Russia
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Author:Leo TolstoySummary: -
Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:This epic saga of Russian life in the days of the Napoleonic wars centers on the loves and losses of five aristocratic families. Famous for its length, the novel uses the backdrop of great sociopolitical upheaval to throw into sharp...
- Author:Shubin, Daniel H.Summary:
Boris Godunov governed from the shadows during the 13-year reign of the borderline-retarded Tsar Feodor Ivanovich, heir to Tsar Ivan IV, and then for almost seven years in his own name. But by then the brutal death of the 9-year-old...
- Author:CLANCY, TomSummary:
The sudden death of Russia's president has plunged the former Soviet Union into chaos. Against this turmoil, American businessman Roger Giordian finds his company in jeopardy. How far will some terrorists go, and who is writing...
- Author:Lebedev, SergeĭSummary:
A story of a Russian boyhood and coming of age as the Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse.
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Author:Birdsell, SandraSummary: -
Author:Fitch, JanetSummary:Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young...
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Author:Wilkshire, NickSummary:In Moscow, the truth can be a dangerous commodity. Ottawa bureaucrat-turned-diplomat Charlie Hillier is back. Having barely survived his first posting in Havana, Charlie is eager to put what he learned there to good use. And it isn't...
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Author:Meades, ChristopherSummary:A poignant and surreal fable about the nature of good and evil filled with a dazzling cast of characters … and millions of hiccups
A darkly funny, tragic, and ultimately heroic novel set in 1930s Russia, The Last...
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Author:Tolstoy, LeoSummary:A man condemns love and marriage and then gets married with predictably unfortunate results in what Tolstoy intended to be a persuasive argument for abstinence. Immediately censored by Russian authorities and banned by the U.S. Postal...
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Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary:Prince Myshkin, the last of his royal bloodline, suffers from epilepsy and a trusting nature. His saintlike purity of soul makes him suspect in the eyes of sinful St. Petersburg, but he finds a friend in passionate Rogozhin, and through...
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Author:Dostoyevsky, FyodorSummary:Dostoevsky’s last work, about a family torn apart by greed and jealousy. Three, possibly four, brothers gamble, steal, commit patricide and talk to the devil. It’s like daytime T.V. mated with a tract on existential philosophy, but in...
- Author:Alexandrov, Vladmir E.Summary:
The Black Russian is the incredible story of Frederick Bruce Thomas, born in 1872 to former slaves who became prosperous farmers in Mississippi. A rich white planter's attempt to steal their land forced them to flee to Memphis,...
- Author:NABOKOV, Vladimir VladimirovichSummary:
From one of the 20th century's great writers comes one of the finest autobiographies of our time. Speak, Memory was first published by Vladimir Nabokov in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence and then assiduously revised and republished in...
- Author:Rutherfurd, EdwardSummary:
This epic historical novel tells the story of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united in shaping the destiny of Russia. Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, and Lenin all play their roles in creating...
- Author:Yarrow, JoyceSummary:
Roped into helping her émigré stepfather Nikolai escape the clutches of a ruthless blackmailer, Jo Epstein must enter a world where criminals enforce a 19th century code of honor, threats arrive inside traditional Matryoshka (nesting)...
- Author:Wilson Rowe, ElanaSummary:
Russia holds more Arctic territory than any other state, yet unlike other Arctic states it does not have a unified strategy identifying economic and political aims for the North. Russia's policies on the North are dispersed across...
- Author:Lustbader, EricSummary:
Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources. He needs the help of his long-time friend, General Boris Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia's most...
- Author:Khoury, RaymondSummary:
Decades after a traumatized scientist blows up a mine where workers have savagely attacked one another, FBI agent Sean Reilly investigates the suicide of a Russian embassy attaché and a mysterious device with a world-threatening...
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Author:Sanders, ShellySummary:Rachel is a Jew living in Kishinev, Russia. At fourteen, she has dreams of being a writer. But everything is put on hold when a young Christian man is murdered and Rachel is forced to keep the murderer’s identity a secret. Tensions...
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