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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 9.6 - AR Pts: 69
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English
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In nineteenth-century Russia, the wife of an important government official loses her family and social status when she chooses the love of Count Vronsky over a passionless marriage. Includes an introduction by Mona Simpson, commentary, and a reading group guide.
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Determined to overreach his humanity and assert his untrammelled individual will, Raskolnikov, an impoverished student living in the St. Petersburg of the Tsars, commits an act of murder and theft and sets into motion a story which, for its excrutiating suspense, its atmospheric vividness, and its profundity of characterization and vision, is almost unequaled in the literatures of the world. The best known of Dostoevsky's masterpieces, Crime and Punishment...
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Chicago Review Press
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English
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"Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of the extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty," something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend...
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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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Napoleon's turbulent history with Russia including his doomed 1812 invasion provides the setting for Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. Often referred to as the greatest novel of all time, Tolstoy's classic follows the tumultuous personal lives of two aristocratic families touching on all of the great human epochs; youth, matrimony, age and death.
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Guang fen ke huan wen ku volume 027
Publisher
Xin xing chu ban she
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
中文(繁體)
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Overnight, Moscow migrant Kirill was forgotten by all his friends and relatives. Lost his house, lost his job, and all trace of Kirill's existence was wiped out. And behind this fool's game, there seems to be a bigger conspiracy brewing. Puzzles, dead ends, new identities... Is this riddled world just a trial-and-error sample of the Creator? Maybe we are living in a deception, do you have the courage to uncover the truth?
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English
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This is the story of the life and loves of a poet-physician during the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. Taking his family from Moscow to what he hopes will be shelter in the Ural Mountains, Zhivago finds himself instead embroiled in the battle between the Whites and the Reds. Set against this backdrop of cruelty and strife is Zhivago's love for the tender and beautiful Lara: pursued, found, and lost again, Lara is the very embodiment of the pain...
10) Qian ye
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Jing dian xin ban shi jie ming zhu volume 11
Publisher
Feng yun shi dai chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2019.
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中文(繁體)
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Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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On a searing hot day in 1919, a young Russian soldier shoots another in self-defence. As the other man lies dying, the young soldier takes his horse and rides away. Years later, as a grown man in Paris whose life is still haunted by the murder he committed all that time ago, he comes across a story by a writer calling himself 'Alexander Wolf', which recounts in astonishing detail the events of that day in 1919 from the dying victim's point of view....
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Oneworld Publications
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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High above the Armenian mountains, villagers in the close-knit community of Maran bicker, gossip, and go about their daily lives sustaining one another. A plot to bring two residents together soon gives the village something new to gossip about.
17) 2017
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Overlook/Duckworth
Pub. Date
2010
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English
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In the year 2017 in Russia--exactly 100 years after the revolution--poets and writers are obsolete, class distinctions are painfully sharp, and spirits intervene in the lives of humans from their home high in the mythical Riphean Mountains.
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Harper Voyager, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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"Late one night, fate brings together DJ Aspirin and ten-year-old Alyona. After he tries to save her from imminent danger, she ends up at his apartment. But in the morning sinister doubts set in. Who is Alyona? A young con artist? A plant for a nefarious blackmailer? Or perhaps a long-lost daughter Aspirin never knew existed? Whoever this mysterious girl is, she now refuses to leave."--
19) The doomed city
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Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
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English
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"The Doomed City is set in an experimental city whose sun gets switched on in the morning and switched off at night, bordered by an abyss on one side and an impossibly high wall on the other. Its inhabitants are people who were plucked from twentieth-century history at various times and places and left to govern themselves, advised by Mentors whose purpose seems inscrutable. Andrei Voronin, a young astronomer plucked from Leningrad in the 1950s, is...
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