The Archivist's Story
by Travis Holland | 
The Stalin Epigram
by Robert Littell | 
Chernobyl
by Frederik Pohl | 
One Night In Winter
by Simon Sebag Montefiore | 
Sashenka
by Simon Sebag Montefiore |
White Gardenia
by Belinda Alexandra | 
The Return of Little Big Man
by Thomas Berger | 
Extravagance
by Gary Krist |
Travail and Triumph
by Michael Phillips | 
Poison
by Kathryn Harrison | 
Foxfire
by Anya Seton | 
Second Generation
by Howard Fast | 
The Mathematics of Love
by Emma Darwin | 
Annapolis
by William Martin | 
The Family Frying Pan
by Bryce Courtenay | 
The First Circle
by Alexander Solzhenitsyn | 
The Kitchen Boy
by Robert Alexander | 
The Industry of Souls
by Martin Booth | 
Russka
by Edward Rutherfurd | 
Dancer
by Colum McCann |
The experience of modernization -- the dizzying social changes that swept millions of people into the capitalist world -- and modernism in art, literature and architecture are brilliantly integrated in this account.