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A Hundred Years of Dead Ends

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Translated by Olga Varshaver ...

by Olga Varshaver, Pavel Goldvarg, Olga Varshaver and Sergei Zair-Bek ...

A Hundred Years of Dead Ends spans a century of Russian and Soviet history, featuring a Bolshevik revolutionary, a Leningrad librarian, and a modern young Moscow couple as they grapple with the same questions: What do we inherit from our ancestors? What do we choose to forget? And what happens when the truth about the past threatens to destroy the present? Blending documentary fragments, archival ... Read more

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A Hundred Years of Dead Ends spans a century of Russian and Soviet history, featuring a Bolshevik revolutionary, a Leningrad librarian, and a modern young Moscow couple as they grapple with the same questions: What do we inherit from our ancestors? What do we choose to forget? And what happens when the truth about the past threatens to destroy the present? Blending documentary fragments, archival
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The War of a Hundred Selves

The Empire of Borrowed Bodies, #4

by Olga Kotova, Isabeau Velmoraine ...

Series Book 4 - The Empire of Borrowed Bodies
An emperor divided against himself. A revolutionary who can become an army. A love that may not survive the return of the body that began it all.The Empire of Avarre is collapsing beneath the weight of its borrowed lives.Awakened fragments of Emperor Vaustian Rhel now inhabit citizens across the capital—and more than one has declared itself the rightful ruler. Conflicting imperial commands ... Read more

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An emperor divided against himself. A revolutionary who can become an army. A love that may not survive the return of the body that began it all.The Empire of Avarre is collapsing beneath the weight of its borrowed lives.Awakened fragments of Emperor Vaustian Rhel now inhabit citizens across the capital—and more than one has declared itself the rightful ruler. Conflicting imperial commands
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The Last Unborrowed Heart

The Empire of Borrowed Bodies, #5

by Olga Kotova, Isabeau Velmoraine ...

Series Book 5 - The Empire of Borrowed Bodies
In an empire where bodies can be bought, borrowed, and stolen, the final battle will decide who owns the soul.Odrienne Vask has divided herself across hundreds of bodies. Her copies spread throughout the Empire of Avarre, carrying the same memories—but not the same desires. Some remain loyal to their creator. Some crave power. Others want nothing more than the freedom to become themselves.As ... Read more

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In an empire where bodies can be bought, borrowed, and stolen, the final battle will decide who owns the soul.Odrienne Vask has divided herself across hundreds of bodies. Her copies spread throughout the Empire of Avarre, carrying the same memories—but not the same desires. Some remain loyal to their creator. Some crave power. Others want nothing more than the freedom to become themselves.As
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Memories of My Childhood

by Ion Creanga ...

Series series Classics of Romanian Literature
A beloved Romanian classic—now in English with vibrant illustrations—that brings one boy’s coming-of-age in 19th-century Moldavia to life, illuminating the roots of a storied national voice and inviting readers into a world of tradition, laughter, and memory.Discover the childhood stories that shaped Romania’s national storyteller. A classic reborn in English, richly illustrated by Moldavian ... Read more

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A beloved Romanian classic—now in English with vibrant illustrations—that brings one boy’s coming-of-age in 19th-century Moldavia to life, illuminating the roots of a storied national voice and inviting readers into a world of tradition, laughter, and memory.Discover the childhood stories that shaped Romania’s national storyteller. A classic reborn in English, richly illustrated by Moldavian
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Vagrancy in Modern Russian Law and Culture

by Olga Seliazniova ...

Series series NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
Vagrancy in Modern Russian Law and Culture examines vagrancy in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union as a historical, legal, and cultural phenomenon. Beginning with vagrancy laws, Olga Seliazniova traces the rich cultural use of vagabondism that permeated nineteenth-century Russian and Soviet literature and art. Seliazniova analyzes laws, literary texts, paintings, and films, arguing that vagrant ... Read more

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Vagrancy in Modern Russian Law and Culture examines vagrancy in imperial Russia and the Soviet Union as a historical, legal, and cultural phenomenon. Beginning with vagrancy laws, Olga Seliazniova traces the rich cultural use of vagabondism that permeated nineteenth-century Russian and Soviet literature and art. Seliazniova analyzes laws, literary texts, paintings, and films, arguing that vagrant
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

A Novel

by Olga Tokarczuk ...

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...

WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx**In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes ... Read more

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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE**New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century"A brilliant literary murder mystery." —Chicago Tribune"Extraordinary. Tokarczuk's novel is funny, vivid, dangerous, and disturbing, and it raises some fierce questions about human behavior. My sincere admiration for her brilliant work." —Annie Proulx**In a remote Polish village, Janina devotes
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The Empusium

A Health Resort Horror Story

by Olga Tokarczuk ...

Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR“A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book ReviewStrange doings in and around a sanitarium expose the horrors that lie beneath the most hallowed ideas**September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for ... Read more

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**NATIONAL BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR“A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book ReviewStrange doings in and around a sanitarium expose the horrors that lie beneath the most hallowed ideas**September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for
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The Wax Child

by Olga Ravn ...

Translated by Martin Aitken ...

An astounding, haunting tale of accused witches—a book of sorcery itself—from the celebrated author of The Employees and My WorkLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZEIn seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed ... Read more

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An astounding, haunting tale of accused witches—a book of sorcery itself—from the celebrated author of The Employees and My WorkLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2026SHORTLISTED FOR THE NBCC GREGG BARRIOS BOOK IN TRANSLATION PRIZEIn seventeenth-century Denmark, Christenze Kruckow, an unmarried noblewoman, is accused of witchcraft. She and several other women are rumored to be possessed
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The Books of Jacob

A Novel

by Olga Tokarczuk ...

Translated by Jennifer Croft ...

**A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post**“Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club**“Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.” –Dwight Garner, ... Read more

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**A NEW YORKER “ESSENTIAL READ”“Just as awe-inspiring as the Nobel judges claimed.” – The Washington Post**“Olga Tokarczuk is one of our greatest living fiction writers. . . This could well be a decade-defining book akin to Bolaño’s 2666.” –AV Club**“Sophisticated and ribald and brimming with folk wit. . . The comedy in this novel blends, as it does in life, with genuine tragedy.” –Dwight Garner,
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War and Peace

by Leo Tolstoy, Henry Claridge, Olga Claridge, Keith Carabine ...

Translated by Louise Maude, Aylmer Maude ...

Series series Wordsworth Classics
War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's ... Read more

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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleon's war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoy's view that history is an inexorable process which man cannot influence, he peoples his great novel with a cast of over five hundred characters.Three of these, the artless and delightful Natasha Rostov, the world-weary Prince Andrew Bolkonsky and the idealistic Pierre Bezukhov illustrate Tolstoy's
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The Employees

A workplace novel of the 22nd century

by Olga Ravn ...

Translated by Martin Aitken ...

Shortlisted for the International Booker prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmareLonglisted for the 2022 National Book AwardFunny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and ... Read more

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Shortlisted for the International Booker prize and the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmareLonglisted for the 2022 National Book AwardFunny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and humanoid crew members complain about their daily tasks in a series of staff reports and
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A Hundred Years of Childhood

An Anthology of Russian Writing for Children, 1917-2017

Edited by Olga Bukhina, Kelly Herold, Andrea Lanoux ...

This groundbreaking anthology presents a century of Russian writing for children—from the Soviet era to the present—bringing together classic and contemporary works, many translated into English for the first time, in a richly curated volume that is both academically informed and fully accessible to children, parents, and adult readers alike.A Hundred Years of Childhood: An Anthology of Russian ... Read more

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This groundbreaking anthology presents a century of Russian writing for children—from the Soviet era to the present—bringing together classic and contemporary works, many translated into English for the first time, in a richly curated volume that is both academically informed and fully accessible to children, parents, and adult readers alike.A Hundred Years of Childhood: An Anthology of Russian
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