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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
255 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls--sisters, eight and eleven--go missing. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional...
84) Gorky Park
Author
Pub. Date
1981
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
365 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
85) Anastasia
Language
English
Description
Anastasia: A princess of Russia's Romanov family grows up in an orphanage after the assassination of her parents and separation from her grandmother, with only vague memories of her childhood, but she discovers her rightful heritage when she is recruited to pose as the lost princess by con men who want to claim a reward for her recovery.
Bartok the Magnificent: When Price Ivan is kidnapped, it is up to Bartok to discover the real hero inside himself...
Author
Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
454 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"CIA officers Sia and Max enter Russia under commercial cover to recruit Vladimir Putin's moneyman. Sia works for a London law firm that conceals the wealth of the superrich. Max's family business in Mexico--a CIA front since the 1960s--is a farm that breeds high-end racehorses. They pose as a couple to target Vadim, Putin's private banker, and his wife, Anna, who--unbeknownst to CIA--is a Russian intelligence officer under deep cover at the bank....
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In 1917, Alma Pihl, a master craftsman in the House of Fabergé, was charged to protect one of the greatest secrets in Russian history--an unknown Fabergé Egg that Peter Karl Fabergé secretly created to honor his divided allegiance to both the people of Russia and the Imperial tsar's family. When Alma and her husband escaped Russia for their native Finland in 1921, she took the secret with her, guarding her past connection to the Romanov family....
88) Immanuel's veins
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1772, Catherine the Great sends trusted warrior Toma Nicolescu to protect the Cantemir family, but when their daughter, Lucine, steals his heart, he is forced to keep silent while another lad begins courting her.
Author
Series
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"After the final curtain of Swan Lake, an animated crowd exits the Mariinsky theatre brimming with excitement from the night's performance. But outside the scene is somber. A ballerina's body lies face down in the snow, blood splattered like rose petals over the costume of the Swan Queen. The crowd is silenced by a single cry--'Nemetseva is dead!' Amongst the theatergoers is Lady Emily, accompanying her dashing husband Colin in Russia on assignment...
90) Eloise in Moscow
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Edition
Rev. jacket ed.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Language
English
Description
With the freezing wind blowing and the snow flying, Eloise, Nanny and Weenie arrive in Moscow. First published in 1959 at the height of the Cold War and unavailable for nearly 40 years, this classic resurfaces for a whole new generation of Eloise fans. In this beautifully produced, full-color edition, Eloise lives up to expectations and gives her darling performance. Two-color with four-color gatefold.
93) Tsar: a thriller
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
1st Atria Books hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
501 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Swashbuckling counter spy Alex Hawke is the only man, both Americans and the Brits agree, who can stop the madness created by the new Russia and its new Tsar, who is pulling strings and pulling them hard.
Author
Series
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt boss has relegated him to a desk job. And he is having trouble with his dexterity and balance. A visit to his doctor reveals that these are symptoms for Parkinson's...
95) Hard currency
Author
Series
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
247 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
As a serial killer terrorizes Moscow, Rostnikov gets an assignment in Havana The young girl leads her target into a park, planning on robbing him at knifepoint as soon as they are out of sight. But before she can strike, her quarry changes from a stooped middle-aged man to a feral beast, swinging a lead pipe with sadistic glee. By the time the police find the thief, her murderer is long gone. He is the first serial killer in Russian history, responsible...
96) Angelopolis
Author
Series
Angelology novels volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Danielle Trussoni's bestselling first novel, Angelology, wove biblical lore, the Orpheus myth, and Milton's Rebel Angels into a present-day world tinged with the divine supernatural. The novel plunged two endearing loners--art historian V. A. Verlaine and Evangeline, a beautiful young nun--into an ancient battle between a secret society and mankind's most insidious enemies: angel-human hybrids known as the Nephilim. Now a decade has passed since...
97) The crown's fate
Author
Series
Crown's game volume 2
Publisher
Balzer + Bray, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
HL 820L
Physical Desc
417 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Vika struggles with dangers in her new role as the Imperial Enchanter while Pasha faces disputes about his legitimacy and Nikolai considers how far he is willing to go to return to the world.
98) The snow hare
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First North American edition.
Language
English
Description
"Lena has lived a long, quiet life on her farm in Wales, alongside her husband and child. But as her end approaches, buried memories begin to return. Of her childhood in Poland, and her passion for science. Of the early days of her marriage, reluctant wife to an army officer. Of the birth of her daughter, whose arrival changed everything. Memories less welcome return, too. Her Polish village, transformed overnight by the Soviets, and the war that...
99) In love's time
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the summer of 1918, Captain Marcus Weatherford arrives in Russia on a secret mission, with a beautiful ballerina posing as his fiancée. Marcus searches for the Romanov tsarina and her son--who both allegedly survived the murdering Bolsheviks--and the information behind an allied plot to assassinate Lenin. But Marcus's sense of duty battles his desire to return home to Clare--his actual love. Hospital orderly Clare Danner still suffers from Marcus's...
100) Darkness at noon
Author
Language
English
Description
"Based on Stalin's Moscow show trials of the 1930s, Darkness at Noon follows Nicholas Rubashov, an activist who has outlived his usefulness, as he is imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he relives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance. Almost...