Ruta Sepetys
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
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Description
In a country governed by isolation, fear, and a tyrannical dictator, seventeen-year-old Cristian Florescu is blackmailed by the secret police to become an informer, but he decides to use his position to try to outwit his handler, undermine the regime, give voice to fellow Romanians, and expose to the world what is happening in his country. Includes author's note.
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2018
Description
An international bestseller, a #1 New York Times bestseller, and now a major motion picture! Ruta Sepetys's Between Shades of Gray is now the film Ashes in the Snow!
"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." —The Washington Post
Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life — until Soviet officers invade her...
"Few books are beautifully written, fewer still are important; this novel is both." —The Washington Post
Fifteen-year-old Lina is a Lithuanian girl living an ordinary life — until Soviet officers invade her...
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
An artistic sixteen-year-old is forcefully separated from her family by Soviet soldiers and sent to one of Stalin's work camps in Siberia. Despite suffering through cruel and harsh conditions, Lina finds refuge in the connections she makes with other deportees and in the art she continues to create to document her experiences.
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
2021.
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. Based on the author's family, this adaptation includes a historical note.
10) The June Boys
Author
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2020
Description
This audiobook edition includes:
From award-winning and highly acclaimed author Court Stevens comes a gripping, emotional story of small towns, rumors, and thirteen missing boys.
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