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Book cover for "The Russia account".
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Pub. Date:
2019
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English
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"Stephen Coonts' newest novel The Russia Account pits CIA officer Tommy Carmellini against a murderous, international financial conspiracy that leaves a trail of death and corruption, extending from a small bank in Estonia, to the highest reaches of the Kremlin, to the halls of the Congress, and perhaps even to the CIA itself -- putting Admiral Jake Grafton, the head of the CIA, in the crosshairs of an assassin." --
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Republished for a new century and featuring an afterword by Father James Martin, SJ, the classic memoir of an American-born Jesuit priest imprisoned for fifteen years in a Soviet gulag during the height of the Cold War-a poignant and spiritually uplifting story of extraordinary faith and fortitude as indelible as Unbroken. Foreword by Daniel L. Flaherty. While ministering in Eastern Europe during World War II, Polish-American priest Walter Ciszek,...
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Dial Press
Pub. Date:
[1979]
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English
Book cover for "1812".
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date:
1966
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English
Book cover for "Diaries of war".
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Ten Speed Graphic, an imprint of Ten Speed Press
Pub. Date:
[2023]
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English
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"Immediately after Russia began its unprovoked invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Nora Krug reached out to two anonymous subjects--"K.," a Ukrainian journalist, and "D.," a Russian artist--and began what would become a year of correspondence. Based on her weekly interviews with K. and D., Krug created this collection of illustrated accounts that chronicles two contrasting viewpoints from opposing sides of the first year in this ongoing war. With...
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Publisher:
Random House
Pub. Date:
2007
Language:
English
Book cover for "War and peace".
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1130L
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English
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5 stars
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Hailed as one of the greatest novels of all time and a classic of world literature, War and Peace unfolds in the early nineteenth century during the turbulent years of the Napoleonic invasion of Russia. Tolstoy's epic ranges from stirring depictions of historical events to intimate portraits of family life, moving between public spectacles and private lives to offer a tale of both panoramic scope and closely observed detail. From the breathless excitement...
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Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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5 stars
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"From the Pulitzer-prize winning, New York Times bestselling author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them. We think we know what an autocratic state looks like: There is an all-powerful leader at the top. He controls the police. The police threaten the people with violence. There are evil collaborators, and maybe some brave dissidents. But in the 21st century,...
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Oregon files volume 11
Publisher:
G. P. Putnam's Sons
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English
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"The new Oregon Files adventure from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon face their toughest challenge yet when a violent bank heist during the Monaco Grand Prix decimates the Corporation's accounts. To get the money back, Juan joins forces with an old friend from his days in the CIA so they can track down a rogue hacker and a ruthless former Ukrainian naval officer. It is only after...
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"On February 17, 2022, Brittney Griner arrived in Moscow ready to spend the WNBA offseason playing for the Russian women’s basketball team where she had been the centerpiece of previous championship seasons. Instead, a security checkpoint became her gateway to hell when she was arrested for mistakenly carrying under one gram of medically prescribed hash oil. Brittney’s world was violently upended in a crisis she has never spoken in detail...
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Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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4 stars
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"When he opened the FBI investigation into Russia's election interference, Peter Strzok had already spent more than two decades defending the United States against foreign threats. His career in counterintelligence ended shortly thereafter, when the Trump administration used his private expression of political opinions to force him out of the Bureau in August 2018. But by that time, Strzok had seen more than enough to convince him that the commander...
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The Man without a Face is the chilling account of how a low-level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making his country once more a threat to her own people and to the world.

Handpicked as a successor by the "family" surrounding an ailing and increasingly unpopular Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin seemed like the perfect choice for the oligarchy to shape

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Presents a moment-by-moment account of the recent financial collapse that documents state efforts to prevent an economic disaster, offering insight into the pivotal consequences of decisions made throughout the past decade.
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As war approaches, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov trades her gown for a nursing habit, but when troubling rumors about her parents trickle in from the Front and the controversy over Rasputin grows into a fiery protest, a call for revolution threatens to end three hundred years of Romanov rule. As unrest simmers, Grand Duchess Olga Romanov and her three sisters hide from the world on account of their mother's ill health, their brother Alexei's secret...
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Presents the complete text of Polo's travelogue that introduced fourteenth-century Europe to the civilizations of Central Asia and China. Marco Polo almost single-handedly introduced fourteenth-century Europe to the civilizations of Central Asia and China. Now this stunningly illustrated volume, edited by renowned historian Morris Rossabi, offers the complete text of Polo's travelogue (in the respected Yule-Cordier translation), enhanced with more...
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"For fans of All the Light We Cannot See and The Women in the Castle comes a riveting literary novel that is at once an epic love story and a heart-pounding journey across WWI-era Russia, about an ambitious young doctor and her scientist brother in a race against Einstein to solve one of the greatest mysteries of the universe"--
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700L
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English
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"The Brothers Karamazov: Illustrated" is a monumental work by Fyodor Dostoyevsky that delves into the complexities of family, faith, and morality. Set in 19th-century Russia, the novel follows the lives of the Karamazov brothers: Dmitri, Ivan, and Alyosha, as well as their father Fyodor Pavlovich. As the brothers grapple with their relationships with each other and their father, they become embroiled in a web of jealousy, rivalry, and moral dilemmas....
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The incredible, harrowing account of how American democracy was hacked by Moscow as part of a covert operation to influence the U.S. election and help Donald Trump gain the presidency.
"Russian Roulette is...the most thorough and riveting account." — The New York Times
Russian Roulette is a story of political skullduggery unprecedented in American history. It weaves together tales of international intrigue,...
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Complete works volume 22
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English
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First published in 1911, Joseph Conrad's "Under Western Eyes" is one of the author's finest and most critically acclaimed works. It is the story of a young Russian student named Razumov living in St. Petersburg as revolutionary sentiment is building after the failed uprising in 1905. Razumov has no interest in the revolution when he discovers his friend Victor Haldin, an anarchist who has just committed a political assassination, hiding from the police...
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"Acclaimed journalist Simon Shuster gives us the first inside account of the Russian invasion of Ukraine from the perspective of President Volodymyr Zelensky and his team, who granted him unprecedented access"--