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Ruta Sepetys (Lithuanian: Rūta Šepetys; born November 19, 1967) is a Lithuanian-American writer of historical fiction. As an author, she is a New York Times and international bestseller and winner of the Carnegie Medal and The Josette Frank Award for Fiction .
Ashes in the Snow is a World War II drama film based on The New York Times best selling novel Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys.The film is a coming-of-age tale of a young teenager named Lina who, with her mother and younger brother, was deported from her native Lithuania to a Soviet gulag amid Stalin's occupation of the Baltic region during World War II.
Between Shades of Gray, a New York Times Best Seller, is the debut novel of Lithuanian-American novelist Ruta Sepetys.It follows the Stalinist repressions of the mid-20th century and follows the life of a teenage girl Lina as she is deported from her native Lithuania with her mother and younger brother, and the journey they take to a Gulag labor camp in Siberia.
"The Bletchley Riddle" (Viking), by Ruta Sepetys and Steve Sheinkin. In this historical novel, teenage siblings play different roles in Britain's concerted effort to break the Nazis' Engima code ...
Joana Vilkas: The cousin of Lina Vilkas, the main protagonist in Ruta Sepetys' debut novel, Between Shades of Gray (2011). [8] Joana is a 21-year-old woman fleeing from her native country Lithuania, who had repatriated to Nazi Germany with her family in 1941 to escape capture from the Soviet Russian forces. She develops a romantic relationship ...
Out of the Easy is a 2013 novel by Ruta Sepetys. It is her second published novel [1] and was listed as a 2014 Best Children's Book of the Year from the Children's Book Committee of Bank Street College of Education. [2]
It may also be written as Sepetys, Shepetys or Shepetis. Notable people with the surname include: Lionginas Šepetys (1927–2017), Lithuanian politician; Ruta Sepetys, American writer of Lithuanian origin
The house was originally built in 1927 and redesigned in 1984 by businessman Mark Slotkin. The property boasts a pool and private tennis court, alongside a two-story guesthouse and two-car garage.