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  • Two Essays

    Series series Ploughshares Solos
    On September 7, 1978, Bulgarian writer and journalist Georgi Markov was assassinated by the Bulgarian government. Since moving to London in 1970 and working as a newscaster for the BBC’s Foreign Service, he had become one of the most vocal critics of the regime, broadcasting narrative essays about life in Bulgaria. Two of those essays, translated here by Dimiter Kenarov, “Prostitution” and ... Read more

    $1.99 USD

  • Ploughshares Fall 2018

    Accompany Jill McCorkle, Allen Gee, Georgi Markov, Own King, and others as they grapple with the disappearance of body, culture, and neighbors. Visit Guatemala to witness the evolution of a past life. Meet a Bulgarian radio voice killed for telling ordinary stories. Face boisterous sideline characters and sullen internet personalities. Grapple with dinner party discussions and take a trip to ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible

    The Surreal Heart of the New Russia

    A journey into the glittering, surreal heart of twenty-first-century Russia, where even dictatorship is a reality show.**“A gripping and unsettling account.” —**Washington PostProfessional killers with the souls of artists, would-be theater directors turned Kremlin puppet masters, Hells Angels who hallucinate themselves as holy warriors: welcome to twenty-first-century Russia. It is a world ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Company

    A Novel of the CIA

    This realistic New York Times–bestselling epic spy novel captures the thrilling story of CIA agents in the latter half of the Twentieth Century.The New York Times bestselling spy novel The Company lays bare the history and inner workings of the CIA. This critically acclaimed blockbuster from internationally renowned novelist Robert Littell seamlessly weaves together history and fiction to create a ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The St. Petersburg Confessions

    by Ty Hutchinson ...
    THE ST. PETERSBURG CONFESSIONS is a gripping tale that clocks in at a little over 20,000 words or 110 pages long. It is also the prequel to the character Ghostface in STROGANOV."I have sins to confess.""Tell me, what evil have you done?"It's St. Petersburg, right before the fall of Communism. Father Fedor, an Orthodox priest at St. Catherine's Cathedral, is locking up after the late night mass ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Black Knight in Red Square

    Series Book 2 - Inspector Porfiry Rostnikov Mysteries
    A Soviet cop stars in this novel of "sweaty-palmed suspense . . . Equal parts likeable characters and believable dangers" ( The Washington Post Book World).The Moscow Film Festival is in town, and the elite artists of the East and West have convened at the legendary Metropole Hotel to drink, gossip, and flirt. But the party is about to come crashing down. Four men—one American, one Japanese, and ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • The Suitcase

    A Novel

    Sergei Dovlatov's subtle, dark–edged humor and wry observations are in full force in The Suitcase as he examines eight objects—the items he brought with him in his luggage upon his emigration from the U.S.S.R. These seemingly undistinguished possessions, stuffed into a worn–out suitcase, take on a riotously funny life of their own as Dovlatov inventories the circumstances under which he acquired ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Defection of A.J. Lewinter

    **A new edition of the spy classic by Robert Littell, New York Times bestselling master of the espionage thriller.The black comedy follows a pawn in the American military complex whose decision to change sides might determine the outcome of the Cold War.**An engineer who’s spent most of his career studying ceramic nose cones for ballistic missiles, American scientist A.J. Lewinter is used to being ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Secret Lovers

    Series series Paul Christopher Novels
    An American spy confronts personal and political intrigues when he obtains a Russian dissident's explosive manuscript in this Cold War spy thriller.In West Berlin, CIA agent Paul Christopher receives a dissident Russian novelist's handwritten manuscript from a nervous courier. Minutes after the handoff, the courier's spine is nearly snapped by a passing black sedan. Meanwhile in Rome, Christopher ... Read more

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  • The Red Daughter

    A Novel

    Running from her father’s brutal legacy, Joseph Stalin’s daughter defects to the United States during the turbulence of the 1960s. For fans of We Were the Lucky Ones and A Gentleman in Moscow, this sweeping historical novel and unexpected love story is inspired by the remarkable life of Svetlana Alliluyeva.“The Red Daughter does exactly what good historical fiction should do: It sends you down the ... Read more

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  • Prague Farewell

    Prague Farewell by Heda Margolius Kovály (68,000 words and 8 photographs)Note: Under A Cruel Star first appeared in the UK under the title Prague Farewell; except for title and cover, both eBooks are identical"A story of the human spirit as its most indomitable... one of the outstanding autobiographies of the century." San Francisco Chronicle"Once in a rare while we read a book that puts the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Prague Orgy

    A Novel

    by Philip Roth ...
    “Obscenely outrageous and yet brilliantly reflective of a paranoid reality that has become universal. It is the best of Roth.” —The New York Times Book ReviewIn quest of the unpublished manuscript of a martyred Yiddish writer, the American novelist Nathan Zuckerman travels to Soviet-occupied Prague in the mid-1970s. There, in a nation straightjacketed by totalitarian Communism, he discovers a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD