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Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,18 MB
Release : 2017-03-07
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781452151595
Meet Masha and her sisters in this charming die-cut novelty board book inspired by Russian nesting dolls. Featuring shaped pages with brightly painted edges, and culminating in a satisfying finale, these nestled dolls reinforce a sweet message: they may be different, but they're a perfect fit!
Author : Jazmin Tourinan
Publisher : Jazmin Tourinan
Page : 23 pages
File Size : 45,22 MB
Release :
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN :
A light-hearted Fairytale. Perfect for young children and the young at heart. A silly hearted Nesting doll and her black swan companion venture outside the enchanted kingdom. In Search of her six swan brothers. All while bringing magic and wonder everywhere she goes.
Author : Akina Mirza
Publisher : Sow for Change
Page : 15 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2019-07-31
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1731164920
Ten Little Matryoshka Dolls is an engaging children's book that introduces young readers to numbers 1 through 10 using colorful and cute animal characters. The book features simple illustrations that are reinforced with numerals in appropriate colors on facing pages, making it an ideal educational tool for infants and toddlers. The story follows ten matryoshka dolls, each hiding a different animal inside. As the dolls are opened one by one, the animals inside come out to play, much to the delight of the young readers. The book encourages interactive reading, as children are invited to guess which animal will be revealed next. Overall, Ten Little Matryoshka Dolls is an excellent addition to any child's bookshelf. Its engaging theme, colorful illustrations, and educational content make it a perfect tool for introducing young readers to the world of numbers and animals.
Author : Verda Koene Hanrahan
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 11,79 MB
Release : 2004-07-01
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1469105276
A Nest for Our Russian Doll is a heartwarming book about a couples struggle with infertility and the eventual adoption of their daughter. This journey leads them halfway across the world to a village north of Moscow where they meet a small two-and-a-half-year-old child who had only known the orphanage as home. It takes you through her transition to America with her new family. This is a story that would bring hope to any couple trying to realize their dream of starting a family.
Author : Erica Axelrod
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2024-05-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN :
In this exciting legal thriller of page-turning suspense, a tough yet compassionate young woman disguises herself as a law student so she could save her friend’s life. Nina Pavlova, once a poor immigrant from Russia, is now an accomplished, American, theater student willing to risk everything to help her friend. Amandine Dubois is the young, revolutionary who fled from Haiti on a wooden boat to escape persecution and find American freedom. While in America, she is imprisoned and faces deportation. She is represented by Nina and Steve Peterson, a wealthy attorney who becomes intrigued with Amandine’s plight and with Nina’s mastery of the law. Joined together by their unified desire to see Amandine find refuge in America and enriched by their magnetic passion towards one another, Nina and Steve’s professional relationship teeters on romance. As the story unravels, Steve finds that there are many hidden layers underneath the smile of a Russian Doll. Cover design by Mike Stromberg
Author : Peter Riva
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 31,17 MB
Release : 2023-09-26
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1504085280
AI threatens to destroy humanity, and only one computer expert can stop it in this cyberpunk thriller by the author of Murder on Safari. Simon Bank lives in a future where just about everything in America is run by the System—the food supply, the weather, national security, and more. Everyone is free from want. Individuals can control where they live and where they go to school. They can have a relationship with whomever they like. They can set their own hours for work and work whatever job they like. Simon is a codifier who works with the System’s artificial intelligence to humanize it and to help it run the country more smoothly. But when a tornado tears up Manhattan, Simon realizes the System has a terrifying secret and is a threat to humankind. Now, with only his intellect and instincts, plus a few new friends—human and artificial—Simon must race against the clock to save himself and the world. And he better be careful. There’s no telling what the System might do if it feels threatened . . . “Excellently mixes both empathic human behavior with high-tech sci-fi knowledge in a complex main character that holds up a mirror to all of us human beings.” —Bavo Dhooge, Diamond Bullet Award–winning author of Styx
Author : Kristen Loesch
Publisher : Penguin Group
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2024-07-23
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0593547993
EDGAR AWARD NOMINEE FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL A haunting, epic novel about betrayal, revenge, and redemption that follows three generations of Russian women, from the 1917 revolution to the last days of the Soviet Union, and the enduring love story at the center. In a faraway kingdom, in a long-ago land... ...a young girl lived happily in Moscow with her family: a sister, a father, and an eccentric mother who liked to tell fairy tales and collect porcelain dolls. One summer night, everything changed, and all that remained of that family were the girl and her mother. Now, a decade later and studying at Oxford University, Rosie has an English name, a loving fiancé, and a promising future, but all she wants is to understand—and bury—the past. After her mother dies, Rosie returns to Russia, armed with little more than her mother’s strange folklore—and a single key. What she uncovers is a devastating family history that spans the 1917 Revolution, the siege of Leningrad, Stalin’s purges, and beyond. At the heart of this saga stands a young noblewoman, Tonya, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions—and love for an idealistic man—will set off a sweeping story that reverberates across the century....
Author : Desiree Webber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 40,91 MB
Release : 2012-12-12
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1610691253
This book assists the busy professional with ready-to-use materials to present entertaining, educational, and age-appropriate programs that introduce young learners to countries and cultures around the world. The result of a collaboration of children's librarians and educators with over 70 years' combined experience, Travel the Globe: Story Times, Activities, and Crafts for Children, Second Edition offers the busy librarian, teacher, or media specialist with ready-to-use resources that introduce children to countries and cultures around the world. It provides recommended books, stories, action rhymes, fingerplays, games, and activities that can be used to plan a series of programs or a single activity that are both entertaining and educational. The book is organized alphabetically by country, with simple, low-cost craft ideas included in each chapter. All crafts use low-cost supplies and are simple to prepare and execute. At least two craft projects are included in each chapter: one for preschoolers, with suggestions for additional simplification; and another designed for children in kindergarten through third grade. The wide variety of resources within makes this book a valuable investment, as it will be useful year after year with new presentations and activities.
Author : Barbara Early
Publisher : Crooked Lane Books
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,72 MB
Release : 2018-10-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1683317033
Just in time for the holidays, fans of Leslie Meier and Vicki Delany are going to want to pick up the charming third installment in Barbara Early’s Vintage Toy Shop mysteries. It’s all fun and games with toyshop owner Liz McCall until deadly secrets are unwrapped upon the eve of the holidays. Who knew? Liz McCall is not thrilled when her boyfriend Police Chief Ken Young introduces her to his estranged wife Marya. The model-quality Russian immigrant, back in East Aurora to rekindle their romance, will be working as a hairstylist at the barber shop next door to Well Played, the toyshop Liz manages for her dad. When Marya offers to help with the shop’s doll rehab project, Liz can’t help but offer up only a weak smile, but her secret hesitations are for naught when Marya’s body is discovered in the barber shop with a hair dryer cord wrapped around her neck. Liz’s dad, retired from the police force, is asked to investigate since Ken is the prime suspect.The whole town is abuzz with the scandal and Liz has a few questions of her own, wanting nothing more than to forget the loud argument she overheard between Marya and Ken the night before. There could have been other motives...Was Marya going to cut into a competing hairstylist business? Who is the bumbling private investigator hanging around and why won’t he explain himself? All eyes are on Liz, including those of an odd matryoshka doll in the shop which seems to move of its own accord, to unravel this entertaining riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma that is Death of a Russian Doll, the third jolly Vintage Toy Shop mystery from Barbara Early.
Author : Serhii Plokhy
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 16,11 MB
Release : 2017-05-30
Category : History
ISBN : 0465093469
A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country” (Wall Street Journal). As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today’s crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine’s sovereignty. Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine has been shaped by empires that exploited the nation as a strategic gateway between East and West—from the Romans and Ottomans to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. In The Gates of Europe, Plokhy examines Ukraine’s search for its identity through the lives of major Ukrainian historical figures, from its heroes to its conquerors. This revised edition includes new material that brings this definitive history up to the present. As Ukraine once again finds itself at the center of global attention, Plokhy brings its history to vivid life as he connects the nation’s past with its present and future.
