russia

A teenager from Russia shares her everyday life.

Simple text and illustrations introduce young readers to the people, places and traditions of Russia.

"It was once said that anyone who entered the Russian village of Dargavs would never leave...alive! This community, now called the City of Dead, contains about 100 crypts in the form of tiny white houses, some dating back more than 300 years. This noteworthy volume addresses the legends and myths of this mysterious place--including lore that people were sealed into their crypts while still alive. Thoughtful sidebars, carefully selected images, and a thorough timeline are valuable additions to this high-interest text"--From the publisher's web site.

"Recounts the events of Reagan's historic, three-day 1988 Moscow Summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, examining the importance of Reagan's speech at Moscow State University that offered a new vision of the future to the Soviet people"--Provided by publisher.

"In 1946 . . . linguist and codebreaker Meredith Gardner discovered that the KGB was running an extensive network of strategically placed spies inside the United States, whose goal was to infiltrate American intelligence and steal the nation's military and atomic secrets. Over the course of the next decade, he and young FBI supervisor Bob Lamphere worked together on Venona, a top-secret mission to uncover the Soviet agents and protect the Holy Grail of Cold War espionage--the atomic bomb"--Provided by publisher.

Vika struggles with dangers in her new role as the Imperial Enchanter while Pasha faces disputes about his legitimacy and Nikolai considers how far he is willing to go to return to the world.

"The magical adventure begun in The Bear and the Nightingale continues as brave Vasya, now a young woman, is forced to choose between marriage or life in a convent and instead flees her home--but soon finds herself called upon to help defend the city of Moscow when it comes under siege."--Provided by publisher.

In the final, thrilling installment of the Red Sparrow Trilogy, Russian counterintelligence chief Dominika Egorova and her lover, CIA agent Nate Nash, must find a Russian agent about to be appointed to a very high office in the US government.

Captain Dominika Egorova of the Russian Intelligence Service (SVR) has returned from the West to Moscow. She despises the men she serves, the oligarchs, and crooks, and thugs of Putin's Russia. What no one knows is that Dominika is working for the CIA as Washington's most sensitive penetration of SVR and the Kremlin. As she expertly dodges exposure, Dominika deals with a murderously psychotic boss; survives an Iranian assassination attempt; escapes a counterintelligence ambush; rescues an arrested agent and exfiltrates him out of Russia; and has a chilling midnight conversation in her nightgown with President Putin. And when a mole in the SVR finds Dominika's name on a restricted list of sources, it is a virtual death sentence.

Vasilisa was brought up at the edge of the Russian wilderness on the fairy tales of her nurse, loving none more than the one about Frost, the blue-eyed winter demon who snatches away unwary souls. When her new stepmother forbids worshiping the household spirits in favor of her religion, Vasilisa begins noticing the crops are failing and evil-looking creatures are creeping in from the forest. Seeing the danger, Vasilisa is forced to draw on a gift she has kept secret, to protect her family from a threat from her nurse's fairy tales.