Ivan and Misha

Ivan and Misha

Author: Michael Alenyikov

Publisher: Northwestern University Press

Published: 2010-10-30

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13: 0810127180

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"A haunting collection of love and duty. There is much to admire on every page."---Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of Somebody's Daughter --


Fall of a Cosmonaut

Fall of a Cosmonaut

Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky

Publisher: Overamstel Uitgevers

Published: 2012-10-16

Total Pages: 350

ISBN-13: 9049983634

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Rostnikov confronts a mystery that stretches from Moscow to the stars Once, Russian children wanted to be cosmonauts like Yuri Gagarin. But the Soviet Union is dead, and the days of Gagarin’s glory are long passed. For the men and women aboard the decaying Mir space station, life is an unending series of near-disasters. During one such breakdown, cosmonaut Tsimion Vladovka asks ground control to contact Moscow police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov if anything happens to him. And when Vladovka disappears a year after his safe return to Earth, Rostnikov is the only man who can find him. A philosophical detective, Rostnikov has made a name for himself navigating the bureaucracies of the Kremlin. But never has he encountered anything like the labyrinth that is Star City, home of the Russian space program. Something has terrified the cosmonaut, and since he knows dangerous state secrets, he must be found, alive or dead. But if a man who braved outer space is scared, what chance does an earthbound detective have?


Best Gay Stories 2008

Best Gay Stories 2008

Author: Steve Berman

Publisher: Lethe Press

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 295

ISBN-13: 159021191X

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Editor Steve Berman has selected twenty stories--some moving essays, some splendid works of fiction--from the prior year that best feature the lives, loves and losses of gay men. With tales by fresh voices and established writers, Best Gay Stories offers readers indiscretions, poignant trysts, and reminiscences that are as evocative as they are imaginative.


SECRET MISSION CODE NAME SHOVELER

SECRET MISSION CODE NAME SHOVELER

Author: John Jones

Publisher: Xlibris Corporation

Published: 2024-08-22

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13:

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This Unusual Cold War Story begins in the late fall in Middlesex County, Virginia United States of America. Sixty year old retired Indian Legendary Chief Investigator Mordecai Pintail Jacy is sitting in his beloved old family log home located on the Pianka National Indian Reservation. As he and his wife Elly chat they receive a visit from two Central Intelligence Agency Officers (CIA). These CIA Officers deliver a Secret Letter that requests Pintail come out of retirement and oversee a very important Secret CIA Espionage Mission for the Agency. After reading the Secret Letter, with reluctance Pintail accepts the CIA position. Read this exciting Story and follow Pintail as he pursues this very dangerous Espionage Secret Mission using his Secret White Pearl Necklace and White Pearl Bracelet weapon and see how he applies Justice (His way).


A Partial History of Lost Causes

A Partial History of Lost Causes

Author: Jennifer DuBois

Publisher: Random House Digital, Inc.

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1400069777

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Abandoning her life when her father succumbs to Huntington's disease, Massachusetts native Irina discovers an unanswered letter from her father to an internationally renowned chess champion and political dissident, who she decides to visit in Russia. A first novel.


The Last Girl

The Last Girl

Author: Stephan Collishaw

Publisher: St. Martin's Press

Published: 2014-01-07

Total Pages: 317

ISBN-13: 1466862009

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For a full hour I sat at my desk and stared up at the two photographs. One by one I smoked a packet of twenty Prima cigarettes.... The earth, I felt, was beginning to shift, and the long dead were stirring. In the closing days of the twentieth century, an elderly writer wanders the streets of Vilnius, Lithuania, possessed by the need to photograph the young mothers of the city. In their faces and the faces of their children he sees the reflection of a secret that haunts him. A secret he has spent years trying to bury. In a decaying back street of the city a woman struggles to raise her family. As her son dreams of a better life she is torn between Vilnius' twilight world of prostitution and her determination of securing hope for her children. She too is haunted by memories that rob her of sleep. In Vilnius the rubble of the Jewish ghetto lies side by side with the fallen statues of communist heroes. Through this tangled debris of past and present the story of the writer's great love and his even greater betrayal begins to coil its way to the surface and demands to be told, in The Last Girl by Stephan Collishaw.


Escaping Hell

Escaping Hell

Author: Kon Pierkarski

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 1996-08-08

Total Pages: 257

ISBN-13: 1554881560

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Escaping Hell is the compelling and true story of a heroic young Polish officer who survived the terror of five years in the prisons of Auschwitz and Buchenwald – where violence was meaningless because human life had lost all value. During World War II, Kon Piekarski was a member of the Polish Underground Army, a clandestine resistance movement which operated even inside Auschwitz – organizing spectacular escapes, operating a secret radio network and matching wits with the Gestapo. After Auschwitz, Piekarski became a prisoner of war at Buchenwald and spent time working in a factory where Russian prisoners of war were used for labour. In the face of constant danger, he and his comrades took every possible opportunity to sabotage the German war industry. He was finally transferred to a small camp near the French border, and escaped three months before the end of the war.


Stroika

Stroika

Author: Mark Blair

Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd

Published: 2018-11-23

Total Pages: 286

ISBN-13: 1785898019

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1989 - the world holds its breath. The Soviet Union is on the brink of collapse. Only a street trader, a drug dealer, a discredited young colonel and a woman, haunted by her past, stand between the world and Armageddon.


My Angel

My Angel

Author: Christine Young

Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press

Published: 2021-09-09

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1936403021

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A BEAUTY IN BUCKSKINS When her father decided to send her to a finishing school back East, Angela Chamberlain refused to be confined to stuffy drawing rooms. Instead, the daring spitfire who could shoot like a man and ride like the wind longed for a life of adventure and romance—and she knew exactly who could give it to her. Devil Blackmoor was a hired gun with a dangerous reputation. But Angela was willing to go to the ends of the earth to capture the handsome devil's heart. A DEVIL IN DISGUISE He'd come to America looking for excitement, but Devil Blackmoor got more than he bargained for when he encountered a beautiful rebel who answered his kisses with a wild innocence that touched his very soul. Yet standing between them were more obstacles than either ever dreamed. For Devil had strapped on a gun for the wrong man. And that made Angela his enemy. Now he'll have to choose between his duty and the woman he loves more than life.