03137cam a2200553 4500 1504478011 TxAuBib 20240817120000.0 ||||||s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9781728468228 1728468221 B0B497ZHFH Amazon 88879c1f-1ee7-4085-8acc-c903a6260330 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 9063418 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Miller-Lachmann, Lyn, 1956- Torch [Libby]. Lerner Publishing Group, 2022. Friendship. 1960s. sexuality. resistance. Communism. Czechoslovakia. Young adult fiction. autism. Historical Fiction. Central Europe. queer. sports. Aspergers. Soviet Union. LGBTQIA. prague spring. autistic author. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 3104kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Historical Fiction. Young Adult Fiction. Young Adult Literature. Three teens struggle to carve out futures for themselves under a totalitarian regime. Czechoslovakia, 1969 Seventeen-year-old Pavol has watched his country's freedoms disappear in the wake of the Soviet Union's invasion. He's seen his own dreams disappear too. In a desperate, fatal act of protest against the oppressive new government, he sets himself on fire in public, hoping to motivate others to fight for change. Instead, Pavol's death launches a government investigation into three of his closest friends. Štěpán finds his Olympic hockey ambitions jeopardized and must conceal his sexual orientation from authorities who could use it against him. Tomáš has already been accused of "antisocial" behavior because he struggles to follow the unwritten rules of everyday interactions, and now he must work even harder to meet the expectations of his father, the regional leader of the communist party. And aspiring film director Lída, Pavol's girlfriend, is pregnant with his child, which brands her a traitor by association and upends all her plans. With their futures hanging in the balance, all three must decide whether to keep struggling to survive in the country Pavol died hoping to save . . . or risk a perilous escape to the other side. 3. 4. Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2024-08-17 20:00:03. https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=88879c1f-1ee7-4085-8acc-c903a6260330&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=88879c1f-1ee7-4085-8acc-c903a6260330&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=88879c1f-1ee7-4085-8acc-c903a6260330&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)