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1) Russia
Author
Series
Publisher
Big Buddy Books
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Presents information on the country of Russia, describing its history, landscape, industries, and people. Includes color photographs, fact boxes, a glossary, a timeline, and online resources.
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
"Artem lives in the sleepy city of Stalingrad, which has mostly been cut off from war with Nazi Germany--until now. That July, martial law is declared as the Nazis begin their unprecedented march toward the city. Artem's older brother is a soldier in Stalin's Red Army, and Artem is worried for his brother's safety once he and his family have evacuated the city. Then the announcement comes. Stalin has ordered that no civilians be allowed to leave Stalingrad....
Author
Publisher
Tordotcom/Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"When you bring back a long-extinct species, there's more to success than the DNA. Moscow has resurrected the mammoth. But someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again. The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world's foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help. While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth. Can she help the magnificent creatures...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"After returning to the United States, Kennan set out to generate public outrage over the plight of the exiles, writing the renowned Siberia and the Exile System. He then went on a nine-year lecture tour to describe the suffering of the Siberian exiles, intensifying the newly emerging diplomatic conflicts between the two countries which last to this day. In a book that ranks with the greatest adventure stories, Gregory Wallance's Into Siberia is a...
6) Eastbound
Author
Publisher
Archipelago Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In this swirling, gripping tale, a young Russian conscript and a French woman come together in a crowded compartment of the Trans-Siberian railroad, each of them fleeing to the east for their own reasons"--
Author
Series
Pike Logan thrillers volume 18
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Pike Logan goes head-to-head with Putin's henchmen. To finally end the war between their nations, a rogue band of Ukranian partisans known as the Wolves teams up with members of Russia's military intelligence to assassinate Vladimir Putin. But Putin is aware of the traitors in his midst and assigns the loyal commander of the Russian National Guard to root them out. It's a mission Victor Petrov is expected to undertake after he prevents Sweden from...
Author
Publisher
ReferencePoint Press, Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Putin's willingness to use crushing violence against his supposed enemies--including even threats of nuclear strikes--makes him one of the most dangerous leaders in the world. This books explores Putin's life and legacy"--Provided by publisher.
Author
Series
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Tensions are at a breaking point. The Western markets that once relied on Russian gas have turned to Israel for their energy needs. Furious, Russia surreptitiously moves to protect their interests by using their newfound ally, Iran, and Iran's proxy militias. As Israel's elite fighting forces and the Mossad go undercover, they detect the Kremlin is planning a major attack against Israel. Hunting for clues, Mossad agents Nir Tavor and Nicole le Roux...
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"The fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 dawned what Francis Fukuyama called "The End of History." Three decades later, Jim Sciutto said on CNN's air as the Ukraine war began, that we are living in a "1939 moment." History never ended-it barely paused-and the global order as we have known it is now gone. Great powers are reinvigorated and determined to assert dominance on the world stage. And as it escalates, this new order will affect everyone across...
12) Argylle
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The globe-trotting spy thriller that inspired the upcoming action blockbuster Argylle (February 2024), featuring a star-studded cast including Henry Cavill , Bryce Dallas Howard, Samuel L. Jackson, and John Cena, and directed by Matthew Vaughn of Kingsman trilogy fame A luxury train speeding towards Moscow and a date with destiny. A CIA plane downed in the jungles of the Golden Triangle. A Nazi hoard entombed in the remote mountains of South-West...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
Español
Description
"Una pianista con una habilidad secreta. 1960. Las melo̕das de Julia Lerner suenan en los escenarios ̀ms importantes del mundo. Considerada la mejor pianista de la Un̤in Sovǐtica, la joven tiene un don muy peculiar: es capaz de esconder ̤cdigos complejos entre las notas musicales de sus composiciones. Un řgimen opresor dispuesto a controlarla. En el momento ̀ms tenso de la Guerra F̕ra, cuando delatores, agentes del KGB y de la CIA se mueven...
Author
Publisher
New Vessel Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Soviet and post-Soviet world, with its untold multitude of crimes, is a natural breeding ground for ghost stories. No one writes them more movingly than Russian author Sergei Lebedev, who in this stunning volume probes a collective guilty conscience marked by otherworldliness and the denial of misdeeds. These eleven tales share a mystical topography in which the legacy of totalitarian regimes is ever-present--from Katyn to Chechnya, from Lithuanian...
Series
Publisher
Cohen Media Group
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Multiple
Description
One year after the beginning of the war in Ukraine, philosopher Bernard-Henri L©♭vy takes us to the heart of the conflict through a war diary made during the second half of 2022. From Kharkiv, in the Donbass, to Kherson, in the aftermath of the city's liberation, this documentary bears witness to the ravages of war through the testimonies of soldiers, chronicles of the front, and portraits of civilians, and shares with us the struggle of the Ukrainian...
Author
Publisher
Katherine Tegen Books, An Imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
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Description
Adrienne Cahill cares about three things: getting into a great college; becoming a revered journalist like her idol, Sydney Declay; and making her late father proud of her. So when Adrienne is offered the chance to write an article that will get her into her dream school and debunk her foolish stepfather's belief that a legendary family of hermits is living in the Siberian wilderness, there's no question that she's going to fly across the world. But...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last. Early in 1968, a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine sank in the waters off Hawaii, hundreds of miles closer to American shores than it should have been. Compelling evidence strongly suggests that the sub sank while attempting to fire a nuclear missile. We now know that the Soviets had lost track of the sub; it had become a rogue. The Nixon administration launched a clandestine,...
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