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  • The Tretyakov Gallery Masterworks

    Volume III. The Russian Day: Work, Market, and Household

    Edited by Alexander Nemirov ...
    Series Book 3 - The Gallery Masterworks
    The third volume of a six-part survey of the State Tretyakov Gallery gathers 721 scenes of everyday life by 187 artists, from the eighteenth century to the middle of the twentieth. This is the volume where Russian painting learns to tell stories. Pavel Fedotov stages small domestic catastrophes with the timing of a playwright; Vasily Perov follows a funeral sledge through the snow and does not ... Read more

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  • The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (illustrated)

    by Mark Twain, Vladimir Makovski ...
    Tom Sawyer falls in love with Becky Thatcher, a new girl in town, and persuades her to get "engaged" by kissing him. But their romance collapses when she learns Tom has been "engaged" previously to Amy Lawrence. Shortly after Becky shuns him, he accompanies Huckleberry Finn to the graveyard at night, where they witness a trio of body snatchers, Dr. Robinson, Muff Potter and Injun Joe, getting into ... Read more

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  • The Tretyakov Gallery Masterworks

    Volume I. Forests, Seas, and Seasons

    Edited by Alexander Nemirov ...
    Series Book 1 - The Gallery Masterworks
    The first volume of a six-part survey of the State Tretyakov Gallery gathers 800 works of Russian landscape by 152 artists, from the 1750s to the 1930s. This is the century in which Russian landscape found its own subject. Ivan Shishkin counts every needle of a pine forest; Isaac Levitan turns a bend in the Volga into a statement about time; Ivan Aivazovsky makes the sea behave like an orchestra; ... Read more

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  • The Tretyakov Gallery Masterworks

    Volume IV. Saints, Heroes, and Legends

    Edited by Alexander Nemirov ...
    Series Book 4 - The Gallery Masterworks
    The fourth volume of a six-part survey of the State Tretyakov Gallery gathers 734 works by 139 artists on sacred and legendary subjects, reaching back to medieval icon painting. Two impulses run side by side. One is faith: Alexander Ivanov spends twenty years on a single biblical morning and leaves hundreds of studies behind him; Mikhail Nesterov paints a Russia of hermits and birch woods; Vasily ... Read more

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  • The Tretyakov Gallery Masterworks

    Volume V. The New Vision

    Edited by Alexander Nemirov ...
    Series Book 5 - The Gallery Masterworks
    The fifth volume of a six-part survey of the State Tretyakov Gallery gathers 552 works by 114 artists from the years when Russian art tore up its own rulebook. Kazimir Malevich puts a black square where the icon used to hang. Lyubov Popova builds paintings like scaffolding. El Lissitzky — present here in unusual depth, with Prouns, book designs, exhibition rooms and a skyscraper proposed for a ... Read more

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  • Travels in Siberia

    by Ian Frazier ...
    A Dazzling Russian travelogue from the bestselling author of Great PlainsIn his astonishing new work, Ian Frazier, one of our greatest and most entertaining storytellers, trains his perceptive, generous eye on Siberia, the storied expanse of Asiatic Russia whose grim renown is but one explanation among hundreds for the region's fascinating, enduring appeal. In Travels in Siberia, Frazier reveals ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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  • The Death of Ivan Ilyich

    by Leo Tolstoy ...
    Leo Tolstoy’s harrowing tale about a man battling a mysterious illness who must confront his impending death, the pitfalls of redemption, and the meaning of life itself.Hailed as one of the world’s supreme masterpieces on the subject of death and dying, The Death of Ivan Ilyich is the story of a worldly careerist, a high court judge who has never given the inevitability of his death so much as a ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

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  • Twenty Letters to a Friend

    A Memoir

    by Svetlana Alliluyeva ...
    "Fascinating from the first page to the last . . . A rich and absorbing memoir . . . To be Stalin's daughter and to remain human is itself admirable." — The New York Times Book ReviewIn this riveting, New York Times–bestselling memoir—first published by Harper in 1967—Svetlana Iosifovna Alliluyeva, subject of Rosemary Sullivan's critically acclaimed biography, Stalin's Daughter, describes the ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Blackbird Girls

    by Anne Blankman ...
    **NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNERA SYDNEY TAYLOR MIDDLE GRADE HONOR BOOKLike Ruta Sepetys for middle grade, Anne Blankman pens a poignant and timeless story of friendship that twines together moments in underexplored history.**On a spring morning, neighbors Valentina Kaplan and Oksana Savchenko wake up to an angry red sky. A reactor at the nuclear power plant where their fathers work--Chernobyl- ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD

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  • Lara

    The Untold Love Story and the Inspiration for Doctor Zhivago

    by Anna Pasternak ...
    Lara is the heartbreaking story of lovers Boris Pasternak, the author of Doctor Zhivago, and Olga Ivinskaya—the true tragedy behind the timeless classic."Anna Pasternak does not spare an ounce of drama nor detail from the story of her great-uncle's love affair with Olga Ivinskaya, the inspiration for Doctor Zhivago's Lara. The result is a profoundly moving meditation on love, loyalty and, ... Read more

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  • Word for Word

    A Translator's Memoir of Literature, Politics, and Survival in Soviet Russia

    by Lilianna Lungina ...
    A remarkable memoir of living in the Soviet Union and working as a literary translator.In the early twentieth century, Lilianna Lungina was a Russian Jew born to privilege, spending her childhood in Germany, France, and Palestine. But when she was thirteen, her parents moved to the USSR—where Lungina became witness to many of the era's greatest upheavals.Exiled during World War II, dragged to KGB ... Read more

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  • Tolstoy

    A Russian Life

    by Rosamund Bartlett ...
    This biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina "should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject" ( Booklist, starred review).In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an ... Read more

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