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Although some twenty million people died during Stalins reign of terror only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time In 1991 Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors retired concentration camp guards and countless others The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin
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Explores how Russiansprison survivors historians concentration camp guards and othersare healing the wounds inflicted by longrepressed memories of the former leader and recounts the efforts of many to locate relatives who disappeared during Stalins tenure
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The new novel from the author of Art in the Blood December 1889 Fresh from debunking a ghostly hound in Dartmoor Sherlock Holmes has returned to London only to find himself the target of a deadly vendettaA beautiful client arrives with a tale of ghosts kidnapping and dynamite on a whisky estate in Scotland but brother Mycroft trumps all with an urgent assignment in the South of FranceOn the fabled Riviera Holmes and Watson encounter treachery explosions rival French Detective Jean Vidocq and a terrible discovery This propels the duo northward to the snowy highlands There in a haunted castle and among the copper dinosaurs of a great whisky distillery they and their young client face mortal danger and Holmes realizes all three cases have blended into a single deadly conundrumIn order to solve the mystery the ultimate rational thinker must confront a ghost from his own past But Sherlock Holmes does not believe in ghostsor does he
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Preserving the childhood memories of some of the last generation of White Russian women to experience the revolution firsthand this poignant collection of interviews and photographs provides a unique record of life in Russia
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A fascinating memoir brought to the public as a result of Gorbachevs glasnost policy of a Ukrainian princess now 85 relating her experiences from the revolution to the present Annotation copyright Book News Inc Portland Or
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In an isolated village in the Icelandic Westfjords three friends set to work renovating a rundown house But soon they realize they are not as alone as they thought Something wants them to leave and its making its presence felt Meanwhile in a town across the fjord a young doctor investigating the suicide of an elderly woman discovers that she was obsessed with his vanished son When the two stories collide the terrifying truth is uncoveredIn the vein of John Ajvide Lindqvist this horrifying thriller is the scariest novel yet from Yrsa Sigurdardottir who has captivated the attention of readers around the world with her mystery series featuring attorney Thora Gudmundsdottir Now in I Remember You Yrsa will stun readers once again with this outofthisworld ghost story that will leave you shivering
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Visiting the Soviet Union on an exchange program the reader attends a seance during which the spirit of Rasputin is contacted sending the reader back in time to the 1917 Russian Revolution
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Stalin ordered his execution but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word As if rising from an uneasy grave Palchinskys ghost leads us through the miasma of Soviet technology and industry pointing out the mistakes he condemned in his time the corruption and collapse he predicted the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out The story of this visionary engineers life and work as Loren Graham relates it is also the story of the Soviet Unions industrial promise and failureWe meet Palchinsky in preRevolutionary Russia immersed in protests against the miserable lot of laborers in the tsarist state protests destined to echo ironically during the Soviet workers paradise Exiled from the country pardoned and welcomed back at the outbreak of World War I the engineer joined the ranks of the Revolutionary government only to find it no more open to criticism than the previous regime His turbulent career offers us a window on debates over industrialization Graham highlights the harsh irrationalities built into the Soviet system the worlds most inefficient steel mill in Magnitogorsk the gigantic and illconceived hydroelectric plant on the Dnieper River the infamously cruel and mislocated construction of the White Sea Canal Time and again we see the effect of policies that ignore not only workers and consumers needs but also sound management and engineering precepts And we see Palchinskys criticism and advice persistently given consistently ignored continue to haunt the Soviet Union right up to its dissolution in 1991The story of a man whose gifts and character set him in the path of history The Ghost of the Executed Engineer is also a cautionary tale about the fate of engineering that disregards social and human issues
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Book is in UsedVeryGood condition Pages and cover are clean and intact Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting 104
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Visiting the Soviet Union on an exchange program the reader attends a seance during which the spirit of Rasputin is contacted sending the reader back in time to the 1917 Russian Revolution
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Stalin ordered his execution but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word As if rising from an uneasy grave Palchinskys ghost leads us through the miasma of Soviet technology and industry pointing out the mistakes he condemned in his time the corruption and collapse he predicted the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out The story of this visionary engineers life and work as Loren Graham relates it is also the story of the Soviet Unions industrial promise and failureWe meet Palchinsky in preRevolutionary Russia immersed in protests against the miserable lot of laborers in the tsarist state protests destined to echo ironically during the Soviet workers paradise Exiled from the country pardoned and welcomed back at the outbreak of World War I the engineer joined the ranks of the Revolutionary government only to find it no more open to criticism than the previous regime His turbulent career offers us a window on debates over industrialization Graham highlights the harsh irrationalities built into the Soviet system the worlds most inefficient steel mill in Magnitogorsk the gigantic and illconceived hydroelectric plant on the Dnieper River the infamously cruel and mislocated construction of the White Sea Canal Time and again we see the effect of policies that ignore not only workers and consumers needs but also sound management and engineering precepts And we see Palchinskys criticism and advice persistently given consistently ignored continue to haunt the Soviet Union right up to its dissolution in 1991The story of a man whose gifts and character set him in the path of history The Ghost of the Executed Engineer is also a cautionary tale about the fate of engineering that disregards social and human issues
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Through Graham executed engineer Peter Palchinsky tells of Soviet technology and industry the mistakes he condemned in his lifetime the corruption and collapse he predicted the ultimate price paid for silencing those who were not afraid to speak out Palchinskys story is also the story of the Soviet Unions industrial promise and failure
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Khan is a refreshing original and The Unquiet Dead blazes what one hopes will be a new path guided by the authors keen understanding of the intersection of faith and core Muslim values complex human nature and evil done by seemingly ordinary people It is these qualities that make this a debut to remember and one that even those who eschew the mystery genre will devour in one breathtaking sitting The LA TimesDespite their many differences Detective Rachel Getty trusts her boss Esa Khattak implicitly But shes still uneasy at Khattaks tightlipped secrecy when he asks her to look into Christopher Draytons death Draytons apparently accidental fall from a cliff doesnt seem to warrant a police investigation particularly not from Rachel and Khattaks team which handles minoritysensitive cases But when she learns that Drayton may have been living under an assumed name Rachel begins to understand why Khattak is tiptoeing around this case It soon comes to light that Drayton may have been a war criminal with ties to the Srebrenica massacre of 1995If thats true any number of people might have had reason to help Drayton to his death and a murder investigation could have farreaching ripples throughout the community But as Rachel and Khattak dig deeper into the life and death of Christopher Drayton every question seems to lead only to more questions with no easy answers Had the specters of Srebrenica returned to haunt Drayton at the end or had he been keeping secrets of an entirely different nature Or after all did a man just fall to his death from the BluffsIn her spellbinding debut Ausma Zehanat Khan has written a complex and provocative story of loss redemption and the cost of justice that will linger with readers long after turning the final page
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Paul Muni Cornel Wilde Merle Oberon The lush musical biography of Fredric Chopin the famous Polish pianist and composer beginning as a boy when he insulted a Russian governor and fled to Paris where he eventually achieved great fame 1945color113 minNRfullscreen
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A woman rejects her husbands heart and gives it back to him still beating in a plastic box A little boy betrays his father to the harsh mercies of Santa Claus A widower suspects his dead wifes face is growing over his own A man goes to Hell and finds hes roommate to the ghost of Hitlers pet dog Giant spiders killer angels ghost cat photography and the haunted house right at the centre of the Garden of Eden Deliciously frightening darkly satirical and always unexpected Robert Shearman has won the World Fantasy Award the British Fantasy Award the Shirley Jackson Award and the Edge Hill Readers Prize Remember Why You Fear Me gathers together his best dark fiction the most celebrated stories from his acclaimed books and ten new tales that have never been collected before
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I Remember Chesterfield is a vividly recalled memoir about a way of life that no longer exists From the 1890s until the 1920s a small enclave of 50 immigrant Russian Jewish families purchased wornout Yankee farmland in Chesterfield Connecticut with assistance from the Baron Maurice de Hirsch Fund Supplementing their poor livelihoods as farmers they enterprisingly became small traders dairymen pants stitchers and summer boarding house owners If they recreated a little European stetl italics in turn of the century rural America they were also fiercely determined to acculturate and in 1892 incorporated as the New England Hebrew Farmers Association Savin the oldest living great grandchild of community leader Harris Kaplan passionately and lovingly chronicles life in Chesterfield She recalls the halcyon days at her grandparents farm where she picked sun kissed blueberries bathed in Kosofskys clear cool brook visited her Grandfathers general store and attended the little Chesterfield synagogue that unified the community through its traditional customs and rituals Although it remained a formative influence throughout her life the Chesterfield Savin once knew knew and loved has long disappeared In this wonderful book but it lives again timeless and compelling
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I Remember Chesterfield is a vividly recalled memoir about a way of life that no longer exists From the 1890s until the 1920s a small enclave of 50 immigrant Russian Jewish families purchased wornout Yankee farmland in Chesterfield Connecticut with assistance from the Baron Maurice de Hirsch Fund Supplementing their poor livelihoods as farmers they enterprisingly became small traders dairymen pants stitchers and summer boarding house owners If they recreated a little European stetl italics in turn of the century rural America they were also fiercely determined to acculturate and in 1892 incorporated as the New England Hebrew Farmers Association Savin the oldest living great grandchild of community leader Harris Kaplan passionately and lovingly chronicles life in Chesterfield She recalls the halcyon days at her grandparents farm where she picked sun kissed blueberries bathed in Kosofskys clear cool brook visited her Grandfathers general store and attended the little Chesterfield synagogue that unified the community through its traditional customs and rituals Although it remained a formative influence throughout her life the Chesterfield Savin once knew knew and loved has long disappeared In this wonderful book but it lives again timeless and compelling
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