Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Red Famine: Stalin’s War on Ukraine
$20.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A revelatory history of one of Stalin’s greatest crimes, the consequences of which still resonate today, as Russia has placed Ukrainian independence in its sights once more… [more below]
- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 0804170886
- Language: English
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A Ukrainian Christmas
$26.99 Read more‘History, stories, recipes and beautiful illustrations’ – OLINA HERCULES
‘Christmas brings the indestructibility of hope in times of the greatest hopelessness. As long as we celebrate this holiday, w- Author: Hrytsak, Yaroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1408728419
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Prague & the Czech Republic
$22.99 Add to cartFrom the world’s largest castle to the coziest pubs, experience the Old World charm of the Czech Republic with Rick Steves. Inside Rick Steves Prague & the Czech Republic you’ll find:
- Comprehensive co
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: 24-Oct-23
- ISBN10: 1641715510
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Central Europe: The Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovenia & More
$29.99 Add to cartNow more than ever, you can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Central Europe. From romantic cities steeped in history to the stunning slopes of the A… [more below]
- Series: Rick Steves
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 1144
- Publish Date: December 26 2023
- ISBN10: 164171557X
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita
$19.00 Add to cartA “soaring, dazzling novel” (The New York Times), Mirra Ginsburg’s critically-acclaimed translation of one of the most important and best-loved modern classics in world literature
The Master and Margar
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: 13-Jan-94
- ISBN10: 0802130119
- Language: English
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The War on the West
$32.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!
China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?
It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Som
- Author: Murray, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063162024
- Language: English
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The Picnic: A Dream of Freedom and the Collapse of the Iron Curtain
$28.95 Add to cartIn August 1989, a group of Hungarian activists organized a picnic on the border of Hungary and Austria. But this was not an ordinary picnic–it was located on the dangerous militarized frontier known
- Author: Longo, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 0393540774
- Language: English
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Vilnius Poker
$20.99 Read moreA dark, enigmatic, and visceral examination of the psychology of repression, Vilnius Poker dives into the minds of four narrators whose contradictory memories challenge the very idea of truth. In this
- Author: Gavelis, Ricardas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 438
- Publish Date: October 08, 2016
- ISBN10: 0996630422
- Language: English
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Grey Bees
$15.95 Add to cart2022 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER FOR TRANSLATED FICTION
With a warm yet political humor, Ukraine’s most famous novelist presents a balanced and illuminating portrait of modern conflict.
Li
- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1646051661
- Language: English
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Dead Souls
$18.00 Add to cartSince its publication in 1842, Dead Souls has been celebrated as a supremely realistic portrait of provincial Russian life and as a splendidly exaggerated tale; as a paean to the Russian spirit and as… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 25 1997
- ISBN10: 0679776443
- Language: English
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Ukraine: The Forging of a Nation
$34.00 Add to cartA “pioneering and fundamental” (Timothy Snyder) new history of Ukraine from one of its leading public intellectuals
When Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, the world witnessed the “creative, freewheelin- Author: Hrytsak, Yaroslav
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1541704606
- Language: English
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The Devil’s Arithmetic
$8.99 Add to cart30th Anniversary edition with a new introduction from the author
Hannah is tired of holiday gatherings-all her family ever talks about is the past. In fact, it seems to her that’s what they do every- Series: Puffin Modern Classics
- Author: Yolen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 12, 2004
- ISBN10: 0142401099
- Language: English
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What’s Cooking in the Kremlin: From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork
$20.00 Add to cartA New York Times Editors’ Choice
“Entertaining . . . A heady mix of propaganda and paranoia . . . [Szablowski writes] sensitively . . . not just about food but also its terrible absence.” —The New Yo- Author: Szablowski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: November 07, 2023
- ISBN10: 0143137182
- Language: English
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Baba Yaga’s Book of Witchcraft: Slavic Magic from the Witch of the Woods
$26.99 Add to cartMove Swiftly On Your Own Two Feet, for Baba Yaga You Must Meet
Discover ancient and modern Slavic magical practices through stories told by the legendary Baba Yaga herself. Learn about the magic of th
- Author: Pamita, Madame
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 08, 2022
- ISBN10: 0738767891
- Language: English
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War and Punishment: Putin, Zelensky, and the Path to Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine
$30.00 Add to cartA NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2023
From “one of Russia’s smartest and best-sourced young journalists” (The New York Times)–the first work by a Russian author to reveal his country’s history of oppressing- Author: Zygar, Mikhail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 166801372X
- Language: English
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The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 2]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation
$22.99 Add to cart“BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY.” —Time
Volume 2 of the Nobel Prize-winner’s towering masterpiece: the story of Solzhenitsyn’s entrance into the Soviet prison camps, where he would remain fo
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: August 07, 2007
- ISBN10: 0061253723
- Language: English
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Demons
$21.00 Add to cartInspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a " novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 768
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0679734511
- Language: English
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The Middle Kingdoms: A New History of Central Europe
$36.00 Read moreAn essential new history of Central Europe, the contested lands so often at the heart of world history
Central Europe has long been infamous as a region beset by war, a place where empi- Author: Rady, Martyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1541619781
- Language: English
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A Traveller’s History of Croatia
$14.95 Add to cartGeorge Bernard Shaw wrote that on the last day of Creation, “God desired to crown His work,” and so fashioned the Croatian coastline “out of tears, stars, and breath.” Anyone who has glimpsed that lon
- Series: Interlink Traveller’s Histories
- Author: Curtis, Benjamin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 15, 2020
- ISBN10: 1566568080
- Language: English
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The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
$30.00 Add to cartDespite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war–and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? U
- Author: Plokhy, Serhii
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 16, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324051191
- Language: English
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