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Three Stations Three Stations Martin Cruz Smith Un tren de pasajeros cruza la noche a sacudidas. Una solitaria madre adolescente se dirige a Moscú buscando una nueva vida. Un soldado de corazón endurecido la observa furtivamente, pensando en sexo.… OL14992253W
The sacred book of the werewolf The sacred book of the werewolf Viktor Olegovich Pelevin Paranormal meets transcendental in this provocative and hilarious novel. Victor Pelevin has established a reputation as one of the most brilliant writers at work today; his comic inventiveness has… OL15286580W
The dogs of winter The dogs of winter Bobbie Pyron Brought to Leningrad in 1990s Russia by his mother's abusive boyfriend, five-year-old Mishka is forced by a gang of homeless children to lie and steal until he finds comfort and love with a pack of d… OL16518098W
Black ice Black ice Andrew Lane In 1868, teenaged Sherlock Holmes faces danger in a train station for the dead, a museum of curiousities, and downtown Moscow as he helps his brother, Mycroft, who has been framed for murder. OL16564067W
A Gentleman in Moscow A Gentleman in Moscow Amor Towles A Gentleman in Moscow is a 2016 novel by Amor Towles. It is his second novel, published five years after his New York Times best seller, Rules of Civility (2011). OL17797130W
Back to Moscow Back to Moscow Guillermo Erades "Tuesday night : vodka and dancing at the Hungry Duck. Wednesday morning: posing as an expert on Pushkin at the university. Thursday night: more vodka and girl-chasing at Propaganda. Friday morning: … OL17873397W
New watch New watch Sergeĭ Lukʹi︠a︡nenko Older and more powerful, Light magician Anton Gorodestsky has risen to the top levels of the Night Watch. He is also father to a ten-year-old girl who is destined to become a magician of unprecedente… OL19982623W
Disposable asset Disposable asset Altman, John Having completed her mission to silence an agency defector, CIA operative Cassie Bradbury finds herself cut adrift in Moscow with no documents, no tickets and no identification. Hot on her trail are … OL20014719W
The unfortunate Englishman The unfortunate Englishman Lawton, John Directed by MI6 to Berlin in 1963 to negotiate a delicate prisoner exchange on either side of the wall, Joe Wilderness covertly plans to use the operation to make a little something extra on the side… OL20021336W
The twilight watch The twilight watch Sergeĭ Lukʹi͡anenko The third book in the bestselling Russian trilogy that is part fantasy, part vampire story, and part detective story, tells of an ancient race of humans who have supernatural powers and swear allegia… OL21804480W
Собачье сердце Собачье сердце Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков A superb comic masterpiece and fierce parable of the Russian Revolution by the author of The Master and Margarita. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY ANDREY KURKOVA rich, successful Moscow professor befriend… OL260422W
Black knight in Red Square Black knight in Red Square Stuart M. Kaminsky Built in the twilight of the Tsarist state, Moscow's Metropole Hotel is a poignant reminder of the decadence of the last regime. But today its corridors are musty, its rooms are dank, and now its res… OL27704748W
The dog who bit a policeman The dog who bit a policeman Stuart M. Kaminsky The world is a strange, sad, and wonderful place. And Moscow is at its center. Killers are running through the city--some on two legs, some on four. To lower the body count, Porfiry Rostnikov, the Mo… OL34077W
Fall of a cosmonaut Fall of a cosmonaut Stuart M. Kaminsky When a Russian cosmonaut goes missing, his last words on the space station were instructions to contact Inspector Porfiry Rosnikov if something went wrong with the mission. Now his fellow Mir cosmona… OL34103W
Мастер и Маргарита Мастер и Маргарита Михаил Афанасьевич Булгаков The battle of competing translations, a new publishing phenomenon which began with One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, now offers two rival American editions of Mikhail Bulgakov's The Master and … OL676009W
Generation "P" Generation "P" Viktor Olegovich Pelevin "The collapse of the Soviet Union has opened up a vast market ripe for exploitation. Everybody wants a piece of the action. But how do you sell things to a generation that grew up with just one brand… OL78981W
Wolves Eat Dogs Wolves Eat Dogs Martin Cruz Smith In Wolves Eat Dogs, Renko returns for his most enigmatic and baffling case: the death of one of Russia's new billionaires, which leads him to Chernobyl and the Zone of Exclusion -- closed to the worl… OL874071W
Gorky Park Gorky Park Martin Cruz Smith A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynic… OL874073W
Twilight of the Eastern Gods Twilight of the Eastern Gods Ismail Kadare In 1958, Kadare was selected to pursue his writing and literary studies as a graduate student in Moscow at the prestigious Gorky Institute for World Literature. Twilight of the Eastern Gods is Kadare… OL963807W
The slynx The slynx Tatʹi͡ana Tolstai͡a "In what remains of Moscow some two hundred years after " the Blast," a community persists in primitive, ridiculous, and often brutal circumstances. Mice are the current source of food, clothes, and … OL985265W
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