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Gabriel Allon novels volume 21
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"The fatal poisoning of a Russian billionaire sends Gabriel Allon on a dangerous journey across Europe and into the orbit of a musical virtuoso who may hold the key to the truth about his friend's death. The plot Allon uncovers leads to secret channels of money and influence that go to the very heart of Western democracy and threaten the stability of the global order
42) The defender
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Pub. Date
1993
Description
Turgen, a shepherd in northeastern Siberia, defends the wild mountain rams and befriends a widow and her children.
43) Doctor Zhivago
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Description
Comprehensive picture of pre revolutionary upper-class Russian society and the revolutionary transition. Deals with the life of an intellectual and his heroic effort to preserve his capacity for reflection.
Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.
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Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 4
Pub. Date
[2016]
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.
45) Russia
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Pub. Date
1995
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Easy to understand text (with maps) brings our diverse world together describing the people of Russia and how they live.
47) Russia
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Eyewitness books volume 73
Pub. Date
1998.
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An overview of the land, people, history, and culture of Russia from its earliest days to the present.
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"It is 1914 and the world has been on the brink of war so many times, many New Yorkers treat the subject with only passing interest. Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St. Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, a cousin of the Romanovs. The two met years ago one summer in Paris and became close confidantes. Now Eliza embarks on the trip of a lifetime, home with Sofya to see the splendors of Russia. But when Austria declares war on Serbia and...
49) The snow child
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Pub. Date
2000
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An elderly couple who long for a child build a snow child which comes to life and makes them very happy, until the coming of spring when the days become too warm for her to stay.
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Nick Flynn novels volume 1
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"After a CIA covert mission goes badly awry, U.S. Air Force intelligence officer Nicholas Flynn is exiled to guard a remote radar post along Alaska's Arctic frontier. This dead-end assignment is designed to put his career permanently on ice, but Flynn's not the type to fade quietly into obscurity... As winter storms pound Alaska and northern Canada, Russian aircraft begin penetrating deep into friendly airspace. Are these rehearsals for a possible...
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Winternight trilogy volume 2
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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"--
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Pub. Date
2021.
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"In the autumn of 1948, Iris Digby vanishes from her London home with her American diplomat husband and their two children. The world is shocked by the family’s sensational disappearance. Were they eliminated by the Soviet intelligence service? Or have the Digbys defected to Moscow with a trove of the West’s most vital secrets? Four years later, Ruth Macallister receives a postcard from the twin sister she hasn’t seen since their catastrophic...
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In 1917 Nicholas II, Tsar of Russia, was executed by revolutionaries. Now, in response to the collapse of the country's economy, the people have voted to instate a new Tsar, one who will be chosen from the descendents of Nicholas II. But a powerful group of Western businessmen want to make sure he is a candidate they can control, and hire African-American lawyer Miles Lord, with his knowledge of Russian language and history, to check the background...
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Pub. Date
c2003
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A children's story based on real events that shows how the death of one friend and the encouragement of another led to nineteenth-century composer Modest Mussorgsky's creation of the piano suite "Pictures at an Exhibition." Includes piano and orchestral versions of the piece on audio CD.
60) Cirrus cloud properties deduced from Zvenigorod experiments and theoretical investigations, 1986-90
Series
Atmospheric science paper volume no. 516
Pub. Date
1992.