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Publisher
The Jewish Publication Society
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"This first-ever translation of Sholom Aleichem's rediscovered innovative novel, Moshkeleh the Thief has a riveting plot, an unusual love story, and a keenly observed portrayal of an underclass Jew replete with characters never before been seen in Yiddish literature"--
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
"An absorbing Cold War thriller" (Christian Science Monitor) with a slow burn romance at its heart, set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia.
In 1963, in a Siberian prison, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life so he won't...
In 1963, in a Siberian prison, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life so he won't...
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English
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They were the beautiful dreamers. From a hidden city deep in the Ural mountains, they walked the world as the coldest of Cold Warriors, under the command of the Kremlin and under the power of their own expansive minds. They slipped into the minds of Russia's enemies with diabolical ease, and drove their human puppets to murder and worse. They moved as Gods. And as Gods, they might have remade the world. But like the mad holy man Rasputin, who destroyed...
45) Cilka's journey
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Series
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English
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"From the author of The Tattooist of Auschwitz comes a novel based on an incredible true story of love and resilience. At sixteen, Cilka is taken to Auschwitz where the Commandant at Birkenau notices her beauty. After liberation, she is sent to Siberia as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy where she faces challenges both new and horribly familiar, including the unwanted attention of the guards. But when she makes an impression on a woman doctor,...
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Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries volume 12
Language
English
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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...
48) Red Square
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 3
Language
English
Description
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK • “Sharply, evocatively written and elaborately plotted . . . [Red Square] should find as many friends as did Gorky Park.”—The Washington Post Book World
Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. But...
Back from exile in the hellish reaches of the Soviet Union, homicide investigator Arkady Renko discovers that his country, his Moscow, even his job, are nearly dead. But...
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English
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THE WORLD YOU KNOW IS DEAD.WE DID THIS TO OURSELVES.The epidemic struck at the end of the Third World War. In just five years, the Earth was annihilated. Only one city survived-Etyom-a frozen hell-hole in northern Siberia, still engulfed in conflict.The year is 2251.Mila Solokoff is a Robust who trades information in a world where knowing too much can get you killed. Caught in a deal-gone-bad, she's forced to take a high-risk job for a clandestine...
50) The button man
Author
Series
Danilov and Cowley thrillers volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1989
Language
English
Description
In Moscow, a sheaf of military secrets changes hands. If it arrives at its destination, and if its import is understood, the consequences could be cataclysmic. Along the way it has an explosive impact on the lives of three people: a Soviet physicist burdened with secrets; a beautiful young Russian woman to whom the papers are entrusted; and Barley Blair, a bewildered English publisher pressed into service by British Intelligence to ferret out the...
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English
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In a rural village in December 2004 Chechnya, a failed doctor Akhmed harbors the traumatized 8-year-old daughter of a father abducted by Russian forces and treats a series of wounded rebels and refugees while exploring the shared past that binds him to the child.
53) Salt the snow
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English
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American journalist Milly Bennett has covered murders in San Francisco, fires in Hawaii, and a civil war in China, but 1930s Moscow presents her greatest challenge yet. When her young Russian husband is suddenly arrested by the secret police, Milly tries to get him released. But his arrest reveals both painful secrets about her marriage and hard truths about the Soviet state she has been working to serve. Disillusioned and pulled toward the front...
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Series
Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 16
Language
English
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Description
In a botched escape from Russia, MI5 spy Charlie Muffin is seized by the FSB, Russia's intelligence-service successor to the infamous KGB. Charlie is Russia's long-term target in British counter-intelligence, and Moscow is determined to extract, by whatever means necessary, every secret of British---and Western---espionage over Charlie's thirty-year career.
Charlie's determined not only to resist the interrogation but to learn from it if his Russian...
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English
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A suspenseful new murder mystery set in a crumbling monastery-turned-Soviet prison in the early twentieth century.
In a former monastery on an island in the White Sea, now taken over by the Bolsheviks, young mathematician Tolya Bogomolov is serving a three-year sentence, watched over by a skeleton crew of secret policemen. Some prisoners are consigned to forced labor while others sit at comfortable desks. So Tolya has been cultivating an acquaintance...
58) Varanger
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English
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Two young Vikings voyage deep into the Russian winter, a quest for glory that will lead all the way to Byzantium
Conn Corbansson is a clever and strong leader of men and his cousin and best friend, the god-touched Raef, is his navigator and shield against evil. After joining a fur-trading ship to Russia they are forced to overwinter in the icebound village of Novgrod.
But tempers flare in the confinement, and factions form – the far-faring Norse...
59) Hadji Murád
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English
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"Hadji Murad" was Tolstoy's last novel. It is a narrative based on actual events that occurred during the Russian war with the Chechens in 1850's Russia. Tolstoy enlisted in the Russian army and saw first-hand the brutality of this war. Hadji Murad is the story of its central character. A soldier on the Chechen side who breaks ranks and flees to the side of the Russians. Months later Hadji returns to try and rescue his imprisoned family with tragic...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Gold Hill Library Book Club Picks 2021
National Book Award Finalists
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"One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two sisters, eight and eleven, go missing. In the ensuing months the police investigation turns up nothing. Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. Connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. Social and ethnic tensions have long simmered...
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