| International Standard Book Number |
8217347603
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| International Standard Book Number |
9788217347606
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| International Standard Book Number |
9798217347605
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781420530865
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| International Standard Book Number |
1420530860
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| Personal Name |
Steel, Danielle, author.
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| Title Statement |
The true meaning of love : a novel / Danielle Steel.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
[Waterville, Maine] : Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
309 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
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| Series Statement |
Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama.
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| Summary, Etc. |
February 24 is the eighteenth birthday of a Ukrainian ballet school student named Vlad. It also happens to be the day that the first bombs of the 2022 Russian attack land on his homeland. As life for every person in the country is turned upside down in a moment, Vlad is immediately called up to serve in the military. But as much as he wants to defend his country, he is desperate to get his girlfriend, Tatyanna, an orphan whose only home has been the ballet school, out of the country. With their home under siege, Tatyanna tries to make her way to safety in Poland. Also joining the refugees is Yulya, who is torn between getting her young children across the border and staying at the side of her husband, Symon, and her elderly parents, Petro and Oxana, who refuse to abandon their home. As millions flee, Vlad and Symon join a volunteer civilians' unit to fight. Even elderly citizens like Petro and Oxana are given AK-47s, though soon starvation becomes as much of a threat as the encroaching troops. Sasha, an obstetrician, and Anton, a surgeon, who are secretly lovers, stay behind to treat the never-ending waves of wounded. When the Russians bomb hospitals, the heroic couple finds themselves delivering babies in bomb shelters. Told through the stories of Vlad, Tatyanna, Yulya, Symon, Sasha, and Anton--each struggling to protect their loved ones and preserve their own humanity.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Large type books.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Man-woman relationships Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Refugees Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022 Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Civilians in war Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
War Relief of sick and wounded Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Military service, Voluntary Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Large print books.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romance fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
War fiction.
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| Series Added Entry-Uniform Title |
Thorndike Press large print dynamic drama.
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