Cultural Region/Eastern Europe

  • New and Collected Poems 1931-2001

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    New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 celebrates seven decades of Czeslaw Milosz’s exceptional career. Widely regarded as one of the greatest poets of our time, Milosz is a master of probing inquiry and

    • Author: Milosz, Czeslaw
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 800
    • Publish Date: April 04, 2017
    • ISBN10: 0060514485
    • Language: English
  • Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland

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    A landmark book that changed the story of Poland’s role in the Holocaust

    On July 10, 1941, in Nazi-occupied Poland, half of the town of Jedwabne brutally murdered the other half: 1,600 men, women, and

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    • Author: Gross, Jan T.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 304
    • Publish Date: April 26 2022
    • ISBN10: 0691234302
    • Language: English
  • Empire of God: How the Byzantines Saved Civilization

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    Without the Byzantine Empire, there never would have been Western civilization.

    Western civilization is generally regarded as the child of Athens, Jerusalem, and Rome. That is, in the West, our philos

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    • Author: Spencer, Robert
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: November 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 1637587422
    • Language: English
  • Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945

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    Finalist 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
  • Stalin’s War: A New History of World War II

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    “A provocative, revisionist take on the Second World War” (Financial Times) by a prize-winning historian

    We remember World War II as a struggle between good and evil, with Hitler propelling events and

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    • Author: McMeekin, Sean
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 880
    • Publish Date: November 29 2022
    • ISBN10: 154167278X
    • Language: English
  • Fodor’s Prague: With the Best of the Czech Republic

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    Whether you want to visit Prague Castle, walk across the famed Charles Bridge, or enjoy Czech beer in the beer capital of the world, the local Fodor’s travel experts in Prague and across the Czech Rep

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    • Series: Full-Color Travel Guide
    • Author: Fodor’s Travel Guides
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: May 2, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1640975772
    • Language: English
  • Lost Pianos of Siberia

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    From acclaimed journalist Sophy Roberts, a journey through one of the harshest landscapes on earth-where music reveals the deep humanity and the rich history of Siberia.

    • Author: Roberts, Sophy
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 448
    • Publish Date: August 17 2021
    • ISBN10: 0802149294
    • Language: English
  • Will to Survive: A History of Hungary

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    The Will to Survive describes how a small country, for much of its existence squeezed between two empires, surrounded by hostile neighbours and subjected to invasion and occupation, survived the frequ… [more below]

    • Author: Cartledge, Bryan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 600
    • Publish Date: April 19 2011
    • ISBN10: 0199327343
    • Language: English
  • Narcissus and Goldmund

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    Hesse’s novel of two medieval men, one quietly content with his religion and monastic life, the other in fervent search of more worldly salvation. This conflict between flesh and spirit, between emoti… [more below]

    • Author: Hesse, Hermann
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: February 01 1984
    • ISBN10: 0553275860
    • Language: English
  • Madame Curie: A Biography

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    Marie Sklodowska Curie (1867-1934) was the first woman scientist to win worldwide fame, and indeed, one of the great scientists of this century. Winner of two Nobel Prizes (for physics in 1903 and for… [more below]

    • Series: Da Capo Series in Science
    • Author: Curie, Eve
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 444
    • Publish Date: April 2, 2001
    • ISBN10: 0306810387
    • Language: English
  • Among the Russians

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    “There is no travel writer working today in English who possesses such a remarkable combination of the observant and the lyric gifts–the most poetic of us all.” — Jan Morris

    The first book in Thubron

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    • Author: Thubron, Colin
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: December 26, 2000
    • ISBN10: 0060959290
    • Language: English
  • Elixir: In the Valley at the End of Time

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    A search for a cure to what ails us in the Anthropocene by the award-winning author of Border

    In Elixir, in a wild river valley and amid the three mountains that define it, Kapka Kassabova seeks out t

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    • Author: Kassabova, Kapka
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 400
    • Publish Date: May 16 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644452332
    • Language: English
  • Klimt

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    The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, ag

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Néret, Gilles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 15, 2015
    • ISBN10: 3836558076
    • Language: English
  • Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis

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    A 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

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    • Author: Hood, Susan
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: March 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 63083906
    • Language: English
  • A Year with Rilke: Daily Readings from the Best of Rainer Maria Rilke

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    One of the most beloved poets of the twentieth century, Rainer Maria Rilke is widely celebrated for his depth of insight and timeless relevance. He has influenced generations of writers with his class

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    • Author: Barrows, Anita
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 384
    • Publish Date: November 17 2009
    • ISBN10: 006185400X
    • Language: English
  • How We Survived Communism & Even Laughed

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    “She is a writer and journalist whose voice belongs to the world.” — Gloria Steinem

    This essay collection from renowned journalist and novelist Slavenka Drakulic, which quickly became a modern (and fe

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    • Author: Drakulic, Slavenka
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: June 07 2016
    • ISBN10: 0060975407
    • Language: English
  • Anna Karenina

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    Leo Tolstoy’s evocative tale of doomed love–one of the greatest novels of the nineteenth century.

    Anna Karenina startled the world with its powerful portrayal of the human need for love and purpose.

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    • Series: Signet Classics
    • Author: Tolstoy, Leo
    • Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
    • Page Count: 960
    • Publish Date: November 05 2002
    • ISBN10: 0451528611
    • Language: English
  • I Am David

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    In this gripping story, a twelve-year-old boy struggles to cope with an entirely strange world as he flees northward to freedom in Denmark, after escaping from the eastern European prison camp where h… [more below]

    • Author: Holm, Anne
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 239
    • Publish Date: 1-Jan-04
    • ISBN10: 0152051600
    • Language: English
  • The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent – A Retelling for Our Times

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    Celebrated historian John Hirst draws from his own lectures to deliver this ultra-accessible master class on the making of modern Europe, from Ancient Greece through World War II. With over 600,000 co… [more below]

    • Series: Shortest History
    • Author: Hirst, James
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 224
    • Publish Date: November 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 1615199144
    • Language: English
  • The Daughters of Yalta: The Churchills, Roosevelts, and Harrimans: A Story of Love and War

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    The untold story of the three intelligent and glamorous young women who accompanied their famous fathers to the Yalta Conference in February 1945, and of the conference’s fateful reverberations in the

    • Author: Katz, Catherine Grace
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 432
    • Publish Date: October 19, 2021
    • ISBN10: 035862794X
    • Language: English
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