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Author
Publisher
Red Hen Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
254 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Can a land of ice be melted by the fires burning in his heart? 1985. Russia. As the Soviet Union disintegrates and Western capitalism spreads its grip across their land, the Morozov family finds itself consigned to the remote, icy wastes of Siberia. It is here that their only child, Alexey, is born. A sweet and gentle schoolboy, Alexey discovers that reciting poetry learnt by heart calms his fears. That winter gales can be battled with self-invented...
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
770L
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Determined to help the effort, female Russian air pilot Valka signs up to join an all-female aviation group, but as the war intensifies she has to decide how much she is willing to risk to defend the skies she calls home.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2001
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A Serb terrorist has been dispatched from Russia to spirit hazardous vials of deadly bacteria into the USA. However, the unknown American government agent receiving the vials and the Russian agent are both murdered and the vials stolen. Now Smith and Russuel, CIA agents, must track the vials down and stop the world from being held hostage.
Author
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Don Winslow worked as a Los Angeles arson investigator for more than 15 years. He has also been a private investigator in Europe and America. Drawing on his extensive experience, Winslow has penned a searing novel fueled by international intrigue and murder. Once, Jack Wade was one of the best fire inspectors in the Orange County sheriff's department. Now he's an arson investigator for California Fire and Life. He lives by one rule: never let a case...
85) Oblivion
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
290 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North of Russia to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former prison camps, is a world of evils relegated to oblivion, forgotten by history.
86) Sudden death
Author
Series
Striker volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Jake Bastin is the son of a famous soccer coach. When Jake's dad is approached to train a Russian billionaire's elite team in St. Petersburg, things go horribly wrong. A soccer scout, a journalist, and an eco-scientist are all willed within days of each other, and Jake's dad is always at the scene of the crime. Torn between loyalty to his father and the power of the Russian mafia, Jake must use his striker instincts to bring the bad guys down, but...
87) Oblivion
Author
Description
A young man travels to the vast wastelands of the Far North of Russia to uncover the truth about a shadowy neighbor who saved his life, and whom he knows only as Grandfather II. What he finds, among the forgotten mines and decrepit barracks of former prison camps, is a world of evils relegated to oblivion, forgotten by history.
88) The asset
Author
Series
Lance Spector thriller volume 1
Publisher
AuthorContact
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
523 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Montana, USA. When Lance Spector quit the CIA, he swore he was out for good. One more government lie and he would go off the deep end. They could find someone else to do their dirty work. As far as he was concerned, Washington, Langley, the Pentagon could all go to hell. Yekaterinburg, Russia. A secret Russian expedition returns with a devastating new pathogen, harvested from the frozen corpses of mammoths. It's the biological super-weapon they've...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
329 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
It's December 1997, and a man-eating Siberian tiger is on the prowl outside a remote village in Russia's Far East. The tiger isn't just killing people, it's annihilating them, and a team of men and their dogs must hunt it on foot through the forest in the brutal cold. As the trackers sift through the gruesome remains of the victims, they discover that these attacks aren't random. An absolutely gripping tale of man and nature that leads inexorably...
Author
Description
In a series of stories written after the Nobel Prize-winning author's return from exile to Russia, and published now for the first time in English, the author explores both Soviet and post-Soviet life.
"After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking works--interconnected and juxtaposed using an experimental method Solzhenitsyn referred...
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
In a series of stories written after the Nobel Prize-winning author's return from exile to Russia, and published now for the first time in English, the author explores both Soviet and post-Soviet life.
"After years of living in exile, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn returned to Russia in 1994 and published a series of eight powerfully paired stories. These groundbreaking works--interconnected and juxtaposed using an experimental method Solzhenitsyn referred...
93) Burying the sun
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
205 pages ; 19 cm
Language
English
Description
Too young for the army, one boy takes saving the city into his own hands. The Russian city of Leningrad is darkening with winter and war, and Georgi's family prepares for the worst. His sister, Marya, packs up the great artwork at the Hermitage museum for safekeeping, and their mother tends to the wounded soldiers. But at fourteen years old, Georgi is too young to join the army, and he wonders how he can possibly help his friends and family. As the...
94) The searcher
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
392 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An unlikely hero dives into the chaotic madness of Russia and Georgia's deadly covert conflict, in this rapid-fire tale of corporate espionage gone awry. The acclaimed author of The Silent Oligarch and The Jackal's Share, Christopher Morgan Jones returns to a murky world where corporate spies and government agents battle far from the public eye. Focusing on Georgia--a mountainous republic threatened by Russia to the north--Morgan Jones carries readers...
97) Kotik Letaev
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1999
Edition
New rev. translation from the Russian.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 268 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
262 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Witnessing the progression of regional corruption in his work as a British lawyer in early 2000s Moscow, Nick Platt rescues two sisters from a purse snatcher and pursues a glamorous romantic relationship with one of the sisters before he is asked to help with a dubious family endeavor.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Wheeler Pub. large print ed. ; Unabridged.
Physical Desc
377 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union, is a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing Russia. Rostnikov and his team are searching for a serial killer who has claimed at least 40 victims. And then there is the problem of protecting a visiting British journalist who is working on a story about a Moscow prostitution ring and in doing so, Rostnikov and his team...
Author
Description
"The startling, vivid debut novel by Alexey Navalny's press secretary, following a woman who is arrested at an anticorruption rally in Moscow and sentenced to ten days in a special detention center, where she shares a cell with five other women from all walks of life. The Incredible Events in Women's Cell Number 3 is the debut novel by Kira Yarmysh that follows a young woman, Anya, who is arrested at a Moscow anticorruption rally and, under false...