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  • RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME. by Devlin, Calla.
    Devlin, Calla.
    RIGHT WHERE YOU LEFT ME.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Atheneum, (2017) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - The author's second novel, a coming of age story. "My father specializes in devastation. Not coups and warsÑintentional and systematicÑbut natureÕs acts of violence, random and indiscriminate, destroying regions on a whim. Tsunamis, hurricanes, and earthquakes." and when he flies into Ukraine after an earthquake and is kidnapped, Charlotte and her mother have to find a way to rescue him, even if its not legal. SIGNED on the title page. 247 pp. ISBN: 978-1-481486996.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 88831
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  • MANYA'S STORY. by Gray, Bettyanne.
    Gray, Bettyanne.
    MANYA'S STORY.

    Edition: First printing.

    Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Co., (1978) dj. Hardcover first edition - The story of one Jewish family's ordeal in Revolutionary Russia and of the author's parents' escape from Ukraine after the Russian Revolution. Ukrainian Jews were caught in the middle of the struggle for power between three forces: the Bolshevik Red Army, the anti-Bolshevik White Army, and the forces fighting for Ukrainian independence, and facing the dangers of the 1918-1920 brutal pogroms against Jews. Foreword by Nora Levin Illustrated with photographs. Includes a chronology and a glossary. 127 pp. ISBN: 0-822507625.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 90279
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  • DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE. by Kaaberbl, Lene and Agnete Friis.
    Kaaberbl, Lene and Agnete Friis.
    DEATH OF A NIGHTINGALE.

    Edition: First US printing.

    New York: SOHO Press, (2013) dj. Hardcover first edition - The third title in the series featuring Red Cross nurse Nina Borg who becomes caught up in the dangers facing refugees - in this case, a young Ukrainian mother, accused of murdering her abusive fiancee, who will do anything to protect her daughter. Translated from the Danish by Elisabeth Dyssegaard. 329 pp. ISBN: 978-1616953041.

    Condition: Very near fine in a like dustjacket (remainder dot)

    Book ID: 86603
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  • THE WINTER HORSES. by Kerr. Philip.
    Kerr. Philip.
    THE WINTER HORSES.

    Edition: Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. )

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, (2014). First edition - Young adult novel by this award-winning writer. "Kalinka has lost her home, her family, her belongings - everything but her life. Still, she has gained one small, precious gift: a relationship with the rare wild and wily Przewalski s horses that wander the reservation. Apart from Max, these endangered animals are her only friends until a Nazi campaign of extermination nearly wipes them out for good. Now Kalinka must set out on a treacherous journey through the frozen Ukrainian forest to save the only two surviving horses - and herself." 274 pp.

    Condition: Fine in glossy illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 63463
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  • ONE MORE YEAR: Stories. by Krasikov, Sana.
    Krasikov, Sana.
    ONE MORE YEAR: Stories.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Spiegel & Grau (Random House), (2008.) dj. Hardcover first edition - The very highly praised first book - a collection of eight short stories - by this author who (like many of her characters) was born in the Ukraine, grew up in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia, and emigrated to the US. Cover praise from Yiyun Li and Khaled Hosseini, among others. 229 pp. ISBN: 9780385524391.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket (a new copy.)

    Book ID: 50646
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  • MOTHER SPEAKS. by Lecomte, Serge.
    Lecomte, Serge.
    MOTHER SPEAKS.

    Edition: First printing, a trade paperback original.

    Portland, OR: Paper Radio Press, (1997). First edition - An uncommon collection of narrative poems, written in the first person voice of the author's mother, as he tells the story of her birth in Ukraine in 1925, growing up in a Stalinist orphanage, working as a slave laborer during World War II, and more. 87 pp. ISBN: 0-96509938.

    Condition: Near fine in illustrated wrappers.

    Book ID: 74839
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  • AUGURIES CHARMS AMULETS. by Mintz, Ruth Finer.
    Mintz, Ruth Finer.
    AUGURIES CHARMS AMULETS.

    Edition: First printing.

    Middle Village, New York: Jonathan David Publishers, (1983) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Her fifth volume of poetry, containing 42 poems rooted in the author's life in Israel and in America. INSCRIBED on the front endpaper. 93 pp.

    Condition: Fine in near fine dust jacket. (sunning to spine of dj.)

    Book ID: 58850
    Keywords: israel, Poetry, ukraine
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  • YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WAR IS: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine. by Skalietska, Yeva.
    Skalietska, Yeva.
    YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT WAR IS: The Diary of a Young Girl From Ukraine.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Union Square & Co., (2022) dj. Hardcover first edition - "Until you've been there, you don't know what war is. . . the gripping and moving diary of young Ukrainian refugee Yeva Skalietska. It follows twelve days in Ukraine that changed 12-year-old Yeva's life forever. She was woken in the early hours to the terrifying sounds of shelling. Russia had invaded Ukraine, and her beloved Kharkiv home was no longer the safe haven. . [she] records what is happening hour-by-hour as she seeks safety and travels from Kharkiv to Dublin. Each diary entry is supplemented by personal photographs, excerpts of messages between Yeva and her friends and daily headlines from around the world." Map, glossary, endnotes. 120 pp. ISBN: 978-1454949695.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 89429
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  • GHOST TRAIN TO THE EASTERN STAR: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar. by Theroux, Paul,
    Theroux, Paul,
    GHOST TRAIN TO THE EASTERN STAR: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar.

    Edition: First printing.

    Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2008. dj. Hardcover first edition - "Thirty years after the epic journey chronicled in his classic work 'The Great Railway Bazaar,' Theroux re-creates his 25,000-mile journey through eastern Europe, central Asia, the Indian subcontinent, China, Japan, and Siberia. . . In the three decades since, the world he recorded in that book has undergone phenomenal change. The Soviet Union has collapsed and China has risen; India booms while Burma smothers under dictatorship; Vietnam flourishes in the aftermath of the havoc America was unleashing on it." 496 pp. Map endpapers. ISBN: 0-618-418873.

    Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

    Book ID: 58198
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