Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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The Zookeeper’s Wife: A War Story
$15.95 Read more1939: the Germans have invaded Poland. The keepers of the Warsaw zoo, Jan and Antonina Zabinski, survive the bombardment of the city, only to see the occupiers ruthlessly kill many of their animals. T
- Series: Movie Tie-In Editions #0
- Author: Ackerman, Diane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 07 2017
- ISBN10: 0393354253
- Language: English
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Nadia Comaneci and the Secret Police: A Cold War Escape
$46.67 Add to cartNadia Comaneci is the Romanian child prodigy and global gymnastics star who ultimately fled her homeland and the brutal oppression of a communist regime. At the age of just 14, Nadia became the first
- Author: Olaru, Stejarel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: April 06 2023
- ISBN10: 135032129X
- Language: English
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The Horde: How the Mongols Changed the World
$37.43 Add to cart2021 Cundill History Prize Finalist
“Outstanding, original, and revolutionary. Favereau subjec
A Financial Times Best Book of the Year
A Spectator Best Book of the Year
A Five Books Best Book of the Year- Author: Favereau, Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 0674244214
- Language: English
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Golden Harvest: Events at the Periphery of the Holocaust
$17.98 Add to cartIt seems at first commonplace: a group photograph of peasants at harvest time, after hard work well done, resting contentedly with their tools behind the fruits of their labor. But when one finally no… [more below]
- Author: Gross, Jan Tomasz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190614536
- Language: English
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The Hungarian Cookbook
$22.99 Add to cart“Our appetite for this interesting cuisine, a melding of Germanic, Slavic, Tartar, and Turkish influences, has been whetted by [this] excellent new work.”–New York Times
- Author: Derecskey, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 14 1987
- ISBN10: 0060914378
- Language: English
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Nrsv, Catholic Bible, Journal Edition, Cloth Over Board, Blue, Comfort Print: Holy Bible
$54.99 Add to cartThe full Catholic canon with wide margins allow for plenty of journaling and note-taking space making this a perfect Bible to study and engage with Scripture.
Pope Francis has said of the Bible, “Take
- Author: Catholic Bible Press
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1488
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0785230440
- Language: English
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Nrsv, Catholic Bible, Journal Edition, Leathersoft, Brown, Comfort Print: Holy Bible
$64.99 Add to cartThe full Catholic canon with wide margins allow for plenty of journaling and note-taking space making this a perfect Bible to study and engage with Scripture.
Pope Francis has said of the Bible, “Take
- Author: Catholic Bible Press
- Binding:
- Page Count: 1488
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0785230467
- Language: English
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
$26.95 Add to cartWhy Enlightenment culture sparked the Industrial Revolution
During the late eighteenth century, innovations in Europe triggered the Industrial Revolution and the sustained economic progress that sprea- Author: Mokyr, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 0691180962
- Language: English
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Vlad Dracula Tarot
$29.95 Add to cartThe Vlad Dracula Tarot is a 78-card tarot deck and booklet based on the life of Vlad the Impaler, the infamous medieval ruler of Romania who inspired Bram Stoker’s legendary vampire.
The 78 original- Author: McHenry, Travis
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- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 1925924971
- Language: English
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Witch Hunts in the Western World: Persecution and Punishment from the Inquisition Through the Salem Trials
$17.95 Add to cartThis in-depth and comprehensive resource explores the intersection of religion, politics, and the supernatural that spawned the notorious witch hunts in Europe and the New World. Witch Hunts in the We… [more below]
- Series: Extraordinary World
- Author: Pavlac, Brian A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 01 2010
- ISBN10: 080323290X
- Language: English
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The Kommandant’s Girl
$18.99 Add to cartIn her luminous and groundbreaking debut, New York Times bestselling author Pam Jenoff shows the unimaginable sacrifices one woman must make in a time of war
Nineteen-year-old Emma Bau has been married… [more below]
- Series: Kommandant’s Girl #1
- Author: Jenoff, Pam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 31 2018
- ISBN10: 0778308790
- Language: English
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Of Lodz and Love
$66.58 Add to cartIn Of Lodz and Love, Chava Rosenfarb revisits her themes of the the shtetl and pre-Holocaust Poland, of economic and political oppression, and of the upheavals that would herald a new Jewish national
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
- Author: Rosenfarb, Chava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815605773
- Language: English
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Nadirs
$16.95 Add to cartJuxtaposing reality and fantasy, nightmares and dark laughter, Nadirs is a collection of largely autobiographical stories based on Herta M?ler’s childhood in the Romanian countryside. The individual t… [more below]
- Series: European Women Writers
- Author: Muller, Herta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0803282540
- Language: English
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Road-Side Dog
$18.00 Add to cartI went on a journey in order to acquaint myself with my province, in a two-horse wagon with a lot of fodder and a tin bucket rattling in the back. The bucket was required for the horses to drink from.
- Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 1999
- ISBN10: 0374526230
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
$10.40 Add to cart“The Mysterious Affair at Styles” is set in a large, isolated country manor. There are a half-dozen suspects, most of whom are hiding facts about themselves. The book includes maps of the house, the m… [more below]
- Author: Christie, Agatha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 108
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 802734221X
- Language: English
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Bociany
$66.58 Add to cartIn Bociany, Rosenfarb offers completely absorbing portrayals of Jews and Christians from several walks of life in the shtetl. Her primary characters are the scribe’s widow Hindele, her son Yacov, the
- Series: Library of Modern Jewish Literature
- Author: Rosenfarb, Chava
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: January 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815605765
- Language: English
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Under Western Eyes
$13.00 Add to cart“It was I who removed de P- this morning.” With these chilling words Victor Haldin shatters the solitary, industrious existence of Razumov, his fellow student at St Petersburg University. Razumov aims… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 18 2007
- ISBN10: 0141441941
- Language: English
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Sarajevo Blues
$16.95 Add to cartFrom one of Bosnia’s most prominent poets and writers: spare and haunting stories and poems that were written under the horrific circumstances of the war in Bosnia-Herzegovina. Semezdin Mehmedinovic r
- Author: Mehmedinovic, Semezdin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 122
- Publish Date: January 01 1998
- ISBN10: 087286345X
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita: Introduction by Simon Franklin
$32.00 Add to cartThe underground masterpiece of twentieth-century Russian fiction, Mikhail Bulgakov’s THE MASTER AND MARGARITA was written during Stalin’s regime and could not be published until many years after its a
- Series: Everyman’s Library Contemporary Classics
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410465
- Language: English
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Red Cavalry
$14.95 Read moreOne of the great masterpieces of Russian literature, the Red Cavalry cycle retains today the shocking freshness that made Babel’s reputation when the stories were first published in the 1920s. Using h
- Author: Babel, Isaac
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 17 2003
- ISBN10: 0393324230
- Language: English
