moscow (russia)

This book, with online access to enhanced content, describes the history, the people, and the science behind the construction of the Kremlin, the official residence of the president of the Russian Federation.

When a famed Russian composer is rumored to be returning to his homeland to conduct his last symphony, a line begins forming in front of a ticket booth and the people in it begin their extended wait for the day tickets go on sale. During their time with one another, these strangers form a sort of miniature community that becomes bound by all its inhabitants' hope that they can see something they never have before.

Anton Gorodetsky, who is getting used to his new powers, is sent by his boss to help the Scottish Night Watch with aninvestigation into the murder of a young Russian man that may implicate a vampire and point to a plot involving the forces of both darkness and light.

In 1882, after six years of foreign travel and adventure, renowned diplomat and detective Erast Fandorin returns to Moscow, in the heart of Mother Russia. His homecoming is anything but peaceful. In the hotel where he and his loyal if impertinent manservant Masa are staying, Fandorin's old war-hero friend General Sobolev ("Achilles" to the crowd) has been found dead, felled in his armchair by an apparent heart attack. But Fandorin suspects an unnatural cause. His suspicions lead him to the boudoir of the beautiful singer--"not exactly a courtesan"--known as Wanda. Apparently it was in Wanda's bed that the general secretly breathed his last.--From publisher description.

The death of a journalist leads Gabriel Allon to Russia, where he finds that, in terms of spycraft, even he has something to learn. He's playing by Moscow rules now. Ivan Kharkov, a former KGB colonel who built a global investment empire on the rubble of the Soviet Union, is an arms dealer and he is about to deliver Russia's most sophisticated weapons to al- Qaeda. Unless Allon can learn the time and place of the delivery, the world will see the deadliest terror attacks since 9/11 and the clock is ticking fast.

Brought to Moscow 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 dogs.