false 588448 1212868 042521558X 9780425215586 350 <![CDATA[The Russian Concubine]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181926849m/1212868.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1181926849s/1212868.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1212868.The_Russian_Concubine 3.54 1268 In a city full of thieves and Communists, danger and death, spirited young Lydia Ivanova has lived a hard life. Always looking over her shoulder, the sixteen-year-old must steal to feed herself and her mother, Valentina, who numbered among the Russian elite until Bolsheviks murdered most of them, including her husband. As exiles, Lydia and Valentina have learned to survive in a foreign land.

Often, Lydia steals away to meet with the handsome young freedom fighter Chang An Lo. But they face danger: Chiang Kai Shek's troops are headed toward Junchow to kill Reds like Chang, who has in his possession the jewels of a tsarina, meant as a gift for the despot's wife. The young pair's all-consuming love can only bring shame and peril upon them, from both sides. Those in power will do anything to quell it. But Lydia and Chang are powerless to end it.

]]> 588448 3.61 2056 557 2006 2309409 0425221644 9780425221648 160 <![CDATA[The Red Scarf]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256004749m/2309409.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256004749s/2309409.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2309409.The_Red_Scarf 3.74 616 The Russian Concubine dazzled readers. Now, its gifted author delivers another sweeping historical novel.

Davinsky Labor Camp, Siberia, 1933: Only two things in this wretched place keep Sofia from giving up hope: the prospect of freedom, and the stories told by her friend and fellow prisoner Anna, of a charmed childhood in Petrograd, and her fervent girlhood love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily.

After a perilous escape, Sofia endures months of desolation and hardship. But, clinging to a promise she made to Anna, she subsists on the belief that someday she will track down Vasily. In a remote village, she’s nursed back to health by a Gypsy family, and there she finds more than refuge—she also finds Mikhail Pashin, who, her heart tells her, is Vasily in disguise. He’s everything she has ever wanted—but he belongs to Anna.

After coming this far, Sofia is tantalizingly close to freedom, family—even a future. All that stands in her way is the secret past that could endanger everything she has come to hold dear…]]> 588448 3.61 2056 557 2008 6255648 0425227642 9780425227640 24 <![CDATA[The Girl from Junchow]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255978490m/6255648.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255978490s/6255648.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6255648.The_Girl_from_Junchow 3.74 91 An epic journey of love and discovery from the national bestselling author of The Russian Concubine and The Red Scarf.

China, 1929. For years Lydia Ivanova believed her father was killed by the Bolsheviks. But when she learns he is imprisoned in Stalin-controlled Russia, the fiery girl is willing to leave everything behind- even her Chinese lover, Chang An Lo.

Lydia begins a dangerous search, journeying to Moscow with her half-brother Alexei. But when Alexei abruptly disappears, Lydia is left alone, penniless in Soviet Russia.

All seems lost, but Chang An Lo has not forgotten Lydia. He knows things about her father that she does not. And while he races to protect her, she is prepared to risk treacherous consequences to discover the truth.]]> 588448 3.61 2056 557 2009 7056596 0 <![CDATA[The Concubine's Secret]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7056596-the-concubine-s-secret 4.00 2 588448 3.61 2056 557 2009 7196124 0425236102 9780425236109 0 <![CDATA[The Jewel of St. Petersburg 12-Copy Solid Floor Display]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7196124-the-jewel-of-st-petersburg-12-copy-solid-floor-display 0.0 0 588448 3.61 2056 557 2010 7196125 0425236110 9780425236116 0 <![CDATA[Furnivall 18-Copy Mixed Floor Display]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7196125-furnivall-18-copy-mixed-floor-display 0.0 0 588448 3.61 2056 557 2010 6948137 0751543306 9780751543308 0 <![CDATA[The Jewel of St Petersburg]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6948137-the-jewel-of-st-petersburg 0.0 0 588448 3.61 2056 557 2010 6948138 184744332X 9781847443328 0 <![CDATA[Untitled Valentina Novel]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6948138-untitled-valentina-novel 0.0 0 588448 3.61 2056 557 2010