Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
$21.99 Add to cartA Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe “mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system” in this “vividly empathetic” account of the worst nu… [more below]
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 10 2020
- ISBN10: 154161707X
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1: The Eastern Mountains) [Deluxe Color Ed
$29.95 Add to cartBronze Medal, 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards: Best Regional Non-Fiction – Europe. Finalist, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel.
An engaging and informative chronicle of a hik
- Series: Into the Carpathians #1
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: December 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1633931536
- Language: English
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Stolen Girl
$8.99 Read moreA companion to Making Bombs for Hitler and The War Below, this novel follows a Ukrainian girl who was kidnapped as a child to be raised by a Nazi family.
Nadia is haunted by World War II. Her memories … [more below]
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1338665146
- Language: English
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Red Horizons: The True Story of Nicolae and Elena Ceausescus’ Crimes, Lifestyle, and Corruption
$24.99 Add to cartIn 1987, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihai Pacepa, the highest ranking defector ever from the Eastern bloc, published RED HORIZONS, his expose of the unchecked power and corruption of Nicolae Ceausecu, then the Roma… [more below]
- Series: Cold War Classics
- Author: Pacepa, Ion Mihai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 15 1990
- ISBN10: 0895267462
- Language: English
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Art of Lithuanian Cooking
$16.95 Add to cart” . . . a culinary showcase of palate-pleasing regional delights.”-The Midwest Book Review
“Here is a collection of Lithuanian recipes that will be welcome on any table.”-The International Cookbook Rev
- Author: Gieysztor de Gorgey, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 244
- Publish Date: July 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0781808995
- Language: English
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One Soldier’s War
$22.00 Add to cartOne Soldier’s War is a visceral and unflinching memoir of a young Russian soldier’s experience in the Chechen wars that brilliantly captures the fear, drudgery, chaos, and brutality of modern combat. … [more below]
- Author: Babchenko, Arkady
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0802144039
- Language: English
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More than a Grain of Truth: The official true story behind the film Mr. Jones, starring James Norton
$24.98 Add to cartThe true story behind the film Mr. Jones, starring James Norton.
“In pursuit of his investigations he shrank from no risk… He had the almost unfailing knack of getting at things that mattered” – Davi
- Author: Colley, Margaret Siriol
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 450
- Publish Date: December 13 2021
- ISBN10: 1839014768
- Language: English
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On the Road to Lviv
$19.00 Add to cartPrismatic and polysemous, On the Road to Lviv invites us on an odyssey across Ukraine in the hour of war. “This chronicle/ Took shape the day the war began, which was/ My 65th birthday,” writes legend
- Author: Merrill, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987924136
- Language: English
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon: A Journey Through Yugoslavia
$32.00 Add to cart“Rebecca West’s magnum opus . . . one of the great books of our time.” —The New Yorker
Written on the brink of World War II, Rebecca West’s classic examination of the history, people, and politics … [more below]- Author: West, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1232
- Publish Date: February 01 2007
- ISBN10: 014310490X
- Language: English
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Playing Time in Tongues
$12.00 Add to cart“With this rich first collection of prose poetry, Vita Lerman’s contemplations on time, memory, creative process, and transformation crystalize a reality where the personal is mythical, death is a par
- Author: Lerman, Vita
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: April 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1959118285
- Language: English
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Notes from the Underground and the Gambler
$12.95 Add to cartOne of the most profound and disturbing works of nineteenth-century literature, Notes from the Underground is a probing and speculative work, often regarded as a forerunner to the Existentialist movem… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Dostoevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536384
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of Central and Eastern Europe (Part 1: The Eastern Mountains) [Black and White
$17.95 Add to cartBronze Medal, 2016 Independent Publisher (IPPY) Book Awards: Best Regional Non-Fiction – Europe. Finalist, 2016 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel.
An engaging and informative chronicle of a hik
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: May 05 2017
- ISBN10: 1633932427
- Language: English
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Kobzar
$37.99 Add to cartMasterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine’s rich cultural heri… [more below]
- Author: Shevchenko, Taras
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1909156558
- Language: English
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Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine
$35.00 Read moreAn exploration into the culinary identity of eastern Europe through stunning food and travel photography, interspersed with stories and memories of tiny buildings called summer kitchens.
In this new c- Author: Hercules, Olia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1681885700
- Language: English
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Poland: The First Thousand Years
$32.00 Add to cartSince its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern perio
- Author: Dabrowski, Patrice M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807569
- Language: English
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The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
$24.95 Add to cart“A searing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain, motherhood, addiction, and finding sustenance in the natural world.” –Kirkus
In The Hunger Book, Agata Izabela Brewer evokes her Polish c- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Brewer, Agata Izabela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258786
- Language: English
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Ivan and Phoebe
$26.95 Read moreIvan and Phoebe chronicles the lives of several young people involved in the Ukrainian student protests of the 1990s-otherwise known as the Revolution on Granite or the First Maidan and investigates t
- Author: Lutsysyna, Oksana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052625
- Language: English
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My Ukrainian American Story
$14.99 Add to cartJourney with female protagonist, Oksana as she shares her Ukrainian American experience. Thirty-eight pages of detailed color illustrations transport you through Oksana’s vibrant world filled with the
- Author: Bamber, Adrianna Oksana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0998959111
- Language: English
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Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
$19.99 Add to cartA Sydney Taylor Book Award 2023 Middle Grade Notable!
A Jewish Book Council Award Middle Grade Finalist!
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and h
- Author: Hood, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0063083892
- Language: English
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Russian Fairy Tales
$26.00 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated, here is the most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English.
This comprehensive collection introduces readers to universal fairy-tale figures and to- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Afanas’ev, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 12 1976
- ISBN10: 0394730909
- Language: English
