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1) Absurdistan
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
xi, 333 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Hoping to get out of Russia and return to his adopted home in the U.S., Misha Vainberg, the obese son of a wealthy Russian, makes his way to Absurdsvani?, a small unstable country on the brink of civil war.
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks Landmark
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
371 pages : map ; 24 cm
Description
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,...
Publisher
Roadside Attractions LLC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
While on vacation, a married couple unwittingly befriends a flamboyant and charismatic Russian named Dima, who, unbeknownst to them, is a kingpin money launderer for the mafia. When Dima confides to his new friends that he plans to escape from the mob, they're quickly swept into the dangerous world of international espionage. The unlikely companions must undertake a perilous journey through Paris, Bern, and London in order to save Dima and his family....
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury USA
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
vi, 246 pages ; 25 cm
Description
""In the 1920s, Zoya Andropova, a young refugee from the Soviet Union, finds herself in ... 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 [of] her peers ... When she meets the visiting writer and fellow Russian ?migr? Leo Orlov--whose books Zoya has privately obsessed over for years--her luck seems to have taken a turn for...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
466 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Former Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya auctions off her jewelry collection and becomes overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, the friends she left behind amidst Stalinist aggression, and the dark secret that brought her to a new life in Boston.
Author
Pub. Date
2013
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...
11) Lorna's silence
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Lorna is a young Albanian woman who dreams of opening up a snack bar with her boyfriend. Without the money, she finds herself entwined in a vicious plan devised by mobster Fabio. A false marriage between Lorna and Claudy will allow her to get her Belgian citizenship. She is then expected to marry a Russian Mafioso who is anxious to get his hands on the Belgian identity papers, after Fabio kills Claudy to speed up the second marriage. But can Lorna...
Author
Series
North Pacific studies volume no. 4
Publisher
Oregon Historical Society
Pub. Date
1979
Physical Desc
xv, 249 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 28 cm.
13) Illegal action
Author
Series
Liz Carlyle series volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
289 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"In her new assignment, MI5 officer Liz Carlyle uncovers a plot to silence Nikita Brunovsky, an increasingly vocal opponent of Vladimir Putin. The Foreign Office is adamant about forestalling a crime that could become a full-blown international incident, but there's not a single clue as to how the assassination will be carried out--and Liz is solely responsible for averting disaster. So she goes undercover, attaching herself to Brunovsky's retinue:...
Author
Series
Jason Bourne series volume 14
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"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
HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
343 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
At the Cannes Film Festival, a successful, driven entrepreneur goes to the darkest lengths to reclaim a lost love. Captured in all their crassness are producers, actors, aspiring starlets, supermodels, and notorious fashionistas, whose lives and actions hold sway over millions.
Author
Series
Early California travels volume 27
Publisher
G. Dawson
Pub. Date
1955
Physical Desc
xvii, 65 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Author
Series
California relations volume no. 27
Publisher
Biobooks
Pub. Date
c1951
Physical Desc
ix, 50 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.
Author
Publisher
Planeta/Editorial Planta Mexicana
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
638 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"Cuando Yuri Santacruz asistió al nombramiento como canciller de Adolf Hitler, no podía imaginar lo mucho que cambiaría su vida en Berlín. Había llegado allí unos meses atrás, después de haber huido, junto con parte de su familia, de San Petersburgo, asfixiados por una revolución que los había dejado sin nada. A Yuri también lo privó de su madre y su hermano pequeño, a quienes las autoridades rusas no permitieron la salida del país....
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