romania

In 1897, seventeen-year-olds Dacia and Lou, New York socialites and cousins, visit their maternal homeland of Romania and learn the family secret--that they are shapeshifters, expected to take their rightful places, marry proper husbands, and serve the Dracula family.

Kate Neuman, a hematologist, adopts a Romanian baby boy who requires biweekly transfusions to survive. She returns to Colorado and eventually comes face-to-face with Dracula.

Carmen Bugan describes growing up in Romania and being the daughter of a political dissident in a time of political oppression and persecution.

Introduces readers to the culture, economy, government, history, lifestyle, and more of Romania.

Reveals the secret exchange between Romania and Israel in which Israel paid the Romanian government to let the 370,000 Jews of Romania who survived the Holocaust to immigrate to Israel.

Tells the story of the World War II incident in which nearly eight hundred Romanian Jews were killed when the decrepit cattle barge on which the refugees were traveling was destroyed by a Soviet submarine after being denied entry into British-controlled Palestine and expelled from Turkish waters, and discusses attempts in 2000 to locate the "Struma" at the bottom of the Black Sea.

"Joseph Barkely gets more than he bargains for when he agrees to authenticate the original manuscript of Bram Stoker's 'Dracula', and personally transport it to Romania"--Provided by publisher.

Ten-year-old Lydia describes her childhood escapades in pre-World War II Romania, her struggles to understand her parents' divorce amid the chaos of the war, and her life on a kibbutz in Palestine. Based on the life of the Israeli poet Arianna Haran.