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Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xliii, 331 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
The Unwomanly Face of War is the long-awaited English translation of Svetlana Alexievich's first book, a groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia. Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women - more than a million in total - were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners and snipers. They...
Author
Language
English
Description
Anna Karenina is a beautiful and intelligent woman, whose passionate love for a handsome officer sweeps aside all other ties--to her marriage and to the network of relationships and moral values that bind the society around her. Her love affair with Vronsky is played out alongside the developing romance between Kitty and Levin, and in the character of Levin, closely based on Tolstoy himself, the search for happiness takes on a deeper philosophical...
3) Beanpole
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (137 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
1945, Leningrad. WWII has devastated the city, demolishing its buildings and leaving its citizens in tatters, physically and mentally. Two young women search for meaning and hope in the struggle to rebuild their lives amongst the ruins.
Author
Series
Publisher
The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
232 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Masha Mironova alights in Moscow at the turn of the century, with a modest inheritance and a determination to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing, she becomes Columbine: reckless and daring--and with the dramatic outfits to prove it. In her quest for danger and passion, Columbine soon discovers the Lovers of Death--a small gathering of poets who conduct séances to determine death's next chosen lover. Once named at a séance, the chosen...
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