Cultural Region/Germany
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Beneath the Wheel
$18.00 Add to cartIn Hermann Hesse’s Beneath the Wheel, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031242230X
- Language: English
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Grime
$26.00 Add to cart“This is a novel so caustic it should be printed with hydrochloric acid. Berg, a Swiss writer and social activist, sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that
- Author: Berg, Sibylle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1250796512
- Language: English
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Half-Blood Blues
$23.99 Add to cartWinner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011
An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time- Author: Edugyan, Esi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250012708
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$20.00 Read morePride and Prejudice is a novel of manners about the romantic pas de deux between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despit
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05, 2022
- ISBN10: 1435172485
- Language: English
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Independent People: Introduction by John Freeman
$30.00 Add to cartA beautifully jacketed hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s beloved epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter.
Set in the early twenti- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Laxness, Halldor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1101908270
- Language: English
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About People
$19.99 Add to cartA World Literature Today Notable Translations of 2023
Written by Germany’s #1 bestselling author Juli Zeh, About People takes place in the middle of lockdown in spring 2020 and subtly describes the soc
- Author: Zeh, Juli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1642861332
- Language: English
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
$19.99 Add to cartA riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen.
Why did democracy fall apart so- Author: Hett, Benjamin Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1250210860
- Language: English
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Self-Portrait with Russian Piano
$18.00 Add to cartA legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek “is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic–his texts are imbued with a wonderful, reckless nonc
- Author: Wondratschek, Wolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800129
- Language: English
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Here
$17.99 Add to cartA “delectable and profound” collection of poems from Nobel Prize-winner Szymborska (Booklist).
When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that she keeps getting better?”
These tw… [more below]
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0547592094
- Language: English
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Demian
$9.00 Read more“All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?”
Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduce- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0486414132
- Language: English
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Lord Jim
$6.95 Add to cartLord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman–“as unflinching as a hero in a book”–who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-shi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536023
- Language: English
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
$21.99 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone * BookPage * Amazon * Rough Trade
” A] riveting and inspiring history of punk’s hard-fought
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence- Author: Mohr, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209798
- Language: English
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The Passenger
$16.99 Add to cartA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
“A jewel of a rediscovery . . . . A riveting, noirish, intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive, cornered but not captured, safest when in motion, at greatest risk- Author: Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1250811287
- Language: English
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
$19.99 Read moreThe hysterical, clever, and unforgettable sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
He’s back. Even older. Even funnier
- Author: Jonasson, Jonas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062838555
- Language: English
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Unholy Trinity: The Vatican, the Nazis, and the Swiss Banks
$28.00 Add to cartFrom the authors of the bestselling “The Secret War Against the Jews” comes an explosive work that explores the links between the Vatican and the Nazis. Featuring startling new information, “Unholy Tr… [more below]
- Author: Aarons, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01 2001
- ISBN10: 031218199X
- Language: English
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Out of the Sugar Factory
$16.95 Read moreElmiger’s breakout novel is a staring contest with History: an effort to map the resonances and frictions introduced to the world by the sugar industry. But can any writing project contain such devast… [more below]
- Author: Elmiger, Dorothee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 1949641406
- Language: English
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Das Ddr-Handbuch. the East German Handbook
$58.33 Add to cartFor 40 years, the Cold War dominated the world stage. East and West Germany stood at the frontlines of the global confrontation, symbolized by the infamous Berlin Wall, which separated lovers, friends
- Author: Jampol, Justinian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 816
- Publish Date: November 15 2017
- ISBN10: 383656520X
- Language: English
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Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A Book for None and All
$18.00 Add to cartFriedrich Nietzsche’s most accessible and influential philosophical work, misquoted, misrepresented, brilliantly original and enormously influential
Nietzsche was one of the most revolutionary and sub- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 30 1978
- ISBN10: 0140047484
- Language: English
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In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler’s Berlin
$32.00 Add to cart“Larson is a marvelous writer…superb at creating characters with a few short strokes.”–New York Times Book Review
Erik Larson has been widely acclaimed as a master of narrative non-fiction, and in- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 10 2011
- ISBN10: 0307408841
- Language: English
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Lying about Hitler
$19.99 Add to cartIn ruling against the controversial historian David Irving in his libel suit against the American historian Deborah Lipstadt, last April 2000, the High Court in London labeled him a falsifier of histo… [more below]
- Author: Evans, Richard J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 18 2002
- ISBN10: 0465021530
- Language: English
