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Ivan and the Informer
Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher: Turtleback
Published: 2003-01-01
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ISBN-13: 9780613800709
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Ivan and the Daring Escape
Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher: Flamingo Fiction 9-13s
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845501327
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The Moscow Secret police have imprisoned Ivan's best friend, Pyotr, in a children's home. God uses Ivan's football skills to help him and his friends get the better of Moscow Secret police.
Everything Flows
Author: Vasily Grossman
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Published: 2010-05-05
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13: 1590173899
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A New York Review Books Original Everything Flows is Vasily Grossman’s final testament, written after the Soviet authorities suppressed his masterpiece, Life and Fate. The main story is simple: released after thirty years in the Soviet camps, Ivan Grigoryevich must struggle to find a place for himself in an unfamiliar world. But in a novel that seeks to take in the whole tragedy of Soviet history, Ivan’s story is only one among many. Thus we also hear about Ivan’s cousin, Nikolay, a scientist who never let his conscience interfere with his career, and Pinegin, the informer who got Ivan sent to the camps. Then a brilliant short play interrupts the narrative: a series of informers steps forward, each making excuses for the inexcusable things that he did—inexcusable and yet, the informers plead, in Stalinist Russia understandable, almost unavoidable. And at the core of the book, we find the story of Anna Sergeyevna, Ivan’s lover, who tells about her eager involvement as an activist in the Terror famine of 1932–33, which led to the deaths of three to five million Ukrainian peasants. Here Everything Flows attains an unbearable lucidity comparable to the last cantos of Dante’s Inferno.
Ivan and the Hidden Bible
Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher: Flamingo Fiction 9-13s
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781845501334
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Part of the Ivan story-book series Exciting adventures For 9 - 13 year olds
Forever Flowing
Author: Vasiliĭ Grossman
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780810115033
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The novel tells the story of Ivan Grigoryevich, who has returned to Russia after thirty years in the Gulag. After short and unsatisfying visits to familiar places and persons in Moscow and Leningrad, the hero settles in a southern provincial town where he briefly establishes a new life with a war widow. Ivan Grigoryevich eventually returns to his boyhood home on the Black Sea, where he is finally able to come to terms with the inhumanity of the new Russian regime.
Captain Vorpatril's Alliance
Author: Lois McMaster Bujold
Publisher: Baen Publishing Enterprises
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 432
ISBN-13: 1618249592
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Captain Ivan Vorpatril is happy with his relatively uneventful bachelor's life of a staff officer to a Barrayaran admiral. Ivan, cousin to Imperial troubleshooter Miles Vorkosigan, is not far down the hereditary list for the emperorship. Thankfully, new heirs have directed that headache elsewhere, leaving Ivan to enjoy his life on Komarr, far from the Byzantine court politics of his home system. But when an old friend in Barrayaran intelligence asks Ivan to protect an attractive young woman who may be on the hit list of a criminal syndicate, Ivan's chivalrous nature takes over. It seems danger and adventures have once more found Captain Vorpatril. Tej Arqua and her half-sister and servant Rish are fleeing the violent overthrow of their clan on free-for-all planet Jackson's Whole. Now it seems Tej may possess a hidden secret of which even she may not be aware. It's a secret that could corrupt the heart of a highly regarded Barayarran family and provide the final advantage for the thugs who seek to overthrow Tej's homeworld. But none of Tej's formidable adversaries have counted on Ivan Vorpatril. For behind Ivan's faade of wry and self effacing humor lies a true and cunning protector who will never leave a distressed lady in the lurch¾up to and including making the ultimate sacrifice to keep her from harm: the treasured and hardwon freedom from his own fate as a scion of Barrayar. At the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
No Saints or Angels
Author: Ivan Klíma
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
Published: 2007-12-01
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0802196667
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A novel of one desperate woman’s hopes and desires set in contemporary Prague from “a literary gem who is too little appreciated in the West” (The Boston Globe). Divorced, approaching fifty, and mother to a rebellious fifteen-year-old, Kristyna is beginning to feel the strain of her bleak existence—until she finds a new sense of joy when she begins a love affair with a man fifteen years her junior But her escape into romance is far from complete. She worries about her daughter Jana, who has been cutting school, and may be using heroin—the latest plague on the city. And Kristyna’s mother has forced her to accept the personal papers of her dead father, a tyrant whose Stalinist ideals she despised. At a crossroads in her life, she must find a way to put the past behind her and deal with the challenges of the present in a Czechoslovakia that is still trying to overcome years of communist oppression. In this Washington Post Best Book of 2001, Klima “unflinchingly presents the problems facing modern Prague and civilization in general . . . [and] fills it with mercy” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Vanya
Author: Myrna Grant
Publisher:
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780860657811
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A Classic That's Inspired Millions Out of the dark shadows of Soviet atheism rose a fearless young man whose boldness for Christ would make him a testimony to millions of believers around the world. This is the true story of Ivan (Vanya) Moiseyev, a soldier in the Soviet Red Army who was ruthlessly persecuted and incarcerated for his faith. Through two years of trial and torture, he never denied his Savior, and he never hesitated to share the gospel with anyone who would listen. You'll be inspired to live for Christ in your own world as never before after you experience the gripping story of a believer named "Vanya." ""
Wave of Terror
Author: Theodore Odrach
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2014-10-01
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 1613732260
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This novel is a major literary discovery, and Odrach is drawing favorable comparisons with such eminent writers as Chekhov and Solzhenitsyn. Odrach wrote in Ukrainian, while living an exile's life in Toronto. This remarkable book is a microcosm of Soviet history, and Odrach provides a first-hand account of events during the Stalinist era that newsreels never covered. It has special value as a sensitive and realistic portrait of the times, while capturing the internal drama of the characters with psychological concision. Odrach creates a powerful and moving picture, and manages to show what life was really like under the brutal dictatorship of Stalin, and brings cataclysmic events of history to a human scale.
