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Title	Authors	Description	OpenBook ID
The Eternal Husband and other stories	Фёдор Михайлович Достоевский	A nasty anecdote -- The eternal husband -- Bobok -- The meek one -- The dream of a ridiculous man.	OL10432711W
Obryv	Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov	"In The Precipice Goncharov combines various genres: novel about the artist, political novel, and romance. This work contrasts the then new ideas of philosophical positivism, utilitarianism and athei…	OL1139067W
Random Acts of Heroic Love	Danny Scheinmann	Can love outwit death? A heartbreaking epic story of two lives sustained by the memory of love1992: Leo Deakin wakes up in a hospital somewhere in South America, his girlfriend Eleni is dead and Leo …	OL12018329W
Short stories	Sholem Aleichem	A collection of stories, sketches, monologues, and satire by the Yiddish humorist, showing adults and children in the act of being themselves in many situations--at school, at work, on holidays, and …	OL1401743W
A whisper to the living	Stuart M. Kaminsky	Inspector Porfiry Petrovich Rostnikov, an honest policeman in a very dishonest post-Soviet Union, is a sharp and caring policeman as well as the perfect tour guide to a changing Russia. Rostnikov and…	OL14928176W
Ruthless Russian, Lost Innocence	Chantelle Shaw	Violinist Ella Stafford isn't used to parties, so it's little wonder she's overwhelmed by brooding Russian Vadim Aleksandrov! The throbbing, raw attraction places fragile English beauty Ella out of h…	OL15170199W
Eye of the Red Tsar	Sam Eastland	This riveting suspense debut introduces both a stellar new voice and a remarkable detective, an outsider who must use his extraordinary talents to solve the one case that may redeem him.Shortly after…	OL15183924W
The red horseman	Stephen Coonts	Jake Grafton, star of Coonts bestsellers Flight of the Intruder and Under Siege returns in a post-glasnost thriller of gripping tension. Grafton is sent to Moscow to ensure the destruction of an arse…	OL15396373W
Ruthless Russian, Lost Innocence	Chantelle Shaw	Violinist Ella Stafford isn't used to parties, so it's little wonder she's overwhelmed by brooding Russian Vadim Aleksandrov! The throbbing, raw attraction places fragile English beauty Ella out of h…	OL15543711W
Sister Pelagia and the red cockerel	B. Akunin	When someone bashes in the head of Manuila, the messianic leader of a rogue Jewish sect, aboard a steamboat on which Pelagia happens to be a passenger, her observations prove useful to the investigat…	OL15861868W
The Bear and the Dragon (Jack Ryan Novels)	Tom Clancy	The #1 New York Times bestseller in hardcover, on the list for 24 weeks!President Jack Ryan faces a world crisis unlike any he has ever known, in Tom Clancy's extraordinary new novel....A high-level …	OL159282W
The veil of gold	Kim Wilkins	"When the statue of a golden bear is found walled up in a dilapidated St. Petersburg bathhouse owned by her family, Rosa Kovalenka knows in her heart that this is no trick of fate. Her uncle thinks o…	OL16069008W
The Russian dreambook of colour and flight	Gina Ochsner	This bewitching novel of post-Soviet lives moves between the magical, the comical and the transcendent to portray a people who rely on dreams to defy the coming of direction and decay.	OL16137182W
Outlaw biker	Jerry Langton	The sequel to the bestseller "Biker" which ended with protagonist Ned Aiken in a witness protection program, but tempted by the lure of easy money. In "Outlaw Biker", he succumbs to it. First as a dr…	OL16341860W
The last hiccup	Christopher Meades	Set in 1930s Russia, this darkly humorous, tragic, and ultimately heroic novel tells the tale of Vladimir, an eight-year-old Russian boy suddenly stricken with a chronic case of the hiccups. He soon …	OL16647754W
Whitefire	Fern Michaels	Bestselling author Fern Michaels takes readers to 16th-century Russia during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. Katerina possesses the courage of her Cossack ancestors. Now, she is on a vengeance quest …	OL17731532W
Tsar	Ted Bell	Swashbuckling counter spy Alex Hawke is the only man, both Americans and the Brits agree, who can stop the madness created by the new Russia and its new Tsar, who is pulling strings and pulling them …	OL17735867W
Day of wrath	Larry Bond	A terrorist plot threatens world security, and it is up to two American operatives to stop it.	OL17739949W
Radiant Angel	Nelson De Mille	After a showdown with the notorious Yemeni terrorist known as The Panther, John Corey has left the Anti-Terrorist Task Force and returned home to New York City, taking a job with the Diplomatic Surve…	OL17919736W
Rasputin's shadow	Raymond Khoury	Joined by Russian FSB agent Larisa Tchoumitcheva, FBI agent John Reilly investigates the apparent suicide of a Russian embasy attache and uncovers a deadly search for a mysterious device whose origin…	OL17924395W