Cultural Region/Western Europe
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The Rough Guide to Top LGBTQ+ Friendly Places in Europe
$29.99 Read moreThe Rough Guide to the Top LGBTQ+ Friendly Places in Europe–the latest picture-packed addition to Rough Guides’ Inspiration range–reveals 20 destinations that will enthuse and reward LGBTQ+ traveler… [more below]
- Series: Inspirational Rough Guides
- Author: Guides, Rough
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 1839057947
- Language: English
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Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter
$17.99 Add to cart“A book that will leave no one indifferent, and no one affected in quite the same way.” —New York Times
A superb autobiography by one of the great literary figures of the twentieth century
Simone de Be
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: De Beauvoir, Simone
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 02 2005
- ISBN10: 0060825197
- Language: English
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Three Plays: Blood Wedding; Yerma; The House of Bernarda Alba
$21.00 Add to cartNewly repackaged, three plays by Federico Garc a Lorca
In these three plays, Federico Garc a Lorca’s acknowledged masterpieces, he searched for a contemporary mode of tragedy and reminded his audience- Series: FSG Classics
- Author: Garc?a Lorca, Federico
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0374523320
- Language: English
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The Elementary Particles
$18.00 Add to cartAn international literary phenomenon, The Elementary Particles is a frighteningly original novel-part Marguerite Duras and part Bret Easton Ellis-that leaps headlong into the malaise of contemporary e… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Houellebecq, Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 13 2001
- ISBN10: 0375727019
- Language: English
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Granada
$24.95 Add to cartRadwa Ashour skillfully weaves a history of Granadan rule and an Arabic world into a novel that evokes cultural loss and the disappearance of a vanquished population.
The novel follows the family of A- Series: Middle East Literature in Translation
- Author: Ashour, Radwa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: October 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0815607652
- Language: English
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Alpine Cooking: Recipes and Stories from Europe’s Grand Mountaintops [A Cookbook]
$50.00 Add to cartA lushly photographed cookbook and travelogue showcasing the regional cuisines of the Alps, including 80 recipes for the elegant, rustic dishes served in the chalets and mountain huts situated among t… [more below]
- Author: Erickson, Meredith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 15 2019
- ISBN10: 1607748746
- Language: English
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Ten Caesars: Roman Emperors from Augustus to Constantine
$19.99 Add to cartBestselling classical historian Barry Strauss delivers “an exceptionally accessible history of the Roman Empire…much of Ten Caesars reads like a script for Game of Thrones” (The Wall Street Journal)… [more below]
- Author: Strauss, Barry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 1451668848
- Language: English
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The Face of Battle
$18.00 Add to cart
The Face of Battle is military history from
John Keegan’s groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle — a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare- Author: Keegan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: January 27 1983
- ISBN10: 0140048979
- Language: English
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Dangerous Liaisons
$13.00 Add to cartA new translation of one of the most notorious novels of all time
Published just years before the French Revolution, Laclos’s great novel of moral and emotional depravity is a disturbing and ultimate- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Choderlos de Laclos, Pierre
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0140449574
- Language: English
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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo (Pulitzer Prize for Biography)
$20.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR BIOGRAPHY – ONE OF ESQUIRE‘S BEST BIOGRAPHIES OF ALL TIME
General Alex Dumas is a man almost unknown today, yet his story is strikingly familiar—because his son, the … [more below]- Author: Reiss, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: May 14 2013
- ISBN10: 0307382478
- Language: English
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Three Ordinary Girls: The Remarkable Story of Three Dutch Teenagers Who Became Spies, Saboteurs, Nazi Assassins–And WWII Heroes
$29.00 Add to cartThe astonishing true story of three fearless female teenage resisters during WWII whose youth and innocence belied their extraordinary daring in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands
“Exhaustively researched- Author: Brady, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0806540389
- Language: English
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Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West
$19.99 Add to cartA sweeping history of the often-violent conflict between Islam and the West, shedding a revealing light on current hostilities
The West and Islam — the sword and scimitar — have clashed since the m- Author: Ibrahim, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 0306921421
- Language: English
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Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles
$22.00 Add to cartFrom the New York Times bestselling author and master of martial fiction comes the definitive, illustrated history of one of the greatest battles ever fought–a riveting nonfiction chronicle published
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0062312065
- Language: English
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The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won
$22.99 Add to cartA “breathtakingly magisterial” account of World War II by America’s preeminent military historian (Wall Street Journal)
World War II was the most lethal conflict in human history. Never before had a w… [more below]- Author: Hanson, Victor Davis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: January 28 2020
- ISBN10: 1541674103
- Language: English
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Asterix Omnibus #1: Collects Asterix the Gaul, Asterix and the Golden Sickle, and Asterix and the Goths
$14.99 Add to cartAsterix is celebrating 60 sensational years as an international comics superstar, and in the first collected edition from Papercutz, the stories are newly translated into American English for a new ge… [more below]
- Series: Asterix #1
- Author: Goscinny, Ren?
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: July 14 2020
- ISBN10: 1545805660
- Language: English
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The Many Lives & Secret Sorrows of Josephine B.
$20.00 Add to cartPassion intertwines with fate in this riveting and historically rich novel about the journey of a woman from poverty to ultimate power in Revolution-era France.
In this first of three books inspired- Author: Gulland, Sandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 03 1999
- ISBN10: 0684856069
- Language: English
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The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War
$34.99 Add to cartThe First World War, now a century ago, still shapes the world in which we live, and its legacy lives on, in poetry, in prose, in collective memory and political culture. By the time the war ended in … [more below]
- Series: Oxford Illustrated History
- Author: Strachan, Hew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0198743122
- Language: English
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Sharpe’s Escape: The Bussaco Campaign, 1810
$18.99 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Bernard Cornwell, the tenth installment in the world-renowned Sharpe series, chronicling the rise of Richard Sharpe, a Private in His Majesty’s Army at the siege
- Series: Sharpe #10
- Author: Cornwell, Bernard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 19 2013
- ISBN10: 0060561556
- Language: English
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Leo Africanus
$25.43 Add to cartAn imaginary autobiography of the famous geographer, adventurer, and scholar Hasan al-Wazzan. He wrote the first trilingual dictionary and Description of Africa.
- Author: Maalouf, Amin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: March 25 1998
- ISBN10: 1561310220
- Language: English
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The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: Volume 1: Inferno
$23.99 Add to cartThis is the first volume of a new prose translation of Dante’s epic – the first in twenty-five years. Robert Durling’s translation brings a new power and accuracy to the rendering of Dante’s extraordi… [more below]
- Series: Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri #0001
- Author: Durling, Robert M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 06 1997
- ISBN10: 0195087445
- Language: English
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