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1) Martha
Author
Publisher
Philomel Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
The author relates how he and his Moscow family rescued Martha, a crow with a broken wing, and how she joined their household.
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
This story is for everyone--but not everyone is for this story.
It is a dangerous tale of times past. A love story full of deep seduction. A story of terrible longing and bold sacrifice.
Then as now, evil begins its courtship cloaked in light. And the heart embraces what it should flee. Forgetting it once had a truer lover.
With a kiss, evil will ravage body, soul, and mind. Yet there remains hope, because the heart knows no bounds.
Love will prove...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.4 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
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Description
"An extraordinary debut, a deeply lovely novel that evokes with uncommon deftness the terrible, heartbreaking beauty that is life in wartime. Like the glorious ghosts of the paintings in the Hermitage that lie at the heart of the story, Dean's exquisite prose shimmers with a haunting glow, illuminating us to the notion that art itself is perhaps our most necessary nourishment. A superbly graceful novel." - Chang-Rae Lee, New York Times Bestselling...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
An international gang war chooses Moscow as its battlefield Moscow police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov has adapted well to life without Communism. But under the Soviets, blood feuds were pursued in the dark halls of bureaucracy, and now they take place in the streets. An international drug ring has chosen Moscow as its next port of call, and the only thing standing in its way is the budding Russian mob, headed by a young man whose brutality is matched...
Author
Language
English
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Description
In the bestselling tradition of The Scarlatti Inheritance and The Rheineman Exchange, a compelling thriller in which one man's actions can change the course of history. In the fall of 1940, the Nazis are at the height of their power-France is occupied, Britain is enduring the Blitz and is under threat of invasion, America is neutral, and Russia is in an uneasy alliance with Germany. Stephen Metcalfe, the younger son of a prominent American family,...
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 7
Language
English
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Description
Arkady Renko returns in a gripping mystery involving a kidnapped baby with a mysterious teenage mother, a murdered prostitute, police corruption, and as always, the complex, impenetrable landscape of modern-day Moscow. Investigator Arkady Renko is back on the scene, with a whole new set of problems: his prosecutor keeps him without work, he's struggling with the onset of middle age, and his friend Victor is arrested for public drunkenness. Zhenya,...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horrified Russia in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What he emerged with in 1872 was at once his darkest novel until The Brothers Karamazov and his most ferociously funny. For alongside its relentlessly escalating plot of conspiracy and assassination, Demons...
Author
Language
English
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Description
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.
11) Moscow rules
Author
Series
Gabriel Allon novels volume 8
Language
English
Formats
Description
The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubbl
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 6
Language
English
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Description
Investigator Arkady Renko, the pariah of the Moscow prosecutor's office, has been assigned the thankless job of investigating a new phenomenon: late-night subway riders report seeing the ghost of Joseph Stalin on the platform of the Chistye Prudy Metro station. The illusion seems part political hocus-pocus and also part wishful thinking, for among many Russians Stalin is again popular; the bloody dictator can boast a two-to-one approval rating. Decidedly...
Author
Series
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Drafted against her will to serve the regime of Vladimir Putin as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in a charged effort of deception and tradecraft with first-tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash before a forbidden attraction threatens their careers.
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 9
Publisher
Grand Central Pub
Pub. Date
[Jul 19, 2011]
Language
English
Description
Jason Bourne is searching for an elusive cadre of terrorists planning to destroy America's most strategic natural resources and needs the help of his longtime pal General Boris Karpov, the newly appointed head of Russia's most feared spy agency. But Karpov has made a deal with the devil: to prove his worth and value he must kill Bourne.
17) Doctor Zhivago
Author
Series
Everyman's library volume 41
Language
English
Description
Poet-physician Dr. Zhivago moves his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be safety in the Ural Mountains during the Russian Revolution, only to become caught up in the battle between Whites and Reds, and to fall in love with Lara, a nurse.
18) Blood promise
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 4
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
19) Iron wolf
Author
Series
Patrick McLanahan novels volume 20
Language
English
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Description
In the spring of 2017, the U.S. economy is rebounding under President Stacy Anne Barbeau, the country's first female president. But her leadership is about to be severely tested: Russian president Gennadiy Gryzlov has sent Special Troops, disguised as pro-Russian activists, into Ukraine and Moldova. Though NATO is outraged, its response is tepid. Refusing to let Russian aggression go unpunished, former U.S. president Kevin Martindale approaches Polish...
Author
Publisher
New Directions Publishing Corporation
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
With the death of her aunt, the narrator is left to sift through an apartment full of faded photographs, old postcards, letters, diaries, and heaps of souvenirs: a withered repository of an entire century of life in Russia. Carefully reassembled with calm, steady hands, these shards tell the story of an ordinary family that somehow managed to survive the myriad persecutions and repressions of the last century. The family's pursuit of a quiet, civilized,...
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