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41) Away
Author
Language
English
Description
Arriving in America alone after her family is destroyed in a Russian pogrom, Lillian Leyb receives word that her daughter Sophie might still be alive and embarks on a risky odyssey that takes her from New York's Lower East Side through Chicago, Seattle, the Yukon, and Alaska, to Siberia to find the missing girl.
42) What you break
Author
Series
Gus Murphy novels volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Former Suffolk County cop Gus Murphy returns to prowl the meaner streets of Long Island's darkest precincts with a Russian mercenary at his back in the stunning second installment of Reed Farrel Coleman's critically acclaimed series. Gus Murphy and his girlfriend, Magdalena, are put in harm's way when Gus is caught up in the distant aftershocks of heinous crimes committed decades ago in Vietnam and Russia. Gus's ex-priest pal, Bill Kilkenny, introduces...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vi, 246 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in the alien landscape of an elite all-girls New Jersey boarding school. Having lost her family, her home, and her sense of purpose, Zoya struggles to belong, a task made more difficult by the malice her peers heap on scholarship students and her new country's paranoia about Russian spies. When she meets the visiting writer and fellow Russian émigré Leo Orlov--whose...
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"A literary memoir about fleeing the Soviet Union, where she abandoned her estranged, alcoholic mother, and the author's subsequent quest to find the mother she left behind, after emigrating to America and becoming a mother herself"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
230 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
From the author of The Seed Collectors comes a darkly comic take on power, privilege, and the pressure put on young women to fit in--and be thin--at their all-girls boarding school. It's already the second week of term when Natasha, the daughter of a Russian oligarch, arrives at a vast English country house for her first day of boarding school. She soon discovers that the headmaster gives special treatment to the skinniest girls, and Natasha finds...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Part love story, part historical epic, part tragedy, The House of Special Purpose illuminates an empire at the end of its reign. Eighty-year-old Georgy Jachmenev is haunted by his past--a past of death, suffering, and scandal that will stay with him until the end of his days. Living in England with his beloved wife, Zoya, Georgy prepares to make one final journey back to the Russia he once knew and loved, the Russia that both destroyed and defined...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
108 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"This exciting Who Was? title explores how Catherine the Great was able to turn Russia into one of the great powers of Europe by expanding its borders, helping improve its educational system, and advocating for the arts. Her three-decade reign is considered the Golden Age of Russia"--
Author
Series
Her Majesty the Queen investigates volume 1
Queen Elizabeth II volume 1
Queen Elizabeth II volume Bk. 1
Queen Elizabeth II volume 1
Queen Elizabeth II volume Bk. 1
Language
English
Description
"It is the early spring of 2016 and Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. But the preparations are interrupted when a guest is found dead in one of the Castle bedrooms. The scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play was involved. The Queen leaves the investigation to the professionals--until their suspicions point them in the wrong direction....
Pub. Date
[2006]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 240 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Zoya's comfortable world is shattered by the Russian Revolution and the death of her parents. She flees to Paris with her grandmother, struggling to survive her first taste of poverty, and at the same time finding love and heartache.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Uncle Ike" (aka General Eisenhower) personally pins silver first lieutenant bars on Billy Boyle in Benn's stellar fifth WWII mystery (after 2009's Evil for Evil). In December 1943, Billy's leave with his British girlfriend in Italy is cut short. Orders send him to London to look into a Soviet officer's shooting murder, which may be retaliation for the execution of thousands of Polish officers in the Katyn Forest that's been blamed on the Germans...
52) Russkies
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When an injured Russian sailor is washed ashore after an unsuccessful military mission off the coast of Florida, he is discovered by three young boys whose first instincts are to turn him in. Instead, they grow fond of him and decide to help him return home.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
What if your father wasn't the man you thought he was? Former KGB assassin Max Austin's peaceful life in Paris is shattered when his mother's imminent death brings him back to a world he only wants to forget. Before he's even unpacked his bags, a brutal act of terrorism sends Max running for his life and forces him to uncover secrets about his father's past to save his family's lives. Max's sister and nephew become pawns in a game that started a generation...
54) The pursuit
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
378 pages ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The best way to destroy your enemy is to make him a friend... Former KGB assassin Max Austin is on the run, fighting to keep his family alive while pursuing his parents' killers. As he battles foes both visible and concealed, he uncovers a conspiracy with roots in the darkest cellars of Soviet history. Determined to survive, Max hatches a plan to even the odds by partnering with his mortal enemy. Even as his adversary becomes his confidant, Max is...
55) The Russian girl
Author
Pub. Date
1994.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A drawing room comedy featuring Richard Vaisey, an English expert on Russian literature, who falls for a Russian poetess. He is reluctant to leave his wife because she has lots of money and when he finally takes the plunge he discovers, to his regret, she also has lots of imagination--for revenge.
Author
Series
Pacific homicide novels volume 1
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Most cops spend their entire careers without firing a weapon in the line of duty. LAPD Homicide Detective Davie Richards is an outlier, a cop who killed a suspect to save another officer's life. While she waits for the police commission to rule on the shooting, she's called out to probe the gruesome homicide of Anya Nosova, a nineteen-year-old Russian beauty whose body is found in the Los Angeles sewer system. With her own case in limbo, Davie knows...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
321 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality she began her life as the Grand Duchess Tatiana, known...
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