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City of Thieves
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David Benioff
Benioff follows up "The 25th Hour" with this hard-to-put-down novel based on his grandfather's stories about surviving World War II in Russia.
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The Russian Concubine
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Kate Furnivall
In this sweeping debut novel set in war-torn 1928 China, young Russian exile Lydia Ivanova and freedom fighter Chang An Lo possess an all-consuming love that can only bring shame and peril upon them. Those in power will do anything to quell it, but Lydia and Chang are powerless to end it.
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The accomplice
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Elizabeth Ironside
The skeleton of a small child is unearthed in Jean Loftus's rose garden. Elizabeth Ironside is a previous winner of the Crime Writers' Association John Creasey Award, and was shortlisted for the 1995 Gold Dagger Award.
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Six Bad Things
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Charlie Huston
This action-packed, blood-soaked sequel to CAUGHT STEALING is the second in a trilogy. A few years after stealing four and a half million dollars from the Russian mafia and killing six people to keep it, former New York bartender Hank Thompson is enjoying his life on the lam in a small Mexican beach town. But when a well-connected Russian ...
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Absurdistan
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Gary Shteyngart
From the bestselling author of "The Russian Debutante's Handbook" comes the uproarious and poignant story of a literally large-than-life character and his bizarre adventures.
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Them: A Memoir of Parents
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Francine Du Plessix Gray
Francine du Plessix Gray, writer of fiction and biography, writes a dazzling memoir of her highly unusual family and her unorthodox upbringing. Her mother, Tatiana, was born in Russia, courted by Mayakovsky, and taught to make hats in St. Petersburg. Her father was a French diplomat who was killed in World War II. Her mother's second husband was ...
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The Tsarina's Daughter
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Carolly Erickson, Ph.D.
From the bestselling author of "The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette" comes adramatic novel and love story about the last Russian Imperial family.
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Hard Currency
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Stuart M Kaminsky
When a former Russian adviser is accused of killing a Cuban woman, police detective Porfiry Rostnikov is assigned to investigate the delicate case and salvage Russia's political relations with Cuba.
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The Betrayers
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Harold Robbins, Junius Podrug
Dirt-poor as a child, Nick Cutter survived the war-torn frozen hell of the Siege of Leningrad, but saw his mother starve to death. He grew up determined to get everything the rich had-and more. From a brutal Soviet orphanage to a plantation in the steamy jungles of the Caribbean, and from sultry, violent Havana to the dangerous streets of Santo ...
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Beauty in Exile: The Artists, Models, and Nobility Who Fled the Russian Revolution and Influenced the World of Fashion
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Aleksandr Vasil'ev, Alexandre Vassilieu, Antonina W Bouis (Translator)
In this extravagantly illustrated volume, Alexandre Vassiliev, a Russian-born costume and set designer, explores the ways in which exiled Russian artists and aristocrats influenced the American and European fashion scenes during the early- and mid-20th century. Her subjects include Serge Diaghilev, Anna Pavlova, Erté, George Hoyningen-Huene, and ...
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Final Witness
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James Scott Bell
Rachel Ybarra, working her way through law school as a paralegal, is hired by the United States Attorney's Office in downtown Los Angeles, just as an indictment is handed down against Jaraslov Supevsky. Supevsky is suspected of being Russian Mafia and ordering the brutal hit of a rival. The head of the criminal division, Alan Lakewood, appoints ...
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The Funeral Party
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Ludmila Ulitskaya
A painter named Alik, one of a group of Russian émigrés in New York City, is dying. His friends gather around to visit and to remember, and his wife tries to persuade Alik--a Jew--to be baptized as a Catholic. All of them personify the intellectual angst of the Old World, which they find curiously irrelevant in the bland American world in which ...
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Broccoli and Other Tales of Food and Love
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Lara Vapnyar
In a return to the short story, the form in which she made her debut with "There Are Jews in My House," Vapnyar presents a delightful new collection about the abiding, overlapping appetites for food and love.
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Russian America: The Great Alaskan Venture, 1741-1867
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Hector Chevigny
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Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life
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Sofka Zinovieff
In 1907, Princess Sophy ('Sofka') DolgorOuky was born in St Petersburg. Members of the Imperial family had attended her parents' wedding earlier that same year, and the child was born into a privileged world of nurses, private tutors and elegant tea parties. The Russian Revolution caused the princess to flee across Europe to England, but it was ...
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Running blind
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Desmond Bagley
It began as a simple errand - a parcel to deliver. But to Alan Stewart, standing on a deserted road in Iceland, with a murdered man at his feet, it looked anything but simple. When he realises who the true enemy is, his simple mission seems impossible. By the same author as "Night of Terror"
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My Life at First Try
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Mark Budman
This semi-autobiographical debut novel chronicles the life of Alex, born in Siberia in 1950, and his dreams of becoming a writer and of meeting Annie, his distant American cousin. As a child, Alex observes a group of foreign tourists do something that non-drunk Soviet adults seldom do: they laugh. Alex yearns to become one of them--a free and ...
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An Accidental Murder: An Avram Cohen Mystery
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Robert Rosenberg
When Jerusalem detective Avram Cohen publishes his memoirs, they provoke a journey into his past and illustrate why this complex, thoughtful man "makes a wonderful resonant hero" ("Booklist").
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Civil and Savage Encounters: The Wordly Travel Letters of an Imperial Russian Navy Officer, 1860-1861
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Pavel N Golovin, Basil Dmytryshyn (Translator), E A P Crownhart-Vaughan (Text by)
The letters of Pavel N. Golovin, describing voyages from Russia to Europe, the eastern United States, Panama, Acapulco, and San Francisco.
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Katish, our Russian cook.
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Wanda L. Frolov
First published in 1947 (and originally a series in Gourmet), this memoir about the author's wealthy family's Russian cook in the 1920s emphasizes the affection the family felt for Katish and the down-to-earth humor she brought to her tasks. It also, of course, includes recipes for traditional Russian foods.
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A Special Legacy: An Oral History of Soviet Jewish Emigres in the United States
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Sylvia Rothchild
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America Through Russian Eyes, 1874-1926
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Olga Peters Hasty, Ms. Susanne Fusso (Editor)
An engaging collection of travel accounts by Russian writers-among them Maxim Gorky and Grigorij Machtet- who visited America around the turn of the century. The documents, most of which appear in English for the first time, are interwoven with explanatory comments by editors Olga Peters Hasty and Susanne Fusso. Together the pieces offer fresh ...
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In the Palace of the Movie King
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Hortense Calisher
A Russian film director, forced to work in a Balkan country where repression and censorship are a way of life, is relocated to America--the fulfillment of his dream--where he becomes a famous dissident artist. As he goes on tour throughout the states, he is forced to confront different kinds of repression.
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Tallchief for Keeps
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Cait London
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Monsieur Pamplemousse on Vacation
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Michael Bond
Monsieur Pamplemousse is looking forward to a well earned break in the South of France courtesy of his employer - all he has to do is collect an artwork for Le Guide's Director. But when his contact fails to show and a dismembered body is washed up outside the hotel the holiday mood evaporates. Monsieur Pamplemousse on Vacation is packed full of ...
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