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Nadirs
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Herta Muller, Sieglinde Lug (Translator)
Published in English 17 years after its initial appearance in Romanian, these 15 stories detail life under a communist regime from the point of view of a child, who find happiness in often banal events and sometimes misses the darker significance of things going on around her.
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Dark Desire
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Christine Feehan
American surgeon Shea O'Halloran is mysteriously drawn to the far Carpathian Mountains, where she finds a darkly handsome stranger--and true love. One of the most popular novels from the Dark series, this special edition of "Dark Desire" features a letter to readers from bestselling author Feehan. Original.
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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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Crime and Punishment
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Fyodor M Dostoevsky
This 1866 novel is Dostoevsky's great fictional study of the criminal mind, in the character of the student Raskolnikov, who murders an aged pawnbroker. Initially, Raskolnikov believes that the killing was entirely justified, but as the novel proceeds he becomes tortured by his guilt, and begins to question all his most passionately held beliefs. ...
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Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West
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Christopher Caldwell
Deadly terrorist attacks and rioting in Muslim neighborhoods have forced Europeans to confront the limits of their long-held liberal values. Caldwell reports that by underestimating the culture-shaping potential of religion, Europe has trapped itself in a problem to which it has no obvious solution.
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Dark Prince
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Christine Feehan
The indispensable first book in the "New York Times" bestselling author's Dark series--which first introduced the masters of darkness to the world--is now available in this special edition that includes the bonus original short story "Dark Descent."
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Rick Steves' Scandinavia
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Rick Steves
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers the best way to see Copenhagen, Oslo, Stockholm, Helsinki, Tallinn, and the Norwegian fjords? With Rick Steves' "Scandinavia", travellers can experience the best of everything Scandinavia has to offer - economically and hassle-free.Completely revised and updated, this guide includes: opinionated coverage of ...
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Master and Margarita
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Mikhail Bulgakov
An ironic parable on power and its corruption, on good and evil, and on human frailty and the strength of love. The Devil appears in Moscow accompanied by a retinue of characters including a large vodka-drinking, pistol toting, black cat named Behemoth, the beautiful Margarita, and a writer known only as "The Master." These characters are joined ...
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Russka: The Novel of Russia
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Edward Rutherfurd
The author of the phenomenally successful Sarum: The Novel of England now turns his remarkably vast talents to an even larger canvas. Spanning 1800 years of Russia's history, people, politics, and culture, this grand saga is as multifaceted as the country itself, as it chronicles the lives of four families who are divided by ethnicity but united ...
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While Europe Slept: How Radical Islam Is Destroying the West from Within
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Bruce Bawer
The author of "A Place at the Table" warns that Europe can no longer ignore the clash of civilizations raging on its own territory and around the world. Failure to recognize the problems and react quickly, he predicts, will lead to a virulent right-wing nationalism of a kind not seen since the 1930s.
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Lords of the Horizons: A History of the Ottoman Empire
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Jason Goodwin
This history of the Ottoman Empire charts its rise in Asia Minor in the 13th century, its golden age under Suleyman I, its gradual decline, and its final collapse in 1918. The empire included parts of Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. This book was a New York Times Notable Book for 1999.
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The Great Escape: Nine Jews Who Fled Hitler and Changed the World
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Kati Marton
Author Kati Marton follows these nine over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in England and America, and set out to make their mark. The scientists Leo Szilard, Edward Teller, and Eugene Wigner enlist Albert Einstein to get Franklin Roosevelt to initiate the development of the atomic bomb. Along with John von ...
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Gulag: A History
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Anne Applebaum
The Gulag entered the world's historical consciousness in 1972, with the publication of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's epic history of the Soviet camps, "The Gulag Archipelago." Applebaum has undertaken a fully documented history of the Soviet camp system, from its origins in the Russian Revolution to its collapse in the era of glasnost. Two 16 page ...
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Rick Steves' Best of Europe
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Rick Steves
Looking for the best gelateria in Florence? Stumped on the proper pronunciation of "Where's the bathroom" in several languages? Find the answers and much more in one compact guidebook - Rick Steves' Best of Europe 2005. Completely revised and updated, this is a one-stop shop for all the information any traveller would need to know in several major ...
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Natasha's Dance: A Cultural History of Russia
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Dr. Orlando Figes
A New York Times Notable Book for 2002.
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Alicia: My Story
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Alicia Appleman-Jurman
After losing her entire family to the Nazis at age 13, Alicia Appleman-Jurman went on to save the lives of thousands of Jews, offering them her own courage and hope in a time of upheaval and tragedy. Not since The Diary of Anne Frank has a young voice so vividly expressed the capacity for humanity and heroism in the face of Nazi brutality.
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The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain
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Peter Sis
In his most personal work to date, award-winning author Peter Ss offers a brilliant graphic memoir, taking readers on an extraordinary journey as he recalls his youth growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, when his country was on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain.
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Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
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Jan T Gross
In 1941, 1600 Jews in the town of Jedwabne, Poland were rounded up and slaughtered by their Christian neighbors. In this study of Polish-Jewish relations, a historian unearths the historical record of these events--around which a silence had arisen--and places them in their historical context. He traces strains of anti-Semitism within Polish ...
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Diary of Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska: Divine Mercy in My Soul
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Marian Press (Creator)
This bestselling book that birthed the Divine Mercy movement, one of the fastest growing movements in world today. This amazing narrrative will stir your heart and soul while it chronicles the experience of a simple Polish nun.
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Dictator's Ransom
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Richard Marcinko, Jim DeFelice
A soldier of fortune wages war against a conspiracy to re-ignite the Cold War.
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Nicholas & Alexandra.
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Robert K. Massie
Nicholas & Alexandra is the internationally famous biography from Pulitzer prize-winner Robert Massie. Massie shows conclusively how the personal curse of the young heir's haemophilia, and the decisive influence it brought Rasputin, became fatally linked with the collapse of Imperial Russia. As an engrossing account of one of the century's most ...
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501 Russian Verbs
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Thomas R Beyer, Jr., Ph.D.
"501 Verbs" titles present the 501 most common verbs in their language. Verbs are arranged alphabetically in a table format, one verb per page with English translation, and conjugated in all tenses and forms. Additional features in each book include common idioms with example sentences to demonstrate verb usage and grammar reviews.
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The Collected Tales of Nikolai Gogol
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Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogal, Larissa Volokhonsky (Translator), Richard Pevear (Translator)
This collection, which is divided into Ukrainian tales and Petersburg tales, includes "The Overcoat," Gogol's masterly story about an obscure St. Petersburg bureaucrat. Gogol has been called the father of Russian modernism and realism. His stories, with their humor and archetypal Russian characters, had a profound influence on Dostoevsky, Nabokov, ...
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Bielski Brothers: The True Story of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200 Jews
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Peter Duffy, LLB
In 1941, three brothers witnessed their parents and two other siblings being led away to their eventual murders. It was a grim scene that would, of course, be repeated endlessly throughout the war. Instead of running or giving in to despair, these brothers -- Tuvia, Zus, and Asael Bielski -- fought back, waging a guerrilla war of wits against the ...
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Rick Steves' Germany & Austria
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Rick Steves
Who but Rick Steves can tell travellers how to take the Do-It-Yourself Dresden Baroque Blitz Tour or the Short and Scenic Black Forest Joyride? With Rick Steves' "Germany & Austria 2008", travellers can experience Rick's favourite destinations in Munich, Bavaria, Baden-Baden, Rothenburg, Wursburg, Frankfurt, the Rhine Valley, Dresden, Berlin, ...
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