Cultural Region/Germany
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Taking Berlin: The Bloody Race to Defeat the Third Reich
$30.00 Read moreFrom Martin Dugard, #1 New York Times bestselling coauthor of Bill O’Reilly’s Killing series, comes a nonfiction thriller about the race between the Allies and Soviets to conquer the heart of Nazi Ger… [more below]
- Author: Dugard, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0593187423
- Language: English
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Martin Luther: A Man Who Changed the World
$19.99 Read moreThis picture book explores the life of the 16th-century monk who was the catalyst for the Protestant Reformation in Europe. Readers learn the historic background to a significant time in the church, a… [more below]
- Author: Maier, Paul L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: January 01 2004
- ISBN10: 0758606265
- Language: English
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The Golden Pot: And Other Tales of the Uncanny
$24.00 Read more“I could list plausible comparisons all day and night, but The Golden Pot is simply unlike anything else I have ever read.” — Justin Taylor, The Washington Post
Macabre and fantastical, Hoffmann’s wil… [more below]- Author: Hoffmann, E. T. a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 425
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1953861709
- Language: English
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The Woman Who Split the Atom: The Life of Lise Meitner
$19.99 Read moreBestselling author-illustrator Marissa Moss tells the gripping story of Lise Meitner, the physicist who discovered nuclear fission
As a female Jewish physicist in Berlin during the early 20th century,
- Author: Moss, Marissa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1419758535
- Language: English
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The Real Odessa: How Peron Brought the Nazi War Criminals to Argentina
$17.60 Read moreIt has long been known that Adolf Eichmann, Josef Mengele, Erich Priebke and many other Nazi war criminals found refuge in Argentina. In this book, a courageous Argentinian writer shows exactly how it
- Author: Goni, Uki
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 20 2022
- ISBN10: 1783789255
- Language: English
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Faster: How a Jewish Driver, an American Heiress, and a Legendary Car Beat Hitler’s Best
$18.99 Add to cartWinner of the Motor Press Guild Best Book of the Year Award & Dean Batchelor Award for Excellence in Automotive Journalism
For fans of The Boys in the Boat and In the Garden of Beasts, a pulse-poundi- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 0358508126
- Language: English
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While We Were Dreaming
$20.00 Add to cartRico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery quarter. Ever
- Author: Meyer, Clemens
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1804270288
- Language: English
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Grimm’s Fairy Tales
$50.00 Add to cartThis Calla Edition of fairy tales by the Brothers Grimm is drawn from the mammoth collection first published in 1909 and illustrated by Arthur Rackham. His 40 full-color plates, plus innumerable black… [more below]
- Series: Calla Editions
- Author: Grimm, Jacob and Wilhelm
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 18 2010
- ISBN10: 1606600109
- Language: English
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Siblings
$16.95 Add to cartA New Yorker Best Book of 2023
A story of sibling love ruptured by the Iron Curtain, by one of the most significant East German writers.
“I will never forgive you,” Uli says to his sister Elisabeth. I
- Author: Reimann, Brigitte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 194549266X
- Language: English
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The Blue Flower
$16.99 Add to cartA NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER in Fiction. Booker Prize-winning novelist Fitzgerald’s crowning literary work centers on the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis and his love f… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, Penelope
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 14 2014
- ISBN10: 0544359453
- Language: English
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The Escape Artists: A Band of Daredevil Pilots and the Greatest Prison Break of the Great War
$18.99 Add to cart“Bascomb has unearthed a remarkable piece of hidden history, and told it perfectly. The story brims with adventure, suspense, daring, and heroism.”
–David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of… [more below]- Author: Bascomb, Neal
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0358118220
- Language: English
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Essays of Virginia Woolf, Vol. 4, 1925-1928
$35.00 Add to cartThis fourth volume of the first complete edition of Virginia Woolf’s essays and reviews celebrates her maturing vitality and wonderfully reveals her prodigious reading, wit, and original intelligence…. [more below]
- Series: Essays of Virginia Woolf
- Author: Woolf, Virginia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: May 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0156035227
- Language: English
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Basilius Besler. Florilegium. the Book of Plants
$25.00 Read moreA magnificent pictorial document of the flowers grown in the greatest German garden of its time, the Hortus Eystettensis is in a class of its own when it comes to the range of flowers engraved.
First
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Littger, Klaus Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836557878
- Language: English
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Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and None
$18.95 Add to cartA new translation of Nietzsche’s seminal work by a prize-winning translator of W. G. Sebald, Goethe, Rilke, Herta Müller, and Elfriede Jelinek.
In Thus Spake Zarathustra, Nietzsche’s infamous pr- Author: Nietzsche, Friedrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1910749257
- Language: English
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What Matters Most is How Well You Walk Through the Fire
$19.99 Add to cart“The Walt Whitman of Los Angeles.”–Joyce Carol Oates, bestselling author
“He brought everybody down to earth, even the angels.”–Leonard Cohen, songwriter
What Matters Most Is How Well You Walk Through
- Author: Bukowski, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1574231057
- Language: English
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The House of Rothschild: Volume 1: Money’s Prophets: 1798-1848
$28.00 Add to cartIn his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Oxford scholar and bestselling author Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family’s phenomenal economic success… [more below]
- Series: House of Rothschild #1
- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 01 1999
- ISBN10: 0140240845
- Language: English
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Berlin. Portrait of a City
$70.00 Add to cartBerlin has survived two world wars, was divided by a wall during the Cold War, and after the fall of the wall was reunited. The city emerged as a center of European power and culture. From 1860 to the
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 13 2007
- ISBN10: 3822814458
- Language: English
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Grimm’s Fairy Tales
$8.00 Read moreEarly in the nineteenth century, Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm compiled a collection of stories to preserve the folklore of their native Germany. Forty-three of them — fairy tales, some deliciously dark, t… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Grimm, Jacob
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 11 2007
- ISBN10: 0486456560
- Language: English
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Air Raid
$10.50 Read moreA powerful work by the heralded writer, this collection is a touchstone event in German literature of the post-war era.
On April 8, 1945, several American bomber squadrons were informed that their Ge- Series: The Seagull Library of German Literature
- Author: Kluge, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1803090367
- Language: English
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The Tin Drum
$17.99 Add to cartOne of the greatest modern novels, The Tin Drum is the story of thirty-year-old Oskar Matzerath, who has lived through the long Nazi nightmare and who, as the novel begins, is being held in a mental i… [more below]
- Author: Grass, Günter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 08 2010
- ISBN10: 0547339100
- Language: English
