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Stalin's daughter : the extraordinary and tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva / by Sullivan, Rosemary,1947-;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The award-winning author of Villa Air-Bel returns with a painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators--her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the early years of the Soviet Union, Svetlana Stalin spent her youth inside the walls of the Kremlin. Communist Party privilege protected her from the mass starvation and purges that haunted Russia, but she did not escape tragedy--the loss of everyone she loved, including her mother, two brothers, aunts and uncles, and a lover twice her age, deliberately exiled to Siberia by her father. As she gradually learned about the extent of her father's brutality after his death, Svetlana could no longer keep quiet and in 1967 shocked the world by defecting to the United States--leaving her two children behind. But although she was never a part of her father's regime, she could not escape his legacy. Her life in America was fractured; she moved frequently, married disastrously, shunned other Russian exiles, and ultimately died in poverty in Spring Green, Wisconsin. With access to KGB, CIA, and Soviet government archives, as well as the close cooperation of Svetlana's daughter, Rosemary Sullivan pieces together Svetlana's incredible life in a masterful account of unprecedented intimacy. Epic in scope, it's a revolutionary biography of a woman doomed to be a political prisoner of her father's name. Sullivan explores a complicated character in her broader context without ever losing sight of her powerfully human story, in the process opening a closed, brutal world that continues to fascinate us. Illustrated with photographs"--Provided by publisher.
Subjects: Allilueva, Svetlana, 1926-2011.; Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953; Stalin, Joseph, 1879-1953; Children of heads of state; Defectors; Immigrants;
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The Golden Daughter : My Mother's Secret Past As a Ukrainian Slave Worker in Nazi Germany. by St. James, Halina.;
Sorting through her late mother's possessions, Halina St. James found a secret stash of letters that told of how her mother was abducted by Nazis, how she got pregnant and married an older man, and how her life changed when her husband introduced his friend, a young Polish freedom fighter. The younger man betrayed his friend and ran off with Maria and Halina. 'The Golden Daughter' is the gripping story of a mother and daughter shaped by forces they had no control over. St. James lives in Tantallon, NS.Library Bound Incorporated
Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Cultural, Ethnic & Regional / General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Women;
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Daughter of mine : a novel / by Miranda, Megan,author.;
"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's disappearance"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Domestic fiction.; Psychological fiction.; Novels.; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Droughts; Family secrets; Homecoming; Inheritance and succession; Missing persons; Mothers and daughters; Murder; Secrecy;
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The icecutter's daughter / by Peterson, Tracie.;
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Subjects: Christian fiction.; Love stories.; Families;
© c2013., Bethany House,
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The storyteller's daughter / by Shah, Saira;
Subjects: Shah, Saira; Women; Women; Islam and politics;
© c2003., Alfred A. Knopf,
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Daughter of deep silence / by Ryan, Carrie.;
At fourteen, Frances survived a slaughter that claimed the lives of her parents and best friend, Libby, but she took on Libby's identity and wealth while plotting revenge against the powerful Wells family and now, at age eighteen, is ready to destroy them, including her first love, Grey.LSC
Subjects: Orphans; Revenge; Identity (Psychology); Survival; Parents;
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Daughters of the dawn / by Nanua, Sarena.; Nanua, Sasha.;
Twin princesses Ria and Rani are swept into dangerous new lands to save their home. The powerful Bloodstone is in dangerous hands, and a deadly new threat rises. The Blood Moon will rise in one month's time, and with it their enemy Amara's opportunity to destroy everything.LSC
Subjects: Fantasy fiction.; Sisters; Twins; Identity (Psychology); Princesses; Thieves; Imaginary wars and battles; Prophecies;
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Daughters of the deer / by Daniel, Danielle,author.;
"In this haunting, groundbreaking, historical novel, Danielle Daniel imagines the lives of her ancestors in the Algonquin territories of the 1600s, a story inspired by her family link to a girl murdered near Trois-Rivières in the early days of French settlement. Marie, an Algonquin woman of the Weskarini Deer Clan, lost her first husband and her children to an Iroquois raid. In the aftermath of another lethal attack, her chief begs her to remarry for the sake of the clan. Marie is a healer who honours the ways of her people, and Pierre, the green-eyed ex-soldier from France who wants her for his bride, is not the man she would choose. But her people are dwindling, wracked by white men's diseases and nearly starving every winter as the game retreats away from the white settlements. If her chief believes such a marriage will cement their alliance with the French against the Iroquois and the British, she feels she has no choice. Though she does it reluctantly, and with some fear--Marie is trading the memory of the man she loved for a man she doesn't understand at all, and whose devout Catholicism blinds him to the ways of her people. This beautiful, powerful novel brings to life women who have literally fallen through the cracks of settler histories. Especially Jeanne, the first child born of the new marriage, neither white nor Weskarini, but caught between worlds. As she reaches adolescence, it becomes clear she is two-spirited. In her mother's culture, she would have been considered blessed, her nature a sign of special wisdom. But to the settlers of New France, and even to her own father, Jeanne is unnatural, sinful--a woman to be shunned, and worse. And so, with the poignant story of Jeanne, Danielle Daniel imagines her way into the heart and mind of a woman at the origin of the long history of violence against Indigenous women and the deliberate, equally violent, disruption of First Nations culture--opening a door long jammed shut, so all of us can enter"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Arranged marriage; First Nations women; First Nations; Algonquin;
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Ghost hunter's daughter / by Poblocki, Dan.;
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Subjects: Ghost stories.; Horror fiction.; Fathers and daughters; Television personalities; Missing persons;
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The warden's daughter / by Spinelli, Jerry.;
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Subjects: Children of single parents; Prison wardens; Fathers and daughters; Reformatories for women; Jails;
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