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21) Tsar: a thriller
Author
Series
Alexander Hawke thrillers volume 5
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
501 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Description
Swashbuckling counter spy Alex Hawke is the only man, both Americans and the Brits agree, who can stop the madness created by the new Russia and its new Tsar, who is pulling strings and pulling them hard.
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 4
Formats
Description
When a set of priceless paintings by Leonardo da Vinci and Rembrandt go missing in Russia, the Kidd siblings head to St. Petersburg and the wild Arctic tundra to find the bad guys and locate the treasure.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
xi, 370 pages ; 25 cm
Description
From Soviet-era research laboratories to the present, traces the history of Russian intelligence and surveillance systems, and looks at technology's potential for both good and evil under Vladimir Putin's regime.
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
ix, 301 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
Overview: The security services have played a central- and often mysterious- role at key turning points in Russia during the tumultuous years following the Soviet collapse: from the Moscow apartment house bombings and theater siege, to the war in Chechnya and the Beslan school massacre. In this riveting investigation, two intrepid journalists penetrate the secret world of the FSB and illustrate how the security services have evolved into a ruthless,...
27) The professional
Author
Series
Game maker series volume 1
Publisher
Gallery Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"Mafiya enforcer Aleksei "The Siberian" Sevastyan's loyalty to his boss knows no bounds, until he meets the boss's long-lost daughter, a curvy, feisty redhead who haunts his mind and heats his blood like no other. Ordered to protect her, Aleksei will do anything to possess her as well--on his own wicked terms. Grad student Natalie Porter had barely recovered from her first sight of the dark and breathtaking Sevastyan before the professional enforcer...
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Formats
Description
Sophie Smith is a teenage orphan stuck in a boarding school in London, but at night she dreams of Russia and wolves--then, on a class trip to St. Petersburg, she finds herself and her two friends deliberately separated from the group and whisked off intothe silver forest of her dreams, where a mystery awaits.
Author
Publisher
First Second
Pub. Date
2022.
Formats
Description
"In the West's collective imagination, Vladimir Putin is a devious cartoon villain, constantly plotting and scheming to destroy his enemies around the globe and in Ukraine. But how did an undistinguished mid-level KGB officer become one of the most powerful leaders in Russian history? And how much of Putin's tough-guy persona is a calculated performance?"--
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xxxii, 350 pages ; 24 cm
Description
"When he opened the FBI investigation into Russia's election interference, Peter Strzok had already spent more than two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. His career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter, when the Trump administration used his private expression of political opinions to force him out of the Bureau in August 2018. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the commander...
Author
Publisher
Harper Design, an Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
234 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm.
Description
An illustrated travelogue that brilliantly captures artist and illustrator's Emma Fick's epic train journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway--from Beijing through Mongolia to Moscow--including more than 200 watercolor illustrations and handwritten text that includes cultural and historical information as well as invaluable travel tips.
32) Putin
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Description
"Vladimir Putin is the world's most dangerous man. Alone among world leaders, he has the power to reduce the United States and Europe to ashes in a nuclear firestorm and has threatened to do so. He invades his neighbors, most recently Ukraine, meddles inwestern elections, and orders assassinations inside and outside Russia. His regime is autocratic and deeply corrupt. But that is only half the story. Unflinching, hard-hitting, and objective, Philip...
34) A darker place
Author
Series
Sean Dillon thrillers volume 16
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Alexander Kurbsky, a famous Russian writer and ex-paratrooper, fakes his escape from Russia and infiltrates British and American intelligence at the highest levels. He has his own motivations for doing the most effective job possible, which entails murdering anyone in his way--including Charles Ferguson, Sean Dillon and the rest of the group known informally as the "Prime Minister's private army."
Author
Series
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 28 cm.
Description
Tells the story of the discovery of Lyuba, a perfectly preserved baby mammoth discovered along a river in Siberia 31,000 years after her birth, and offers a glimpse into her prehistoric world.
36) Radiant angel
Author
Series
John Corey novels volume 7
Description
After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, life seems to be getting quieter for maverick Federal Agent John Corey. Professionally sidelined, away from his wife, and partnered up with a young, good-looking rookie named Tess, Corey is saddled with a dead-end job running easy surveillance on a group of Russian U.N. delegates in New York City. But then his subjects slip the net, Tess starts acting suspiciously, and an old,...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xii, 313 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
When Bill Browder's young Russian lawyer, Sergei Magnitsky, was beaten to death in a Moscow jail, Browder made it his life's mission to go after his killers and make sure they faced justice. The first step of that mission was to uncover who was behind the $230 million tax refund scheme that Magnitsky was killed over. As Browder and his team tracked the money as it flowed out of Russia through the Baltics and Cyprus and on to Western Europe and the...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
64 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 25 cm
Description
"Russia's invasion was not unexpected. For months, President Vladimir Putin had been amassing his military along the Russian-Ukrainian border. By February, 190,000 troops stood ready to invade. For Putin, giving that command would be the first step in his long-sought goal of bringing Ukraine back under Russian influence. Ukrainians are fiercely loyal to their president and their country, and have shown remarkable courage in opposing the Russian invasion....
Author
Publisher
Interlink Books, an imprint of Interlink Publishing Group, Inc
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
239 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Description
"A collection of delicious modern recipes from Siberia and beyond. Salt & Time will transform perceptions of the food of the former Soviet Union, and especially Siberia-the crossroads of Eastern European and Central Asian cuisine-with 100 inviting recipesadapted for modern tastes and Western kitchens, and evocative storytelling to explain and entice. Why not try the restorative Solyanka fish soup (a famous Russian hangover cure), savor the fragrant...
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 4
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
503 p. ; 22 cm.
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.
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