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81) Spotlight
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Untamed: Jo Wilder's life revolves around the big top, and she is furious when straitlaced lawyer Keane Prescott threatens to take it all away from her. Keane had no interest in his late father's circus until he meets the fiery lion tamer. Jo is impossible to resist--at once graceful, fearless, commanding and about as unpredictable as the lions. Keane knows there's no way she'd fit into his life, yet all it takes is one kiss and suddenly running away...
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Mike Klingenberg is a troubled fourteen-year-old from a disfunctional family in Berlin who thinks of himself as boring, so when a Russian juvenile delinquent called Tschick begins to pay attention to him and include Mike in his criminal activities, he is excited--until those activities lead to disaster on the autobahn.
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"An exquisite portrait of mothers and daughters that reaches from Cold War Russia to modern-day New Jersey, from the author of A Mountain of Crumbs--the memoir that 'leaves you wanting more' (The Daily Telegraph, UK). In A Mountain of Crumbs Elena Gorokhova describes coming of age behind the Iron Curtain and leaving her mother and her Motherland for a new life in the United States. Now, in Russian Tattoo, Elena learns that the journey of an immigrant...
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The story of the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan is well known: the expansionist Communists overwhelmed a poor country as a means of reaching a warm-water port on the Persian Gulf. Afghan mujahideen upset their plans, holding on with little more than natural fighting skills, until CIA agents came to the rescue with American arms. Humiliated in battle, the Soviets hastily retreated. It is a great story-but it never happened.
In this brilliant, myth-busting...
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Five times in the last two centuries. some great power has tried to invade, occupy, or otherwise take control of Afghanistan. And as Tamim Ansary shows in this illuminating history, every intervention has come to grief for much the same reason: the intervening power has failed to understand that Afghanistan has a story of its own, a story that continues to unfold between--and despite--the interventions. Drawing on his Afghan background, Muslim roots,...
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Abandoned by her mother as a child, Ana is raised by her extended family on the lawless Wai'anae Coast of O'ahu. Against the odds, she becomes a physician. While tending victims of Hurricane 'Iniki on the neighbouring island of Kaua'i, she meets Nikolai, a Russian filmmaker with a violent and tragic past who can confront reality only through his unique prism of lies. Yet he is dedicated to recording the ecological horrors in his motherland and across...
95) Shattered
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Russian guns volume 5
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Life doesn't give a redo. There's no rewind or pause button to take you back or stop time. Once something happens, it happened. The most tragic of those times in his life, the ones he wouldn't get back and the moments he could never fix, reminded Demyan Avdonin of a bullet meeting glass.
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"The Russian Empire once extended deep into America: in 1818, Russia's furthest outposts were in California and Hawaii. The dreamer behind this great Imperial vision was Nikolai Rezanov--diplomat, adventurer, courtier, millionaire, and gambler ... [In this book, the author] conjures a[n] ... original portrait of one of Russia's most eccentric Empire-builders"--
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Set during World War II, this novel tells of the impossible love between Tatiana, a Russian girl who tries to escape war-torn Leningrad to find a new life in America, and Alexander, a young Red Army major whom she believes has made the ultimate sacrifice for her, as he continues to live in destitute Communist Russia.
100) The score
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Russian guns volume 3
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After everything the Russian mob boss Anton Avdonin has done to keep his family safe from the dangers of the world surrounding them, he never thought it would come down to this. The officials are knocking, the charges are piling, his wife is hurting, and they're facing a fate he never thought to consider. He didn't just make one mistake ... no, he made many. It's time to answer for them all.
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