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"Based on a true story, The Diamond Eye is an unforgettable World War II tale about a quiet bookworm who becomes history's deadliest female sniper. In 1937 in the snowbound city of Kiev (now known as Kyiv), wry and bookish history student Mila Pavlichenko organizes her life around her library job and her young son--but Hitler's invasion of Ukraine and Russia sends her on a different path. Given a rifle and sent to join the fight, Mila must forge herself...
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In a country ruled by fear, no one is innocent.
Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer starts to kill at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State's obedient servant finds himself demoted and exiled. Now, with only...
Stalin's Soviet Union is an official paradise, where citizens live free from crime and fear only one thing: the all-powerful state. Defending this system is idealistic security officer Leo Demidov, a war hero who believes in the iron fist of the law. But when a murderer starts to kill at will and Leo dares to investigate, the State's obedient servant finds himself demoted and exiled. Now, with only...
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Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2010.
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English
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As Stalin's great terror begins in 1936, a killer strikes. A young woman's mutilated body is found on an altar in a deconsecrated Moscow church. Korolev is asked to investigate. The victim is discovered to be an American citizen, and now one false move will mean exile to the Zone, the frozen camps of the far north.
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Daughters of fortune volume 4
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Bethany House Publishers
Pub. Date
[2004]
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English
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The three daughters of newspaper tycoon Keagan Hayes travel to Russia in order to locate the half-brother, Semyon, and face dangerous and devastating consequences.
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Scribner
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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A rich, immersive debut novel, inspired by true events, about a meeting between two women in 1970s Soviet Russia-a deeply religious homesteader living in isolation with her family on the Siberian taiga and an ambitious scientist-that irrevocably changes the course of both of their lives. A vivid and eye-opening story about fate, ambition, and Soviet politics, Lost Believers is an unforgettable journey.
11) The last raven
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HarperCollins
Pub. Date
c1990
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English
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"When the CIA and the KGB conspire to shoot down one of the Soviet Union's most important reforming politicians, what ensues is a massive coverup operation to disguise the event as an accident."--Packaging.
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"16-year-old Valya knows what it feels like to fly. She's a pilot who's always felt more at home soaring through the sky than down on earth. But since the Germans surrounded Stalingrad, Valya's been forced to stay on the ground and watch her city crumble ..."--Jacket.
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2013.
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English
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Traces the friendship between all-American girl Jenny and Sarah, the shy daughter of troubled parents, during the height of the Cold War, a bond that is nearly shattered by Jenny's unexpected fame and plane crash death that Sarah learns a decade later might have been a hoax.
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The compelling story of U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack, a man born out of time. When his experimental aircraft is forced down in Russia and he escapes a Soviet prison camp, he must call upon the ancient skills of his Indian forebears to survive the vast Siberian wilderness. Only one route lies open to Mack: the path of his ancestors, overland to the Bering Strait and across the sea to America. But in pursuit is a legendary tracker, the Yakut native...
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Bellevue Literary Press
Pub. Date
2021.
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English
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"From the moment of its founding, the USSR was reviled and admired, demonized and idealized. Many Jews saw the new society ushered in by the Russian Revolution as their salvation from shtetl life with its deprivations and deadly pogroms. But Soviet Russia was rife with antisemitism, and a Jewish boy growing up in Leningrad learned early, harsh, and enduring lessons. Unsparing and poignant, Mikhail Iossel's twenty stories of Soviet childhood and adulthood,...
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Daughters of fortune volume 1
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Returning to her beloved Russia, now under Hitler's threatening shadow, Cameron Hayes tries to distance herself from her father and establish herself as a journalist, and soon meets American expatriate, Dr. Alex Rostov.
19) Heart of a dog
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Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
c1968.
Language
English
Description
In this absurdly comical story which can also be read as a parable of the Russian Revolution, a world famous Moscow professor transplants a human male's testicles and pituitary gland into a stray dog, creating a worryingly human animal.
20) Soldier X
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Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
In 1943 sixteen-year-old Erik experiences the horrors of war when he is drafted into the German army and sent to fight on the Russian front.
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