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Author: Michael Alenyikov
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 2010-10-30
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 0810127180
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A haunting collection of love and duty. There is much to admire on every page."---Marie Myung-Ok Lee, author of Somebody's Daughter --
Author: Steve Berman
Publisher: Lethe Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 159021191X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEditor 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.
Author: Stuart M. Kaminsky
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2012-10-16
Total Pages: 396
ISBN-13: 1453266356
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith his Edgar Award–winning series about a Moscow cop, “Kaminsky’s a master of tone, maintaining the edgy excitement of suspense” (The Washington Post). In the 1960s, Russian children wanted to be cosmonauts like Yuri Gagarin, the first human in space. But the Soviet Union is history, and Gagarin’s glory is long gone. 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. The cosmonaut returns to Earth safely, but a year later he goes missing and his former crew members start turning up dead. Vladovka was in possession of state secrets, so there’s also a potential security risk. He must be found, dead or alive. In the days of the USSR, no one could navigate the bureaucratic maze of the Kremlin like Rostnikov—but he’s never encountered anything like the labyrinth that is Star City, home of the Russian space program. Still, the veteran policeman is convinced: The answer to what happened to the cosmonaut on Earth lies in something that happened in space. Bringing to life historic shifts in contemporary Russian history, as seen through the eyes of one hard-boiled Moscow cop, “Kaminsky’s Rostnikov novels are among the best mysteries being written” (The San Diego Union-Tribune).
Author: John Jones
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Published: 2024-08-22
Total Pages: 141
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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).
Author: Jennifer duBois
Publisher: Dial Press Trade Paperback
Published: 2012-08-21
Total Pages: 402
ISBN-13: 0812982177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFINALIST FOR THE PEN/HEMINGWAY PRIZE FOR DEBUT FICTION In Jennifer duBois’s mesmerizing and exquisitely rendered debut novel, a long-lost letter links two disparate characters, each searching for meaning against seemingly insurmountable odds. With uncommon perception and wit, duBois explores the power of memory, the depths of human courage, and the endurance of love. NAMED BY THE NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION AS A 5 UNDER 35 AUTHOR • WINNER OF THE CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD GOLD MEDAL FOR FIRST FICTION • WINNER OF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY O: THE OPRAH MAGAZINE “Astonishingly beautiful and brainy . . . [a] stunning novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine “I can’t remember reading another novel—at least not recently—that’s both incredibly intelligent and also emotionally engaging.”—Nancy Pearl, NPR In St. Petersburg, Russia, world chess champion Aleksandr Bezetov begins a quixotic quest: He launches a dissident presidential campaign against Vladimir Putin. He knows he will not win—and that he is risking his life in the process—but a deeper conviction propels him forward. In Cambridge, Massachusetts, thirty-year-old English lecturer Irina Ellison struggles for a sense of purpose. Irina is certain she has inherited Huntington’s disease—the same cruel illness that ended her father’s life. When Irina finds an old, photocopied letter her father wrote to the young Aleksandr Bezetov, she makes a fateful decision. Her father asked the chess prodigy a profound question—How does one proceed in a lost cause?—but never received an adequate reply. Leaving everything behind, Irina travels to Russia to find Bezetov and get an answer for her father, and for herself. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Salon • BookPage Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more. Praise for A Partial History of Lost Causes “A thrilling debut . . . [Jennifer] DuBois writes with haunting richness and fierce intelligence. . . . Full of bravado, insight, and clarity.”—Elle “DuBois is precise and unsentimental. . . . She moves with a magician’s control between points of view, continents, histories, and sympathies.”—The New Yorker “A real page-turner . . . a psychological thriller of great nuance and complexity.”—The Dallas Morning News “Terrific . . . In urgent fashion, duBois deftly evokes Russia’s political and social metamorphosis over the past thirty years through the prism of this particular and moving relationship.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) “Hilarious and heartbreaking and a triumph of the imagination.”—Gary Shteyngart
Author: Hana Josticova
Publisher: Central European University Press
Published: 2024-07-10
Total Pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9633867657
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe chapters in this book represent successive phases of one story – that of Mariupol, formerly Ukraine’s tenth largest city, and the second largest in the Donbas region. The author, a young Slovak academic, conducted her ethnographic fieldwork in this coastal town between November 2018 and August 2021. She was one of the last academics to do research in Mariupol before its invasion and eventual occupation by Russia. During these years, Hana Jošticová was overwhelmed by acts of mobilization and resistance that went in opposite directions: support for a Western direction of Ukraine’s future, and support for the status quo that the victory of the Euromaidan seemed to threaten. She noted the sequence of events presented in the media and through the lens of individual frames and narratives. Her book is a collection and interpretation of memories and testimonies from both sides: those who actively resisted Russian influence; and those who sparked their own revolution, the ‘Russian Spring.’ Her focus is on self-mobilized individuals who resorted to action outside of established organizational structures spontaneously, autonomously, without resources and guarantees of safety. Her evidence indicates that popular support for the Russian Spring had less to do with Russia than with the social, economic, or cultural characteristics of the Donetsk region. Years of immersive research convinced the author that individuals are as important as masses, ideas are as powerful as material resources, and beliefs and emotions are as critical as weapons.
Author: Ivan Turgenev
Publisher: Delphi Classics
Published: 2013-11-17
Total Pages: 3506
ISBN-13: 1908909218
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Russian novelist, short story writer and playwright, Ivan Turgenev is celebrated for the short story collection 'A Sportsman's Sketches', a milestone of Russian Realism, and his novel 'Fathers and Sons', now regarded as one of the major works of nineteenth century fiction. This comprehensive eBook presents Turgenev 's collected works, with numerous illustrations, rare texts appearing in digital print for the first time, informative introductions and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 3) Features: * Concise introductions to the major works * All 7 novels, each with their own contents table * Almost ALL of the short stories and novellas, with excellent formatting * Almost ALL of Turgenev's plays - discover 8 rare plays - first time in digital print! * Many images relating to Turgenev's life and works * Special criticism section, with BONUS texts by writers such as Henry James and Joseph Conrad, examining Turgenev's work * Ordering of texts into chronological order and literary genres * Includes Edward Garnett's seminal biography - explore Turgenev's artistic life! CONTENTS: The Novels Rudin (1857) A House of Gentlefolk (1859) On the Eve (1860) Fathers and Sons (1862) Smoke (1867) Torrents of Spring (1872) Virgin Soil (1877) The Novellas The Diary of a Superfluous Man (1850) Yakov Pasinkov (1855) Faust (1855) Acia (1858) First Love (1860) Phantoms (1866) An Unhappy Girl (1868) A Lear of the Steppes (1870) The Dream (1877) The Song of Triumphant Love (1881) Clara Militch (1883) The Short Stories A Sportsman’s Sketches (1852) Miscellaneous Short Stories The Plays A Poor Gentleman (1841) Where It Is Thin, There It Breaks (1847) A Month in the Country (1850) A Provincial Lady (1851) Careless (1852) Broke (1852) The Family Charge (1862) The Bachelor (1862) The Criticism Ivan Turgénieff by Henry James Turgenev: Library of the World’s Best Literature by Henry James Turgenieff by Henry James Turgenev by William Lyon Phelps Turgenef by Ivan Panin A Letter: Turgenev by Joseph Conrad Turgenev by Robert Lynd Turgenev by S. P. B. Mais The Biography Turgenev: A Study by Edward Garnett Please visit www.delphiclassics.com to browse through our range of titles
Author: Kon Pierkarski
Publisher: Dundurn
Published: 1996-08-08
Total Pages: 258
ISBN-13: 1459713419
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEscaping 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.
Author: Mark Blair
Publisher: Troubador Publishing Ltd
Published: 2018-11-23
Total Pages: 286
ISBN-13: 1785898019
DOWNLOAD EBOOK1989 - 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.
Author: Christine Young
Publisher: Rogue Phoenix Press
Published: 2021-09-09
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 1936403021
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA 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.
