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English
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"A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land... ...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother who liked to tell fairy tales and collect porcelain dolls. One summer night, everything...
Author
Publisher
Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
299 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna was an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots. When Anna is contacted by a stranger from their homeland and then disappears, Masha is called home to Milwaukee to find her, and where the search leads changes the family forever.
Author
Publisher
MCD / Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"-- Provided by publisher.
When sixteen-year-old Lara and her fiery mother, Yevgenia, find themselves homeless again, the misnamed Oasis Mobile Estates is all they can afford. In this new community, where residents are down on their luck but rich in humor and escape plans, Lara navigates what...
4) Still here
Author
Publisher
Hogarth
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Follows the intertwined lives of four immigrants in New York City as they grapple with love and tumult, the challenges of a new home, and the absurdities of the digital age"--From publisher description.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
"From Helen Rappaport, the New York Times bestselling author of The Romanov Sisters comes After the Romanovs, the story of the Russian aristocrats, artists, and intellectuals who sought freedom and refuge in the City of Light. Paris has always been a city of cultural excellence, fine wine and food and the latest fashions. But it has also been a place of refuge for those fleeing persecution, never more so than before and after the Russian Revolution...
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English
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Kachemak Winkel's mother used to tell him that Alaska doesn't forgive mistakes. A lot of mistakes where made the day she died in a plane crash with Kache's father and brother-- and Kache still feels responsible. He fled Alaska for good, but now his aunt Snag insists on his return. Returning to his family's cabin in the woods, he finds smoke rising from the chimney and a mysterious Russian woman hiding from her own troubled past. Nadia has stayed there,...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
506 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Lillian's rise to fame and fortune spans seventy years and is inextricably linked to the course of American history itself, from Prohibition to the disco days of Studio 54. Yet Lillian Dunkle is nothing like the whimsical motherly persona she crafts for herself in the media. Conniving, profane, and irreverent, she is a supremely complex woman who prefers a good stiff drink to an ice cream cone. And when her past begins to catch up with her, everything...
Author
Series
Bourne volume 14
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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"General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But he's left behind an unstoppable cyber operation he conceived before his murder: a way to steal the American nuclear launch codes. Karpov trusted only one man: Jason Bourne. Can Bourne be working against his own country? The NSA is convinced of Bourne's treason, and will do everything in its power to kill him. Hunted by the best assassins in the business, Bourne has only one hope:...
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
339 pages : illustration ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In this gorgeous, suspenseful novel, a Russian aristocrat races to stop a plague spreading from an isolated Manchurian city to the rest of the world. Based on a true story, this novel was inspired by the author's discovery of a long-lost book by a Russian doctor who chronicled a plague epidemic in Manchuria in 1910. A multi-series international television production of Shields' first novel "The Fig Eater" is currently in the works. Print run 75,000....
10) Buffalo Mountain
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Series
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource
Language
English
Description
"Ramsay demonstrates once again that he is a superb storyteller, adroitly mixing the spy and small-town mystery genres and shocking us with one walloping big surprise midway through the book." -Booklist
It's midwinter and the Shenandoah Valley is poised on the brink of an unusually icy and snowy season. Alexei Kamarov's body is discovered in a forest within the Picketsville town limits. His driver's license identifies him as Randall Harris. The last...
11) The guest room
Author
Language
English
Description
Fraternal feuding ensues when the youngest of three brothers opens a restaurant in competition with his older siblings' establishment in a small Pennsylvania suburb.
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
387 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In post-apocalyptic London, Samuil Petrovitch, a Russian émigré enhanced with cybernetic replacements and a built-in AI, searches for his missing daughter whom he believes was kidnapped by one of his enemies.
Author
Series
Tatiana and Alexander volume 2
Publisher
Avon
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
559 p. : map ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
360 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An enchanting, suspenseful novel of love, art, music, and family secrets set among the Russian émigré community of Paris in 1937 Evie, a rebellious young American, leaves New York in search of art and adventure in Jazz Age Paris, home to her long-estranged bohemian grandmother. But just as Evie arrives, her grandmother becomes very ill. Before she dies, she compels Evie to carry out her final wish: find a man from her past known only as Zhenya....
15) The houseguest
Author
Publisher
Counterpoint
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
369 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A story about identity, family, and the decisions that define who we will become.
Author
Series
Tatiana and Alexander volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
742 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
289 p. 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
257, [3] p. : map, ports. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the 1860s, Erinia Pavaloff's life at a trading post in Russian America gets more complicated when the region is annexed to the United States and members of the small community become American Alaskans. Author's note identifies the historical basis for the story.
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English
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In the wake of the collapse of Lehman Brothers and with Britain on the brink of economic ruin, a young English couple takes a tennis vacation in Antigua. There they meet Dima, a Russian who styles himself the world's number one money launderer, who wants, among other things, a game of tennis. Back in London, the couple is subjected to an all-night interrogation by the British Secret Service, which also needs their help. Their acquiescence will lead...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
"Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world--the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions--is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter, has miraculously taken an interest in him. But all is not right in Ilya's world:...