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1) Beanpole
Pub. Date
[2020]
Summary
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
2) Archangel
Pub. Date
c2006
Summary
Tells the story of four eventful days in the life of Fluke Kelso, a dissipated former Oxford historian attending a conference in Moscow on the newly opened Soviet archives. He is about to leave the city when a surprise visit from an ex-officer of the Soviet Secret Police changes his mind. The old man reveals a deadly scandal which promises to expose dark secrets from the Russian underworld and its KGB connections.--Container
3) Sputnik
Pub. Date
[2021]
Summary
The lone survivor of an enigmatic spaceship incident hasn't returned back home alone - hiding inside his body is a dangerous creature.
Author
Series
Summary
"The #1 New York Times-bestselling author and master of the technothriller returns with his All-Star team. There's a new strong man in Russia but his rise to power is based on a dark secret hidden decades in the past. The solution to that mystery lies with a most unexpected source, President Jack Ryan"--
5) Dersu Uzala
Pub. Date
2000
Summary
Tells of the friendship between Vladimir Arsenyev, a well-known Soviet explorer, and his guide, Dersu Uzala. It is the story of a man's unity with nature and of the struggle for survival in the wilderness.
6) Rocky IV
Pub. Date
c2004
Summary
Rocky's training regimen takes him to icy Siberia, where he prepares for a globally televised match against a vicious Soviet fighter, Drago, who literally killed his last opponent.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Summary
John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, is back, and his latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
An artistic sixteen-year-old is forcefully separated from her family by Soviet soldiers and sent to one of Stalin's work camps in Siberia. Despite suffering through cruel and harsh conditions, Lina finds refuge in the connections she makes with other deportees and in the art she continues to create to document her experiences.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Summary
On what seemed like any other day, Elders Travis Tuttle (Corbin Allred) and Andrew Propst (Maclain Nelson) are approached by Nikolai (Nikita Bogolyubov) to teach a friend. But then the missionaries experience the unimaginable -- they are kidnapped, beaten, and held for ransom. While their families, friends, and the world pray for their safe return, Tuttle and Propst are tested physically, emotionally, and most of all -- spiritually. Based on a true...
12) Devil's pass
Pub. Date
[2013]
Summary
In February 1959, nine Russian hikers ventured into a remote area of the Ural Mountains. Two weeks later, all of them were found dead. What happened is a mystery that has baffled investigators and researchers for decades. It has become known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident. When five ambitious American college students are issued a grant to return to the site of the original events, they gear up with the belief that they can uncover and document the...
13) Hardcore Henry
Pub. Date
[2016]
Summary
He remembers nothing. Mainly because he's just been brought back from the dead by his wife. She tells him that his name is Henry. Five minutes later, he's being shot at, his wife has been kidnapped, and he should probably go get her back. Who's got her? His name's Akan; he's a powerful warlord with an army of mercenaries, and a plan for world domination. Henry's also in an unfamiliar city of Moscow and everyone wants him dead. Everyone except for...
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
It is 1806, and imperial St. Petersburg is in the grip of gambling fever. Each night Herman Suvorin, a poor Captain of Engineers, witnesses huge fortunes lost and won, though he dare not risk the money he has tirelessly earned and saved over these many years. But when he hears the wealthy and of course, beautiful, Countess Ranevskaya, who by selling her soul many years before obtained the secret of winning at cards, has come to town, he determines...
16) The darkest hour
Pub. Date
2012
Summary
Five young people are stranded in Moscow, fighting to survive in the wake of a devastating alien attack.
