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Maya & Natasha : a novel / by Durham, Elyse,author.;
"Twins Maya and Natasha are Kirov Ballet dancers in 1958 during the Soviet regime, but when only one sister can join the company's American tour, the sisters compete until one betrays the other, and the Cold War tests their loyalties to the East, the West, and each other"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Akademii͡a russkogo baleta im. A.I͡A. Vaganovoĭ; Leningradskiĭ gosudarstvennyĭ akademicheskiĭ teatr opery i baleta imeni S.M. Kirova; Ballerinas; Betrayal; Cold War; Competition; Sisters; Twin sisters; Twins;
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Jacqueline in Paris : a novel / by Mah, Ann,author.;
"From the bestselling author of The Lost Vintage, a rare and dazzling portrait of Jacqueline Bouvier's college year abroad in postwar Paris, an intimate and electrifying story of love and betrayal, and the coming-of-age of an American icon - before the world knew her as Jackie"--
Subjects: Biographical fiction.; Historical fiction.; Novels.; Onassis, Jacqueline Kennedy, 1929-1994; Americans; College students; Man-woman relationships; Women college students;
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The book spy / by Hlad, Alan,author.;
American librarian Maria Alves, a microfilm specialist trained in espionage, is dispatched to Lisbon to gather vital information from Axis publications, and works in tandem with Tiago Soares, a bookstore owner secretly providing forged passports and visas to Jewish refugees.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy fiction.; War fiction.; Novels.; Booksellers and bookselling; Espionage; Librarians; World War, 1939-1945; World War, 1939-1945;
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Crook manifesto [text (large print)] : a novel / by Whitehead, Colson,1969-author.;
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning Colson Whitehead continues his 'Harlem' saga in a powerful and hugely-entertaining novel that summons 1970s New York in all its seedy glory.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Large print books.; Novels.; African American families; American Revolution Bicentennial, 1976; Arson; Blaxploitation films; Corruption; Organized crime; Receiving stolen goods; Sales personnel; Theft;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The lunar housewife : a novel / by Woods, Caroline(Caroline Courtney),author.;
"A stylish and suspenseful historical page-turner following an up-and-coming journalist who stumbles onto a web of secrets, deceptions, and mysteries at a popular new literary magazine--inspired by the true story of CIA intervention in Cold War American arts and letters"--
Subjects: Thrillers (Fiction); Historical fiction.; Novels.; Nineteen fifties; Periodicals; Women journalists;
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Chains / by Anderson, Laurie Halse.;
After being sold to a cruel couple in New York City, a slave named Isabel spies for the rebels during the Revolutionary War."Ages 10 up"--P. [4] of cover.LSCWinner of the Scott O'Dell Award for Historical Fiction
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Spy stories.; Slavery; African Americans; Sisters; Spies;
© 2010, c2008., Simon & Schuster Children's Pub.,
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Cheesecake : a novel / by Kurlansky, Mark,author.;
'Cheese Cake' is a delectable fiction debut novel about one Greek family's diner, its colourful ensemble of regulars, and the Upper West Side-wide race to interpret a perplexing historical recipe for Cato's Roman cheesecake amid a rapidly gentrifying community.
Subjects: Domestic fiction.; Novels.; Diners (Restaurants); Greek Americans; Family life; Gentrification; Cheesecake;
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Onyx & beyond / by McBride, Amber.;
Set against the turbulence of the Civil Rights Movement, twelve-year-old Onyx dreams of becoming an astronaut as he navigates his mother's early-onset dementia and avoids foster care.
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels in verse.; Mothers and sons; Dementia; Civil rights movements; African Americans;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The family / by Krupitsky, Naomi,author.;
"A captivating debut novel about the tangled fates of two best friends and daughters of the Italian mafia, and a coming-of-age story of twentieth-century Brooklyn itself"--
Subjects: Bildungsromans.; Historical fiction.; Female friendship; Italian American families; Mafia;
Available copies: 1 / Total copies: 1
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The great divide : a novel / by Henríquez, Cristina,1977-author.;
"A novel about the construction of the Panama Canal, following the intersecting lives of the local families fighting to protect their homeland, the West Indian laborers recruited to dig the waterway, and the white Americans who gained profit and glory for themselves"--
Subjects: Historical fiction.; Novels.; Barbadians; Cultural pluralism; Fathers and sons; Malaria; Scientists; Teenage girls;
Available copies: 2 / Total copies: 2
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