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• The Gates of Europe

  A History of Ukraine

  Plokhy, Serhii

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  Nonfiction. Plokhy discusses how Ukraine's position as a gateway between the East and the West has led to numerous conflicts in the past and its continued struggle to defend against rival powers and maintain its independence.

• Mamushka

  A Cookbook

  Hercules, Olia

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  Cookbook. A celebration of the food, flavors, and heritage of Eastern Europe—from the Black Sea to Baku, Kiev to Kazakhstan—Mamushka features over 100 recipes for fresh, delicious, and unexpected dishes from this dynamic yet…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• I Will Die in a Foreign Land

  Pickhart, Kalani

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  Fiction. Follow four individuals, an Ukrainian-American Doctor, an engineer, a young activist, and a former KGB agent, over the course of a volatile Ukrainian winter, as their lives are forever changed by the Euromaidan protests.

• Midnight in Chernobyl

  The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

  Higginbotham, Adam

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  Nonfiction. Higginbotham's definitive account of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant disaster and an investigation into how propaganda, secrecy, and myth have obscured the true story of one of the twentieth century's greatest disasters.

• In Wartime

  Stories from Ukraine

  Judah, Tim

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  Nonfiction. Judah lays bare the events that have turned neighbors against one another and mired Europe’s second-largest country in a conflict seemingly without end.

• Absolute Zero

  Chekh, Artem

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  Memoir. A first person account of Artem Chekh's journey as a soldier, based on a diary he wrote during and after his service in the war in Donbas.

• Mesopotamia

  Zhadan, Serhiy

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  Fiction. A unique work of fiction from the troubled streets of Ukraine, giving invaluable testimony to the new history unfolding in the nation’s post-independence years.

• Red Famine

  Stalin's War on Ukraine

  Applebaum, Anne

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  Nonfiction. Draws on previously sealed records to prove that Joseph Stalin deliberately committed genocidal acts against the Ukrainians, citing the millions of peasants who died from starvation between 1931 and 1933 to solve a Russian…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Greetings From Novorossiya

  Eyewitness to the War in Ukraine

  Pieniazek, Paweł

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  Nonfiction. Polish journalist Pawel Pieniazek was among the first journalists to enter the war-torn region of eastern Ukraine and this is his vivid firsthand account of the conflict.

• Hardly Ever Otherwise

  Matios, Maria

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  Fiction. Matios narrates the story of several western Ukrainian families during the last decades of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and expands upon the idea that "it isn't time that is important, but the human condition in time."

• The Strongman

  Vladimir Putin and the Struggle for Russia

  Roxburgh, Angus

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  Biography. Former BBC Moscow correspondent Roxburgh charts the fight for Russia's future under Putin, showing how the former KGB man evolved from reformer to autocrat, how he sought the West's respect but earned its fear and contempt.

• Ukraine

  a Nation on the Borderland

  Schlogel, Karl,

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  Nonfiction. As well as exploring the present-day confrontation, Schlögel provides detailed, fascinating historical portraits of a panoply of Ukraine’s major cities: Lviv, Odessa, Czernowitz, Kiev, Kharkov, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk and Yalta.

• Voices from Chernobyl

  Alexievich, Svetlana

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  Nonfiction. The people of Chernobyl talk about their lives before, during, and after the worst nuclear reactor accident in history which occurred on April 26, 1986 in Chernobyl

• Summer Kitchens

  Recipes and Reminiscences From Every Corner of Ukraine

  Hercules, Olia

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  Cookbook. Explore the diversity of Ukraine’s cuisine and heritage through the alluring window of summer kitchens—small structures alongside the main house where people cook and preserve food for the winter months.

• The Grand Harmony

  Bohdan Ihor Antonych

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  Poetry. A collection of poems on religious themes written in 1932 and 1933, The Grand Harmony is a subtle and supple examination of Antonych’s personal journey to faith, with all its revelatory verities, self-questioning and doubt.

• Ukraine in Histories and Stories

  Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals

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  Nonfiction. This collection of essays and interviews by contemporary Ukrainian writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukraine's history, and analysis of the present, conceptual…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Ukraine Diaries

  Dispatches From Kiev

  Kurkov , Andrey

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  Kurkov's diaries begin with the pro-European protests in November 2013, and describe the violent clashes in the Maidan, the impeachment of Yanukovcyh, Russia's annexation of Crimea and the separatist uprisings in the east of Ukraine.

• Ukraine's Maidan, Russia's War

  A Chronicle and Analysis of the Revolution of Dignity

  Wynnyckyj, Mychailo

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  In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. The Maidan protesters proclaimed their right to a dignified existence; they learned to…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Words for War: New Poems from Ukraine

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  The poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and forgiveness. The…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Music of Ukraine

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  36 albums ranging from Traditional, Classical, and recent Popular music from Ukraine for your online listening pleasure.