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Author
Publisher
Facts On File
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
An A-Z reference guide to significant people, ideas, places, and events in the history of the Austrian Empire from its beginnings to its dissolution, and including the successor states and new nations of Yugoslavia up to the present.
2) The note through the wire: the incredible true story of a prisoner of war and a resistance heroine
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
[2020]
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 17
Language
English
Description
In 1992, Amra was a teen in Bihac, Bosnia, when her best friend said they couldn't speak anymore. Her friend didn't say why, but Amra knew the reason: Amra was Muslim. It was the first sign her world was changing. Then Muslim refugees from other Bosnian cities started arriving, fleeing Serbian persecution. When the tanks rolled into Bihac, bringing her own city under seige, Amra's happy life in her peaceful city vanished. But there is light even...