| International Standard Book Number |
9780593973141 (hardcover)
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| International Standard Book Number |
0593973143 (hardcover)
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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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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
238 pages ; 25 cm.
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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 find themselves delivering babies in bomb shelters. Through the stories of Vlad, Tatyanna, Yulya, Symon, Sasha, and Anton -- each struggling to protect their loved ones and preserve their own humanity -- Danielle Steel tells a gripping and deeply moving story of regular people surviving as war rages around them"-- Front jacket flap.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Families Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Grief Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Love Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
War Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Civilians in war Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014- 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 |
Russian Invasion of Ukraine, 2022 Refugees Fiction.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
Ukraine History 2014- Fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Romance fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Domestic fiction.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Novels.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
War fiction.
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