Winner of the Nebula Award for Best Novel Naomi Novik, author of the New York Times best-selling and critically acclaimed Temeraire novels, introduces a bold new world rooted in folk stories and legends, as elemental as a Grimm fairy tale. Hugo Award...

Uprooted

Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs - at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia ...

The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia

A long-awaited English translation of the groundbreaking oral history of women in World War II across Europe and Russia - from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature “A landmark.” (Timothy Snyder, author of On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Tw...

The Unwomanly Face of War

"A masterpiece" (The Guardian) from the Nobel Prize-winning writer, an oral history of children’s experiences in World War II across Russia Named one of the Best Books of the Year by The Washington Post For more than three decades, Svetlana Alexievic...

Last Witnesses

From Kathryn Harrison, one of America’s most admired literary voices, comes a gorgeously written, enthralling novel set in the final days of Russia’s Romanov Empire.  St. Petersburg, 1917. After Rasputin’s body is pulled from the icy waters of the Ne...

Enchantments

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of The Unwomanly Face of War by Svetlana Alexeivich, read by Julia Emelin and Yelena Shmulenson.  Bringing together dozens of voices in her distinctive style, The Unwomanly Face of War is Svetlana Alexievich's c...

What if Anton Chekhov, undisputed master of the short story, actually wrote a novel - and the manuscript still existed? This tantalizing possibility drives The Summer Guest, a spellbinding narrative that draws together, across two centuries, the live...

The Summer Guest

Have you been trying to learn Russian and simply can’t find the way to expand your vocabulary? Do your teachers recommend you boring textbooks and complicated stories that you don’t really understand? Are you looking for a way to learn the language q...

2000 Most Common Russian Words in Context

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Last Witnesses, by Svetlana Alexievich, read by Julia Emelin, Yelena Shmulenson and Allen Lewis Rickman.    What did it mean to grow up in the Soviet Union during the Second World War? In the late 1970s, Svet...

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