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Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese/Doubleday
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
387 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When Anna begins an affair with the powerful Soviet official, Alexey Bulyagkov, her life begins to look a little bit brighter. But soon her romance comes to the notice of the KGB, and she's forced to spy on him to protect her family.
42) Dog boy
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First American edition.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A four-year-old boy named Romochka is abandoned by his mother and uncle and left to fend for himself on the streets of Moscow, with uncounted millions of homeless children and adults. He follows a stray dog to its home in a deserted church celler. There he joins Mamochka, the mother of the pack, and six other dogs and slowly he forgets his human attributes to survive two fiercely cold winters. Romochka attracts the attention of local police, street...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In 1986, twenty-year-old Syvert Løyning returns from the military to his mother's home in southern Norway. One evening, his dead father comes to him in a dream. Realizing that he doesn't really know who his father was, Syvert begins to investigate his life and finds clues pointing to the Soviet Union. What he learns changes his past and undermines the entire notion of who he is. But when his mother becomes ill, and he must care for his little brother,...
44) Not Russian
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
150 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When one of the terrorists holding over 100 people hostage in a church near Moscow is an old friend of his, journalist Pavel Vladimirovich is called in to negotiate and learns that he has one and only demand, and that it concerns the President of the Russian Federation, Vladimir Putin.
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins novels volume 3
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
388 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
After a harrowing escape from Russian agents on his last mission, Charles Jenkins thinks he's finally done with the spy game. But then the final two of the seven sisters--American assets who have been deep undercover in Russia for decades--cut off all communication with their handlers. Are they in hiding after detecting surveillance? Or have they turned and become double agents? It's Jenkins's duty to find out, but he's been added to a Russian kill...
46) The last agent
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins novels volume 2
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
419 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Betrayed by his own country and tried for treason, former spy Charles Jenkins survived an undercover Russian operation gone wrong. Exonerated, bitter, and safe, the retired family man is through with duplicitous spy games. Then he learns of a woman isolated in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo Prison. If it's Paulina Ponomayova, the agent who sacrificed her life to save his, Jenkins can't leave her behind. But there's no guarantee it's her - or proof...
Author
Publisher
Grove Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
xiii, 192 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
A fictionalized recreation of the author's experiences as a student at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature describes the school's descent into a dangerously Socialist Realist aesthetic that almost caused him to abandon writing altogether.
Author
Series
Charles Jenkins novels volume 1
Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
465 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Former CIA case officer Charles Jenkins is a man at a crossroads: in his early sixties, he has a family, a new baby on the way, and a security consulting business on the brink of bankruptcy. Then his former bureau chief shows up at his house with a risky new assignment: travel undercover to Moscow and locate a Russian agent believed to be killing members of a clandestine US spy cell known as the seven sisters. Desperate for money, Jenkins agrees...
Author
Language
English
Description
When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out again. Dr. Damira Khismatullina, an expert in elephant behavior, was brutally murdered trying to defend the world's last elephants from the brutal ivory trade. Now, her digitized consciousness has been downloaded into the mind of a mammoth. As the herd's...
Author
Publisher
HarperPerennial
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
1st U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
418 pages, 34 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
In the wake of the Chernobyl disaster the Soviet Union begins to collapse changing forever the lives of a nine-year old child prodigy, his aunt, a leading surgeon, and a teenage boy in a rural village. Russia, 1986. In a run-down apartment block in Moscow, a nine-year-old piano prodigy practices silently for fear of disturbing the neighbours. In a factory on the outskirts of the city, his aunt makes car parts, trying to hide her dissident past. In...
Author
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A devastating satire of Soviet life written during the darkest period of Stalin's repressive reign, it combines two distinct yet interwoven parts, one set in contemporary Moscow, the other in ancient Jerusalem, each brimming with frightful and wonderful characters, both historical and imaginary. --
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