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381) War & peace
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 425 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In Tolstoy's timeless epic of love and loss, a circle of aristocrats finds their glittering world crumbling as war threatens imperial Russia. Set during the years of Napoleon's invasion of Russia, War and Peace follows the changing fortunes of brooding hero Prince Andrej, his bookish friend Pierre, and the spirited but naive Natasha. As Napoleon's armies menace their privileged lives, the horrors of the battlefield reach into the elegant ballrooms...
382) Burial
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the last days of WWII, a band of Allied soldiers trafficking Hitler's remains out of Germany are ambushed by Nazi Wehrwolf fighters. One female spy is determined to lead the surviving soldiers in a last stand to ensure the cargo doesn't fall into the wrong hands.
384) The Amber keeper
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
11 audio discs (12 hours, 48 minutes) : digital, optical, 1.4 m/s, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"After her mother's suicide, Abbie Myers returns home to the Lake District with her young child - and no wedding ring. Estranged from her turbulent family for many years, Abbie is heartbroken when she hears that they blame her for this tragedy. Determined to uncover her mother's past, Abbie approaches her beloved grandmother, Millie, in search of answers. The old woman reveals the story of how she traveled to Russia in 1911 as a young governess and...
385) A year without mom
Author
Publisher
Groundwood Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Lexile measure
690L
Physical Desc
167 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America -- a place that seems impossibly far from everything and everyone...
Author
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
8 books (462, 14 pages : map ; 22 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances...
Author
Series
Red Sparrow trilogy volume 1
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
8 books (434 pages ; 24 cm), in a cloth bag ; 38 x 46 cm.
Language
English
Description
State intelligence officer Dominika Egorova struggles to survive in the cast-iron bureaucracy of post-Soviet intelligence. Drafted against her will to become a "Sparrow," a trained seductress in the service, Dominika is assigned to operate against Nathaniel Nash, a first-tour CIA officer who handles the CIA's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in...
Author
Series
Publisher
Random House Audio
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
12 audio discs (14 hr., 30 min.) : CD audio, digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Marine officer. CIA analyst. President. Jack Ryan has devoted his life to protecting the United States. What if this time, he can't? Freedom may have finally arrived in Iran. As protests break out across the country, the media rejoices over the so-called Persian Spring. Western leaders are ecstatic. Members of Congress and the Cabinet clamor to back the rebels. Only President Jack Ryan remains wary. Meanwhile, he has plenty to handle at home. A deadly...
389) A visit to Moscow
Author
Publisher
West Margin Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Lexile measure
HL 610L
Physical Desc
71 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"An American rabbi enters Soviet Russia to investigate reports of persecution among the Jewish community. Though heavily monitored once he enters the state, one day the rabbi manages to sneak away in a taxi and discovers a secret that will change his life forever"--
Pub. Date
1997
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Anastasia has grown up alone in Russia with only the companionship of four magical musical instruments. She carries a secret about her true identity, and when she sets out to prove who she really is, Anastasia encounters both friends and foes, including those who want her secret kept hidden.
391) Siberia
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a diamond merchant from America travels to Siberia to find a buyer for a collection of blue diamonds with rare and mysterious origins, he becomes tangled in an affair with the owner of a small Siberian cafe. The more obsessive his affair becomes, the more the dangerous world of the Russian diamond trade intrudes upon his life, until eventually it seems there is no way out for either him or his lover. Both his relationship and the diamonds are...
392) Cold souls
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Souls can be extracted and traded as commodities. An actor named Paul Giamatti agonizes over his interpretation of 'Uncle Vanya.' Paralyzed with anxiety, he stumbles upon a solution via a New Yorker article about a high-tech company promising to alleviate suffering by deep-freezing souls. Paul enlists their services, intending to reinstate his soul once he survives the performance. Complications ensue when a mysterious, soul-trafficking mule borrows...
393) Nicotina
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
A computer hacker teams with two amateur criminals in a deal with a Russian mobster involving the exchange of diamonds for computer access to Swiss bank accounts. However, his obsession with a woman distracts his focus, leading to a terrible mistake.
394) Stranger things: 4
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (769 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In March 1986, eight months after the events of season 3, several Hawkins teenagers are killed in mysterious ways by a powerful being that lives in the Upside Down, Eleven goes to a secret facility in Nevada to help regain her powers, and Hopper and his fellow inmates in a Russian prison camp battle a Demogorgon that the Russians have captured.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
5 videodiscs (614 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
Die hard 2 (1990): John McClane attempts to avert disaster as rogue military operatives seize control of Dulles International Airport in Washington, D.C.
Die hard with a vengeance (1995): John McClane and a Harlem store owner are targeted by German terrorist Simon in...
396) Swan lake
Author
Series
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
20 unnumbered pages : color illustrations ; 28 x 31 cm.
Language
English
Description
This tale of a prince, a beautiful swan princess and an evil sorcerer begins in a woodland clearing far, far away. It is Prince Siegfried's 21st birthday. He is playing games with his friends when his mother, the Queen, arrives to tell him he needs to stop having fun and start looking after the kingdom. Prince Siegfried dreams of running away. He follows an enchanting flock of swans to a clearing by a lake, where four of the little cygnets begin to...