Summary: Set in contemporary Moscow where 12 men must decide the fate of a young man accused of murdering his step-father. Consigned to a makeshift jury room, one by one each man takes center stage to confront, connect, and confess while the accused awaits a verdict and revisits his heartbreaking journey through war in flashbacks.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TWE

Miller, Andrew

Summary: Witnessing the progression of regional corruption in his work as a British lawyer in early 2000s Moscow, Nick Platt rescues two sisters from a purse snatcher and pursues a glamorous romantic relationship with one of the sisters before he is asked to helpwith a dubious family endeavor.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2011

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MIL

Krasikov, Sana

Summary: "When the Great Depression hits, Florence Fein leaves Brooklyn College for what appears to be a plum job in Moscow-and the promise of love and independence. But once in Russia, she quickly becomes entangled in a country she can't escape. Many years later, Florence's son, Julian, will make the opposite journey, immigrating back to the United States. His work in the oil industry takes him on...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Spiegel & Grau 2017

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KRA

Koestler, Arthur

Summary: Fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he re-lives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itself as an instrument of deliverance.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2006

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KOE

Kaminsky, Stuart M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mysterious Press 2000

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KAM

Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: Follows the machinations of a group of reactionaries in Moscow who harbor a nostalgic loyalty to the regime of Joseph Stalin and who plot to create a groundswell for a new dictatorship.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M SMI

Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: Struggling with a prosecutor's refusal to send work his way, investigator Arkady Renko of Moscow finds his efforts to watch out for teen chess prodity Zhenya challenged by a case involving a kidnapped baby, a dead prostitute, and police corruption.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2010

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Dugoni, Robert

Summary: "Betrayed by his own country and tried for treason, former spy Charles Jenkins survived an undercover Russian operation gone wrong. Exonerated, bitter, and safe, the retired family man is through with duplicitous spy games. Then he learns of a woman isolated in Moscow's notorious Lefortovo Prison. If it's Paulina Ponomayova, the agent who sacrificed her life to save his, Jenkins can't leave her...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Large Print 2021

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1 available in Adult, Call number: LP FIC DUG

Towles, Amor

Summary: "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2016

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOW

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC TOW

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION TOW

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Towles

Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: A triple murder in a Moscow amusement center: three corpses found frozen in the snow, faces and fingers missing. Chief homicide investigator Arkady Renko is brilliant, sensitive, honest, and cynical about everything except his profession. To identify the victims and uncover the truth, he must battle the KGB, FBI, and the New York City police as he pursues a rich, ruthless, and well-connected...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 1981

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Patterson, James

Summary: "An invitation from an old friend draws Jack Morgan into a deadly conspiracy. On a cold January morning, Jack Morgan stands inside the New York Stock Exchange with his former US Marine comrade whose company is being launched onto the market, eagerly awaiting the opening bell. But before the bell rings, a bullet rips through the air and finds its mark. In the aftermath of the murder, the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Century 2020

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC PAT

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC PAT

Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: A self-made millionaire has apparently leapt to his death from his Moscow condominium, and although there are no signs pointing to a homocide, a puzzling bit of evidence in his bedroom closet troubles detective Renko.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2004

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD M SMI

Summary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD Multi Die

Freemantle, Brian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 1993

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRE

Goldberg, Paul

Summary: "A thrilling, witty, and slyly original Cold War mystery about a ragtag group of Jewish refuseniks in Moscow. On his wedding day in 1976, Viktor Moroz stumbles upon a murder scene: two gay men, one of them a US official, are axed to death in Moscow. Viktor, a Jewish refusenik, is stuck in Russia due to the government's denial of his application to leave for Israel; he sits "in refusal"...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2023

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC GOL

Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: Though suspended from the prosecutor's office, Inspector Renko investigates the death of a woman found in a construction trailer on the perimeter of Moscow's main rail hub. He uncovers a web of death, money, madness, and a kidnapping that threatens the woman he has grown to love and the lives of children he is desperate to protect.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2010

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC SMI

Towles, Amor

Summary: "A Gentleman in Moscow immerses us in another elegantly drawn era with the story of Count Alexander Rostov. When, in 1922, he is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, the count is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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2 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOW

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOW

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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC TOW

Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: "In Tatiana, Martin Cruz Smith, 'the master of the international thriller' (The New York Times) creates the most compelling heroine of his career and the most realistic, damning portrait of modern Russia in contemporary literature. One of the iconic investigators of contemporary fiction, Arkady Renko -- cynnical, analytical, and quietly subversive -- has survived the cultural journey from the...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: It's June 2021, and Arkady knows that Russia is preparing to invade and subsequently annex Ukraine as it did Crimea in 2014. He is, however, preoccupied with other grievances. His longtime lover, Tatiana Petrovna, has deserted him for her work as an investigative reporter. His corrupt boss has relegated him to a desk job. And he is having trouble with his dexterity and balance. A visit to his...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2023

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3 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Summary: Gorky Park opens with the discovery of three mutilated bodies buried in the snow in Moscow's Gorky Park. Arkady Renko, the chief investigator of the Moscow Militia, is assigned to unravel this horrific crime, but he is confronted by an uncooperative and corrupt KGB.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GOR

Smith, Martin Cruz

Summary: "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...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2019

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SMI

Hawksley, Humphrey.

Summary: "Instructed to guide in a speed boat crossing from Russia in the Bering Strait, special forces Major Rake Ozenna watches in horror as the operation culminates in a fatal firefight - and the loss of vital intelligence of a deadly new weapon. A weapon of unimaginable power. A weapon that, if it were unleashed, would cripple civilization as we know it. But who sabotaged the mission? Who...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2021

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAW