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Rick Steves' Prague & the Czech Republic
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Rick Steves, Jan Honza Vihan
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best way to see the spires of Prague, castles of Bohemia, and villages of Moravia? With Rick Steves' "Prague and the Czech Republic", travelers can experience the best of everything this city has to offer - economically and hassle-free.Completely revised and updated, this guide includes: opinionated ...
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I Never Saw Another Butterfly: Children's Drawings and Poems from Terezin Concentration Camp, 1942-1944
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Hana Volavkova (Editor), Chaim Potok (Foreword by), Vaclav Havel (Afterword by)
Fifteen thousand children under the age of fifteen passed through the Terezin Concentration Camp. Fewer than 100 survived. In these poems and pictures drawn by the young inmates, we see the daily misery of these uprooted children, as well as their hopes and fears, their courage and optimism. 60 color illustrations.
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Prague
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Vladimir Soukup (Contributions by)
Highly pictorial, these Eyewitness Travel Guides are now offered in a tenth anniversary edition, with all the information savvy travelers need to know.
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The Golem's Eye
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Jonathan Stroud
This is an imaginative alternate history in which a cadre of magicians rules 1868 London. Fourteen-year-old Nathaniel is the youngest member of the Office of Internal Affairs and must cope with the Resistance, a band of commoners attempting to overthrow the intimidating magicians. When a clay golem attacks the British Museum, Nathaniel must travel ...
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Prague Counterpoint
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Bodie Thoene, Ph.D.
On the eve of World War II Elisa Lindheim decides to risk her life to rescue two small boys in Nazi Europe.
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Prague in Danger: The Years of German Occupation, 1939-45: Memories and History, Terror and Resistance, Theater and Jazz, Film and Poetry, Politics and War
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Peter Demetz
With this successor book to "Prague in Black and Gold", his account of more than a thousand years of Central European history, the great scholar Peter Demetz focuses on just six short years - a tormented, tragic, and unforgettable time. He was living in Prague then - a "first-degree half-Jew," according to the Nazis' terrible categories - and here ...
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Three golden keys
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Peter Sis
A man traveling in a hot-air balloon is blown off course by a storm. When he lands, he finds himself in the very city where he grew up--the one he left behind many years ago. When the man returns to his childhood home, he finds it locked with three padlocks. He then meets a firey-eyed cat who leads him through the city in search of the three ...
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Night of Wenceslas
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Davidson
A winner of the Gold Dagger Award for Best Thriller of the Year, which the author has won three times. Nicolas Whistler becomes trapped in a sordid Prague underworld of extremist politics, pursued by the secret police, with only one, possibly deadly, ally - the sensuous, statuesque Vlastra.
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Top 10 Prague
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Theodore Schwinke
The historic city of Prague is divided into five specific areas with an additional section highlighting the sights lying just outside the city. Top 10 lists feature the best galleries, bars, and hotels, as well as must-see sights in the Jewish Quarter and special haunted areas of the medieval city.
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I Am a Star--Child of the Holocaust
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Inge Auerbacher
Inga Auerbacher's childhood was as happy and peaceful as any other German child's--until 1942. By then, the Nazis were in power, and she and her parents were rounded up and sent to a concentration camp. The Auerbachers defied death for three years until they were freed. This story allows even the youngest middle reader to understand the Holocaust.
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Golem
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David Wisniewski
A retelling of the story of Rabbi Loew who shaped a giant man--a golem--out of clay, and brought him to life. The golem was created to protect the Jews of Prague from their persecutors; unfortunately, the golem performed his job almost too well. This version of the story is accompanied by colorful cut-paper illustrations. Selected by the New York ...
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Spillville: A Collaboration
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Patricia Hampl, Steven Sorman (Photographer)
On June 5, 1893, Antonin Dvorak and his family arrived in Spillville, Iowa, to spend a long summer vacation. Dvorak's stay in Spillville is the point of departure for this collaboration between writer Patricia Hampl and artist Steven Sorman.
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Czech & Slovak Republics
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Jane Simmonds (Editor), Emily Hatchwell (Editor), Magda Hannay (Translator)
With beautifully commissioned photographs and spectacular 3-D aerial views revealing the charms of the Czech and Slovak Republics, this guide also contains extensive information on local customs, currency, medical services, and transportation. Full color.
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Romantic Education
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Patricia Hampl
Prague and the author's childhood in the American Midwest are the subjects of this memoir. Hampl first traveled to Czechoslovakia preceding the political upheavals that took place there in the late 1980s. She offers a portrait of her ancestors' homeland before the split into two independent states, the Czech Republic and Slovakia, in 1993.
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Witnesses to War: 8 True Life Stories of Nazi Persecution
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Michael Leapman
A book of biographies giving accounts of the experiences of eight children from different parts of occupied Europe during World War II, who were either forced to hide, to flee, to assume a new identity or were taken prisoner in a concentration camp.
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In Memory's Kitchen: A Legacy from the Women of Terezin
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Cara De Silva
Originally written in German by the women of the Theresienstadt concentration camp, this book is a record in recipes, poems, and letters of the lives these women left behind. Recipes include blue-plum strudel for Rosh-ha-Shanah, Gesundheits Kuchen ("good health" cakes given to mothers of newborns), linzer torte eaten with afternoon coffee in ...
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The Mercy Seller
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Brenda Rickman Vantrease
This spellbinding tale about the power of love and the perils of faith is from the bestselling author of "The Illuminator."
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The Widow Killer
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Pavel Kohout, Neil Bermel (Translator)
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Frommer's Prague & the Best of the Czech Republic
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Hana Mastrini
You'll never fall into the tourist traps when you travel with Frommer's. It's like having a friend show you around, taking you to the places locals like best. Our expert authors have already gone everywhere you might go - they've done the legwork for you, and they're not afraid to tell it like it is, saving you time and money. No other series ...
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Mucha
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Sarah Mucha
Generally agreed to be one of the most important contributors to Art Nouveau, the Czech artist Alphonse Mucha was trained, celebrated and lived most of his life in Paris. His unforgettably iconic images of Sarah Bernhardt and others embody the spirit of the fin de siecle. But underneath his successful career as an artist and poster designer lay a ...
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Where She Came from: A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History
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Helen Epstein
Epstein tells the story of her Jewish family in Czechoslovakia, from the days of her great-grandmother who falls in love with a Christian but is pressured to marry a Jewish peddler, to her own liberation from Bergen-Belsen in 1945.
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The Rough Guide to Prague
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Rob Humphreys
"The Rough Guide to Prague" is the definitive guidebook to the Czech capital. A 24-page, full-colour introduction gives an inspiring insight into many of Prague's highlights, from the spectacular castle complex to the cobbled back streets and secret gardens of Mala Strana. The guide includes extensive and reliable reviews of hotels and restaurants ...
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Prague orgy
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Philip Roth
In this surreal and powerful coda to the Zuckerman trilogy, Nathan Zuckerman is visiting Prague, where intellectuals come searching for Kafta, where half the population is spying on the other half, where misfits who don't submit decently to their misfortunes act out a comedy of manners in stylish decadence. Here Zuckerman meets Olga, and striking ...
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Triumph of Hope: From Theresienstadt and Auschwitz to Israel
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Ruth Elias, Margot Bettauer Dembo (Translator)
The memoir of a young woman's deportation to Auschwitz during the Second World War.
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The Magic Circle of Rudolf II: Alchemy and Astrology in Renaissance Prague
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Peter Marshall
Rudolf II--Habsburg heir, Holy Roman Emperor, king of Hungary, Germany, and the Romans--is one of history's great characters, and yet he remains largely an unknown figure. His reign (1576-1612) roughly mirrored that of Queen Elizabeth I of England, and while her famous court is widely recognized as a sixteenth century Who's Who, Rudolf 's ...
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