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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 14
Language
English
Description
Her beauty saved her life and condemned her. Cilka is just sixteen years old when she is taken to Auschwitz-Birkenau Concentration Camp, in 1942. The Commandant at Birkenau, Schwarzhuber, notices her long beautiful hair, and forces her separation from the other women prisoners. Cilka learns quickly that power, even unwillingly given, equals survival. After liberation, Cilka is charged as a collaborator for sleeping with the enemy and sent to Siberia....
Author
Series
Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov mysteries volume 14
Publisher
Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
A century-old mystery takes Rostnikov halfway around the world In the waning days of the Russian Empire, the Czar inked a secret treaty with Japan that was stolen en route by one of the workmen on the Trans-Siberian Railway. More than a one hundred years later, the Soviet Union has gone the way of the Czardom, and police inspector Porfiry Rostnikov is trying to find his way in the Russia of Vladimir Putin. A large amount of money is being sent from...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Formats
Description
Shot down over Soviet airspace and taken captive, U.S. Air Force Major Joe Mack makes a daring escape into the Siberian wilderness. Accompanied by a fellow escapee, Mack must rely on his Native American ancestry and skills if he is to survive his long journey and elude his pursuer, the famous tracker known as Alekhin the Yakut.
4) Singularity
Author
Publisher
Per Aspera Press
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"A swift, gripping novel with a goose-pimple mix of scary science and near-future action." -Greg Bear, New York Times–bestselling, Hugo & Nebula Award–winning author of The Unfinished Land
June 30th, 1908-In Siberia's remote Tunguska river basin, the most devastating cosmic collision ever recorded flattens hundreds of square miles with a blast a thousand times more powerful than the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Yet, more than a hundred...
Author
Series
Vampire Academy volume 4
Publisher
Razorbill
Pub. Date
2009.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 19
Language
English
Description
Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
6) Nevertell
Author
Publisher
Walker Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
After escaping a Soviet prison camp, Lina is pursued by a powerful witch and her shadow wolves in a story that imbues frozen wilderness with fairy-tale magic. All that twelve-year-old Lina knows of the world is the Stalinist labor camp where she was born, a place of hunger, cruelty, and deprivation. After a daring escape into the frigid Siberian wilds with her best friend, Bogdan, Lina vows to reach Moscow and find her long-lost grandmother, whom...
7) Ned
Author
Series
Minnesota Marshalls volume 3
Publisher
Soli deo Gloria Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After four years of training to become a Navy SEAL, Ned Marshall is finally ready to marry the woman of his dreams, Shae Johnson. And Shae's been uber patient, waiting, building a life as a free-lance graphic artist, moving around the globe to be with him. So, when she said yes to his proposal in Geneva, he fully expected to live happily-ever-after.
Author
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Texas businessman John Mills and his Czech companion, Petr Kovac, travel to the furthest reaches of post-Soviet Russia to acquire vouchers for the country's national oil company, Gazneft, moving town to town with suitcases full of cash, until the Russian mafia and Gazneft catch wind of their successes.
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 10
Language
English
Description
When John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a building in Siberia, his fiancée Annie insists on investigating, despite being in a wheelchair, and John's teenage sister Hayley goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is involved.
Author
Series
Arkady Renko novels volume 9
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"Journalist Tatiana Petrovna is on the move. Arkady Renko, iconic Moscow investigator and Tatiana's part-time lover, hasn't seen her since she left on assignment over a month ago. When she doesn't arrive on her scheduled train, he's positive something is wrong. No one else thinks Renko should be worried--Tatiana is known to disappear during deep assignments--but he knows her enemies all too well and the criminal lengths they'll go to keep her quiet....
Author
Publisher
Severed Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep stygian darkness. With it came something horrifying that would threaten every living thing on the face of the planet. Over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals, and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths. When Marcus Stenson won the lucrative contract to create a sturgeon fish farm on the site...
15) Road of bones
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Christopher Golden's Road of Bones is a stunning supernatural thriller set in Siberia, where a film crew is covering an elusive ghost story about a highway built on top of the bones of prisoners of Stalin's gulag. Kolyma Highway, otherwise known as the Road of Bones, is a 1200 mile stretch of Siberian road where winter temperatures can drop as low as sixty degrees below zero. Under Stalin, at least eighty Soviet gulags were built along the route...
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