana's family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets when she walks Oksana to school, not realizing that the street they're walking down is known as Prostitute Street. Oksana just wants to have friends and lead a normal life -- and though...
3) Granny Dan
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English
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In my eyes she had always been old, always been mine, always been Granny Dan. But in another time, another place, there had been dancing, people, laughter, love. . . . She had had another life before she came to us, long before she came to me. . . .
She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper,...
She was the cherished grandmother who sang songs in Russian, loved to roller-skate, and spoke little of her past. But when Granny Dan died, all that remained was a box wrapped in brown paper,...
Author
Series
Sowers trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Broadman & Holman
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
viii, 309 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
6) Forty rooms
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Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
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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English
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"When Andrei Kaplan's older brother insists he return to Moscow to care for their ailing grandmother, he must take stock of his life in New York. His girlfriend has stopped returning his texts. His dissertation adviser is dubious about his job prospects. His bank balance is dangerously low. So Andrei packs up his hockey stuff and moves in with a woman who has outlived her husband and most of her friends. She survived the dark days of communism and...
11) Molly's pilgrim
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English
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Told to make a Pilgrim doll for the Thanksgiving display at school, Molly is embarrassed when her mother tries to help her out by creating a doll dressed as she herself was dressed before leaving Russia to seek religious freedom.
Author
Publisher
Tilbury House
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
38 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
When their father gets sick and cannot take them out trick or treating on their first Halloween in their new country, Anya and her sisters and brother are surprised when their shy mother agrees to accompany them.
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English
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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 suspected of being a communist spy by gossipy members of the community.
Author
Publisher
[the author]
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
vii, 97 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Here Come the Russian" captures in short sketches and anecdotes the historical periods in early Philadelphia and Washington, DC, when the Russian Empire's Ministers Plenipotentiaries and then Ambassadors (after April 1898) lived and worked closely with the American governmental officials and the president. Many of the Russian officials were well received. Three ministers married American wives and two individuals made mistakes and were recalled by...
Author
Publisher
Orchard Books
Pub. Date
1995.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
35 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jenny, whose family came from Russia to America to start a new life, meets the famous Russian composer on his 1891 trip to the New World and writes about it in her diary.
Author
Series
Sowers trilogy volume 1
Publisher
Broadman & Holman Publishers
Pub. Date
[1998]
Physical Desc
viii, 310 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Livingston Press
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"This ... comic debut tells the story of the Molochniks, Russian-Jewish immigrants in suburban Connecticut. Daughters wed, houses flood, cultures clash--and the past has a way of emerging at the most inconvenient moments"--Jacket flap.
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