Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Resistance: The Underground War Against Hitler, 1939-1945
$45.00 Add to cart“To resist, therefore. But how, when and where? There were no laws, no guidelines, no precedents to show the way . . .” –Dutch resister Herman Friedhoff
In every country that fell to the Third Reich d
- Author: Kochanski, Halik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1324091657
- Language: English
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A People’s Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution
$35.00 Add to cartOn the brink of the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, read the most vivid, moving, and comprehensive history of the events that changed the world
It is history on an epic yet human scale. V- Author: Figes, Orlando
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1024
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 014024364X
- Language: English
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The Matryoshka Memoirs: A Story of Ukrainian Forced Labour, the Leica Camera Factory, and Nazi Resistance
$18.95 Read more“[Colby] breathes new life into well-trodden WWII tropes, building a vivid, novelistic narrative focused on memory and family.” — Publishers Weekly
“The writing is vivid and lyrical, the narratives
- Author: Colby, Sasha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 1770417354
- Language: English
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Bad Rabbi: And Other Strange But True Stories from the Yiddish Press
$22.00 Add to cartStories abound of immigrant Jews on the outside looking in, clambering up the ladder of social mobility, successfully assimilating and integrating into their new worlds. But this book is not about the
- Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
- Author: Portnoy, Eddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 24 2017
- ISBN10: 150360411X
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Nepali Phrasebook & Dictionary
$11.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Nepali Phrasebook and Dictionary is your handy passport to culturally enriching travels with the most relevant and useful Nepali phrases and vocabulary for all your travel needs. Navig
- Series: Phrasebook
- Author: Lonely Planet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1786570890
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Russia
$35.00 Add to cartAccessible to students, tourists, and general readers alike, this book provides a broad overview of Russian history since the ninth century. Paul Bushkovitch emphasizes the enormous changes in the und… [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Bushkovitch, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 518
- Publish Date: December 05 2011
- ISBN10: 0521543231
- Language: English
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Anya and the Dragon
$9.99 Add to cartA Sydney Taylor Award Honor Book
Sydney Taylor Honor winner Anya and the Dragon, the first in a duology, is a lush tale of magic and dragons, a gem for any adventure-seeking middle grade reader.
Anya an
- Author: Pasternack, Sofiya
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: October 13 2020
- ISBN10: 0358379059
- Language: English
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The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky
$18.00 Add to cartThis collection, unique to the Modern Library, gathers seven of Dostoevsky’s key works and shows him to be equally adept at the short story as with the novel. Exploring many of the same themes as in h… [more below]
- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375756884
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains) [Black and White Editio
$19.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: April 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0578754479
- Language: English
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The War Below
$8.99 Add to cartThis companion novel to Skrypuch’s Making Bombs for Hitler follows a boy who joins the underground Ukrainian resistance in the fight against Hitler.
The Nazis took Luka from his home in Ukraine and for
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 05 2020
- ISBN10: 1338608339
- Language: English
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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
$32.50 Add to cartA sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities
The West and Islam — the sword and scimitar — have clashed since the m- Author: Ibrahim, Raymond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 28 2018
- ISBN10: 0306825554
- Language: English
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Anna Karenina: Introduction by John Bayley
$35.00 Add to cartA beautiful Everyman’s Library Classics hardcover edition of one of the greatest novels in all of world literature, translated by Louise and Aylmer Maude, with an introduction by John Bayley.
A famou- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Tolstoy, Leo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1016
- Publish Date: April 28 1992
- ISBN10: 0679410007
- Language: English
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Hungarian Cookbook: Old World Recipes for New World Cooks
$14.95 Add to cartThese enticing Old World Hungarian recipes were brought to America by the author’s grandparents, but they have been updated to accommodate today’s dietary concerns and faster-paced lifestyles. The aut… [more below]
- Author: Fintor, Yolanda Nagy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: April 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0781812402
- Language: English
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Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge
$15.95 Read moreA groundbreaking masterpiece of early European modernism originally published in 1910, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge unspools the vivid reflections of the titular young Danish nobleman and poe
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1324066083
- Language: English
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Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan
$18.95 Add to cartAn unforgettable journey through Central Asia, one of the most mysterious and history-laden regions of the world.
Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan became free of the So- Author: Fatland, Erika
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1643137697
- Language: English
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I Will Protect You: A True Story of Twins Who Survived Auschwitz
$9.99 Read moreThe illuminating and deeply moving true story of twin sisters who survived Nazi experimentation, against all odds, during the Holocaust.
Eva and her identical twin sister, Miriam, had a mostly happy- Author: Kor, Eva Mozes
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 0316460605
- Language: English
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To Build a Better World: Choices to End the Cold War and Create a Global Commonwealth
$19.99 Add to cartA deeply researched international history and “exemplary study” (New York Times Book Review) of how a divided world ended and our present world was fashioned, as the world drifts toward another great … [more below]
- Author: Zelikow, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1538764687
- Language: English
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He: Shorter Writings of Franz Kafka
$19.00 Add to cartA new selection of Franz Kafka’s shorter fiction and nonfiction work, selected and with a preface by Book of Numbers author Joshua Cohen.
“Being asked to write about Kafka is like being asked to descr- Author: Kafka, Franz
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0374538948
- Language: English
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Notes from Underground
$6.99 Read more“The political cataclysms and cultural revolutions of our century . . . confirm the status of Notes from Underground as one of the most sheerly astonishing and subversive creations of European fiction… [more below]
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 1983
- ISBN10: 0553211447
- Language: English
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Ukraine at War: Street Art, Posters + Poetry
$40.00 Read moreA unique book that showcases how Ukrainian society is expressing itself through art.
War came to Ukraine in February 2022; it was uninvited–although not entirely unexpected given Russia’s steady, mas- Author: Sarhandi-Williams, Daoud
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 1623717264
- Language: English
