Cultural Region/Germany
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A Night Divided (Scholastic Gold)
$18.99 Add to cartFrom NYT bestselling author Jennifer A. Nielsen comes a stunning thriller about a girl who must escape to freedom after the Berlin Wall divides her family between east and west.
With the rise of the Be… [more below]
- Author: Nielsen, Jennifer A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 25 2015
- ISBN10: 0545682428
- Language: English
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The SS Dirlewanger Brigade: The History of the Black Hunters
$14.95 Add to cartThe Dirlewanger Brigade was an anti-partisan unit of the Nazi army, reporting directly to Heinrich Himmler. The first members of the brigade were mostly poachers who were released from prisons and con… [more below]
- Author: Ingrao, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 01 2013
- ISBN10: 1620876310
- Language: English
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Rapunzel
$19.99 Add to cartSurely among the most original and gifted of children’s book illustrators, Paul O. Zelinsky has once again with unmatched emotional authority, control of space, and narrativecapability brought forth a… [more below]
- Author: Zelinsky, Paul O.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: October 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0525456074
- Language: English
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The Death of Sitting Bear: New and Selected Poems
$19.99 Add to cart“These are the poems of a master poet. . . . When you read these poems, you will learn to hear deeply the sound a soul makes as it sings about the mystery of dreaming and becoming.” — Joy Harjo, Mvsk
- Author: Momaday, N. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0062961160
- Language: English
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Stasiland: Stories from Behind the Berlin Wall
$18.99 Add to cart“Stasiland demonstrates that great, original reporting is still possible. . . . A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic.” — Claire Tomalin, Guardian “Books of the Year”
Winner of the Samu
- Author: Funder, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 20 2011
- ISBN10: 0062077325
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$12.99 Read moreEnjoy Jane Austen’s mastery of irony, dialogue, and realism in the unforgettable love story Pride and Prejudice, then share this classic piece of literature with a new generation.
When headstrong and- Series: Chartwell Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 380
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0785839860
- Language: English
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Reich of the Black Sun: Nazi Secret Weapons & the Cold War Allied Legend
$16.95 Add to cartWhy were the Allies worried about an atom bomb attack by the Germans in 1944? Why did the Soviets threaten to use poison gas against the Germans? Why did Hitler in 1945 insist that holding Prague coul… [more below]
- Author: Farrell, Joseph P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 02 2005
- ISBN10: 1931882398
- Language: English
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Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women’s Olympic Team
$19.99 Add to cartONE OF THE MOST ANTICIPATED BOOKS OF THE SUMMER BY POPSUGAR, FROLIC, PARADE, TRAVEL & LEISURE, SHE KNOWS, and SHE READS
NAMED A REAL SIMPLE BEST BOOK OF 2020 (SO FAR).
“Fast Girls is a compelling, th
- Author: Hooper, Elise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0062937995
- Language: English
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Surviving Hitler, Evading Stalin: One Woman’s Remarkable Escape from Nazi Germany
$19.95 Add to cartThe peaceful farm life of a teenage girl in Germany is abruptly upended when WWII comes knocking at her family’s door. One month before her sixteenth birthday, Mildred “Mickchen” Schindler and her fam
- Author: Janzen, Mildred Schindler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1620064049
- Language: English
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Tartuffe, by Molière
$16.99 Add to cartThe renowned French playwright Moli?re’s most masterful and most frequently performed play, skillfully translated into English by the Pulitzer Prize-winning translator Richard Wilbur.
The rich bourgeo… [more below]
- Author: Moli?re
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 10 1968
- ISBN10: 0156881802
- Language: English
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The Frankfurt Kitchen: Forty-One Stories of Growing Up in Post-World War II West Germany
$19.95 Add to cartThe author grew up in Germany during the postwar era, when the United States evolved from a military occupation force to a peacetime cultural power, wielding vast influence in the world through its ex
- Author: Laird, Heidi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 308
- Publish Date: November 11 2021
- ISBN10: 1649529740
- Language: English
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Agricola and Germany
$13.95 Add to cartCornelius Tacitus, Rome’s greatest historian and the last great writer of classical Latin prose, produced his first two books in AD 98, after the assination of the Emperor Domitian ended fifteen years… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Tacitus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: June 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953926X
- Language: English
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Rumpelstiltskin
$12.99 Add to cartPaul Galdone’s masterful storytelling brings new life to this familiar high-stakes tale of a mysterious little man who makes a devastating deal with the miller’s daughter. Sold to a king who expects h… [more below]
- Series: Paul Galdone Classics
- Author: Galdone, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0544066928
- Language: English
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Benno and the Night of Broken Glass
$9.99 Add to cartBenno was the neighborhood’s favorite cat.
During the week, he napped in a sunny corner of Mitzi Stein’s dress shop and begged scrapped from Moshe the butcher. But one night in Berlin, the Nazis chan
- Author: Wiviott, Meg
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 0822599759
- Language: English
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The Habsburgs: To Rule the World
$22.99 Add to cart“A feat of both scholarship and storytelling” (Wall Street Journal)–the definitive history of a powerful family dynasty who dominated Europe for centuries.
In The Habsburgs,… [more below]- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 1541644514
- Language: English
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The Dark Interval: Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation
$24.00 Add to cartFrom the writer of the classic Letters to a Young Poet, reflections on grief and loss, collected and published here in one volume for the first time.
“A great poet’s reflections on our greatest myster- Series: Modern Library Classics
- Author: Rilke, Rainer Maria
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 14 2018
- ISBN10: 0525509844
- Language: English
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The Emigrants
$16.95 Add to cartThe four long narratives in The Emigrants appear at first to be the straightforward biographies of four Germans in exile. Sebald reconstructs the lives of a painter, a doctor, an elementary-school tea… [more below]
- Series: New Directions Paperbook #853
- Author: Sebald, W. G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 08 2016
- ISBN10: 081122614X
- Language: English
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Germany 1945: From War to Peace
$18.99 Add to cart“Fascinating….Bessel does an excellent job of evoking the blasted landscape of a conquered Germany.”
—The New Yorker
“A sober yet powerful account.”
—New York Times Book ReviewAuthoritative and d
- Author: Bessel, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0060540370
- Language: English
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought–a riveting nonfiction chronicle published
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062312065
- Language: English
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On the Marble Cliffs
$15.95 Read moreNow in a new translation, an imaginative, darkly radiant fable about a pair of brothers, formerly warriors, whose idyll is shattered by an encroaching fascistic force.
Set in a world of its own, Ernst- Author: J?nger, Ernst
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: January 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1681376253
- Language: English
