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Books 1 to 6 of 6 total found for Adults  titles starting with letter R
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
Bill Browder

In 2005, Browder, an investment manager, had made a fortune investing in post-Soviet Russia. The author describes in a breezy style how he antagonized Russian oligarchs who attempted to thwart his company's investments. He then ran afoul of the Russian government when his tax attorney, Sergei Magnitsky, uncovered tax fraud committed by Russian officials. Browder claims that the government then arrested Magnitsky and murdered him. Through Browder's efforts, the United States enacted the Magnitsky Act in 2012, which imposed visa and banking restrictions on Russian officials implicated in human rights abuses.

(14 copies)     Reserve

Red Sparrow
Matthews, Jason

In contemporary Russia, state intelligence officer Dominika Egorova has been drafted to become a "Sparrow"--a spy trained in the art of seduction to elicit information from their marks. She's been assigned to Nathaniel Nash, a CIA officer who handles the organization's most sensitive penetration of Russian intelligence. The two young intelligence officers, trained in their respective spy schools, collide in a charged atmosphere of tradecraft, deception and, inevitably, a forbidden spiral of carnal attraction that threatens their careers and the security of America's valuable mole in Moscow.

(15 copies)     Reserve

Regeneration
Barker, Pat

The poets and soldiers Siegfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are dispatched to Craiglockhart War Hospital in Scotland in 1917. There, army psychiatrist William Rivers is treating brutalised, shell-shocked men. It is Rivers' job to fix these men and make them ready to fight again. As a witness to the traumas they have endured, can he in all conscience send them back to the horrors of the trenches?

(15 copies)     Reserve

Return, The new book icon
Nicholas Sparks

This books tells the story of an injured Navy doctor - and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life.

(13 copies)     Reserve

Rosie Project, The
Graeme C. Simsion

Don Tillman sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife. His starts off with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along, especially once he meets Rosie. Rosie is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try to find her biological father. Of course it helps that he is a Professor of Genetics so he knows a thing or two about DNA and how to obtain it.

(19 copies)     Reserve

Ru
Kim Thúy

An autobiographical novel chronicling the author's journey from Vietnam to Québec.

(15 copies)     Reserve