“THE WORST GOOD IDEA ever”—brilliant, cynical history of the USSR’s ill-fated Jewish Autonomous Region.

URBAN EXPLORATION, FROM the catacombs of Paris to the bridges of New York, captured in an exciting memoir.

FASCINATING STORIES OF the lives of the Russian aristocracy, from the eve of revolution to later reprisals.

WITH INSIGHTS FROM new research and recently opened archives, a fresh biography of Rasputin reveals much.

OFFBEAT, DARK SATIRE about a little Russian boy afflicted with hiccups and the odd ducks who try to cure him.

SWEEPING HISTORICAL NOVEL tells the story of Catherine the Great’s rise to the Russian throne. Engrossing!

ENGROSSING MEDITATION on Russia’s history and geography by an English expatriate scholar is witty, informative.