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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly...
62) Saving Zasha
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Lexile measure
670L
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1945 Russia, those who own German shepherds are considered traitors, but thirteen-year-old Mikhail and his family are determined to keep the dog a dying man brought them, while his classmate Katia strives to learn his secret.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1996
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In post–Cold War Moscow, business is booming and crime pays Capitalism has come to Russia, and money is raining from the sky. As the trickle of cash turns to a torrent, bureaucrats become oligarchs, and the brutal Russian mafia consolidates its power. In the center of this madness is police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov, a thoughtful detective who is struggling to adjust to life in these turbulent times. A prominent businessman is kidnapped in...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
1st ed.
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
312 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Brought to Moscow in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of dogs. Includes historical note.
66) Shadow command
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xx, 355 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
General Patrick McLanahan, commander of the new Aerospace Battle Force, ignores directives from the White House and Pentagon to stand down and orders the ABF to attack secret Russian bases in Iran in an attempt to thwart Russian aggression.
67) The darkest hour
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five young people are stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.
68) Road of bones
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route to supply the USSR with a readily available workforce, and over time hundreds of thousands of prisoners died in the midst of their labors. Their bodies were buried where they fell, plowed under the permafrost, underneath...
69) Salt the snow
Author
Publisher
Amberjack Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
American journalist Milly Bennett has covered murders in San Francisco, fires in Hawaii, and a civil war in China, but 1930s Moscow presents her greatest challenge yet. When her young Russian husband is suddenly arrested by the secret police, Milly tries to get him released. But his arrest reveals both painful secrets about her marriage and hard truths about the Soviet state she has been working to serve. Disillusioned and pulled toward the front...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
337 pages : maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Arkady Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case: the death of one of Russia's new billionaires, which leads him to the Zone of Exclusion - Chernobyl, and the surrounding areas closed to the world since the nuclear disaster of 1986. In his groundbreaking Gorky Park, Martin Cruz Smith created one of the iconic detectives of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko. Cynical, quietly subversive, brilliantly analytical and haunted by melancholy,...
71) Red to black
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Red to Black has more in common with the elegantly paced books of John le Carré than it does with Ian Fleming's James Bond novels. But readers who appreciate a healthy dose of real-world worries in their spy novels won't complain. "-Richmond Times-Dispatch Gorky Park for the Putin era, Red To Black by Alex Dryden could have been ripped from recent headlines. At once a spy thriller, a love story, and a chilling look at a dangerously resurgent superpower,...
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
421 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Russia, 1910. Valentina Ivanova is the darling of St. Petersburg's elite aristocracy--until her romance with a Danish engineer creates a terrible scandal and her parents push her into a loveless engagement with a Russian count. Meanwhile, Russia itself is bound for rebellion. With the Tsar and the Duma at each other's throats, and the Bolsheviks drawing their battle lines, the elegance and opulence of Tsarist rule are in their last days. And Valentina...
74) The Machine
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self amid a war within a...
Author
Publisher
HQ
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"March, 1917. Petrograd is on the eve of revolution. For Countess Sophia Orlova, the city of her childhood--the only home she has ever known--has become her deadly enemy. The mob are ready to get rid of anyone connected to the old regime, including Sophia. When rebels threaten to shoot Sophia and her husband, they are saved by Nikolai, a fervent supporter of the revolution. Determined to help Nikolai's cause, Sophia sets up a hospital wing in the...
76) Our game
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st trade ed.
Physical Desc
301 pages : color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
77) The Siberia job
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 272 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, travel to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, moving town to town with suitcases full of cash--until the Russian mafia and Gazneft catch wind of their successes.
78) Burned
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Patty and David Monroe have flown to Moscow to repair a business deal that has gone bad when it suddenly turns nightmarish. Their Russian business partners shoot David and kidnap Patty at gunpoint, driving her to a ramshackle dacha twenty miles east of Moscow. There, her captors--along with brutal islamic terrorists--will attempt to ransom her. Patty will face the most frightening ordeal imaginable.--From publisher's description.
79) The patriots
Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xiii, 542 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscowand the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on frequent visits to Moscow, and when he learns that Florence's...