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6 best books like The Tsar's Dwarf (Peter H. Fogtdal): The Book of Lost Things, The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia, Night Train to Lisbon, The Madonnas of Leningrad, Within the Whirlwind, The Testament of Mary

The Book of Lost Things
AuthorJohn Connolly
ISBN0743298853
High in his attic bedroom, twelve-year-old David mourns the death of his mother, with only the books on his shelf for company. But those books have begun to whisper to him in the darkness. Angry and alone, he takes refuge in his imagination and soon finds that reality and fantasy have begun to meld. While...
The Family Romanov: Murder, Rebellion, and the Fall of Imperial Russia
AuthorCandace Fleming
ISBN0375867821
Here is the tumultuous, heartrending, true story of the Romanovs—at once an intimate portrait of Russia's last royal family and a gripping account of its undoing. Using captivating photos and compelling first person accounts, award-winning author Candace Fleming (Amelia Lost; The Lincolns)...
Night Train to Lisbon
AuthorPascal Mercier
ISBN0802118585
A huge international best seller, this ambitious novel plumbs the depths of our shared humanity to offer up a breathtaking insight into life, love, and literature itself. A major hit in Germany that went on to become one of Europe’s biggest literary blockbusters in the last five years, Night Train...
The Madonnas of Leningrad
AuthorDebra Dean
ISBN0060825316
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. And while the elderly Russian woman cannot hold on to fresh memories—the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild—her distant past is preserved: vivid images that rise unbidden of...
Within the Whirlwind
AuthorEvgenia Ginzburg
ISBN0156976498
It wasn't easy to finish this book. After reading "Into the Whirlwind" it was hard to bear more blows to Eugenia's life: one guard sends her back to tree felling, the other one on a walk across the taiga, a walk that lets her contemplate suicide. But the rewards of going all the way to the last page were stunning....
The Testament of Mary
AuthorColm Tóibín
ISBN1451688385
Provocative, haunting, and indelible, Colm Tóibín’s portrait of Mary presents her as a solitary older woman still seeking to understand the events that become the narrative of the New Testament and the foundation of Christianity.

In the ancient town of Ephesus, Mary lives alone, years...
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