Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Kobzar
$37.99 Add to cartMasterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the complete Kobzar brings out Ukraine’s rich cultural heri… [more below]
- Author: Shevchenko, Taras
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 452
- Publish Date: October 11 2013
- ISBN10: 1909156558
- Language: English
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Summer Kitchens: Recipes and Reminiscences from Every Corner of Ukraine
$35.00 Add to cartAn exploration into the culinary identity of eastern Europe through stunning food and travel photography, interspersed with stories and memories of tiny buildings called summer kitchens.
In this new c- Author: Hercules, Olia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1681885700
- Language: English
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Poland: The First Thousand Years
$32.00 Add to cartSince its beginnings, Poland has been a moving target, geographically as well as demographically, and the very definition of who is a Pole has been in flux. In the late medieval and early modern perio
- Author: Dabrowski, Patrice M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 506
- Publish Date: September 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0875807569
- Language: English
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The Hunger Book: A Memoir from Communist Poland
$24.95 Add to cart“A searing memoir about growing up behind the Iron Curtain, motherhood, addiction, and finding sustenance in the natural world.” –Kirkus
In The Hunger Book, Agata Izabela Brewer evokes her Polish c- Series: 21st Century Essays
- Author: Brewer, Agata Izabela
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 0814258786
- Language: English
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Ivan and Phoebe
$26.95 Read moreIvan and Phoebe chronicles the lives of several young people involved in the Ukrainian student protests of the 1990s-otherwise known as the Revolution on Granite or the First Maidan and investigates t
- Author: Lutsysyna, Oksana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1646052625
- Language: English
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My Ukrainian American Story
$14.99 Add to cartJourney with female protagonist, Oksana as she shares her Ukrainian American experience. Thirty-eight pages of detailed color illustrations transport you through Oksana’s vibrant world filled with the
- Author: Bamber, Adrianna Oksana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 40
- Publish Date: October 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0998959111
- Language: English
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Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis
$19.99 Add to cartA Sydney Taylor Book Award 2023 Middle Grade Notable!
A Jewish Book Council Award Middle Grade Finalist!
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias “Anna”) and h
- Author: Hood, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 22 2022
- ISBN10: 0063083892
- Language: English
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Russian Fairy Tales
$26.00 Add to cartBeautifully illustrated, here is the most comprehensive collection of classic Russian tales available in English.
This comprehensive collection introduces readers to universal fairy-tale figures and to- Series: Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library
- Author: Afanas’ev, Aleksandr
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: September 12 1976
- ISBN10: 0394730909
- Language: English
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The Fur Hat
$11.95 Add to cartIn this satire of Soviet life, an insecure but much-published novelist, Yefim Rakhlin, learns that the Writers’ Union is giving fur hats to its members based on their importance, and that he rates onl… [more below]
- Author: Voinovich, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 132
- Publish Date: March 28 1991
- ISBN10: 0156340305
- Language: English
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Beginner’s First Steps in Ukrainian: Your Strong Base for Correct Pronunciation and Reading
$17.55 Add to cartLearning Ukrainian? This is the perfect starting point. This short but powerful course will guide you to build a strong pronunciation and reading base in Ukrainian language in 12 easy steps. By buying
- Series: Ukrainian Language Learning with Audio
- Author: Pozniak, Yuliia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 3982458145
- Language: English
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Borderland: A Journey Through the History of Ukraine
$19.99 Add to cart“A beautifully written evocation of Ukraine’s brutal past and its shaky efforts to construct a better future.”–Financial Times
Ukraine is gripped in a bloody crisis that has killed tens of thousands,
- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1541603486
- Language: English
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Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation’s Cultural Heritage
$40.00 Add to cartTreasures of Ukraine chronicles the arts and heritage of Ukraine at a time when the country’s people, culture, landmarks, and artworks are facing destruction and devastation. Created in partnership w
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 06 2022
- ISBN10: 0500026033
- 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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Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster
$19.99 Add to cartHere is the shocking true saga of the Irish American mob. In Paddy Whacked, bestselling author and organized crime expert T. J. English brings to life nearly two centuries of Irish American gangsteris
- Author: English, T. J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: February 21 2006
- ISBN10: 0060590033
- Language: English
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Poor Folk and Other Stories
$16.00 Add to cartWith their penetrating psychological insight and their emphasis on human dignity, respect and forgiveness, Dostoyevsky’s early short stories contain the seeds of the themes that came to his major nove… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 271
- Publish Date: April 04 1989
- ISBN10: 0140445056
- Language: English
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The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History – Second Edition
$12.95 Add to cart“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing.” This ancient Greek aphorism, preserved in a fragment from the poet Archilochus, describes the central thesis of Isaiah Berlin’s maste
- Author: Berlin, Isaiah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 02 2013
- ISBN10: 069115600X
- Language: English
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The Lost
$15.99 Read moreIn this rich and riveting narrative, a writer’s search for the truth behind his family’s tragic past in World War II becomes a remarkably original epic–part memoir, part reportage, part mystery, and
- Author: Mendelsohn, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 530
- Publish Date: November 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0060542993
- Language: English
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
$19.95 Add to cartAn account of the worst nuclear reactor accident in history from the 2015 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
On April 26, 1986, the Chernobyl nuclear reactor accident contaminated as much as thr
- Series: Lannan Selection
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 1628973307
- Language: English
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Stalingrad
$25.00 Add to cartThe Battle of Stalingrad was not only the psychological turning point of World War II: it also changed the face of modern warfare. From Antony Beevor, the internationally bestselling author of D-Day a… [more below]
- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: May 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140284583
- Language: English
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Collapse: The Fall of the Soviet Union
$25.00 Add to cartA major study of the collapse of the Soviet Union–showing how Gorbachev’s misguided reforms led to its demise
“A deeply informed account of how the Soviet Union fell apart.”–Rodric Braithwaite, Fin- Author: Zubok, Vladislav M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300268173
- Language: English
