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1) Moskva
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Tom Fox volume 1
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English
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"Red Square, 1985. The naked body of a young man is left outside the walls of the Kremlin, frozen solid--like marble to the touch--missing the little finger from his right hand. A week later, Alex Marston, the headstrong fifteen-year-old daughter of the British Ambassador, disappears. Army Intelligence Officer Tom Fox, posted to Moscow to keep him from telling the truth to a government committee, is asked to help find her. It's a shot at redemption....
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ĖKSMO
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2013.
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Russian
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Detective, Alex Leonids decides to take his family to the Italian coast to rest and admire the beauty of Italy. But he becomes part of the drama as he gets stranded in a Moscow airport for ten hours along with a killer who is trying to get out of town, too.
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English
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Alan Lapidus's life has been a Zelig-like romp through most of the cultural and political highlights of the recent past. He has popped up as architect for or observer of many of our era's most iconic figures, including Donald Trump, various Mafia big shots, mayors, Aristotle and Jackie Onassis, Bob Guccione, pit bosses, real estate legends, and spies.
Everything by Design takes us behind the scenes in Las Vegas, Disney World, Havana, Atlantic City,...
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Ripley's Believe It or Not! volume 12
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English
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When a jar believed to contain anti-aging cream of the Pharaohs is stolen from a Ripley exhibit, the BION team travels to Moscow. Sensitive about his impending birthday, Cyril is especially interested in the legendary cream. With help from Detective Yuri Renko, security camera footage is matched with mug shots and the thief is tracked to the mansion of the aging industrialist, Rasilikov. Cyril uncovers some old photos of Rasilikov that show miraculous...
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English
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"Historical crime writing that virtually reinvents the genre. Ancient Athens is recreated with a masterly touch . . . Philocles is the perfect protagonist." -Financial Times 443 BC, and, after decades of war with Persia, peace has finally come to Athens. The city is being rebuilt, and commerce and culture are flourishing.
Aspiring playwright Philocles has come home to find a man with his throat cut slumped against his front gate. Is it just...
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English
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Longlisted for the 2021 CWA Sapere Books Historical DaggerSome heroes search for glory, some for justice
It's festival time in Athens, and Philocles is looking forward to the holiday. Visitors are coming from across the Hellenic world for eight days of sporting competitions, musical contests and sacred rites to honour Athena, the city's patron goddess.
Thousands will flock to the Pnyx to be enthralled by the dramatic three-day performance of Homer's...
12) The year I was Peter the Great: 1956 - Khrushchev, Stalin's ghost, and a young American in Russia
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Brookings Institution Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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1956 was an extraordinary year in modern Russian history. It was called “the year of the thaw”―a time when Stalin’s dark legacy of dictatorship died in February only to be reborn later that December. This historic arc from rising hope to crushing despair opened with a speech by Nikita Khrushchev, then the unpredictable leader of the Soviet Union. He astounded everyone by denouncing the one figure who, up to that time, had been hailed as a...
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Redakt͡sii͡a Eleny Shubinoĭ
Pub. Date
[2020]
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Russian
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"V Lektorii "Pri͡amai͡a rechʹ" kazhdyĭ denʹ vystupai͡ut vydai͡ushchiesi͡a uchenye, pisateli, aktery i populi͡arizatory nauki. Ikh ot͡senki i mnenii͡a chasto ne sovpadai͡ut s ustoi͡avsheĭsi͡a tochkoĭ zrenii͡a -- idei, mysli i otkrytii͡a rozhdai͡utsi͡a pri͡amo na glazakh slushateleĭ. Vot uzhe desi͡atʹ let viziztnai͡a kartochka "Pri͡amoĭ rechi" -- lekt͡sii Dmitrii͡a Bykova po literature. Bykov priuchaet obrashchatʹsi͡a...