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42) Zimowy ogród
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Polish
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Meredith i Nina Whitson są tak różne, jak tylko różne mogą być siostry. Jedna została w domu, zajmuje się dziećmi i rodzinną firmą; druga wyruszyła w świat i została słynną fotoreporterką. Kiedy ukochany ojciec ciężko zachoruje, obie siostry wraz nieakceptującą córek Anyą Whitson znajdą się przy nim. Nawet w tak ciężkich chwilach, matka jest wobec nich zimna i obojętna. Ojciec przed śmiercią wymusza na niej obietnicę:...
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"The matriarch of a Long Island clan with a stubbornly suicidal son and a defiant, restless granddaughter, Esther has hired a Russian landscaper to watch over the family as well as the grounds of their secluded waterfront estate. But he has been watching Esther, too. And his love for her is growing wild enough to uproot them all."--Publisher information.
49) The dream jar
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English
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After emigrating to America, each member of a Russian family works hard to contribute to the family's dream of someday owning and running a store.
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Ethnic chronology volume no. 24
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English
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A history of Russians in America in chronology format, with a selection of illustrative documents, appendices, and bibliography.
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Español
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The dying wish of a loving father ignites a family drama that brings two sisters and their acid-tongued, Russian-born mother together in a story that reaches back to WWII Leningrad.
Una ciudad sitiada. Una madre. Dos hijas. Y un secreto que cambiará sus vidas para siempre. URSS, 1941. Leningrado es una ciudad sitiada, aislada de toda posibilidad de ayuda por la guerra y la nieve que entierra los edificios con su blancura. Pero en Leningrado también...
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In 1910 eleven-year-old Emma and her ethnically German family immigrate to America from Russia to escape poverty and tyranny, but on her journey she encounters hardships on the overcrowded ship, inspection at Ellis Island, and the struggle to reunite with her father and brother in North Dakota.
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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.
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"An exquisite portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey, from the author of A Mountain of Crumbs--the memoir that 'leaves you wanting more' (The Daily Telegraph, UK). In A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova describes coming of age behind the Iron Curtain and leaving her mother and her Motherland for a new life in the United States. Now, in Russian Tattoo, Elena learns that the journey of an immigrant...
57) A piece of home
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English
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Gregor decides to take his special blanket when his family leaves Russia to live in America, but he worries about his choice all during the journey.
60) Century's son
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English
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In the small college town of Hayden, Illinois, Morgan and Zhenya have settled into a loveless, stagnant marriage. The suicide of their son, Philip, ten years before has left the pair emotionally dead, lacking even the courage to separate from each other. Their surviving child, Emma, has become a teenage mother and refuses to reveal the identity of her child's father. Into this sullen mix marches Peter Ivanovich Kamenev, Zhenya's exasperating father....
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