Cultural Region/Western Europe
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Dangerous Liaisons
$13.00 Add to cartA new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time
Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos’s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimate- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140449574
- Language: English
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY – ONE OF ESQUIRE‘S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the … [more below]- Author: Reiss, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0307382478
- Language: English
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Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–And WWII Heroes
$29.00 Add to cartThe astonishing true story of three fearless female teenage resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands
“Exhaustively researched- Author: Brady, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0806540389
- Language: English
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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
$19.99 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0306921421
- 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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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
$26.00 Add to cartA “breathtakingly magisterial” account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian (Wall Street Journal)
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a w… [more below]- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1541674103
- Language: English
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Asterix Omnibus #1: Collects Asterix the Gaul, Asterix and the Golden Sickle, and Asterix and the Goths
$14.99 Add to cartAsterix is celebrating 60 sensational years as an international comics superstar, and in the first collected edition from Papercutz, the stories are newly translated into American English for a new ge… [more below]
- Series: Asterix #1
- Author: Goscinny, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1545805660
- Language: English
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
$20.00 Add to cartPassion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France.
In this first of three books inspired- Author: Gulland, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0684856069
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War
$36.99 Add to cartThe First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in … [more below]
- Series: Oxford Illustrated History
- Author: Strachan, Hew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198743122
- Language: English
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Sharpe’s Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810
$18.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege
- Series: Sharpe #10
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0060561556
- Language: English
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Leo Africanus
$25.43 Add to cartAn imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. He wrote the first trilingual dictionary and Description of Africa.
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 25 1998
- ISBN10: 1561310220
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno
$24.99 Add to cartThis is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante’s epic – the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling’s translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante’s extraordi… [more below]
- Series: Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri #0001
- Author: Durling, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 06 1997
- ISBN10: 0195087445
- Language: English
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The Oxford New Spanish Dictionary: Third Edition
$9.99 Add to cartUpdated design and ultra-clear text offering up-to-date coverage of all the essential day-to-day vocabulary makes The Oxford New Spanish Dictionary the perfect guide to the Spanish language in the 21s… [more below]
- Author: Oxford University Press
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: July 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0425228606
- Language: English
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Eloise in Paris
$19.99 Add to cartBonjour
Here’s the thing of it: Paris has just been discovered by Eloise the little girl from the Plaza…
Here is what Eloise does in Paris: everything.
The effect is rawther extraordinaire. If y- Series: Eloise
- Author: Thompson, Kay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 72
- Publish Date: May 01, 1999
- ISBN10: 0689827040
- Language: English
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A Kidnapped West: The Tragedy of Central Europe
$24.99 Add to cart“We should welcome the context Kundera gives for the struggles between Russia and Europe, and the plight of those caught between them. His defense of small languages, small cultures, and small nations
- Author: Kundera, Milan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 0063272954
- Language: English
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A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century
$25.00 Add to cartA “marvelous history”* of medieval Europe, from the bubonic plague and the Papal Schism to the Hundred Years’ War, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns of August
*Lawrence Wright, author o- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: July 12 1987
- ISBN10: 0345349571
- Language: English
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Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
$25.00 Add to cartFinalist for the Pulitzer Prize – Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award – One of the New York Times‘ Ten Best Books of the Year
“Impressive . . . Mr. Judt writes with enorm- Author: Judt, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 960
- Publish Date: September 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037757
- Language: English
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Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate
$25.00 Add to cartA leading expert on foreign policy reveals how tensions between America, NATO, and Russia transformed geopolitics
● A Foreign Affairs Best Book of 2021 and winner of the Pushkin House Book Priz- Series: Henry L. Stimson Lectures
- Author: Sarotte, M. E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268033
- Language: English
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The Fisherman’s Tomb: The True Story of the Vatican’s Secret Search
$25.95 Read moreA Texas oilman. A brilliant female archaeologist. An unknown world underneath the Vatican.
In 1939, a team of workers beneath the Vatican unearthed an early Christian grave. This surprising discovery l
- Author: O’Neill, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 26 2018
- ISBN10: 1681921405
- Language: English
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The Basque History of the World: The Story of a Nation
$18.00 Add to cart“A lively, anecdotal, all-encompassing history of Basque ingenuity and achievement.” —Atlantic Monthly
From Mark Kurlansky, the bestselling author of Cod, Salt, Birdseye, and Paper–the illuminating- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 6, 2001
- ISBN10: 0140298517
- Language: English
