Cultural Region/Germany
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Enemies, a Love Story
$21.99 Add to cartAlmost before he knows it, Herman Broder, refugee and survivor of World War II, has three wives: Yadwiga, the Polish peasant who hid him from the Nazis; Masha, his beautiful and neurotic true love; an
- Author: Singer, Isaac Bashevis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 01 1988
- ISBN10: 0374515220
- Language: English
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Hausgeister!: Household Spirits of German Folklore: Household Spirits of German Folklore
$34.95 Read more“Hausgeister! is as creepy as it is beautiful. Informative and fascinating, I thoroughly enjoyed this little gem.” — BROM
Enter the world of ancient Germany where household spirits once held sway an
- Series: Wool of Bat
- Author: Schäfer, Florian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 197
- Publish Date: July 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1777791812
- Language: English
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Identitti
$27.00 Read more“Provocative and knotty . . . Identitti is a bracing story, one in which Sanyal refuses to give us the easy way out.”
Nivedita (a.k.a. Identitti), a well-known bl
–Olivia Craighead, The New York Times- Author: Sanyal, Mithu
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: July 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1662601298
- Language: English
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Sanditon
$5.95 Add to cart‘no person could be really well . . . without spending at least six weeks by the sea every year’
In Sanditon, Jane Austen writes what may well be the first seaside novel: a novel, that is, that explor- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198840837
- Language: English
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To Catch a King
$16.99 Add to cartFrom the New York Times-bestselling author Tom Clancy called “the master” In war-torn Lisbon, a bartender and a nightclub singer are caught up in a treacherous Nazi plot. As the Nazi war machine prepa… [more below]
- Author: Higgins, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: June 22 2010
- ISBN10: 1453200193
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice: Large Print
$19.99 Add to cartJane Austen’s most popular novel, the unforgettable story of Elizabeth Bennet and Mr Darcy. Now in large print.
Mrs Bennet has five daughters to marry. Not easy when they have a small dowry, and suitor
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 538
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 2383040975
- Language: English
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Beneath the Wheel
$18.00 Add to cartIn Hermann Hesse’s Beneath the Wheel, Hans Giebernath lives among the dull and respectable townsfolk of a sleepy Black Forest village. When he is discovered to be an exceptionally gifted student, the
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 01 2003
- ISBN10: 031242230X
- Language: English
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Grime
$22.00 Add to cart“This is a novel so caustic it should be printed with hydrochloric acid. Berg, a Swiss writer and social activist, sprays her fury across the whole landscape of technological and economic manias that
- Author: Berg, Sibylle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: December 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1250796512
- Language: English
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Half-Blood Blues
$23.99 Add to cartWinner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize
Man Booker Prize Finalist 2011
An Oprah Magazine Best Book of the Year Shortlisted for the Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction Berlin, 1939. The Hot Time- Author: Edugyan, Esi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 28 2012
- ISBN10: 1250012708
- Language: English
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Pride and Prejudice
$20.00 Read morePride and Prejudice is a novel of manners about the romantic pas de deux between Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy, two perfectly suited lovers who, at first, find each other insufferable. Despit
- Series: Signature Classics
- Author: Austen, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: April 05, 2022
- ISBN10: 1435172485
- Language: English
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Independent People: Introduction by John Freeman
$30.00 Add to cartA beautifully jacketed hardcover edition of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s beloved epic novel about a stubbornly independent Icelandic sheep farmer and his spirited daughter.
Set in the early twenti- Series: Everyman’s Library Classics
- Author: Laxness, Halldor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 552
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 1101908270
- Language: English
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About People
$19.99 Add to cartA World Literature Today Notable Translations of 2023
Written by Germany’s #1 bestselling author Juli Zeh, About People takes place in the middle of lockdown in spring 2020 and subtly describes the soc
- Author: Zeh, Juli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 03 2023
- ISBN10: 1642861332
- Language: English
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The Death of Democracy: Hitler’s Rise to Power and the Downfall of the Weimar Republic
$19.99 Add to cartA riveting account of how the Nazi Party came to power and how the failures of the Weimar Republic and the shortsightedness of German politicians allowed it to happen.
Why did democracy fall apart so- Author: Hett, Benjamin Carter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1250210860
- Language: English
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Self-Portrait with Russian Piano
$18.00 Add to cartA legendary literary figure who initiated a one-man Beat Generation in his native Germany, Wolf Wondratschek “is eccentric, monomaniacal, romantic–his texts are imbued with a wonderful, reckless nonc
- Author: Wondratschek, Wolf
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1250800129
- Language: English
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Here
$17.99 Add to cartA “delectable and profound” collection of poems from Nobel Prize-winner Szymborska (Booklist).
When Here was published in Poland, reviewers marveled, “How is it that she keeps getting better?”
These tw… [more below]
- Author: Szymborska, Wislawa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 07 2012
- ISBN10: 0547592094
- Language: English
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Demian
$6.00 Add to cart“All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?”
Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduce- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Hesse, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 18 2000
- ISBN10: 0486414132
- Language: English
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Lord Jim
$6.95 Add to cartLord Jim tells the story of a young, idealistic Englishman–“as unflinching as a hero in a book”–who is disgraced by a single act of cowardice while serving as an officer on the Patna, a merchant-shi… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Conrad, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199536023
- Language: English
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Burning Down the Haus: Punk Rock, Revolution, and the Fall of the Berlin Wall
$21.99 Add to cartNAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Rolling Stone * BookPage * Amazon * Rough Trade
” A] riveting and inspiring history of punk’s hard-fought
Longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence- Author: Mohr, Tim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 1616209798
- Language: English
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The Passenger
$16.99 Add to cartA SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER
“A jewel of a rediscovery . . . . A riveting, noirish, intensely filmic portrait of an ambivalent fugitive, cornered but not captured, safest when in motion, at greatest risk- Author: Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1250811287
- Language: English
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The Accidental Further Adventures of the Hundred-Year-Old Man
$19.99 Add to cartThe hysterical, clever, and unforgettable sequel to Jonas Jonasson’s international bestseller The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
He’s back. Even older. Even funnier
- Author: Jonasson, Jonas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 15 2019
- ISBN10: 0062838555
- Language: English
