Download or read book The Porcelain Doll written by Kristen Loesch and published by Allison & Busby Ltd. This book was released on 2022-02-17 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A masterful debut' - Ellen Alpsten, author of TsarinaIn a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land .... Rosie's only inheritance from her reclusive mother is a notebook full of handwritten fairy tales. But another story is lurking between the lines.Desperate for answers to questions that have tormented her for years, Rosie travels to Moscow and uncovers a devastating family history spanning the 1917 Revolution, Stalin's bloody purgesand beyond. At the heart of those answers stands a young noblewoman, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions reverberate across the century .
Download or read book The Last Russian Doll written by Kristen Loesch and published by Penguin Group. This book was released on 2024-07-23 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land... ...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother who liked to tell fairy tales and collect porcelain dolls. One summer night, everything changed, and all that remained of that family were the girl and her mother. Now, a decade later and studying at Oxford University, Rosie has an English name, a loving fiancé, and a promising future, but all she wants is to understand—and bury—the past. After her mother dies, Rosie returns to Russia, armed with little more than her mother’s strange folklore—and a single key. What she uncovers is a devastating family history that spans the 1917 Revolution, the siege of Leningrad, Stalin’s purges, and beyond. At the heart of this saga stands a young noblewoman, Tonya, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions—and love for an idealistic man—will set off a sweeping story that reverberates across the century....
Download or read book The Littlest Matryoshka written by Corinne Bliss and published by Hyperion. This book was released on 1999-09 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this tender, old-fashioned story, Nina, the smallest of a group of Russian nesting dolls, is separated from her sisters and swept along on a dangerous journey.
Download or read book Neverworld Wake written by Marisha Pessl and published by Scholastic UK. This book was released on 2018-06-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compulsive, read-in-one-sitting suspense novel: page-turning, perfectly paced with a trust-no-one cast of characters and a high stakes death-cheating dilemma. Five friends. Only one can survive the Neverworld Wake. Who would you choose?
Download or read book A Russian Doll and Other Stories written by Adolfo Bioy Casares and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1992 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of traditional and experimental stories by Argentinian novelist Bioy Casares ( The Adventures of a Photographer in La Plata ) offers sophisticated, seamless prose, as well as magical realism and biting political satire. - Publishers Weekly
Download or read book The Book of Longings written by Sue Monk Kidd and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 434 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An extraordinary novel . . . a triumph of insight and storytelling.” —Associated Press “A true masterpiece.” —Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. Ana's pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome's occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha, who harbors a compelling secret. When Ana commits a brazen act that puts her in peril, she flees to Alexandria, where startling revelations and greater dangers unfold, and she finds refuge in unexpected surroundings. Ana determines her fate during a stunning convergence of events considered among the most impactful in human history. Grounded in meticulous research and written with a reverential approach to Jesus's life that focuses on his humanity, The Book of Longings is an inspiring, unforgettable account of one woman's bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place and culture devised to silence her. It is a triumph of storytelling both timely and timeless, from a masterful writer at the height of her powers.
Download or read book Russian Imperial Costume Paper Dolls written by Tom Tierney and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1997-07-10 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 dolls model 28 elegant costumes created for 11 czars, czarinas, and their consorts -- from garments of early rulers to late 19th- and early 20th-century military outfits of the Romanovs.
Download or read book This Tender Land written by William Kent Krueger and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “If you liked Where the Crawdads Sing, you’ll love This Tender Land...This story is as big-hearted as they come.” —Parade The unforgettable story of four orphans who travel the Mississippi River on a life-changing odyssey during the Great Depression. In the summer of 1932, on the banks of Minnesota’s Gilead River, Odie O’Banion is an orphan confined to the Lincoln Indian Training School, a pitiless place where his lively nature earns him the superintendent’s wrath. Forced to flee after committing a terrible crime, he and his brother, Albert, their best friend, Mose, and a brokenhearted little girl named Emmy steal away in a canoe, heading for the mighty Mississippi and a place to call their own. Over the course of one summer, these four orphans journey into the unknown and cross paths with others who are adrift, from struggling farmers and traveling faith healers to displaced families and lost souls of all kinds. With the feel of a modern classic, This Tender Land is an enthralling, big-hearted epic that shows how the magnificent American landscape connects us all, haunts our dreams, and makes us whole.
Download or read book The Russian Doll written by Joan Smith and published by Arrow. This book was released on 1989 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great Aunt Lotty takes Miranda to Moscow but she seems determined to prevent her making friends and learning about the real Russia.
Download or read book The Story of Babushka Colouring Book written by Catherine Flores and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-10 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Story Of Babushka colouring book is a companion book that goes alongside the illustrated children's book "The Story Of Babushka" The book comes with over forty-five wonderful line-drawn illustrations ready for children to colour in! Recommended use with colouring pencils, and crayons. Please note this book comes without the written story and is meant to compliment the written story.
Download or read book Russian Dolls written by W. P Kinsella and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-01 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the distinguished W.P. Kinsella comes his final work - a series of linked stories wrapped in a novel. Russian Dolls weaves in and out of the real and imaginary worlds of Wylie, a struggling author and self-proclaimed "unreliable narrator", as he finds and then loses his muse, Christie, in their shared home - aptly named the "Breathing Castle" - in East Vancouver. Woven into the story of their relationship are Wylie's short stories - at once bold, humorous, whimsical and reflective. The mood of the stories ranges from good to bad to worse, depending on his relationship with his muse at the time.Meanwhile, the stories Christie chooses to tell Wylie about her past are consistently captivating, but are also dark and dangerously inconsistent. Are her stories true? Or is the enticing but erratic Christie simply the better storyteller of the two?Kinsella remains as thought-provoking and engaging as ever. In Russian Dolls he creates a panorama of dozens of new characters, all struggling to survive at the fringes of modern life, while at the same time he creates an intimate portrait of a man, his typewriter, his lover and his passion.
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Download or read book World Perspectives written by Jacques Lesourne and published by New York : Gordon and Breach Science Publishers. This book was released on 1986 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 1986. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Download or read book Imagery in Vladimir Nabokov s Last Russian Novel Dar Its English Translation The Gift and Other Prose Works of the 1930s written by Nassim Winnie Berdjis and published by Peter Lang Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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