Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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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 Add to cartIn 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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Gulag: A History
$24.00 Add to cartPULITZER PRIZE WINNER – This magisterial and acclaimed history offers the first fully documented portrait of the Gulag, from its origins in the Russian Revolution, through its expansion under Stalin, … [more below]
- Author: Applebaum, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: April 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1400034094
- Language: English
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The Door
$17.95 Add to cartOne of The New York Times Book Review‘s “10 Best Books of 2015”
An NYRB Classics Original The Door is an unsettling exploration of the relationship between two very different women. Magda is a writer,- Series: Nyrb Classics
- Author: Szabo, Magda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1590177711
- Language: English
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
$20.00 Add to cartWhen Pushkin first read some of the stories in this collection, he declared himself “amazed.” “Here is real gaiety,” he wrote, “honest, unconstrained, without mincing, without primness. And in places
- Series: Vintage Classics
- Author: Gogol, Nikolai
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: June 29, 1999
- ISBN10: 0375706151
- Language: English
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Making Bombs for Hitler
$8.99 Add to cartFor readers who were enthralled by Alan Gratz’s Prisoner B-3087 comes a gripping novel about a lesser-known part of WWII.
Lida thought she was safe. Her neighbors wearing the yellow star were all taken… [more below]
- Author: Skrypuch, Marsha Forchuk
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1338312839
- Language: English
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Freedom to Win: A Cold War Story of the Courageous Hockey Team That Fought the Soviets for the Soul of Its People–And Olympic Gold
$28.95 Read moreA classic David & Goliath tale, complete with colorful heroes, cold-hearted villains, and nail-biting games–with the hockey rink serving as an arena for a nation’s resistance.
During the height of th- Author: Scheiner, Ethan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: July 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639363513
- Language: English
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A Nasty Little War: The Western Intervention Into the Russian Civil War
$32.00 Add to cartThe first comprehensive history of the failed Allied Intervention in the Russian Civil War, a decisive turning point in the relationship between Russia and the West
Overlapping with and overshadowed- Author: Reid, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 06, 2024
- ISBN10: 1541619668
- Language: English
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The Crusades: The Authoritative History of the War for the Holy Land
$24.00 Add to cartThe Crusades is an authoritative, accessible single-volume history of the brutal struggle for the Holy Land in the Middle Ages. Thomas Asbridge–a renowned historian who writes with “maximum vividness
- Author: Asbridge, Thomas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: March 08, 2011
- ISBN10: 0060787295
- Language: English
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The Good Soldier Svejk and His Fortunes in the World War: Translated by Cecil Parrott. with Original Illustrations by Josef Lada.
$22.00 Add to cartDiscover “perhaps the funniest novel ever written” (The Guardian ), now beautifully reissued
“The classic comic novel of the First World War.” —The New Yorker – “A literary masterpiece.” —New York Re
- Author: Hasek, Jaroslav
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: August 07 2018
- ISBN10: 0062835440
- Language: English
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View with a Grain of Sand: Selected Poems
$18.99 Add to cartWINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE FOR LITERATURE
A remarkable, graceful collection from one of Europe’s most prominent and celebrated poets.
In these 100 poems, Wislawa Szymborska portrays a world of astonishin
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 25 2024
- ISBN10: 0156002167
- Language: English
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Safe Area Gorazde
$24.99 Add to cartPraised by The New York Times, Brill’s Content and Publishers Weekly, Safe Area Gorazde is the long-awaited and highly sought after 240-page look at war in the former Yugoslavia. Sacco (the critically… [more below]
- Author: Sacco, Joe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: January 17 2002
- ISBN10: 1560974702
- Language: English
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The Mysterious Affair at Styles
$25.00 Add to cartChiltern Publishing creates the most beautiful editions of the world’s finest literature. Your favorite classic titles in a way you have never seen them before; the tactile layers, fine details and be
- Series: Chiltern Classic
- Author: Christie, Agatha
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 255
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1914602188
- Language: English
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The Master and Margarita
$16.00 Add to cartA masterful translation of one of the great novels of the 20th century
Nothing in the whole of literature compares with The Master and Margarita. Full of pungency and wit, this luminous work is Bulgak- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Bulgakov, Mikhail
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 01, 2001
- ISBN10: 0141180145
- Language: English
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Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster
$29.00 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 three
- Series: Lannan Selection
- Author: Alexievich, Svetlana
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 28, 2005
- ISBN10: 1564784010
- Language: English
