Cultural Region/Western Europe
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Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits
$17.99 Add to cart“A dream of a debut, by turns troubling and glorious, angry and wise.” –Junot Diaz
Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits, the debut of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist Laila Lalami- Author: Lalami, Laila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 28, 2017
- ISBN10: 1616207507
- Language: English
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A Moveable Feast
$18.99 Add to cart“There is never any ending to Paris and the memory of each person who has lived in it differs from that of any other.” –Ernest Hemingway, A Moveable FeastErnest Hemingway’s classic memoir of Paris in… [more below]
- Author: Hemingway, Ernest
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: May 29 1996
- ISBN10: 068482499X
- Language: English
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Band of Brothers: E Company, 506th Regiment, 101st Airborne from Normandy to Hitler’s Eagle’s Nest
$32.00 Add to cartStephen E. Ambrose’s iconic New York Times bestseller about the ordinary men who became the World War II’s most extraordinary soldiers: Easy Company, 506th Parachute Infantry Regiment, 101st Airborne … [more below]
- Author: Ambrose, Stephen E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2001
- ISBN10: 0743216385
- Language: English
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Joan of Arc
$19.95 Add to cartVery few people know that Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) wrote a major work on Joan of Arc. Still fewer know that he considered it not only his most important but also his best work. He spent twelve year… [more below]
- Author: Twain, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 455
- Publish Date: October 04 1989
- ISBN10: 0898702682
- Language: English
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The Shortest History of Europe: How Conquest, Culture, and Religion Forged a Continent – A Retelling for Our Times
$16.95 Add to cartCelebrated historian John Hirst draws from his own lectures to deliver this ultra-accessible master class on the making of modern Europe, from Ancient Greece through World War II. With over 600,000 co… [more below]
- Series: Shortest History
- Author: Hirst, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1615199144
- Language: English
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Frommer’s Portugal
$25.95 Add to cartYou’ll never fall into tourist traps when you travel with Frommer’s. Doing so is like having a trusted friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. That’s because our guidebooks,… [more below]
- Series: Complete Guide
- Author: Ames, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 602
- Publish Date: 26-Sep-23
- ISBN10: 1628875712
- Language: English
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Homage to Catalonia
$19.99 Add to cartA National Review Top Ten Best Nonfiction Books of the Century
“One of Orwell’s very best books and perhaps the best book that exists on the Spanish Civil War.”–The New Yorker
In 1936, originally i
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: 19-May-15
- ISBN10: 0544382048
- Language: English
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Heidi
$18.00 Add to cartThe classic story of a little orphan girl in the Swiss Alps, with beautiful cover illustrations by Anna Bond, the artist behind world-renowned stationery brand Rifle Paper Co.
At the age of five, litt- Series: Puffin in Bloom
- Author: Spyri, Johanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0147514029
- Language: English
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The War on the West
$32.00 Add to cartAn Instant New York Times Bestseller!
China has concentration camps now. Why do Westerners claim our sins are unique?
It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Som
- Author: Murray, Douglas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26, 2022
- ISBN10: 0063162024
- Language: English
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No Exit and Three Other Plays
$16.00 Add to cartNOBEL PRIZE WINNER – Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century.
An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre’s best-known play, as well as three other brilliant, t- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Sartre, Jean-Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 23 1989
- ISBN10: 0679725164
- Language: English
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Frommer’s Italy 2024
$0.00 Read moreFrommer’s books aren’t written by committee, by A.I., or by travel writers who simply pop in briefly to a destination and then consider the job done. We use seasoned, locally-based journalists like El
- Series: Complete Guide
- Author: Strachan, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 858
- Publish Date: November 14, 2023
- ISBN10: 1628875631
- Language: English
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The Habsburg Way: Seven Rules for Turbulent Times
$19.95 Add to cartFew families in history are as renowned as the Habsburgs, one of the principal sovereign dynasties of Europe from the thirteenth to the twentieth century. These enthralling pages provide glimpses into
- Author: Habsburg, Eduard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 18 2023
- ISBN10: 1644138107
- Language: English
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Tender is the Night
$21.00 Add to cartA modern classic, this edition has been restored by Fitzgerald scholar James L.W. West III and features a personal foreword by Fitzgerald’s great-granddaughter Blake Hazard and a new introduction by b… [more below]
- Author: Fitzgerald, F. Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 01 1995
- ISBN10: 068480154X
- Language: English
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The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER – One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the world’s most prolific art thief, St駱hane Breitwieser. – “The Art Thief, li… [more below]
- Author: Finkel, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 27, 2023
- ISBN10: 0593744179
- Language: English
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Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door
$29.99 Add to cartYou can count on Rick Steves to tell you what you really need to know when traveling through Europe. With Rick Steves Europe Through the Back Door, you’ll learn how to:
- Plan your itinerary and maximi
- Series: Rick Steves Travel Guide
- Author: Steves, Rick
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 824
- Publish Date: January 30, 2024
- ISBN10: 1641715642
- Language: English
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The Watchmaker’s Daughter: The True Story of World War II Heroine Corrie Ten Boom
$32.99 Read moreINTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
Winner of the Florida Book Awards Gold Medal
New York Times bestselling author and master of nonfiction spy thrillers Larry Loftis writes the first major biography of Corrie ten
- Author: Loftis, Larry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0063234580
- Language: English
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King Leopold’s Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa
$19.99 Add to cart“An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel.” — Christian Science Monitor
“As Hochschild’s brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times .- Author: Hochschild, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 03, 2020
- ISBN10: 0358212502
- Language: English
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Shot Down: The true story of pilot Howard Snyder and the crew of the B-17 Susan Ruth
$19.95 Add to cartWinner of 20 national book awards, SHOT DOWN is set within the framework of World War II in Europe and recounts the dramatic experiences of each member of a ten man B-17 bomber crew after their plane,
- Author: Snyder, Steve
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 378
- Publish Date: February 08, 2017
- ISBN10: 0986076015
- Language: English
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Abridged
$7.95 Read moreNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read
A popular bestseller since its publication in 1844, The Count of Monte Cristo is one of the great page-turning thriller- Series: Bantam Classics
- Author: Dumas, Alexandre
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: December 01 1984
- ISBN10: 0553213504
- Language: English
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Gingerbread Baby
$19.99 Add to cartJan Brett’s Gingerbread Baby is not about to get eaten in this delicious twist on a favorite Christmastime tale
It all begins when Matti opens the oven too soon and out jumps a cheeky little Gingerbr
- Author: Brett, Jan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 04 1999
- ISBN10: 0399234446
- Language: English
