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In Odessa, the greatest port on the Black Sea, a dream of cosmopolitan freedom inspired geniuses and innovators. Yet here too was death on a staggering scale, as World War II brought the mass murder of Jews carried out by the city's Romanian occupiers. Odessa is an elegy for the vibrant, multicultural tapestry of which a thriving Jewish population formed an essential part, as well as a celebration of the survival of Odessa’s dream in a diaspora reaching all the way to Brighton Beach.

As Russian forces closed in on Berlin and Hitler’s premiership drew to a close, many Nazi officials fled Germany. In this startling, meticulously researched account, acclaimed journalist Uki Goñi unravels the complex network that led them to Argentina. Relying on international support—in Scandinavia, Switzerland, and Italy—and the enthusiasm of the Vatican and President Juan Perón, Goñi shows how this ratline allowed Adolf Eichmann—the architect of the Final Solution—Josef Mengele, Eric Priebke, and many more, into the country.

The suicide of an elderly German Jew explodes into revelation after revelation: of a Mafia-like organization called Odessa ...of a real-life fugitive known as the "Butcher of Riga"..of a young German journalist tumed obsessed avenger.......and, ultimately, of brilliant, ruthless...

Soli finds Lucy and finds out about herself.

Lucy, in the faerie ground, and Soli, searching for her, examine their friendship and themselves.

When Soli enters the faerie ground, she learns hard truths.

Lucy and Soli are best friends...until Soli wishes Lucy away.

It begins as Henya, wife of Rabbi Mendel Kolopsky, considers an unexpected pregnancy and the hardships ahead for the children she already has. Soon after the child is born, Cossacks ransack the Kolopskys' home, severely beating Mendel. In the aftermath, he tells Henya that, contrary to his brother belief that socialism is their ticket to escaping the region's brutal anti-Semitic pogroms, he still believes America holds the answer. Henya, meanwhile, understands that any future will be perilous: she now knows their baby daughter, who has slept through this night of melee, is surely deaf.

On a NUMA mission to the Black Sea to locate the wreck of a lost Ottoman Empire ship, Dirk Pitt and his friend Al Giordino respond to an urgent Mayday from a nearby freighter. By the time they reach the ship there's no one left alive - just dead bodies and the smell of sulphur in the air. When a massive blast from the stern suddenly scuttles the ship, Pitt and Giordino are lucky not to be added to the death toll. As they investigate the fate of the lost ship, they're plunged deep into an extraordinary mystery.

This crime thriller from the author of "Floater" takes the reader on an entertaining tour of New York City's sleazier side. It centers around Russian-born Kate Piro, who has no difficulty attracting men, but soon finds that they are about to lead her into some complicated trouble.

"J'avais souvent imaginé nos "retrouvailles".⁠ Comme je l'ai tant fait avec notre futur.⁠ Je ne m'attendais pas à que ce soit dans un cimetière...⁠ À l'enterrement de son père...⁠ Cinq ans après son départ précipité...⁠ Sans me laisser le temps...⁠ Et encore moins que sa sœur serait accrochée à mon bras ce jour-là."⁠ Quand Lorelia foule à nouveau le quartier russe de Little Odessa, elle n'imagine pas être confrontée si rapidement à ses démons, encore moins à se retrouver face à celui qui fut son premier amour.⁠

23-årige Daria har ben i næsen, en ingeniørgrad og et eftertragtet job hos et stort, udenlandsk firma i Odessa. Eneste ulempe er chefens forventning om, at hun går i seng med ham, og for at blive fri for hans tilnærmelser fører hun ham sammen med sin pengeglade veninde Olga. Desværre giver planen bagslag, og Daria må tage et bijob som tolk på ægteskabsbureauet Sovjet-Unioner, der formidler kontakt mellem ukrainske kvinder og vestlige mænd. Pludselig står hun over for en række vanskelige valg: mellem sin elskede hjemby og den amerikanske drøm, mellem en sexet, uansvarlig mafiaboss og en blid skolelærer, mellem det kendte kaos og løftet om økonomisk sikkerhed.

Fred Moorman ist Ende vierzig und träumt von einem schwarzen Jeep Cherokee und einem neuen, interessanteren Freundeskreis. Sein Leben ödet ihn an. Die Zeiten, als sein inzwischen vierzehnjähriger Sohn noch zu ihm aufschaute, sind lange vorbei und seine Frau denkt laut darüber nach, wie das Leben ohne ihn aussähe. Da trifft Fred Max G. wieder, den er schon in der Schule bewunderte. Max hat alles, was Fred nicht hat: Durchsetzungsvermögen, schöne Frauen, ein schillerndes Leben.

A kidnapped fifteen-year-old girl in a country this father barely understands. Atlas Hargrove is officially on the hunt. Former SWAT commander, Atlas Hargrove, just earned himself back-to-back life sentences in a California supermax prison. One wrong moment cost him his wife, his family, his life. All is not lost, though. On the fringes of polite society, financiers with leverage and influence are in constant search of a brute like Atlas, an unlikely asset with a perfect alibi and the need to raise hell in the middle of hell itself.

Die Welt der russisch-jüdischen Familie aus Hamburg, um die es in Maxim Billers neuem Roman Mama Odessa geht, ist voller Geheimnisse, Verrat und Literatur. Wir hören aber auch ein kluges, schönes und wahrhaftiges Hörbuch über einen Sohn und eine Mutter, beide Schriftsteller, die sich lieben, wegen des Schreibens immer wieder verraten – und einander trotzdem nie verlieren.

Ex-CIA-Mann Max Rushmore reist für einen Routineauftrag in die noch friedliche Stadt Odessa. Doch als die abgetrennte Hand des örtlichen Gouverneurs in einem Fass Sonnenblumenöl auftaucht, ist Max alarmiert. Er stolpert über einen Männerzeh mit demselben verräterischen Muttermal. Der outgesourcte Profi kann nicht anders – er muss ermitteln! Inmitten politischer Spannungen hetzt Max durch die schöne Hafenstadt am Schwarzen Meer und ihre Schattenbezirke. Er trifft dubiose Geschäftsmänner, korrupte Beamte, Katakombenbewohner, Wissenschaftler, Konditorinnen, Dichter, Archivarinnen, Polizisten – und Mörder.

The Tashkent-born Russian-American literary critic, editor, essayist, and journalist Vladislav Davidzon has been covering post-Soviet Ukraine for the past ten years, a tumultuous time for that country and the surrounding world. In late 2015, a year and a half after the 2014 Revolution swept away the Moscow-leaning kleptocratic President Viktor Yanukovich, Davidzon and his wife founded a literary journal, The Odessa Review. This eagerly anticipated debut tells the real story of what happened in Ukraine from the keen and resilient perspective of an observer at its center.

I København kæmper Maiken Tarp for at komme sig over sin kærestes død, imens hun forsøger at være en god mor for deres étårige søn. Fra Kiev får hun besked om, at den danske politimand Tomas Engberg har modtaget en dødstrussel. Mistanken rettes mod en magtfuld ukrainsk oligark og politiker. Maiken graver i sagen og opdager, at Tomas i al hemmelighed har lokket oligarkens tidligere elskerinde til Ukraine for at skaffe oplysninger om den mistænkte. Maiken Tarp forfølger parret til sortehavsbyen Odessa, og langsomt går det op for hende, at ingen af de involverede spiller med åbne kort. Men også M

The Big War started in Western Europe with a Soviet nerve gas attack that laid waste to France, Germany, and Spain. The world’s democracies fought back, and pilots like Hawk Hunter led the charge - tearing across the flaming wreckage of the continent at supersonic speeds. They pushed the Russians back and just when victory was in sight, a traitor at the highest level of government turned off America’s missile defense system, and Soviet nukes rained from the sky.

Weekly messages from the Sunday morning worship services at Odessa First Assembly of God in Odessa, TX.