Contemporary Fiction & Poetry

Katherine Arden's debut novel. A young Russian girl protects her village from evil spirits and new conventions using the power of the old ways and the forest.

A young Vasya blazes a magic trail from the backwoods of Russia to the court of Moscow, in the exhilarating sequel to Katherine Arden’s bestselling debut novel.

In the third book of the bestselling "Winternight Trilogy," Vasya returns to battle enemies mortal and magical to save both Russias -- the seen and the unseen.

An award-winning novel by Debra Dean about war, memory, and the human relationship with art in an effort to survive.

The story of Soviet secretaries-turned-spies who are tasked with smuggling "Doctor Zhivago" out of the USSR, into the hands of Russian citizens and the world.

In her book of letters to the dead, the prize-winning Belarusian poet Valzhyna Mort relearns how to mourn those erased by violent history.

A battle-haunted English journalist and a Russian "Night Witch" join forces to track the Huntress -- a Nazi war criminal hiding in post-war America.

This exquisite collection of stories introduces a cast of remarkable Soviet characters, whose lives intersect in ways both life-affirming and heartbreaking.

This book is an enchanting fable that brilliantly captures the idiosyncrasy of a small community in the Armenian mountains.

Four teenagers grow inseparable in the last days of the Soviet Union--but not all of them will live to see the new world arrive in this powerful debut novel by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, loosely based on on Chekhov's "The Cherry Orchard".