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Turk, Jonathan.

Summary: A scientist relates the story of how Moonynaut, an elderly shaman in a remote Siberian village, healed his fractured pelvis after invoking the Spirit Raven, a healing that prompted the author to traverse the frozen tundra where the shaman was born and record the spiritual stories of bands of reindeer herders.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Griffin 2011

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915 Turk

Wallance, Gregory

Summary: "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...

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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2023

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Beer, Daniel

Summary: "The House of the Dead is a history of Siberia with a focus on the last four tsars (1801-1917). Daniel Beer explores the massive penal colony that became an incubator for the radicalism of revolutionaries who would one day rule Russia"--Provided by publisher.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2017

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Magoon, Scott

Summary: A team of genetically enhanced extinct animals embark on their first big mission to Siberia to retrieve an ancient unicorn horn from the thawing permafrost, but things don't go as planned when they are faced with a mysterious enemy.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J 741.5 MAG

Berry, Steve

3 holds on 5 copies

Summary: Wrapping up his latest assignment for the Magellan Billet, Luke Daniels receives a surprise visit from the head of a former-CIA operation named Sommerhaus -- a failed attempt to assemble an espionage network within the Ukraine on the eve of the Russian invasion. Sommerhaus ranks high on Luke's list of painful regrets for it was during this mission that his friend, CIA case officer John Vince,...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2024

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Frazier, Ian.

Summary: Here, travel writer Ian Frazier trains his eye for detail on Siberia, that vast expanse of Asiatic Russia. He explores many aspects of this storied, often grim region, which takes up one-seventh of the land on earth. He writes about the geography, the resources, the native peoples, the history, the forty-below midwinter afternoons, the bugs. More than just a historical travelogue, this is also...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 957 FRA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 957 FRA

Rawicz, Slavomir.

Summary: Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 Raw

Rawicz, Slavomir.

Summary: Describes the four-thousand-mile journey across the Gobi Desert and the Himalayas of seven men who escaped from a Siberian prison camp. The harrowing true tale of escaped Soviet prisoners desperate march out of Siberia, through China, the Gobi Desert, Tibet, and over the Himalayas to British India.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lyons Press 1997

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5472 RAW

Summary: Inspired by an incredible true story beginning in 1940 when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WAY

Summary: A stunning documentary about the life of indigenous people living in the heart of the Siberian Taiga. Deep in the wilderness, far away from civilization, 300 people inhabit the small village of Bakhtia at the river Yenisei. There are only two ways to reach this outpost: by helicopter or boat. There's no telephone, running water or medical aid. The locals, whose daily routines have barely...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HAP

Jenkins, Mark

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1992

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 915.7 JEN

Kostyuchenko, Elena

Summary: "An unprecedented and intimate portrait of Russia, and a fearless cri de cœur for journalism in opposition to the global authoritarian turn To be a journalist is to tell the truth. I Love Russia is Elena Kostyuchenko's fearless and unrelenting attempt to document Putin's Russia as experienced by those whom it systematically and brutally erases: village girls recruited into sex work, queer...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.086 KOS

Rasputin, Valentin.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Northwestern University Press 1996

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 957 RAS

Sanger, David E.

Summary: "A fast-paced account of America's plunge into simultaneous Cold Wars against two very different adversaries--Xi Jinping's China and Vladimir Putin's Russia--based on deep reporting from inside the White House, U.S. intelligence agencies, technology firms, and foreign governments"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown 2024

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Haven, Josh

Summary: Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, travel to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, moving town to town with suitcases full of cash, until the Russian mafia and Gazneft catch wind of their successes.

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Publisher / Publication Date: The Mysterious Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAV

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Haven

Adams, Alina

Summary: "Odessa, 1931. Marrying the handsome, wealthy Edward Gordon, Daria - born Dvora Kaganovitch - has fulfilled her mother's dreams. But a woman's plans are no match for the crushing power of Stalin's repressive Soviet state. To survive, Daria is forced to rely on the kindness of a man who takes pride in his own coarseness... Odessa, 1970. Brilliant young Natasha Crystal is determined to study...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC ADA

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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 947.5 SEI

Finkelstein, Daniel

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: "An epic and beautifully written World War II family history that spans Europe, telling of two happy families uprooted by war, their incredible suffering in Hitler's and Stalin's camps, and the near-miraculous survival and rescue of the author's parents who met after the war. Daniel Finkelstein's grandfather Alfred Wiener was a German Jewish intellectual leader who tolled an early warning of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 FIN

Browder, Bill

Summary: When Bill Browder's lawyer was murdered in a Moscow jail, Browder vowed to bring the killers to justice. But in tracking them, he uncovered Vladimir Putin's campaign to steal untold billions and kill anyone in his way.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 BROWDER, BILL BRO

Summary: Having a fatherless childhood, young brothers Andrei and Ivan have grown closer than most siblings. But when they least expect it, the father the boys have never known returns. Under the cool midnight sun of a coastal Russian summer, the boys eagerly hop into a car for a fishing trip with a complete stranger they absolutely need to believe is their father. As they travel deep into the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2004

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RET

Golden, Christopher

Summary: "Christopher Golden's Road of Bones is a stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2022

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC GOL

Morris, Heather

Summary: Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2019

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MOR

Thubron, Colin

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1999

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 957 THU

Silber, Alexandra

Summary: "A sweeping historical novel in the grand tradition of Russian literature that imagines what happens to the characters of Fiddler on the Roof after the curtain falls"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC SIL

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Silber 2017

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