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Texas

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Peter the great

#paperback #chechnya #fiction #historical #russia #russian #war 

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Florida

When everything else seems lost, watch out for the unexpected ties that bind us together...

*** Granta Best of Young American Novelists 2017 ***

In a snow-covered village in Chechnya, eight-year-old Havaa watches from the woods as her father is abducted in the middle of the night by Russian soldiers. Their life-long friend and neighbour, Akhmed, has also been watching, and when he finds Havaa he knows of only one person who might be able to help.

For tough-minded doctor Sonja Rabina, it's just another day of trying to keep her bombed-out, abandoned hospital going. When Akhmed arrives with Havaa, asking Sonja for shelter, she has no idea who the pair are. But over the course of five extraordinary days, Sonja's world will shift on its axis, revealing the intricate pattern of connections that binds these three unlikely companions together and unexpectedly decides their fate.

'A Constellation of Vital Phenomena is simply spectacular' Ann Patchett

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

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Massachusetts

A Novel

An "irresistible"* debut about a Russian American girl's bumpy path to adulthood "I utterly loved every page."--*Anthony Marra, author of The Tsar of Love and Techno When Oksana's family begins their new American life in Florida after emigrating from Ukraine, her physicist father delivers pizza at night to make ends meet, her depressed mother sits home all day worrying, and her flamboyant grandmother relishes the attention she gets when she walks Oksana to school, not realizing that the street they're walking down is known as Prostitute Street. Oksana just wants to have friends and lead a normal life--and though she constantly tries to do the right thing, she keeps getting herself in trouble. As she grows up, she continues to misbehave, from somewhat accidentally maiming the school bus bully, to stealing the much-coveted (and expensive-to-replace) key to New York City's Gramercy Park, to falling in love with a married man. As her grandmother moves back to Ukraine, her father gets a job at Goldman Sachs, and her mother knits endless scarves, Oksana longs for a Russia that looms large in her imagination but is a country she never really knew. When she visits her grandmother in Yalta and learns about Baba's wartime past and her lost loves, Oksana begins to see just how much alike they are, and comes to a new understanding of how to embrace life and love without causing harm to the people dearest to her. But will Oksana ever quite learn to behave? Advance praise for Oksana, Behave! "Tragicomic and bittersweet . . . an immigrant's coming-of-age tale done with brio."--Kirkus Reviews "What luck for readers that Oksana can't behave! Little devil, infinite imbecile, poor futureless child--all the names her displaced, loving family give to her as she crashes and burns and wanders the wilderness of her inheritance, fit perfectly. As outrageous as she is, as funny and as awful as she can be, though, in Oksana, Maria Kuznetsova has also created a character of great passion and depth--of tragedy, even, too--the very sort that populate the stories of Chekhov and Tolstoy, the poems of Anna Akhmatova, and all the other Russian writers Oksana looks to for comfort and company and some sort of bearing in this absurd world. This novel is a stark, hilarious delight."--Paul Harding, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers

Oksana, Behave!

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#paperback #fiction #humor #russian #comedy 

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Oregon

Offers a humorous look at U.S. citizenship, homes, jobs, dating, language, food, television, health care, automobiles, travel, music, and holidays

America on Six Rubles a Day

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The Number One Russian bestseller

When most people think of the word spy, they imagine gadgets – laser pens and exploding cigarette lighters – but the most important piece of equipment an agent has is their brain. Memory is vital to the work of an agent. The need for total secrecy often prevents them from recording anything, so operatives have to rely on their brains to retain and reproduce an incredible amount of information with absolute accuracy.

Inside this book we will teach you how to enhance your memory and sharpen your mind with a range of exercises developed over many years and used to train the most skillful spies the world has ever seen. You will develop skills tested in the most extreme of environments and unlock the full capability of your brain.

Full of puzzles, tests tricks and brain hacks, all interspersed with a cold war spy story, the Russian bestselling phenomenon Spy School is now translated into English for the first time. 

Learn the secrets to a vastly improved memory and see if you have what it takes to be a Russian spy.   #fiction #detective #mystery #hardcover  #spy #russian #thriller #spyagent #kgbagent 

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Pennsylvania

Are You Sharp Enough to Be a KGB Agent?

Spy School

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#hardcover #chekhov #russian #fiction #classics #literature

New Jersey

And Other Early Stories

Award-winning translator and scholar Peter Constantine brings us a collection of little-known work from Chekhov's early days as a magazine writer. These stories are fresh yet mature snapshots of the style with which Chekhov would come to be associated, both uproariously tragic and darkly comic. With moments that seem to presage his most contemporary writing, Chekhov's Little Apples reveals one of the world's greatest writers as we have rarely seen him, an author both deeply of his times and far ahead of them.

Little Apples

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#hardcover #communists #russian #stalin #jewish #revolutionist #biography #soviet 

Arkansas

A Revolutionary's Life

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a clear-eyed exploration of the career of Leon Trotsky, the tragic hero who "dreamed of justice and then wreaked havoc," by a leading expert on human rights and the former Soviet Union

Born Lev Davidovich Bronstein in southern Ukraine, Trotsky was both a world-class intellectual and a man capable of the most narrow-minded ideological dogmatism. He was an effective military strategist and an adept diplomat, who staked the fate of the Bolshevik revolution on the meager foundation of a Europe-wide Communist upheaval. He was a master politician who played his cards badly in the momentous struggle for power against Stalin in the 1920s. And he was an assimilated, indifferent Jew who was among the first to foresee that Hitler's triumph would mean disaster for his fellow European Jews, and that Stalin would attempt to forge an alliance with Hitler if Soviet overtures to the Western democracies failed.

Here, Trotsky emerges as a brilliant and brilliantly flawed man. Rubenstein offers us a Trotsky who is mentally acute and impatient with others, one of the finest students of contemporary politics who refused to engage in the nitty-gritty of party organization in the 1920s, when Stalin was maneuvering, inexorably, toward Trotsky's own political oblivion.

As Joshua Rubenstein writes in his preface, "Leon Trotsky haunts our historical memory. A preeminent revolutionary figure and a masterful writer, Trotsky led an upheaval that helped to define the contours of twentieth-century politics." In this lucid and judicious evocation of Trotsky's life, Joshua Rubenstein gives us an interpretation for the twenty-first century.

About Jewish Lives: 

Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.

In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.

More praise for Jewish Lives:

"Excellent" -New York Times

"Exemplary" -Wall Street Journal

"Distinguished" -New Yorker

"Superb" -The Guardian

Leon Trotsky

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#hardcover #vintage #history #biography #russiantranslation #russian #writer
First Printing 1970



Illinois

Two Hundred Days of Fire

Idaho

World Languages

Basics of the Russian language in our quick-access format.



Russian Grammar

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In pursuit of a Russian sleeper cell on American soil, a CIA analyst uncovers a dangerous secret that will test her loyalty to the agency—and to her family.

What do you do when everything you trust might be a lie?

Vivian Miller is a dedicated CIA counterintelligence analyst assigned to uncover the leaders of Russian sleeper cells in the United States. On track for a much-needed promotion, she’s developed a system for identifying Russian agents, seemingly normal people living in plain sight.

After accessing the computer of a potential Russian operative, Vivian stumbles on a secret dossier of deep-cover agents within America’s borders. A few clicks later, everything that matters to her—her job, her husband, even her four children—are threatened.

Vivian has vowed to defend her country against all enemies, foreign and domestic. But now she’s facing impossible choices. Torn between loyalty and betrayal, allegiance and treason, love and suspicion, who can she trust?
This copy was received as an ARC and has never been read.
 #fiction #suspensethrillers #suspense #thriller #paperback #spy #russian

California

Need to Know

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#paperback #signet #vintage #literature #russian #classics

1958 Vintage Signet Edition

Doctor Zhivago

North Carolina

Там, где нас нет

#KGB #murder #Russian #hardcover #booktoscreen

Michigan

Brilliant...One of the best books of the season.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and New York police as he performs the impossible--and tries to stay alive doing it. From the Paperback edition.

Gorky Park

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#paperback #historicalfiction #romanov #royalty #russian 

North Dakota

A young girl who spent time with the Romanov family as an orphan is still, decades later, haunted by the murderous events that changed the course of history, and only in finding the family's heir does she believe she can move on.

The Last Romanov

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#hardcover #fiction #mystery #thriller #adult #bestseller #crime #Russian #ArkadyRenko 

From the award-winning, bestselling author of Gorky Park and Tatiana comes a breathtaking new novel about investigator Arkady Renko—“one of the most compelling figures in modern fiction” (USA TODAY)—who travels deep into Siberia to find missing journalist Tatiana Petrovna. Journalist Tatiana Petrovna is on the move. Arkady Renko, iconic Moscow investigator and Tatiana’s part-time lover, hasn’t seen her since she left on assignment over a month ago. When she doesn’t arrive on her scheduled train, he’s positive something is wrong. No one else thinks Renko should be worried—Tatiana is known to disappear during deep assignments—but he knows her enemies all too well and the criminal lengths they’ll go to keep her quiet. Renko embarks on a dangerous journey to find Tatiana and bring her back. From the banks of Lake Baikal to rundown Chita, Renko slowly learns that Tatiana has been profiling the rise of political dissident Mikhail Kuznetsov, a golden boy of modern oil wealth and the first to pose a true threat to Putin’s rule in over a decade. Though Kuznetsov seems like the perfect candidate to take on the corruption in Russian politics, his reputation becomes clouded when Boris Benz, his business partner and best friend, turns up dead. In a land of shamans and brutally cold nights, oligarchs wealthy on northern oil, and sea monsters that are said to prowl the deepest lake in the world, Renko needs all his wits about him to get Tatiana out alive. The Washington Post has said “Martin Cruz Smith is that rare phenomenon: a popular and well-regarded crime novelist who is also a writer of real distinction.” In the latest continuation of his unforgettable series, he brings us to the inside world of shadowy political figures and big wig oil oligarchs providing us with an authentic view of contemporary Russia, infused with his trademark wit.

The Siberian Dilemma

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#russian language phrase book and dictionary. Also has cassette tape with 90 minutes of pronunciation of phrases. Has maps, travel tips. From 1991. Not sure how well the cassette works since I can’t test it. #russianlanguage #languagelearning #phrasebook #travel #russia #ussr #dictionary #foreignlanguage

Phrase Book, Dictionary, Cassette

More than ever before, business people and holiday tourists are celebrating glastnost with increased travel in Russia. This traveler's aid is sure to be much in demand, offering some 1,500 phrases and 2,000 alphabetically listed words, shown in Cyrillic and with pronunciations, and presented with translations to and from either language.

Russian at a Glance

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Sticker on spine, clean and smoke free with almost no wear, Barnes & Noble Classics édition, #russian #classics #turgenev #1862

Virginia

Fathers and Sons

A very effective book for learning the #Russian alphabet. I learned it in one sitting from this book. #paperback #Russia #Cyrillic #Ukraine #Serbia #SlavicCulture #travel 

New York

The Optimal Pathway to Learning the Russian Alphabet

Using a unique, tried and tested algorithm, this book teaches you how to quickly and efficiently recognise letters and common words in Russian script. Whether you're traveling and want to understand the words around you, or preparing to learn Russian and want to master the basics, this is the book for you.

In this book you will find:

· An introduction to Russian script
· Plenty of practice activities to help you recognise each letter of the alphabet
· Helpful mnemonics to make you remember the shape of each letter
· Accompanying audio files so you know how to pronounce letters and words
· Handy tips to help you decipher common and familiar words

The audio for this course can be downloaded from the Teach Yourself Library app or streamed at library.teachyourself.com.

Rely on Teach Yourself, trusted by language learners for over 75 years.




Learn the Russian Alphabet 

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#paperback #classics #fiction #classic #crimeandpunishment #dostoevsky #russian

Depicts the cruelty and injustice of life, exemplifying the author's concern for the depraved man and his preoccupation with guilt.

Crime and Punishment

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#paperback #fiction #history #historicalfiction #russian #russia #classics 

Yuri Zhivago, doctor and poet, lives and loves during the first three decades of 20th-century Russia.

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#autobiographgy #biography #vladimirnabokov #russian #russianliterature 

An Autobiography Revisited

This book, first published in 1951 as Conclusive evidence and then assiduously revised in 1966, examines Nabokov's life and times while offering incisive insights into his major works, including Lolita, Pnin, Despair, The gift, The real life of Sebastian Knight, and The defense.

Henri Troyat

Peter the great

Anthony Marra

A Constellation of Vital Phenomena

Maria Kuznetsova

Oksana, Behave!

Jakov Smirnoff

America on Six Rubles a Day

Denis Bukin

Spy School

Anton Chekhov; Peter Constantine (Translator); Cathy Popkin (Introduction by)

Little Apples

Joshua Rubenstein

Leon Trotsky

Alexander Zaitsev

Two Hundred Days of Fire

Mark Kiken

Russian Grammar

Karen Cleveland

Need to Know

Boris Pasternak

Doctor Zhivago

Михаил Успенский

Там, где нас нет

Martin Cruz Smith

Gorky Park

Dora Levy Mossanen

The Last Romanov

Martin Cruz Smith

The Siberian Dilemma

Thomas R. Beyer

Russian at a Glance

Ivan Turgenev

Fathers and Sons

Judith Meyer

Learn the Russian Alphabet

Priscilla Meyer (Introduction by); Constance Garnett (Translator); Elina Yuffa (Notes by, Revised by, Translator); Nicholas Rice (Intro and Notes by); Juliya Salkovskaya (Intro and Notes by); Fyodor Dostoevsky

Crime and Punishment

Boris Pasternak; Richard Pevear (Translator); Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator)

Doctor Zhivago

Vladimir Nabokov

Speak, Memory

Михаил Успенский

Кого за смертью посылать

Михаил Успенский

Время Оно

Barbara Alpern Engel

Russia in World History