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The Last Russian Doll

By: Kristen Loesch

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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....

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0593547993

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The Porcelain Doll

By: Kristen Loesch

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The Porcelain Doll

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She was called Kukolka,' he says. Little doll. It's an unwelcome reminder of Mum's porcelain prisoners back in London. Of all the things we could have brought with us from Russia - and we weren't able to bring very much - she chose them. Rosie's only inheritance from her reclusive mother is a book of Russian fairy tales. But there is another story lurking between the lines. Not so long ago, Rosie lived peacefully in Moscow and her mother told fairy tales at bedtime. But one summer night, all that came abruptly to an end when her father and sister were gunned down. Years later, Rosie is a doctoral student at Oxford, with a fiance who knows nothing of her former life and an ailing, alcoholic mother lost to a notebook full of eerie, handwritten little stories. Desperate for answers to the questions that have tormented her, Rosie returns to her homeland and uncovers a devastating family history which spans the 1917 Revolution, the siege of Leningrad, Stalin's purges and beyond. At the heart of those answers stands a young noblewoman, Tonya, as pretty as a porcelain doll, whose actions reverberate across the century .

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0749028602

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The Last Russian Doll

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The Spaces of Bookselling

Stores, Streets, and Pages

By: Kristen Doyle Highland

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The Spaces of Bookselling

Stores, Streets, and Pages

By: Kristen Doyle Highland

The spaces of bookselling have as many stories to tell as do the books for sale. More than static backgrounds for bookselling, these dynamic spaces both shape individual and collective behaviors and perceptions and are shaped by the values and practices of booksellers and book buyers. This Element focuses primarily on bookselling in the United States from the 19th through the 21st centuries and examines three key bookselling spaces-the store, the street, and the catalogue. Following an introduction, the second section considers how the material space of bookstores shapes social engagement in and cultural values associated with the bookstore. The third section turns to itinerant and sidewalk booksellers and the ways in which they use the physical, social, and legal space of the street to craft geographies of belonging. And the final section pages through bookseller catalogues, examining them as a significant genre that works to spatialize the bookstore.

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181

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Cambridge University Press

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1108911153

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Twilight

By: Kristen Heitzmann

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Twilight

By: Kristen Heitzmann

Laurie returns back home with two kids in tow to begin a new life. Now she must face Cal, who she turned her back on and who is strugling with his own problems.

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351

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Bethany House

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0764226053

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A Little Life

By: Kristen N. Tinker

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A Little Life

By: Kristen N. Tinker

This courageous and inspiring book reveals Kristin Nelson Tinker's past through brilliant autobiographical paintings and compelling, journal-like text. Comprising photographs of her childhood and her adult life, personal letters, poems, lyrics, and drawings, A Little Life reveals the soul and spirit of an artist whose life journey has been one of growing up as a child of Hollywood to become the wife of the late Ricky Nelson and then to become a single mother struggling to keep some semblance of reality in her life.

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Journey Editions

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1885203098

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The Last Russian Doll

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