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"'...not a novel, even less is it a poem, and still less a historical chronicle'- Leo Tolstoy. Striking a balance between philosophical discussion and compelling story-telling, War and Peace transcends the restrictions that Tolstoy perceived in the conventional novel. Set in Russia during the Napoleonic era, this epic novel follows the fortunes of five aristocratic Russian families over the course of the French invasion. Tolstoy's timeless portrayal...
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Published to great acclaim and fierce controversy in 1866, Fyodor Dostoevskys Crime and Punishment has left an indelible mark on global literature and our modern world, and is still known worldwide as the quintessential Russian novel. Readers of all backgrounds have debated its historical, cultural, and spiritual dimensions, probing the moral and ethical dilemmas that Dostoevsky so brilliantly stages throughout his narrative. Yet, at its heart, this...
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"Tolstoy produced many drafts of Anna Karenina. Crafting and recrafting each sentence with careful intent, he was anything but casual in his use of language. His project, translator Marian Schwartz observes, "was to bend language to his will, as an instrument of his aesthetic and moral convictions." In her magnificent new translation, Schwartz embraces Tolstoy's unusual style - she is the first English language translator ever to do so. Previous translations...
4) Nevertell
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After escaping a Soviet prison camp, Lina is pursued by a powerful witch and her shadow wolves in a riveting debut that imbues frozen wilderness with fairy-tale magic. All that twelve-year-old Lina knows of the world is the Stalinist labor camp where she was born, a place of hunger, cruelty, and deprivation. After a daring escape into the frigid Siberian wilds with her best friend, Bogdan, Lina vows to reach Moscow and find her long-lost grandmother,...
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Sai has just found out that she won a contest and gets to take her whole family on a trip to anywhere in the world! But where will they go? Sai's dad wants to explore a volcano. Her brother, Ben, wants to get close to brown bears. Sai wants to play in a hot spring. There must be some place that has all of those things? How about Kamchatka! Readers will love exploring this unique place through detailed drawings and informative and enjoyable text.
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In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
7) Lara's gift
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In 1914 Russia, Lara is being groomed by her father to be the next kennel steward for the Count's borzoi dogs unless her mother bears a son, but her visions, although suppressed by her father, seem to suggest she has special bond with the dogs.
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Vampire Academy volume 4
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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.
16) The defender
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Turgen, a shepherd in northeastern Siberia, defends the wild mountain rams and befriends a widow and her children.
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The villagers are afraid of her, so the legendary Baba Yaga disguises herself as an old woman in order to know the joys of being a grandmother. Baba Yaga is a witch famous throughout Russia for eating children, but this Babushka Baba Yaga is a lonely old woman who just wants a grandchild--to love. Full color.
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Viktor Orlov tenía una cita con la muerte desed hace tiempo. El una vez hombre más rico de Rusia, vive ahora en un espléndido exilio en Londres, donde ha llevado a cabo una incasnable cruzada contra el autoritario cleptócrata que ha tomado control del Kremlin. Su mansíon en el exclusivo Cheyne Walk en Chelsea es una de las viviendas londienese más fuertemente protegidas, y aun así, es una tarde lluviosa, en medio de una pandemia global, en...
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In an old Russian village, Sadie and her brothers are poor and hungry until an old woman gives Sadie a frying pan that will make potato pancakes until it hears the magic words that make it stop. This humorous Chanukah story of generosity and greed is accompanied by bright, cheerful illustrations depicting a traditional Russian village and a recipe for latkes. Full color.
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