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22) The note through the wire: the incredible true story of a prisoner of war and a resistance heroine
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"In the heart of Nazi-occupied Europe, two people meet fleetingly in a chance encounter. One an underground resistance fighter, a bold young woman determined to vanquish the enemy occupiers; the other a prisoner of war, a man longing to escape the confines of the camp so he can battle again. A crumpled note passes between these two strangers, slipped through the wire of the compound, and sets them on a course that will change their lives forever....
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
"Already an international sensation: a debut novel that tells a love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years...
24) Adem's cross
Author
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Description
Seeing his sister being shot to death for reading a poem at a demonstration against Serbian control of largely Albanian Kosovo changes forever the life of thirteen-year-old Adem.
Author
Series
Gregor Reinhardt novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2013.
Description
In war-torn Yugoslavia, a beautiful filmmaker and photographer-a veritable hero to her people-and a German officer have been brutally murdered. Assigned to the case is military intelligence officer Captain Gregor Reinhardt. Already haunted by his wartime actions and his mistakes off the battlefield, he soon finds that the late Yugoslavian heroine may have been more brilliant--and treacherous-than anyone knew. Maneuvering his way through a minefield...
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Description
The child of Communist war-hero parents under Tito's regime in postwar Yugoslavia, Marina Abramović was raised with a relentless work ethic. Even as she was beginning to build an international artistic career, she lived at home under her mother's abusive control, strictly obeying a 10 p.m. curfew. But nothing could quell her insatiable curiosity, her desire to connect with people, or her distinctly Balkan sense of humor -- all of which informs her...
27) Red burning sky
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Description
"Summer 1944: Yugoslavia is locked in a war within a war. In addition to fighting the German occupation, warring factions battle each other. Hundreds of Allied airmen have been shot down over this volatile region, among them American lieutenant Bill Bogdonavich. Though grateful to the locals who are risking their lives to shelter and protect him from German troops, Bogdonavich dreams of the impossible: escape. With three failed air missions behind...
Series
30 for 30 volume no. 24-25
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Four days in October: The Yankees seemed poised to win yet another World Series in October 2004, but the determined Red Sox pulled off a stunning victory. Once brothers: Teammates Drazen Petrovic and Vlade Divac shared a love of basketball and a strong friendship until the war between Croatia and Serbia tore their relationship apart.
Author
Pub. Date
2017
Description
"Already an international sensation: a debut novel that tells a love story set in two countries in two radically different moments in time, bringing together a young man, his mother, a boa constrictor, and one capricious cat. In 1980s Yugoslavia, a young Muslim girl is married off to a man she hardly knows, but what was meant to be a happy match goes quickly wrong. Soon thereafter her country is torn apart by war and she and her family flee. Years...
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
"Standing alongside Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis and Joe Sacco's Palestine, Nina Bunjevac's Fatherland renders the searing history of the Balkans in the twentieth century through the experiences of the author and her family. In 1975, fearing her husband's growing fanaticism, Nina Bunjevac's mother fled her marriage and adopted country of Canada, taking Nina--then only a toddler--and her older sister back to Yugoslavia to live with her parents. Her...