Shurik: A Story of the Siege of Leningrad.
Grosset & Dunlap, 1970
A poignant personal story of a young Russian nurse and a homeless orphan boy during the 3-year siege of Leningrad in World War II.

Among the many people trapped in Leningrad by the advancing German Army were a teenage actress named Kyra and an orphan boy called Shurik. Kyra, her brilliant stage career interrupted by the war, was serving as a military nurse when she found a small orphaned boy and saved him from almost certain death . . .

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Quest for Empire
Hancock House Publishers, 1986
The brilliant Russian Court of Tsar Alexander I and the dramatic vastness of Alaska provide the background upon which a tapestry of dozens of lives is richly embroidered.

There is crusty Alexander Baranov, the Governor of Russian America engaged in a bloody war with the Tlingit Indians for the possession of land; there is the ambitious sophisticated diplomat, Nikolai Rezanov, whose marriage to Concha, the young Spanish beauty at the Presidio de San Francisco might have changed the course of American history...
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Max The Dog That Refused To Die
Alpine Publications, 1979

The true adventures of Max, who becomes lost and severely injured but makes his way over rugged terrain reaching a cabin where he is befriended and rushed to a veterinarian. Almost totally emaciated from his ordeal, Max's chances for recovery are slim. Still, his indomitable will bolsters him against all obstacles . . .
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Peppers Ordeal
Hancock House Publishers, 2000

The true story of another of Kyra Wayne's beloved Dobermans. An open gate leads Pepper to a sinister character and rusty cages full of raging Pitbulls. After some shrewd detective work, Kyra and a pair of courageous boys rescue Pepper from a dogfight training farm, but not without an encounter with the woman with "one long earring".
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NOTE: Includes both Max The Dog That Refused to Die and Pepper’s Ordeal.

Quest for Bigfoot
Hancock House Publishers, 1996
Young Steve Bradley has a secret ambition: he wants to be the discoverer of Sasquatch, the legendary Bigfoot of the Pacific Northwest. While spending a summer as a guest of a local tribal Chief, who used to be Steve’s father’s college roommate, Steve participates in an Indian potlatch in Canada takes part in archery competition and makes life-long friends with several young native boys . . .
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LI'L OL’ Charlie
Alpine Publications, 1989
A touching true-life adventure about a retired park ranger and his friends, LI'L OL' CHARLIE will delight readers young and old alike. Although retired, Charlie Olsen is no hermit. He has plenty of company-five dogs, a cat, and Mathilda, a lumbering black bear who thinks she's a dog. Still Charlie's compassion for an orphaned black boy compels him to take on a struggle with bureaucracy in order to adopt a "grandson," Russell . . .
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The Witches of Barguzin
Thomas Nelson, 1975
A woman and her young son, political exiles from St. Petersburg, try to adjust to the primitive life among hostile peasants in a Siberian village in czarist Russia . . .
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The Quest for the Golden Fleece
Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1960
Many times in ancient Greece, a daring young man, longing for adventure and eager to prove his heroism, set out in search of the Golden Fleece. But no one had ever captured it. For this most coveted of all prizes hung in a dark mysterious grove guarded by a dragon who never slept.

Then, one day, a young prince named Jason announced that he would try. And so...he sailed away on one of the most famous of all heroic voyages.                                             [Out Of Print]

Rekindle the Dreams
Dale, 1977 - This novel takes place in Russia during the 19th century.

Teenaged Vassily and his mother are exiled to Sibiria following the execution of his revolutionary father. They try to adjust to life among the illiterate and superstitious peasants who don’t trust educated people.

A chance encounter with an old hermit, who had befriended deranged woman accused of being a witch . . .
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The Awakening
Grosset & Dunlap, 1973
Zina was one of the "Young Pioneers" growing up in Stalin's Leningrad during the 1930s. Life was uneasy for everyone, particularly for those whose roots, like Zina's, went back to prerevolution Russian nobility. But Zina's mother and grandmother rarely spoke of other days. Her mother went silently about her work in the boot factory to earn their living, and grandmother brought Zina up, taught her French and English, and nagged and ridiculed her unmercifully . . .
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Kyra
Prentice Hall, 1959
The extraordinary adventures of a brilliant, beautiful woman--her outspoken account of the life in Soviet Russia...her moving experiences of hardship, violence and love . . .
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Secrets of Russian Cooking
Prentice Hall, 1961
this handy, easy-to-follow guide you can create over 200 hearty flavorful dishes that have delighted the Russian palate for generations. Here are complete recipes for such taste-tempting fare as borsch, shashlik of salmon, Russian meat loaf with rice “zrazy,” Russian squab in sour cream, potato kotlety, pirozhki and pirogi, blini, the traditional Easter dessert “paskha” and many more . . .
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