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Gorbachev: His Life and Times

William Taubman

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Khrushchev: The Man and his Era comes the definitive...

The Unwomanly Face of War

Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky

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The long-awaited translation of the classic oral history of Soviet women's experiences in the Second...

China's Approach to Central Asia: The Shanghai Co-Operation Organisation

Weiqing Song

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This book examines, comprehensively, the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation, the regional...

Conflict Resolution in South Caucasus: Challenges to International Efforts

Esmira Jafarova

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This book aims to highlight the efforts by the international community to facilitate solutions to...

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Amy Bloom | 2008 | Contemporary, Fiction & Poetry

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"This is the story of Lillian Leyb, a Russian immigrant making her way in a new land, traveling through America in the mid-1920s. Her daughter was taken away from her during a pogrom in Russia, and she feels this unbelievable mother’s pull to search for her child that keeps her going—literally—through woods and snow and over mountains. From minute one, you root for Lillian’s success because she’s this plucky heroine. I felt as if I were on the journey with her, so there were a couple of moments when I would just want to throw the book across the room and yell, ‘Amy Bloom, if you make Lillian suffer anymore, I am going to kill you!’ This is a sweeping story of someone new to America who runs into the best and worst of people. The kindness—and the harshness—Lillian finds along the way represents, I think, the real experience of our country."

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