A husband wakes up to find that his wife has had a seizure during the night. The husband calls an ambulance and his wife is rushed to a hospital where she lies in a coma. By day, the husband sits beside his wife and tries to think of ways to wake her up. At night, the husband sleeps in the chair next to his wife’s bedside dreaming that she will wake up. He wants to be able to take her back home. Years later, the story of this long and loving marriage is retold by their grandson. He wants to understand his grandmother's life and death, what it meant to his grandfather, and what it means to him. He wants to understand — in his own words — "how love can accumulate between two people."

Winner of the 2014 Scotiabank Giller Prize. A BEAUTIFUL, HAUNTING NOVEL INSPIRED BY THE TRUE LIFE AND LOVES OF THE FAMED RUSSIAN SCIENTIST, INVENTOR AND SPY LEV TERMEN — CREATOR OF THE THEREMIN. Us Conductors takes us from the glamour of Jazz Age New York to the gulags and science prisons of the Soviet Union. On a ship steaming its way from Manhattan back to Leningrad, Lev Termen writes a letter to his “one true love”, Clara Rockmore, telling her the story of his life. Imprisoned in his cabin, he recalls his early years as a scientist, inventing the theremin and other electric marvels, and the Kremlin’s dream that these inventions could be used to infiltrate capitalism itself. Instead, New York infiltrated Termen — he fell in love with the city’s dance clubs and speakeasies, with the students learning his strange instrument, and with Clara, a beautiful young violinist. Amid ghostly sonatas, kung-fu tussles, brushes with Chaplin and Rockefeller, a mission to Alcatraz, the novel builds to a crescendo: Termen’s spy games fall apart and he is forced to return home, where he’s soon consigned to a Siberian gulag. Only his wits can save him, but they will also plunge him even deeper toward the dark heart of Stalin’s Russia. Us Conductors is a book of longing and electricity. Like Termen’s own life, it is steeped in beauty, wonder and looping heartbreak. How strong is unrequited love? What does it mean when it is the only thing keeping you alive? This sublime debut inhabits the idea of invention on every level, no more so than in its depiction of Termen’s endless feelings for Clara — against every realistic odd. For what else is love, but the greatest invention of all? “Michaels’ book is based on the life of Lev Termen, the Russian-born inventor of the Theremin, the most ethereal of musical instruments. As the narrative shifts countries and climates, from the glittery brightness of New York in the 1920s to the leaden cold of the Soviet Union under Stalin, the grace of Michaels’s style makes these times and places seem entirely new. He succeeds at one of the hardest things a writer can do: he makes music seem to sing from the pages of a novel.” — Giller Prize Jury Citation

В русскоязычном интернете "Планом Даллеса" обычно называются два довольно коротких текста. 1. Фрагмент приписываемых Даллесу высказываний, англоязычный источник которых нигде не указывается. 2. Фрагменты директивы Совета Национальной Безопасности США 20/1 от 18 августа 1948 г. Их обычно цитируют по книге Н.Н.Яковлева "ЦРУ против СССР" Первый фрагмент является компоновкой высказываний персонажа из романа "Вечный Зов" Второй фрагмент представляет собой тенденциозно переведенные "фигурные цитаты" из реального документа NSC 20/1. Полюбуйтесь на документ полностью. Взято с www.sakva.ru. Там же лежит архив со сканами текста оригинала. Выделенные курсивом фрагменты текста выделены его авторами. В машинописном варианте они подчеркнуты. В изданном сборнике они также выделены курсивом

The best USA-based stories in the Akashic noir series, compiled into one volume and edited by Johnny Temple!

Cheradenine is an ex-"special circumstance" agent who had been raised to eminence by a woman named Diziet. Skaffen-Amtskaw, the drone, had saved her life and it believes Cheradenine to be a burnt-out case. But not even its machine intelligence can see the horrors in his past

John “Iwan” Demjanjuk was at the center of one of history’s most complex war crimes trials. But why did it take almost sixty years for the United States to bring him to justice as a Nazi collaborator? The answer lies in the annals of the Cold War, when fear and paranoia drove American politicians and the U.S. military to recruit “useful” Nazi war criminals to work for the United States in Europe as spies and saboteurs, and to slip them into America through loopholes in U.S. immigration policy. During and after the war, that same immigration policy was used to prevent thousands of Jewish refugees from reaching the shores of America. The long and twisted saga of John Demjanjuk, a postwar immigrant and auto mechanic living a quiet life in Cleveland until 1977, is the final piece in the puzzle of American government deceit. The White House, the Departments of War and State, the FBI, and the CIA supported policies that harbored Nazi war criminals and actively worked to hide and shelter them from those who dared to investigate and deport them. The heroes in this story are men and women such as Congresswoman Elizabeth Holtzman and Justice Department prosecutor Eli Rosenbaum, who worked for decades to hold hearings, find and investigate alleged Nazi war criminals, and successfully prosecute them for visa fraud. But it was not until the conviction of John Demjanjuk in Munich in 2011 as an SS camp guard serving at the Sobibor death camp that this story of deceit can be told for what it is: a shameful chapter in American history. Riveting and deeply researched, Useful Enemies is the account of one man’s criminal past and its devastating consequences, and the story of how America sacrificed its moral authority in the wake of history’s darkest moment

**Using Russian**  is a  **guide**  to  **Russian usage**  for those who have already acquired the basics of the language and wish to extend their

Bandler is an innovator and an original thinker in the field of psychology. This book is a transcript of Bandler live in front of an audience, cutting up and cracking jokes as he is prone to do, talking about some of his unique and often practical views on how you can change your feelings, thoughts and behavior. Change is often easier than you think if you use the right method

A piece of the Saturn V rocket that sent an Apollo mission to the moon is dredged from the Atlantic Ocean bearing odd Cyrillic markings. SID Director Peter Novak investigates and discovers a conspiracy involving his father back in 1966… As the window of President Kennedy’s promise to reach the moon narrows, NASA’s new Saturn V rocket has a combustion instability issue that only the Soviet Union has the expertise to solve. To get Apollo off the ground and to the moon, America is forced to negotiate a backroom deal with her mortal enemy, agreeing to secretly hand over precious lunar core samples from two future moon landings in exchange for the fix. After receiving a gag-order by his superiors about strange inscriptions he spotted on the Saturn V rocket parts, Gemini Astronaut Tom Novak is selected as the lead in pulling off this conspiracy, risking his career and reputation. Not trained in the world of international espionage, Tom must learn on the fly. But if successful, he will fulfill his dream of walking on the moon. Why are the Soviets willing to help the United States win the space race? What has Tom not been told? Go back in time and see how Gillebaard plays with history involving one of man’s greatest achievements. Paul Gillebaard again puts his creative talents into creating a unique, fresh spin on the space race of the 60’s, including my Gemini mission, providing for an entertaining ride through history. It’s fun fiction, but inspired by some actual events. No doubt this book will help new generations to embrace the future through real world space exploration

L to R (Western Style). The mysterious Builders have brought humanity to the edge of extinction; can they be reasoned with, or must they be destroyed? Aki Shiraishi is a high school student working in the astronomy club and one of the few witnesses to an amazing event—someone is building a tower on the planet Mercury. Soon, the Builders have constructed a ring around the sun, threatening the ecology of Earth with an immense shadow. Aki is inspired to pursue a career in science, and the truth. She must determine the purpose of the ring and the plans of its creators, as the survival of both species—humanity and the alien Builders—hangs in the balance