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[2016] | Viking | 462, 14 pages : maps ; 24 cm | Checked Out/Available Elsewhere 26 copies, 1 person is on the wait list. 4 copies on order.
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[2019] | Penguin Books | 1 kit in a canvas bag (10 books + 1 binder) | Available from another library
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"When, in 1922, [Count Alexander Rostov] is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, [he's] sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances...
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Viking
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[2016]
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0 of 1 | Lafayette Book Group Kit | A Gentleman in Moscow |
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[2016] | Viking | 10 books (462 pages ; 24 cm), 1 binder ; in a white and red canvas bag 46 x 20 x 16 cm | Checked Out
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"When, in 1922, [Count Alexander Rostov] is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, [he's] sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances...
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Findaway Voices
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2017
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2017 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Findaway Voices | 1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 33 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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A Gentleman in Moscow recounts the story of Count Alexander Rostov. In 1922, on the heels of the Russian Revolution, the Count is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal and sentenced to permanent house arrest in Moscow's grand Hotel Metropol. In something of a literary feat, as the Count's story progresses over three decades, the walls of the Metropol seem to expand, rather than close in around readers. Brimming with humor and wit,...
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Gale, Cengage Learning
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2018
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2018 | Hoopla | Gale, Cengage Learning | 1 online resource (23 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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A Study Guide for Amor Towles' "A Gentleman in Moscow", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Novels for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Novels for Students for all of your research needs.
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Author's Republic
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2019
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English
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2019 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Author's Republic | 1 online resource (1 audio file (1hr., 30 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel by Amor Towles - Book Summary - Abbey Beathan (Disclaimer: This is NOT the original book.) A novel about Count and how he was ordered to spend the rest of his life inside the walls of a luxury hotel. In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov was condemned to spend the rest of his life in the Metropol, a luxurious hotel. A Gentleman in Moscow feels like an emotional trip, where we empathise with Alexander Rostov's situation. At...
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[2021] | Viking, of Penguin Random House LLC | 576 pages : map ; 24 cm | On Shelf Lafayette General Fiction Tow
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2023 | Book discussion kit | Boulder Public Library | 8 books (576 pages, map ; 22 cm) + 1 binder, in cloth zippered bag (42 x 47 cm) | Checked Out
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2021 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | Checked Out 5 copies, 38 people are on the wait list.
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"In June, 1954, eighteen-year-old Emmett Watson is driven home to Nebraska by the warden of the juvenile work farm where he has just served fifteen months for involuntary manslaughter. His mother long gone, his father recently deceased, and the family farm foreclosed upon by the bank, Emmett's intention is to pick up his eight-year-old brother, Billy, and head to California where they can start their lives anew. But when the warden drives away, Emmett...
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[2011] | Viking | 335 p. : ill., photos. ; 24 cm. | Checked Out/Available Elsewhere
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2012 | Penguin Books | 335, 14 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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[2011] | Unabridged | Penguin Audio | 10 sound discs (ca. 11 hr., 30 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. | Available from another library
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2012 | Large print edition | Gale Cengage Learning | 577 pages (large print) : illustrations ; 22 cm | Available from another library
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2011 | OverDrive | Penguin Publishing Group | Checked Out 5 copies, 7 people are on the wait list.
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A chance encounter with a handsome banker in a jazz bar on New Year's Eve 1938 catapults Wall Street secretary Katey Kontent into the upper echelons of New York society, where she befriends a shy multi-millionaire, an Upper East Side ne'er-do-well, and a single-minded widow.
8) The waiter
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2018
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English
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2018 | First Scout Press hardcover edition | Scout Press | 247 pages ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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2018 | Hoopla | Unabridged | Simon & Schuster Audio | 1 online resource (1 audio file (300 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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The finely tuned balance of a grand European restaurant, The Hills (which has seen better days) is irrevocably upset by a beautiful and well-groomed, yet unexpected, female guest.
9) The Cossacks
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2006 | Hoopla | Blackstone Publishing | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 18 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | |
2010 | Hoopla | Naxos Audiobooks | 1 online resource (1 audio file (7hr., 02 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2014 | Hoopla | Interactive Media | 1 online resource (162 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | |
2022 | Hoopla | DigiCat | 1 online resource | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | |
2020 | Hoopla | Otbebookpublishing | 1 online resource (201 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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"The Cossacks" is believed to be somewhat autobiographical, partially based on Tolstoy's experiences in the Caucasus during the last stages of the Caucasian War. Disenchanted with his privileged life in Russian society, nobleman Dmitri Olenin joins the army as a cadet, in the hopes of escaping the superficiality of his daily life. On a quest to find "completeness," he naively hopes to find serenity among the "simple" people of the Caucasus. In an...
10) The Coronation
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Erast Fandorin Mysteries volume 7
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2019
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English
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2019 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (13hr., 37 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2019 | Hoopla | Grove Atlantic | 1 online resource (368 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Boris Akunin has been hailed as Russia's answer to both Agatha Christie and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for his beloved Fandorin mystery series. In The Coronation, he delivers a fantastically entertaining and deftly plotted take on the hostage novel, not to be missed. After five years spent abroad building up a business as something of a private investigator, the handsome, stuttering Fandorin is back in Moscow-and in for a case that entangles him with...
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Erast Fandorin Mysteries volume 8
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2020
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English
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2020 | Hoopla | Unabridged | HighBridge | 1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 45 min.)) : digital. | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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2020 | Hoopla | Grove Atlantic | 1 online resource (263 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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The Russian detective infiltrates a dangerous circle of suicidal poets in this "droll, incisive, and fiendishly clever" series set in nineteenth-century Moscow (The Seattle Times). Naive young Masha Mironova arrives in Moscow at the turn of the century determined to shed her provincial Siberian upbringing. Reinventing herself as the reckless and daring Columbine, she soon falls in with a subversive group of poets known as the Lovers of Death. At...
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2016 | Hoopla | Otbebookpublishing | 1 online resource (260 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection | |
2022 | Hoopla | Musaicum Books | 1 online resource | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Unlike most novels about Napoleonic wars, Henty gives a vivid picture of the horrors of war, sufferings of people who take part in the battles at the extreme weather conditions, whether it is a severe Russian winter or a burning heat of the Sahara Desert. Thus, a reader gets to know the real price of victory and defeat. "Through the Russian Snows" gives a detailed account of the battles near Smolensk and Borodino. Yet, the reader is entertained by...
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Running Wild Press
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2023
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English
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2023 | Hoopla | Running Wild Press | 1 online resource (332 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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The Confessions of Gabriel Ash, a literary Cold War thriller with echoes of John Le Carre and A Gentleman in Moscow, alternates between the glittery backdrop of 1980s New York and the sinister grottoes of Eastern Europe. The story UN Ambassador Gabriel Ash has to tell -- in a voice that's sardonic, self-delusional, and uniquely his own -- will result either in his release from captivity or the loss of his life.
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Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 8.
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Erast Fandorin mysteries volume 8
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The Mysterious Press
Pub. Date:
2020
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English
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2020 | First Grove Atlantic hardcover edition | The Mysterious Press | 263 pages ; 24 cm | Available from another library
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"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 one...
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House of Anansi Press Inc
Pub. Date:
2021
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English
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2021 | Hoopla | House of Anansi Press Inc | 1 online resource (176 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Roma meets A Gentleman in Moscow in this vivid portrait of the twentieth century, witnessed by one boy from his self-imposed refuge in Mexico City. Galo has not left his home on Amsterdam Street, not since the day in 1938 when a shocking act of violence split his family apart. His hermitage is made easier by the peculiar design of the street. It is shaped like an ellipse - if you walk it, you will find yourself returning to the same place again and...
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Andrii Ponomarenko
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2022
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English
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2022 | Hoopla | Andrii Ponomarenko | 1 online resource (1678 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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Russian short stories are known for being melancholy, often dealing with suffering. However, they can also be funny and absurd. Some common subjects include class distinctions, the plight of the underdog, and a rejection of authoritarianism and bureaucracy. The best collection of Russian short stories includes: Fyodor Dostoevsky: Notes from the Underground The Dream of a Ridiculous Man The Beggar Boy at Christ's Christmas Tree Leo Tolstoy: The Death...
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HarperCollins Publishers
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2022
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English
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2022 | Hoopla | HarperCollins Publishers | 1 online resource (352 pages) | Available Online Online Hoopla Collection |
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An utterly heart-wrenching historical novel of love, loss and sacrifice set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution, from the author of Sisters of War. Countess Sophia Orlova has it all. With a large fortune, a beautiful palatial home in Petrograd and a husband who loves her, her future is bright. But in March 1917, everything changes, as Sophia watches the revolutionary hordes take over her city and her home. When the revolutionaries threaten...
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Here's some of the books discussed by The UnBook Club, the book group for people who don't want to read what everyone else is reading! Come share what you've been reading, hang out, and find your next book to read! Visit https://cityoflafayette.com/librarybookgroupcalendar for dates and details.
20) Book Group To Go
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Make your own book club! Lafayette's Book Group To Go kits include 10 copies of the book and discussion questions. They can be checked out for 6 weeks. These titles are subject to change; please ask if you have any questions. The book kits are located in the in the upstairs Fiction area.
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