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...
Russia
- Author:Lustbader, EricSummary:
- Author:Tolokonnikova, NadezhdaSummary:
Nadya was arrested in 2012 for performing an anti-Putin protest song in a Moscow church. After eighteen months in a Russian prison, she emerged as an international symbol of radical resistance. Now the face of modern protest is wearing...
- 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...
- 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...
- Author:Sanders, ShellySummary:
It is 1904, and Rachel and her family are leaving Russia to escape the continuing riots against Jews. They take the Trans-Siberian Railway across the country and board a ship to Shanghai. Life is difficult and strange in this new city,...
- Author:Sanders, ShellySummary:
Rachel, a young Jewish woman from a small town in Russia, has made an incredible journey. Forced to leave her homeland because of the anti-Semitic violence that killed her father, she made her way across land and sea to find refuge in...
- Author:Abbott, JacobSummary:
A fascinating biography of Peter I of Russia, otherwise known as Peter the Great.
- Author:Jennings, LukeSummary:
We last saw Eve and Villanelle in a spy vs. spy race around the world, crossing powerful criminal organizations and dangerous governments. But they aren't finished yet.
- Author:Urry, JamesSummary:
Mennonites and their forebears are usually thought to be a people with little interest or involvement in politics. Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood reveals that since their early history, Mennonites have, in fact, been active...
- Author:Stachniak, EvaSummary:
Roman historique acclamé par la critique et propulsé en tête des ventes dans plusieurs pays, Le palais d’Hiver représentait avec brio l’ascension de Catherine la Grande à travers le regard vigilant de son ingénieuse servante Varvara....
- Author:Stachniak, EvaSummary:
Elle s’appelle Barbara, Varvara en russe. Alerte et vive d’esprit, elle est admise au service de l’impératrice Élisabeth, dans l’univers éclatant et cruel de la plus éminente cour du monde. Sous la tutelle du comte Bestoujev, chancelier...
- Author:Petrovskiĭ-Shtern, ĬokhananSummary:
This is the first study of the military experience of some one to one-and-a-half million Jews who served in the Russian Army between 1827, the onset of the conscription of Jews in Russia, and 1917, the demise of the tsarist regime. The...
- Author:Kostyuchenko, ElenaSummary:
* Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker and TIME * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Shortlisted for the Pushkin House Book Prize * "A haunting book of rare courage." -Clarissa Ward, CNN chief...
- Author:Archer, JeffreySummary:
This program is read by Richard Armitage. With a final twist that will shock even his most ardent listeners, Heads You Win is #1 New York Times bestseller Jeffrey Archer's most ambitious and creative work since Kane and Abel. Leningrad...
- Author:Fischbuch, NormanSummary:
This story begins in the late 1890's and documents the life of an ambitious young man who grew up eagerly looking forward to a comfortable and sheltered life in an isolated community in Russia near the Polish border. In his youth this...
- Author:Byron, RobertSummary:
Over the course of several months during 1931 and 1932, Robert Byron journeyed to three countries teetering on the brink of change. In Russia, which was stricken by famine, Stalin's dictatorship was in its infancy and the Great Terror...
- Author:TOLSTOY, Leo NikoleyevichSummary:
Prince Stepan Kasatsky experiences a disappointment with his fianc ̌and decides to become a monk! There is a story line, but beneath it, Father Sergius struggles to find peace and, if not happiness, then at least contentment. But he is...
- Author:PASTERNAK, BorisSummary:
Set in the first half of the 20th century during the most radical revolution of the age. Seen through the life of Yuri Zhivago, a physician and poet, who has to come to terms with the new world and his love for two women.
- Author:Gogol, NikolaiSummary:
The striving, vulgar Chichikov travels around the countryside collecting “dead souls” (deceased serfs still on the tax rolls) from landowners as a way to inflate his social standing. His travels give rise to bitingly satirical episodes...
- Author:Jordan, WillSummary:
For fans of World War Z, a chilling mystery, an ancient threat, and a race against time to save humanity—inspired by the true events of the Dyatlov Pass incident Russia, 1959. Nine members of a Soviet mountaineering team on an...
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