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Author
Series
Eastern European crime series volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Author
Series
Eastern European crime series volume 2
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Author
Series
Eastern European crime series volume 3
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
5) The keep
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two cousins, irreversibly damaged by a childhood prank whose devastating consequences changed both their lives, reunite twenty years later to renovate a medieval castle in Eastern Europe, a castle steeped in blood lore and family pride. Built over a secret system of caves and tunnels, the castle and its violent history invoke and subvert all the elements of a gothic past: twins, a pool, an old baroness, a fearsome tower. In an environment of extreme...
Author
Series
Eastern European crime series volume 4
Publisher
St. Martin's Minotaur
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
8) Last snow
Author
Series
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Jack McClure, Special Advisor and closest friend to the new President of the United States, takes on a personal mission along with his official one: keeping safe from harm his two incompatible companions-- Annika Dementieva, a rogue Russian FSB agent, and Alli Carson, the President's daughter-- and finding the people responsible for murdering an American senator who was supposedly on a political trip to the Ukraine.
Author
Publisher
ChiZine Publications
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Three neighboring villages on the Ukrainian/Romanian border are the final refuge for the last of the mythical creatures of Eastern Europe. Now, on the eve of the war that may eradicate their kind--and with the ruthless Night Police descending upon their sanctuary--they tell their stories and confront their destinies. Eerie and unsettling like the best fairy tales, these incisor-sharp portraits of ghosts, witches, sirens, and seers--and the mortals...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Up-timer Morris Roth and his Grand Army of the Sunrise stand at a crossroads. Military success against the Polish-Lithuanian magnates has all but guaranteed a continued push east into Ruthenian lands. There, Roth hopes to further his Anaconda Project so that tens of thousands of Jews are not slaughtered in what's to become known as the Chmielnicki Pogrom of 1648. An envoy from Transylvania arrives with a promising offer from its prince, who wishes...
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"What if there was a town that Hitler missed? For over fifty years the tiny Jewish shtetl of Kreskol has existed virtually untouched and unchanged. Spared of the Holocaust and Cold War, Kreskol has enjoyed an isolated peace. But when a marriage dispute spirals out of control, Kreskol is suddenly rediscovered and brought into the 21st Century. Pesha is in a loveless, arranged marriage and summons the courage to escape Kreskol on foot. But when her...
Author
Publisher
Umbriel
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
Español
Description
Tras haber sido robada a su acomodada familia alemana y haber sido criada en la implacable naturaleza de Europa del Este, la joven Yona se encuentra sola en 1941 tras la muerte de su secuestradora. Sin embargo, su solitaria existencia se ve interrumpida cuando se cruza con un grupo de judíos que huyen del terror nazi. Ella se sorprende al descubrir lo que está sucediendo en el mundo, por lo que se compromete a enseñarle al grupo todo lo que sabe...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The New York Times bestselling author of the "heart-stopping tale of survival and heroism" (People) The Book of Lost Names returns with an evocative coming-of-age World War II story about a young woman who uses her knowledge of the wilderness to help Jewish refugees escape the Nazis-until a secret from her past threatens everything"--
1941. Stolen from her wealthy German parents and raised in the unforgiving wilderness of eastern Europe, Yona finds...
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