Alina Adams and Charles Belfoure

Alina Adams Nesting Dolls
Spanning nearly a century from 1930s Siberia to contemporary Brighton Beach, this page turning, epic family saga centers on three generations of women in one Russian Jewish family ― each striving to break free of fate and history, each yearning for love and personal fulfillment, and the consequences of their choices rippling through time. 

Alina Adams was born in the Soviet Union and is now a New York City mom of three school-age children. She is a contributing writer to TODAY Show Parenting and Mommy Poppins.

Charles Belfoure The Faberge Secret 
Like most gentiles in Russia, Prince Dimitri Markhov, a member of the Imperial Court, cares nothing for Jews. But when he sees the carnage of the Easter Sunday pogrom in Kishinev in 1903, he wonders what these people had done to deserve such brutality. His close friend, Tsar Nicholas II, tells him that the Jews brought it on themselves because of their innate avarice but Dimitri meets a Russian doctor, Katya Golitsyn, who acquires a personal connection to these oppressed people when she learns that her great-grandfather had converted from Judaism to Christianity. Dimitri and Katya, who fall in love, are both transformed by the revolutionary movement to overthrow the tsar and his autocracy realizing that tsarist rule is responsible for Russia’s misery, including the pogroms. Dimitri must make a choice between his loyalty to Nicholas and the revolution that will bring justice to millions of Russians.

Charles Belfoure is an American writer, architect and historian specializing in historic preservation, author of several histories and fiction works, including The New York Times best-selling novel The Paris Architect.