can somebody refer me to a reliable book about the romanovs? and is there a book about rasputin that's reliable as well?
Try just using Google to search for information. It's faster and cheaper.
not if you get books from the library
So typing Romanovs into Google isn't as fast as walking downtown to the library? O.o
fast yes reliable not likely, the internet doesn't discriminate between people who actually know something about a topic and the people who have no clue.
So look for pages that are likely to be true. .edu domains for example.