Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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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.
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- Author: Kurkov, Andrey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 1646051661
- Language: English
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Dead Souls
$19.00 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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A Traveller’s History of Croatia
$14.95 Read moreGeorge 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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Crime and Punishment
$8.95 Add to cartOne of Time‘s 100 Best Mystery and Thriller Books of All Time – Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A desperate young man plans the perfect crime–the mur- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: October 15, 1996
- ISBN10: 0553211757
- Language: English
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Goodbye, Eastern Europe: An Intimate History of a Divided Land
$30.00 Read moreIn light of Russia’s aggressive 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Goodbye, Eastern Europe is a crucial, elucidative read, a sweeping epic chronicling a thousand years of strife, war, and bloodshed, from pre-C… [more below]
- Author: Mikanowski, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1524748501
- Language: English
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The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of the Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II
$22.00 Add to cartThe astonishing, never-before-told story of the greatest rescue mission of World War II–when the OSS set out to recover more than 500 airmen trapped behind enemy lines in Yugoslavia.
“An amazing, riv- Author: Freeman, Gregory A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 02, 2008
- ISBN10: 0451224957
- Language: English
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Who’s Black and Why?: A Hidden Chapter from the Eighteenth-Century Invention of Race
$19.95 Read more2023 PROSE Award in European History
“An invaluable historical example of the creation of a scientific conception of race that is unlikely to disappear anytime soon.”
—Washington Post “Reveals how pre- Author: Gates, Henry Louis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0674295455
- Language: English
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Saving My Assassin
$17.99 Add to cart“I should be dead. Buried in an unmarked grave in Romania. Obviously, I am not. God had other plans.”
A must-read for all generations, Saving My Assassin is the unforgettable account of one woman’s sea… [more below]
- Author: Prodan, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 07, 2016
- ISBN10: 1496411846
- Language: English
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The Mitten
$19.99 Add to cartIn this bestselling modern classic, a young boy’s lost mitten leads to a charming snowy adventure. Jan Brett’s beautiful retelling makes a perfect holiday gift.
When Nicki drops his white mitten in the… [more below]- Author: Brett, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0399252967
- Language: English
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Crime and Punishment
$19.00 Add to cartHailed by Washington Post Book World as “the best [translation] currently available” when it was first published, this second edition of Crime and Punishment has been updated in honor of the 200th ann… [more below]
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: March 02 1993
- ISBN10: 0679734503
- Language: English
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