Cultural Region/Central Europe
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The Last Kabbalist in Lisbon
$19.00 Add to cartA marvelous story, a challenging mystery, and a telling tale of the evils of intolerance, award-winning author Richard Zimler’s The Last Kabbalist of Lisbon both compels and entertains.
Just a few ye- Author: Zimler, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 15 2000
- ISBN10: 1585670227
- Language: English
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A Room with a View
$8.00 Read moreIn common with much of his other writing, this work by the eminent English novelist and essayist E. M. Forster (1879-1970) displays an unusually perceptive view of British society in the early 20th ce… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Forster, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 12 1995
- ISBN10: 0486284670
- Language: English
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Maria Theresa: The Habsburg Empress in Her Time
$66.58 Read moreA major new biography of the iconic Austrian empress that challenges the many myths about her life and rule
Maria Theresa (1717-1780) was once the most powerful woman in Europe. At the age of twenty-t- Author: Stollberg-Rilinger, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 1104
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 0691179069
- Language: English
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Driving Over Lemons: An Optimist in Spain
$18.00 Add to cartA funny, generous, wonderfully written account of a family making a life and home in remote but enchanting southern Spain–from the first drummer of the rock band Genesis.
No sooner had Chris Stewart- Series: Vintage Departures
- Author: Stewart, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 08 2001
- ISBN10: 0375709150
- Language: English
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The Radetzky March
$19.00 Add to cart“Epic . . . brilliantly achieved” (New York Times Book Review), The Radetzky March, Joseph Roth’s classic saga of the privileged von Trotta family, encompasses the entire social fabric of the Austro-H… [more below]
- Series: Works of Joseph Roth
- Author: Roth, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1585673269
- Language: English
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Run, Boy, Run
$15.99 Add to cart“‘Srulik, there’s no time. I want you to remember what I’m going to tell you. You have to stay alive. You have to! Get someone to teach you how to act like a Christian, how to cross yourself and pray…. [more below]
- Author: Orlev, Uri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 29 2007
- ISBN10: 0618957065
- Language: English
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The New Odyssey: The Story of the Twenty-First Century Refugee Crisis
$26.95 Read moreOn the day of his son’s fourteenth birthday, Hashem al-Souki lay somewhere in the Mediterranean, crammed in a wooden dinghy. His family was relatively safe–at least for the time being–in Egypt, wher
- Author: Kingsley, Patrick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: January 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1631492551
- Language: English
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The End
$27.00 Read moreA serpentine maze of memory and artistic obsession in post-war communist Hungary told in bold experimental style and perfect for fans of Helen DeWitt
Nothing approximates death as closely as photograp- Author: Bartis, Attila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 575
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861423
- Language: English
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Europe (Rookie Read-About Geography: Continents)
$5.95 Add to cartAn introduction to the geography and people of Europe.
Rookie Read-About: Continents series gives the youngest reader (Ages 3-6) an introduction to the components that make each continent distinctive a… [more below]
- Series: Rookie Read-About Geography (Paperback)
- Author: Hirsch, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0531292797
- Language: English
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Metternich: Strategist and Visionary
$24.95 Read more“A superb biographical portrait and work of historical analysis…Let us hope that it will serve if not as a manual then at least as an inspiration–good statesmanship is needed more than ever.”
–Bren- Author: Siemann, Wolfram
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: February 21 2023
- ISBN10: 0674292189
- Language: English
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The Essential Rilke
$17.99 Add to cartGerman poet Rainer Maria Rilke(1875-1926) enjoys ever-increasing popularity. His Duino Elegies is considered on of the greatest long poems of the twentieth century. Yet translations from his native Ge
- Author: Kinnell, Galway
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: September 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0060956542
- Language: English
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Horse Diaries #4: Maestoso Petra
$7.99 Add to cartVienna, Austria, 1938
Maestoso Petra is a world-famous Lipizzaner stallion. He has spent years in the Spanish Riding School, training to perform the complex airs above the ground that only Lipizzaner- Series: Horse Diaries (Quality) #4
- Author: Kendall, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0375858423
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$29.95 Read more“A fascinating, if disturbing, window onto the origins of racism.”
“The eighteenth-century essays published for the first time in Who’s Black and Why? contain a world of ideas–theo
—Publishers Weekly- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0674244265
- Language: English
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Golem: A Caldecott Award Winner
$9.99 Add to cartWinner of the 1997 Caldecott Medal
Retold from traditional sources and accompanied by David Wisniewski’s unique cut-paper illustrations, Golem is a dramatic tale of supernatural forces invoked to sav- Author: Wisniewski, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: November 19 2007
- ISBN10: 0618894241
- Language: English
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A Mountain to the North, a Lake to the South, Paths to the West, a River to the East
$15.95 Add to cartThe grandson of Prince Genji lives outside of space and time and wanders the grounds of an old monastery in Kyoto. The monastery, too, is timeless: a place of prayer and deliverance, with barely a tra… [more below]
- Author: Krasznahorkai, László
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0811234479
- Language: English
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The Bridge at Andau: The Compelling True Story of a Brave, Embattled People
$17.00 Add to cartThe Bridge at Andau is James A. Michener at his most gripping. His classic nonfiction account of a doomed uprising is as searing and unforgettable as any of his bestselling novels. For five brief, glo
- Author: Michener, James A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 09 2015
- ISBN10: 0812986741
- Language: English
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I Am Mozart, Too: The Lost Genius of Maria Anna Mozart
$18.99 Read moreTo everyone who has heard of my famous younger brother but has never heard of me.
I Am Mozart, Too is a picture book biography about Wolfgang’s older sister, Maria Anna Mozart, who was a child prodigy- Author: Ades, Audrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: February 22, 2022
- ISBN10: 0374314764
- Language: English
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Nice Snowing You!
$6.99 Read moreHoping to escape the cold in his backyard, Sparky chomps on his magic bone–only to find himself in snowy Zermatt, Switzerland. He befriends Lena, a Saint Bernard rescue dog with a terrible sense of d… [more below]
- Series: Magic Bone #04
- Author: Krulik, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 06 2014
- ISBN10: 0448464462
- Language: English
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The Children of Willesden Lane: A True Story of Hope and Survival During World War II
$8.99 Add to cartA young readers’ edition of an important and inspiring true story of hope and survival during World War II.
Fourteen-year-old Lisa Jura was a musical prodigy who hoped to become a concert pianist. Bu- Author: Golabek, Mona
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 031655488X
- Language: English
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Our Little Mushroom: A Story of Franz Schubert and His Friends
$18.99 Read moreCaldecott Medal winner Emily Arnold McCully delivers a charming picture book following the life of prolific composer and musician Franz Schubert through the eyes of the friends who helped him find suc… [more below]
- Author: McCully, Emily Arnold
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: August 16 2022
- ISBN10: 1534488782
- Language: English
