Cultural Region/Western Europe
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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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The World of the Crusades
$24.00 Read moreA lively reimagining of how the distant medieval world of war functioned, drawing on the objects used and made by crusaders
Throughout the Middle Ages crusading was justified by religious ideology, b- Author: Tyerman, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0300274211
- Language: English
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Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
$9.99 Add to cartFrom Newbery Medal-winning author Robin McKinley, this beloved story illuminates an unlikely love story–Beauty and the Beast. This fortieth-anniversary edition features a striking new package for the
- Author: McKinley, Robin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 19 2018
- ISBN10: 006280345X
- Language: English
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The Mandarins
$19.95 Add to cartIn her most famous novel, The Mandarins, Simone de Beauvoir takes an unflinching look at Parisian intellectual society at the end of World War II. In fictionally relating the stories of those around h… [more below]
- Series: Norton Paperback Fiction
- Author: Beauvoir, Simone De
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: July 17 1999
- ISBN10: 0393318834
- Language: English
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This Monstrous Thing
$15.99 Add to cartThis wildly creative, critically acclaimed retelling of Frankenstein is perfect for fans of Cinder by Marissa Meyer and the Yellow Brick War series by Danielle Page. Now available in paperback.
In an a
- Author: Lee, Mackenzi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062382780
- 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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Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook
$19.99 Add to cartThe National Bestseller
“Focused and persuasive… Bray’s book is many things: the first English-language transnational history of antifa, a how-to for would-be activists, and a record of advice from- Series: Activist Citizens’ Library
- Author: Bray, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 14 2017
- ISBN10: 1612197035
- Language: English
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Asterix #38: The Chieftain’s Daughter
$9.99 Add to cartTop secret new story for Asterix’s 60th Anniversary, stay tuned!
- Series: Asterix #38
- Author: Ferri, Jean-Yves
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1545805695
- Language: English
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Villette
$5.95 Add to cartFleeing an unhappy past in England, penniless Lucy Snowe starts life anew at a boarding school in cosmopolitan Villette, a stand-in for Brussels. The mystery, jealousy, and love that she finds there g… [more below]
- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Brontë, Charlotte
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: May 06 2014
- ISBN10: 045146544X
- Language: English
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Citizen Soldiers: The U S Army from the Normandy Beaches to the Bulge to the Surrender of Germany
$21.99 Add to cartFrom Stephen E. Ambrose, bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the inspiring story of the ordinary men of the U.S. army in northwest Europe from the day after D-Day until the end of the bi… [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 24 1998
- ISBN10: 0684848015
- Language: English
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The Great Fire
$20.00 Add to cartThe Great Fire is the winner of the 2003 National Book Award for Fiction.
More than twenty years after the classic The Transit of Venus, Shirley Hazzard returns to fiction with a novel that in the w- Series: Picador Modern Classics
- Author: Hazzard, Shirley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 326
- Publish Date: July 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0312423586
- Language: English
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The Story of O
$13.99 Add to cartO is a young, beautiful fashion photographer in Paris. One day her lover, Rene, takes her to a chateau, where she is enslaved, with Rene’s approval, and systematically sexually assaulted by various ot… [more below]
- Author: Reage, Pauline
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 1562010352
- Language: English
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Unforgettable Journeys Europe: Discover the Joys of Slow Travel
$30.00 Read moreInspirational travel book covering 150 of Europe’s most incredible journeys, including routes on foot and by bike, road, rail and water.
When it comes to beautiful landscapes, Europe has more than it- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 074407780X
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
$19.99 Add to cart“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Be
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: De Beauvoir, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0060825197
- Language: English
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Three Plays: Blood Wedding; Yerma; The House of Bernarda Alba
$21.00 Add to cartNewly repackaged, three plays by Federico Garc a Lorca
In these three plays, Federico Garc a Lorca’s acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Garc?a Lorca, Federico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0374523320
- Language: English
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The Elementary Particles
$18.00 Add to cartAn international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary e… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375727019
- Language: English
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Granada
$24.95 Add to cartRadwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granadan rule and an Arabic world into a novel that evokes cultural loss and the disappearance of a vanquished population.
The novel follows the family of A- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Ashour, Radwa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0815607652
- Language: English
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Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe’s Grand Mountaintops [A Cookbook]
$50.00 Add to cartA lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, including 80 recipes for the elegant, rustic dishes served in the chalets and mountain huts situated among t… [more below]
- Author: Erickson, Meredith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1607748746
- Language: English
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
$19.99 Add to cartBestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1451668848
- Language: English
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The Face of Battle
$20.00 Add to cart
The Face of Battle is military history from
John Keegan’s groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle — a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare- Author: Keegan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: January 27 1983
- ISBN10: 0140048979
- Language: English
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