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"A Year Without Mom follows twelve-year-old Dasha through a year full of turmoil after her mother leaves for America. It is the early 1990s in Moscow, and political change is in the air. But Dasha is more worried about her own challenges as she negotiates family, friendships and school without her mother. Just as she begins to find her own feet, she gets word that she is to join her mother in America-- a place that seems impossibly far from everything...
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The authorities claim that self-made billionaire Pasha Ivanov jumped to his death from his modern Moscow condominium; however, a large amount of salt on the floor of Ivanov's bedroom closet leads detective Arkady Renko straight to Chernobyl where he uncovers more secrets about the new Russia.
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A dramatic and deadly chase through present-day Russia for the stunning secret Stalin tried to take to his grave. "Archangel" tells the story or four days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated, middle-aged historian from New York, who is in Moscow to attend a conference on the newly opened Soviet archives.
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Tatiana Petrovna, a well known journalist, set out for Siberia, to write an expose on the oligarchs, and has not returned. Arkady chooses to trail her, and discovers that she has fallen under the spell of a wealthy political dissident who threatens Putin's rule. Although he seems like the perfect candidate to take on the corruption of Russian politics, he has his own disturbing and deadly secrets. Can Arkady find a way to get himself, and Tatiana,...
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"When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow--and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on frequent visits to Moscow, and when he learns that Florence's...
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"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege"--
Vasilisa's gift for seeing what others do not won her the attention of Morozko-- Frost, the winter demon. But Frost's aid comes at a cost, and her people have condemned...
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"Moscow lies deep under the snow? and Arkady Renko is on the trail of a suspect police officer? a former commando who served with glory in Chechnya. But proof of the man's corruption is elusive. Now? Renko's unpopular boss calls him to head up a delicate investigation - passengers riding the last metro of the night have reported seeing the ghost of Stalin waving to them from the platform edge . . . every night . . . at the same time. Meanwhile? Renko's...
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To save her sister, who, along with her American diplomat husband and children, is trapped behind the Iron Curtain, Ruth Macallister embarks on a dangerous mission, and as the sisters race toward safety, a dogged Soviet agent forces them to make a heartbreaking choice.
Autumn, 1948: Iris Digby, her American diplomat husband Sasha, and their two children vanish from London. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys...
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