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Author
Series
Norwegian by night volume 1
Language
English
Description
Sheldon Horowitz -- widowed, impatient, impertinent -- has grudgingly agreed to leave New York and move in with his granddaughter, Rhea, and her new husband, Lars, in Norway -- a country of blue and ice with one thousand Jews, not one of them a former Marine sniper in the Korean War turned watch repairman. Not until now, anyway. Home alone one morning, Sheldon witnesses a dispute between the woman who lives upstairs and an aggressive stranger. When...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
While working for an idealistic college professor, twenty-six-year old Lula, an Albanian trying to make a better life for herself in America, finds her life taking a complicated turn when her Albanian "brothers" return, in a novel set in the aftermath of 9/11.
7) Brass
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A fierce debut novel about mothers and daughters, haves and have-nots, and the stark realities behind the American Dream.
A waitress at the Betsy Ross Diner in Waterbury, Connecticut, Elsie hopes her nickel-and-dime tips will add up to a new life. Then she meets Bashkim, who is at once both worldly and naive, a married man who left Albania to chase his dreams-- and wound up working as a line cook in Waterbury, Connecticut. When Elsie she learns that...
8) Adem's cross
Author
Publisher
Bantam Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 5
Lexile measure
660L
Language
English
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
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 6
Lexile measure
770L
Language
English
Description
In 1998 when the Kosovo hostilities escalate, thirteen-year-old Meli's life as an ethnic Albanian, changes forever after her brother escapes his Serbian captors and the entire family flees from one refugee camp to another until they are able to immigrate to America.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
Français
Description
Lorna is a young Albanian women who dreams of opening up a snack bar with her boyfriend. Without the money, she finds herself entwined in a vicious plan devised by mobster Fabio. A false marriage between Lorna and Claudy will allow her to get her Belgian citizenship. She is then expected to marry a Russian Mafioso who is anxious to get his hands on the Belgian identity papers, after Fabio kills Claudy to speed up the second marriage. But can Lorna...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A reflection on "freedom" in a dramatic, beautifully written memoir of the end of Communism in the Balkans. Lea Ypi grew up in the last Stalinist country in Europe: Albania, a place of queuing and scarcity, of political executions and secret police. While family members disappeared to what she was told were "universities" from which few "graduated", she swore loyalty to the Party. In her eyes, people were equal, neighbors helped each other, and children...
13) Girl of Kosovo
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
2001.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 3
Lexile measure
640L
Language
English
Description
Although Zana, an eleven-year-old Albanian girl, experiences the turmoil and violence of the 1999 conflict in her native Kosovo, she remembers her father's admonition to not let her heart become filled with hate.
Author
Series
Brill's specials in modern history volume Volume 2
Publisher
Brill
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
16) The missus
Author
Series
Mister and missus volume 2
Publisher
Bloom Books, an imprint of Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Maxim Trevelyan, reluctant Earl of Trevethick, has pursued the woman he loves to the wilds of Albania. Having fought for and won her, he now has to wed her, at the sharp end of a shotgun. But can a reformed rake like Maxim ever make a good husband--or will his own notorious reputation and the scandalous secrets of his aristocratic family destroy his newfound happiness? Alessia Demachi has defied and outwitted kidnappers and traffickers, and won...