Cultural Region/Eastern Europe
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Immigrant Baggage: Morticians, Purloined Diaries, and Other Theatrics of Exile
$19.95 Add to cartFrom a bilingual master of the literary memoir comes this moving and humorous story of losing immigrant baggage and trying to reclaim it for his American future.
- Author: Shrayer, Maxim D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 146
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1644699982
- Language: English
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100 Easy Ukrainian Texts: Ukrainian Language Reader for Beginners with Audio and Exercises
$26.55 Add to cartLearning Ukrainian language? In this book you’ll find 100 easy texts in Ukrainian, and 60 minutes of audio is available online. The book helps not just to learn the words but to use them! This edition
- Series: Ukrainian Language Learning with Audio
- Author: Pozniak, Yuliia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 172
- Publish Date: August 28 2022
- ISBN10: 3982458102
- Language: English
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Life on the Run: One Family’s Search for Peace in War-Torn Ukraine
$26.95 Read moreAn intensely personal story from Ukrainian writer Sergey Maidukov that Kirkus Reviews says is “affecting” and a “moving look at a deeply riven Russian-Ukrainian family and how they rejected Russian ag
- Author: Maidukov, Sergey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1538185733
- Language: English
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A Concise History of Poland
$35.00 Add to cartPoland is a tenacious survivor-state: it was wiped off the map in 1795, resurrected after the First World War, apparently annihilated again in the Second World War, and reduced to satellite status of … [more below]
- Series: Cambridge Concise Histories
- Author: Lukowski, Jerzy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 526
- Publish Date: January 24 2019
- ISBN10: 1108440126
- Language: English
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Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian Concise Dictionary
$19.95 Add to cartThis 2-way Lithuanian-English/English-Lithuanian dictionary contains 8,000 entries. It also includes comprehensive definitions and phonetics for both languages in an easy-to-use format.
- Series: Hippocrene Concise Dictionary
- Author: Martsinkyavitshute, Victoria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 386
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0781801516
- Language: English
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The Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
$19.99 Add to cartIn 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblingsbeing led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Ins
- Author: Duffy, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 302
- Publish Date: June 15 2004
- ISBN10: 0060935537
- Language: English
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Budapest
$0.00 Read moreGazing at each other across the Danube, Buda and Pest, the city’s two halves, have their own distinct characters. While Buda is famous for its incredible medieval architecture, Pest is bursting at the
- Series: Travel Guide
- Author: Dk Eyewitness
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 13, 2022
- ISBN10: 0241568544
- Language: English
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Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains)
$30.95 Add to cartFinalist, 2021 Next Generation Indie Book Awards: Travel and Regional Non-Fiction categories.
The journey continues in Part 2 of Into the Carpathians: an engaging and informative chronicle of a 2005 hi
- Series: Into the Carpathians #2
- Author: Sparks, Alan E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 18 2020
- ISBN10: 0578705702
- Language: English
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Warnings
$28.00 Add to cartOld friends–one a Jew, the other a Christian–Leonard (Lenny) Grob and John K. Roth are philosophers who have long studied the Holocaust. That experience makes us anxious about democracy, because we … [more below]
- Author: Grob, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1666743968
- Language: English
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Ukraine between war and peace
$32.04 Add to cartHas the US strategy reached an impasse? What is the Russian conduct of military operations? When will the Ukrainian counter-offensive take place? Does Western weaponry really make a difference in Ukra… [more below]
- Author: Baud, Jacques
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 306
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 2315010829
- Language: English
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They Can Live in the Desert But Nowhere Else: A History of the Armenian Genocide
$25.95 Add to cartA definitive history of the 20th century’s first major genocide on its 100th anniversary
Starting in early 1915, the Ottoman Turks began deporting and killing hundreds of thousands of Armenians in the- Series: Human Rights and Crimes Against Humanity #23
- Author: Suny, Ronald Grigor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: May 09 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175969
- Language: English
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Balkan Ghosts: A Journey Through History (New Edition)
$23.00 Read moreFrom the assassination that triggered World War I to the ethnic warfare in Serbia, Bosnia, and Croatia, the Balkans have been the crucible of the twentieth century, the place where terrorism and genoc
- Author: Kaplan, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: May 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0312424930
- Language: English
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Surviving Genocide: Personal Recollections
$25.00 Add to cartThe author describes the loss of her home in Eastern Europe during World War II, her family’s deportation to a Nazi labor camp, and their eventual arrival in the United States. Relying on historic sou… [more below]
- Author: Chmara, Donna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1950423808
- Language: English
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Plunder: A Memoir of Family Property and Nazi Treasure
$16.99 Read moreFrom a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland–and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that follows
Menachem Kaiser’s br… [more below]
- Author: Kaiser, Meir Menachem
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 0358699177
- Language: English
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New Country, New Life: A Family Memoir
$16.99 Add to cartWhat is it like to leave behind everything and everyone you’ve ever known amidst terror, trauma, and war, knowing you will never see them again? How must it feel to come to a strange, new land, and ha… [more below]
- Author: Holman, Chrystyna Zorych
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1039184235
- Language: English
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Marián Hossa: My Journey from TrencÃn to the Hall of Fame
$30.00 Read moreA Stanley Cup champion and modern legend of the game, in his own words
Marián Hossa’s life is a lesson in the value of determination and perseverance. Born into a hockey family that included his fat- Author: Hossa, Marian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1629379441
- Language: English
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The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
$35.00 Add to cartIn The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages, Geraldine Heng questions the common assumption that the concepts of race and racisms only began in the modern era. Examining Europe’s encounters w… [more below]
- Author: Heng, Geraldine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 434
- Publish Date: November 28 2019
- ISBN10: 1108435092
- Language: English
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The Georgian Feast: The Vibrant Culture and Savory Food of the Republic of Georgia
$33.68 Add to cart“Every Georgian dish is a poem.”–Alexander Pushkin
According to Georgian legend, God took a supper break while creating the world. He became so involved with his meal that he inadvertently tripped o- Author: Goldstein, Darra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 520300262
- Language: English
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Midnight in Siberia: A Train Journey Into the Heart of Russia
$27.99 Add to cartFar away from the trendy caf?, designer boutiques, and political protests and crackdowns in Moscow, the real Russia exists.
Midnight in Siberia chronicles David Greene’s journey on the Trans-Siberian
- Author: Greene, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 05 2015
- ISBN10: 0393351874
- Language: English
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Waterfowl of North America, Europe, and Asia: An Identification Guide
$49.95 Add to cartThe ultimate guide for identifying the waterfowl of North America and Eurasia
This is the ultimate guide for anyone who wants to identify the ducks, geese, and swans of North America, Europe, and Asia- Author: Reeber, S?bastien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: February 16 2016
- ISBN10: 691162662
- Language: English
