Archer, Jeffrey
Summary: Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. But when his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America, or Great Britain?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Archer 2018Archer, Jeffrey
Summary: Leningrad, Russia, 1968. Alexander Karpenko is no ordinary child, and from an early age, it is clear he is destined to lead his countrymen. When his father is assassinated by the KGB for defying the state, he and his mother will have to escape from Russia if they hope to survive. At the docks, they are confronted with an irreversible choice: should they board a container ship bound for America,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2018
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Summary: "A debut novel following the turbulent relationship of a Black biracial teen and her ferocious Russian mother, struggling to survive in the California desert"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Summary: General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But Karpov has reached out from the grave with an unstoppable cyber operation he conceived before his murder, aimed at the heart of the United States—a way to steal the president's nuclear launch codes. Who has taken over the operation? Karpov trusted only one man: Jason Bourne. But can Bourne be working against his own country? The...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2017
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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Lustbader 2017Lustbader, Eric
Summary: General Boris Karpov, head of the feared Russian FSB, is dead. But Karpov has reached out from the grave with an unstoppable cyber operation he conceived before his murder, aimed at the heart of the United States; a way to steal the president's nuclear launch codes. Who has taken over the operation? Karpov trusted only one man: Jason Bourne. But can Bourne be working against his own country?...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC LUSLoesch, Kristen
Summary: "A haunting, remarkable debut about secrets, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land... ...Rosie lived peacefully in Moscow and her mother told her fairy tales. Magical stories that could have been the folklore of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Berkley 2023
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction LoeschErickson, Carolly
Summary: From the bestselling author of The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette comes a dramatic novel and powerful love story about the last Russian imperial family. It is 1989 and Daria Gradov is an elderly grandmother living in the rural West. What neighbors and even her children don't know, however, is that she is not who she claims to be--the widow of a Russian immigrant of modest means. In actuality...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC ERIFitzpatrick, Lydia
Summary: Fifteen-year-old Ilya arrives in Louisiana from his native Russia for what should be the adventure of his life: a year in America as an exchange student. The abundance of his new world--the Super Walmarts and heated pools and enormous televisions--is as hard to fathom as the relentless cheerfulness of his host parents. And Sadie, their beautiful and enigmatic daughter, has miraculously taken an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITHalverson, Sere Prince.
Summary: Kachemak Winkel's mother used to tell him that Alaska doesn't forgive mistakes. A lot of mistakes where made the day she died in a plane crash with Kache's father and brother-- and Kache still feels responsible. He fled Alaska for good, but now his aunt Snag insists on his return. Returning to his family's cabin in the woods, he finds smoke rising from the chimney and a mysterious Russian woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks Landmark 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Felony and Mayhem Press 2006
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2004
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Publisher / Publication Date: Forge 2003
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Summary: "A Moll Flanders set in America, this epic, intimate novel follows a young Russian immigrant determined to make her way--and find her daughter--in the hip, harsh 1920s"--Publisher's website.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Highbridge 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BLOBohjalian, Chris
Summary: When Kristin Chapman agrees to let her husband, Richard, host a bachelor party, she expects a certain amount of debauchery. She brings their young daughter to Manhattan for the evening, leaving her Westchester home to the men and their hired entertainment. What she does not expect is this: bacchanalian drunkenness, her husband sharing a dangerously intimate moment in the guest room, and two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BOHRimington, Stella.
Summary: Transfered to counter-espionage operations, MI5 agent Liz Carlyle learns of a Russian government plot against Nikita Brunovsky, a Russian oligarch living in Britain and a vocal opponent of Putin, and is given the task of stopping the assassination.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2008
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Summary: Masha remembers her childhood in the former USSR, but found her life and heart in Israel. Anna was an infant when her family fled, but yearns to find her roots. When Anna is contacted by a stranger from their homeland and then disappears, Masha is called home to Milwaukee to find her, and where the search leads changes the family forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Agora Books, an imprint of Polis Books 2021
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Summary: When a dead German paratrooper lands in his street, Lev is caught looting the body and dragged to jail, fearing for his life. He shares his cell with the charismatic and grandiose Kolya, a handsome young soldier arrested on desertion charges. Instead of the standard bullet in the back of the head, Lev and Kolya are given a shot at saving their own lives by complying with an outrageous...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2008
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Summary: Former Bolshoi ballerina Nina Revskaya auctions off her jewelry collection and becomes overwhelmed by memories of her homeland, the friends she left behind amidst Stalinist aggression, and the dark secret that brought her to a new life in Boston.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Plume 2009
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Summary: When the son of a Russian emigre is found murdered, reporter Eve Diamond searches for clues in her own family's past, a situation that is complicated by a young man who claims to be her long-lost cousin, on the run from the Russian mafia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2006
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Summary: Spring, 2016. Queen Elizabeth is at Windsor Castle in advance of her 90th birthday celebrations. When a guest is found dead in one of the Castle bedrooms, the scene suggests the young Russian pianist strangled himself, but a badly tied knot leads MI5 to suspect foul play was involved. Unhappy at the handling of the case and concerned for her staff's morale, the monarch-- with help from her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow 2021
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Summary: A story about identity, family, and the decisions that define who we will become.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Counterpoint 2016
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2005