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Candlewick on BrillianceAudioFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC FITWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1913 Russia, twelve-year-old Katya eagerly anticipates leaving her St. Petersburg home, though not her older cousin Misha, to join her mother, a lady in waiting in the household of Tsar Nicholas II, but the ensuing years bring world war, revolution, and undreamed of changes to her life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2001
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Summary: James Asher and his vampire partner Don Simon Ysidro travel to St. Petersburg in 1911 to investigate whether or not the kaiser is trying to build an army of vampires in preparation for war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2010
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HAMDostoyevsky, Fyodor
Summary: The story of a murder committed on principle, of a killer who wishes to set himself outside and above society. The novel is marked by Dostoevsky's own harrowing experience in penal servitude, and yet contains moments of wild humor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heritage Press 1966
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DOSPanaeva, A. I︠A︡. (Avdotʹi︠a︡ I︠A︡kovlevna)
Summary: "The Talnikov Family (1848) follows Natasha, a girl growing up in a psychologically and physically abusive household of Petersburg actors. Modeled on Panaeva's own life prior to her marriage to radical Ivan Panaev at 18, the piece was published in the important thick journal The Contemporary but was swiftly suppressed. Censors called it "cynical," "immoral," and "undermining of parental power."...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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Summary: Nineteenth-century Russian investigator Porfiry Petrovich doubts an initial conclusion that a St. Petersburg doctor is responsible for his wife's and son's poisoning deaths when the case is tied to another murder across town.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORFitch, Janet
Summary: Marina Makarova is a woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life. Swept up on the tides of the Russian Revolution, Marina joins the marches for workers' rights, falls in love with a radical young poet, and betrays everything she holds dear, before being betrayed in turn. As her country goes through tremendous upheaval, Marina's own coming-of-age unfolds,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITKim, Juhea
Summary: "A once famous ballerina faces a final choice-to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever-in this incandescent novel of redemption and love"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
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1 available in Browsing Hot Titles, Call number: HOT TITLEFitch, Janet
Summary: Pregnant and adrift in the countryside amid the devastation of the Russian Civil War, Marina returns to a decimated Petrograd, where her work caring for war orphans inspires her emergence as a poet. -
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2019
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FITKim, Juhea
Summary: "A once famous ballerina faces a final choice--to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or to walk away forever-in this incandescent novel of redemption and love."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Large Print 2024
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Summary: "St Petersburg, 1903. Prince Dimitri Markhov counts himself lucky to be a close friend of Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra. Cocooned by the glittering wealth of the Imperial court, the talented architect lives a life of luxury and comfort, by the side of his beautiful but spiteful wife, Princess Lara. But when Dimitri is confronted by the death and destruction wrought by a pogrom, he is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Severn House 2020
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Summary: "There are mice at the Mariinsky...Behind the walls of Saint Petersburg's famous theater live the world's tiniest dancers -- including Esmeralda, who has finally been accepted into the ranks of the Russian Mouse Ballet Company. A new ballet called The Nutcracker is set to debut at Christmastime, and Esmeralda has won the role of Clara. But when she learns that The Nutcracker features mice as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: J CD FIC KLABennett, Vanora
Summary: "St. Petersburg, 1911: Inna Feldman has fled the pogroms of the south to take refuge with distant relatives in Russia's capital city. Welcomed by the flamboyant Leman family, she is apprenticed into their violin-making workshop. She feels instantly at home in their bohemian circle, but revolution is in the air, and as society begins to fracture, she is forced to choose between her heart and her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC BENDickinson, David.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Carroll & Graf Publishers 2007
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DICWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 2003
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Summary: A respected St. Petersburg newspaper editor is killed in front of a crowd and Dr. Otto Spethmann a psychoanalysis is somehow implicated.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Books on Tape 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC BENMorris, R. N
Summary: In the aftermath of two grisly murders in St. Petersburg, investigator Porfiry Petrovich traces leads to a pornography ring and more genteel societal circles before encountering dangerous resistance from powerful high-ranking groups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORWhelan, Gloria.
Summary: In 1934, thirteen-year-old Marya and her younger brother, Georgi, set out alone on a long and arduous journey into Siberia to find their mother after she and their father are exiled for opposing Stalin.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollinsPublishers 2003
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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Whelan 2003Whelan, Gloria.
Summary: In the months leading up to the August 1991 coup attempt that resulted in the collapse of communism in the Soviet Union, a young dancer with the Kirov Ballet struggles to decide whether to defect while on an upcoming trip to Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2006
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Summary: "In the summer of 1941, German troops surrounded the Russian city of Leningrad-now St. Petersburg-and began the longest blockade in recorded history, one that would ultimately claim the lives of nearly three-quarters of a million people. At the center of the besieged city stood a converted palace that housed the world's largest collection of seeds-more than 250,000 samples hand-collected over...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner
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Summary: In Leningrad in 1941, when Russia and Germany are at war, fourteen-year-old Georgi vows to help his family and his city during the terrible siege.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2004
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Summary: When her best friend disappears in the summer of 1942, Liza resolves to rescue her no matter the cost, entangling herself in an increasingly dangerous web with two former classmates, one a member of the militia and other other forced to live in Leningrad's tunnels.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus Giroux Books for Young Readers 2022