Cultural Region/Western Europe
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Paris Journal, 1956-65
$17.99 Add to cartThis portrait of a city and an era is drawn from the the author’s celebrated “Letter from Paris,” a series that appeared in The New Yorker from 1925 to 1975 over the signature “Gen黎.” Edited by Will… [more below]
- Series: Paris Journal #2
- Author: Flanner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: July 28 1988
- ISBN10: 015670949X
- Language: English
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Fierce Valor: The True Story of Ronald Speirs and His Band of Brothers
$19.99 Add to cartFans of Stephen E. Ambrose’s Band of Brothers will be drawn to this complex portrait of the controversial Ronald Speirs, an iconic commander of Easy Company during World War II, whose ferocious courag… [more below]
- Series: World War II Collection
- Author: Frederick, Jared
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1684514037
- Language: English
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The Temporary European: Lessons and Confessions of a Professional Traveler
$18.99 Add to cartWrite guidebooks, make travel TV, lead bus tours? Cameron Hewitt has been Rick Steves’ right hand for more than 20 years, doing just that.
The Temporary European is a collection of vivid, entertaining
- Author: Hewitt, Cameron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1609522044
- Language: English
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To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918
$24.99 Add to cartIn this riveting and suspenseful New York Times best-selling book, Adam Hochschild brings WWI to life as never before…
World War I was supposed to be the “war to end all wars.” Over four long years, … [more below]
- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0547750315
- Language: English
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The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam
$20.00 Add to cartThe Strange Death of Europe is the internationally bestselling account of a continent and a culture caught in the act of suicide, now updated with new material taking in developments since it was firs
- Author: Murray, Douglas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 12 2018
- ISBN10: 1472958055
- Language: English
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The Caretakers: War Graves Gardeners and the Secret Battle to Rescue Allied Airmen in World War II
$29.95 Add to cartWhen World War I ended, hundreds of British veterans stayed in France to work for the newly chartered Imperial War Graves Commission. Through the 1920s and 1930s, these veteran-gardeners married local
- Author: Deangelis, Caitlin Galante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1633888991
- Language: English
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Hemingway: The Paris Years: The Paris Years (Revised)
$29.99 Add to cartThe 1920s in Paris are the pivotal years in Hemingway’s apprenticeship as a writer, whether he was sitting in cafes or at the feet of Gertrude Stein. These are the heady times of the Nick Adams short
- Author: Reynolds, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318796
- Language: English
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A Hero of Our Own: The Story of Varian Fry
$23.95 Add to cart“Fry was the American Schindler…with desperate exiles, menacing Nazis, forged documents and midnight escapes… think] Casablanca.”
–New York Times
Varian Fry, the only American honored at Yad Vash
- Author: Isenberg, Sheila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: May 20 2005
- ISBN10: 0595348823
- Language: English
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Incantation
$12.99 Add to cartBestselling author Alice Hoffman tears a page from history and melds it with mysticism to create a spellbinding, highly acclaimed tale about the persecution of Jewish people during the sixteenth centu… [more below]
- Author: Hoffman, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0316154288
- Language: English
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Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History
$22.00 Add to cartIn the wake of Brexit, Ian Morris chronicles the ten-thousand-year history of Britain’s relationship to Europe as it has changed in the context of a globalizing world.
When Britain voted to leave the- Author: Morris, Ian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872197
- Language: English
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Lonely Planet Best Day Hikes California
$24.99 Add to cartLonely Planet’s Best Day Hikes California is your passport to 60 easy escapes into nature. Stretch your legs away from the city by picking a hike that works for you, from just a couple of hours to a f
- Series: Hiking Guide
- Author: Balfour, Amy C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1838691162
- Language: English
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The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom
$21.99 Add to cartINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten
- Author: Loftis, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 0063234599
- Language: English
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A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy
$27.95 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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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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Debt to Pleasure
$19.99 Add to cartWinner of the Whitbread Award for Best First Novel and a New York Times Notable Book, John Lanchester’s The Debt to Pleasure is a wickedly funny ode to food.
Traveling from Portsmouth to the south of- Author: Lanchester, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 07 2001
- ISBN10: 0312420366
- Language: English
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The History of the Siege of Lisbon
$17.99 Add to cartIn this “ingenious” novel (New York Times) by “one of Europe’s most original and remarkable writers” (Los Angeles Times), a proofreader’s deliberate slip opens the door to romance-and confounds the fa… [more below]
- Author: Saramago, José
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: September 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0156006243
- Language: English
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The Last Jew: A Novel of the Spanish Inquisition
$19.99 Add to cartIn the year 1492, the Inquisition has all of Spain in its grip. After centuries of pogrom-like riots encouraged by the Church, the Jews – who have been an important part of Spanish life since the days
- Author: Gordon, Noah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 1992
- ISBN10: 0312300530
- Language: English
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Pot Luck
$10.95 Add to cartPot Luck, Zola’s most acerbic satire, describes daily life in a newly constructed block of flats in late nineteenth-century Paris. In examining the contradictions that pervade bourgeois life, Zola rev… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Zola, ?mile
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 25 2009
- ISBN10: 0199538700
- Language: English
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Thrones, Dominations: A Lord Peter Wimsey / Harriet Vane Mystery
$24.00 Add to cartIn 1936, Dorothy L. Sayers –considered one of the best mystery writers of the Golden Age–abandoned the last Lord Peter Wimsey detective story. Sixty years later, a copy of the unfinished manuscript
- Series: Lord Peter Wimsey Mysteries with Harriet Vane #1
- Author: Sayers, Dorothy L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 04 2012
- ISBN10: 1250017432
- Language: English
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Innocence
$17.99 Add to cart“A delectable comedy of manners.” —Boston Globe
The Ridolfi are a Florentine family of long lineage and little money. It is 1955, Italy is still struggling back after the war, and the family, like it- Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0544359461
- Language: English
