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The must-have Pevear and Volokhonsky translation of one of the greatest Russian novels ever written
Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to...
Described by William Faulkner as the best novel ever written and by Fyodor Dostoevsky as “flawless,” Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfolds as Anna rejects her passionless marriage and thereby exposes herself to...
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2019.
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IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A novel based on a true story follows a Russian woman who is forced by a concentration-camp commandant to become his lover and is subsquently sent to Siberia after being found guilty of collaborating with the enemy.
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Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world.
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Winternight trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
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IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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A novel inspired by Russian fairy tales follows the experiences of a wild young girl who taps the mysterious powers of a precious necklace given to her father years earlier to save her village from dark and dangerous forces.
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Known as Lady Death--a lethal hunter of Nazis--Mila Pavlichenko, sent to America on a goodwill tour, forms an unexpected friendship with First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and a connection with a silent fellow sniper, offering her a chance at happiness until her past returns with a vengeance.
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To save her sister, who, along with her American diplomat husband and children, is trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Ruth Macallister embarks on a dangerous mission, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet agent forces them to make a heartbreaking choice.
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2023.
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English
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The founder of Private, the world's biggest and best detective agency, Jack Morgan investigates the murder of his former U.S. Marine comrade, which appears to be linked to another murder in Moscow, and arriving in Russia, begins to uncover a conspiracy that could have global consequences.
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Jerry Mitchell volume 1
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Forge/Tom Doherty Associates Book
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
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The Revolution of Marina M volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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Marina Makarova, a young woman of privilege coming of age in 1916 St. Petersburg, finds her life and ambitions upended by historical events that find her joining the cause for workers' rights, falling in love with a radical poet, and navigating devastating betrayals.
12) Gorky Park
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Arkady Renko novels volume 1
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c1981
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English
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[2022]
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English
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A prisoner in a Siberian work camp, Marya, when her sister Vera, a doyenne of the KGB, investigates her conviction, is finally freed when Vera learns the truth that calls into question the very history the Soviets were working hard to cover up.
16) Blood maidens
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James Asher vampire novels volume 3
Publisher
Severn House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
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James Asher and his vampire partner Don Simon Ysidro travel to St. Petersburg in 1911 to investigate whether or not the kaiser is trying to build an army of vampires in preparation for war.
19) Red winter
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Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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In 1920s Russia, a deserter from the Red Army returns home to find his village empty, the men murdered, and the women and children gone, and searches the forests in the bitter cold, desperate to find his wife and sons.
20) The last agent
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Charles Jenkins novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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A spy who was convicted of treason travels to Russia after receiving a tip that the agent who sacrificed her life to save his might still be alive.
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