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Dunmore, Helen The SiegeLeningrad, September 1941. Germantanks surround the city, imprisoning thosewho live there. The besieged people ofLeningrad face shells, starvation, andthe Russian winter. Interweaving twolove affairs in two generation, the Levinfamily struggle to stay alive during thisterrible winter.Ebershoff, David The 19th WifeIt is 1875, and Ann Eliza Young hasrecently separated from her powerfulhusband, Brigham Young, prophet andleader of the Mormon Church. Expelledand an outcast, Ann Eliza embarks on acrusade to end polygamy in the UnitedStates. A rich account of a family’spolygamous history is revealed, includinghow a young woman became a pluralwife.Soon after Ann Eliza’s story begins, asecond exquisite narrative unfolds-a taleof murder involving a polygamist familyin present-day Utah. Jordan Scott, ayoung man who was thrown out of hisfundamentalist sect years earlier, mustreenter the world that cast him aside inorder to discover the truth behind hisfather’s death.23