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 nce. If you attend online\, you must register to receive the zoom link.\n
 \nSee a preview of the book on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?tim
 e_continue=1&v=7MOTwMvw01c&feature=emb_logo\n\nBy NY Times Bestselling aut
 hor of Nesting Dolls.\n\nWith his dying breath\, Lena’s father asks his fa
 mily a cryptic question: “You couldn’t tell\, could you?” After his passin
 g\, Lena stumbles upon the answer that changes her life forever.\n\nAs her
  revolutionary neighbor mysteriously disappears during Josef Stalin's Grea
 t Terror purges\, 18-year-old Regina suspects that she's the Kremlin’s nex
 t target. Under cover of the night\, she flees from her parents' communal 
 apartment in 1930s Moscow to the 20th century's first Jewish state\, Birob
 idzhan\, on the border between Russia and China. Once there\, Regina has t
 o grapple with her preconceived notions of socialism and Judaism while ask
 ing herself the eternal question: What do we owe each other? How can we be
 st help one another? While she contends with these queries and struggles t
 o help Birobidzhan establish itself\, love and war are on the horizon.\n\n
 New York Times Bestselling author of Nesting Dolls\, Alina Adams draws on 
 her own experiences as a Jewish refugee from Odessa\, USSR as she provides
  readers a rare glimpse into the world's first Jewish Autonomous Region. M
 y Mother's Secret is rooted in detailed research about a little-known chap
 ter of Soviet and Jewish history while exploring universal themes of ident
 ity\, love\, loss\, war\, and parenthood. Readers can expect a whirlwind j
 ourney as Regina finds herself and her courage within one of the century's
  most tumultuous eras.\n\n
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DESCRIPTION:Note:  Attendees in the Center do not need to register in advan
 ce. If you attend online\, you must register to receive the zoom link.\n\n
 See a preview of the book on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_
 continue=1&v=7MOTwMvw01c&feature=emb_logo\n\nBy NY Times Bestselling autho
 r of Nesting Dolls.\n\nWith his dying breath\, Lena’s father asks his fami
 ly a cryptic question: “You couldn’t tell\, could you?” After his passing\
 , Lena stumbles upon the answer that changes her life forever.\n\nAs her r
 evolutionary neighbor mysteriously disappears during Josef Stalin's Great 
 Terror purges\, 18-year-old Regina suspects that she's the Kremlin’s next 
 target. Under cover of the night\, she flees from her parents' communal ap
 artment in 1930s Moscow to the 20th century's first Jewish state\, Birobid
 zhan\, on the border between Russia and China. Once there\, Regina has to 
 grapple with her preconceived notions of socialism and Judaism while askin
 g herself the eternal question: What do we owe each other? How can we best
  help one another? While she contends with these queries and struggles to 
 help Birobidzhan establish itself\, love and war are on the horizon.\n\nNe
 w York Times Bestselling author of Nesting Dolls\, Alina Adams draws on he
 r own experiences as a Jewish refugee from Odessa\, USSR as she provides r
 eaders a rare glimpse into the world's first Jewish Autonomous Region. My 
 Mother's Secret is rooted in detailed research about a little-known chapte
 r of Soviet and Jewish history while exploring universal themes of identit
 y\, love\, loss\, war\, and parenthood. Readers can expect a whirlwind jou
 rney as Regina finds herself and her courage within one of the century's m
 ost tumultuous eras.\n\n
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