Cultural Region/Central Europe
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
$25.00 Add to cartA leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics
● A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Priz- Series: Henry L. Stimson Lectures
- Author: Sarotte, M. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268033
- Language: English
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Will to Survive: A History of Hungary
$38.99 Add to cartThe Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequ… [more below]
- Author: Cartledge, Bryan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: April 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0199327343
- Language: English
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The Illiterate
$13.95 Read moreNarrated in a series of stark, brief vignettes, The Illiterate is ?gota Krist?’s memoir of her childhood, her escape from Hungary in 1956 with her husband and small child, her early years working in f… [more below]
- Author: Kristóf, Ágota
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 0811234851
- Language: English
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A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke
$26.99 Add to cartOne of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his class
- Author: Barrows, Anita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 17 2009
- ISBN10: 006185400X
- Language: English
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A Room with a View
$12.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living in Italy. Caught up in a world of social snobbery, Forster’s heroine, Lucy Honeychurch, finds … [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679724761
- Language: English
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Nicky & Vera: A Quiet Hero of the Holocaust and the Children He Rescued
$19.95 Add to cartIn December 1938, a young Englishman canceled a ski vacation and went instead to Prague to help the hundreds of thousands of refugees from the Nazis who were crowded into the city. Setting up a makesh
- Author: Sís, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1324015748
- Language: English
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The World of Yesterday
$26.95 Add to cartBy the author who inspired Wes Anderson’s film, The Grand Budapest Hotel
Written as both a recollection of the past and a warning for future generations, The World of Yesterday recalls the golden age- Author: Zweig, Stefan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: May 01 2013
- ISBN10: 0803226616
- Language: English
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Schoenberg: Why He Matters
$29.95 Add to cartIn his time, the Austrian American composer Arnold Schoenberg (1874-1951) was an international icon. His twelve-tone system was considered the future of music itself. Today, however, leading orchestra
- Author: Sachs, Harvey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: August 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 163149757X
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartCelebrated historian John Hirst draws from his own lectures to deliver this ultra-accessible master class on the making of modern Europe, from Ancient Greece through World War II. With over 600,000 co… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Hirst, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1615199144
- Language: English
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The Merchant of Venice
$6.99 Add to cartIn The Merchant of Venice, the path to marriage is hazardous. To win Portia, Bassanio must pass a test prescribed by her father’s will, choosing correctly among three caskets or chests. If he fails, h… [more below]
- Series: Folger Shakespeare Library
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: 1-Jan-04
- ISBN10: 0743477561
- Language: English
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Acqua Alta
$18.00 Add to cartIn Leon’s fifth Commissario Guido Brunetti mystery, the beating of renowned art historian Dotoressa Brett Lynch draws the contemporary Venetian police detective out of his warm and loving home and int… [more below]
- Series: Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries (Paperback) #5
- Author: Leon, Donna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 23 2013
- ISBN10: 0802120288
- Language: English
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
$28.95 Add to cartIn August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic–it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known
- Author: Longo, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0393540774
- Language: English
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Lines of Courage
$17.99 Add to cartJennifer A. Nielsen, award-winning author of A Night Divided and Rescue, artfully weaves together the stories of five kids living through World War I, each of whom holds the key to the others’ futures
- Author: Nielsen, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 17, 2022
- ISBN10: 1338620932
- Language: English
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Budapest: Portrait of a City Between East and West
$35.00 Read moreAN ECONOMIST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR – A vivid and enthralling account of the historical and cultural events that defined Budapest, a unique city in the heart of Europe, on the fault line between … [more below]
- Author: Sebestyen, Victor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0593317564
- Language: English
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A Room with a View
$13.00 Read moreE.M. Forster’s beloved novel of forbidden love, culture clash, and the confines of Edwardian society
Visiting Florence with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0141183292
- Language: English
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The Wall
$17.95 Add to cartWhile vacationing in a hunting lodge in the Austrian mountains, a middle-aged woman awakens one morning to find herself separated from the rest of the world by an invisible wall. With a cat, a dog, an… [more below]
- Author: Haushofer, Marlen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231941
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$19.95 Read more2023 PROSE Award in European History
“An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.”
—Washington Post “Reveals how pre- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295455
- Language: English
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
$21.00 Add to cartErnest Hemingway’s masterpiece on war, love, loyalty, and honor tells the story of Robert Jordan, an antifascist American fighting in the Spanish Civil War.
In 1937 Ernest Hemingway traveled to Spain- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0684803356
- Language: English
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The Fawn
$17.95 Read moreFrom the author of The Door and Abigail and for fans of Elena Ferrante and Clarice Lispector, a newly translated novel about a theater star who is forced to reckon with her painful and tragic past.
In- Author: Szabó, Magda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 1681377373
- Language: English
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The Angel Makers: Arsenic, a Midwife, and Modern History’s Most Astonishing Murder Ring
$32.99 Read more“The angel makers is a true-crime story like no other-a 1920s midwife who may have been the century’s most prolific killer, leading a murder ring of women responsible for the deaths of at least 160 me… [more below]
- Author: McCracken, Patti
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0063275031
- Language: English
