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The Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky's crowning achievement, is a tale of patricide & family rivalry that embodies the moral & spiritual dissolution of an entire society (Russia in the 1870s). It created a national furor comparable only to the excitement stirred by the publication, in 1866, of Crime & Punishment. To Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov captured the quintessence of Russian character in all its exaltation, compassion, & profligacy. Significantly,...
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Vampire Academy volume 4
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 19
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Just days before graduating from St. Vladimir's Academy, guardian-in-training Rose travels to Siberia to drive a stake into the heart of the boy she loves, the monstrous vampire Dimitri.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.1 - AR Pts: 118
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War and Peace is a vast epic centred on Napoleons war with Russia. While it expresses Tolstoys 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 Tolstoys philosophy in this novel of unquestioned mastery.
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c.2014
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When the CIA director is murdered before he is set to testify about a government cover-up involving a terrorist attack on the US mission in Chechnya, New York District Attorney Butch Karp finds himself battling a heavyweight opponent: the US government. The presidential election campaign's foreign policy mantra has been that the terrorists are on the run. There are rumors that the CIA chief was going to deviate from the administration's version...
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Charlie Muffin spy stories volume 12
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c2000
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In Siberia, a sudden thaw uncovers two fifty-year-old murder victims as well as a host of disturbing questions. Since each is dressed in the uniform of a WWII Allied officer, Russian authorities decide to invite agents from England and the United States to join in a collaborative effort to discover the truth behind the murders.
Charlie Muffin, the British operative, is having enough problems without traveling to the hell-on-earth that is Siberia,...
8) Redsparrow
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2013
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Drafted against her will to serve as an intelligence seductress, Dominika Egorova engages in deception and tradecraft with first tour CIA officer Nathaniel Nash in actions that threaten both of their careers.