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Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clayby Michael ChabonISBN 0312282990 (0-312-28299-0)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay'Book summary:Like the comic books that animate and inspire it, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay is both larger than life and of it too. Complete with golems and magic and miraculous escapes and evil nemeses and even hand-to-hand Antarctic battle, it pursues the most important questions of love and war, dreams and art, across pages brimming with longing and hope. Samuel Klayman--self-described little man, city boy, and Jew--first meets Josef Kavalier when his mother shoves him aside in his own bed, telling him to make room for their cousin, a refugee from Nazi-occupied Prague. It's the beginning, however unlikely, of a beautiful friendship. In short order, Sam's talent for pulp plotting meets Joe's faultless, academy-trained line, and a comic-book superhero is born. A sort of lantern-jawed equalizer clad in dark blue long underwear, the Escapist "roams the globe, performing amazing feats and coming to the aid of those who languish in tyranny's chains!" Before they know it, Kavalier and Clay (as Sam Klayman has come to be known) find themselves at the epicenter of comics' golden age.
But Joe Kavalier is driven by motives far more complex than your average hack. In fact, his first act as a comic-book artist is to deal Hitler a very literal blow. (The cover of the first issue shows the Escapist delivering "an immortal haymaker" onto the Führer's realistically bloody jaw.) In subsequent years, the Escapist and his superhero allies take on the evil Iron Chain and their leader Attila Haxoff--their battles drawn with an intensity that grows more disturbing as Joe's efforts to rescue his family fail. He's fighting their war with brush and ink, Joe thinks, and the idea sustains him long enough to meet the beautiful Rosa Saks, a surrealist artist and surprisingly retrograde muse. But when even that fiction fails him, Joe performs an escape of his own, leaving Rosa and Sammy to pick up the pieces in some increasingly wrong-headed ways.
More amazing adventures follow--but reader, why spoil the fun? Suffice to say, Michael Chabon writes novels like the Escapist busts locks. Previous books such as The Mysteries of Pittsburgh and Wonder Boys have prose of equal shimmer and wit, and yet here he seems to have finally found a canvas big enough for his gifts. The whole enterprise seems animated by love: for his alternately deluded, damaged, and painfully sincere characters; for the quirks and curious innocence of tough-talking wartime New York; and, above all, for comics themselves, "the inspirations and lucubrations of five hundred aging boys dreaming as hard as they could." Far from negating such pleasures, the Holocaust's presence in the novel only makes them more pressing. Art, if not capable of actually fighting evil, can at least offer a gesture of defiance and hope--a way out, in other words, of a world gone completely mad. Comic-book critics, Joe notices, dwell on "the pernicious effect, on young minds, of satisfying the desire to escape. As if there could be any more noble or necessary service in life." Indeed. --Mary Park [via]
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The Answer to Moscow's Bibleby Richard WurmbrandISBN 0340201983 (0-340-20198-3)
Hardcover, Hodder and Stoughton
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Ballad of the Whiskey Robber: A True Story of Bank Heists, Ice Hockey, Transylvanian Pelt Smuggling, Moonlighting Detectives, and Broken Heartsby Julian RubinsteinISBN 0316010731 (0-316-01073-1)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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The Baltic Revolution: Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Path to Independenceby Anatol LievenISBN 0300060785 (0-300-06078-5)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Bedbug [a Play] and Selected Poetryby Vladimir MayakovskyISBN 0253311306 (0-253-31130-6)
Hardcover, Indiana University Press
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The Bedbug and Selected Poetryby Vladimir MayakovskyISBN 0253201896 (0-253-20189-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Bloc That Failed: Soviet-East European Relations in Transitionby Charles GatiISBN 0253325315 (0-253-32531-5)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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A Book of Memoriesby Peter Nadas, Ivan Sanders, Imre GoldsteinISBN 0374115435 (0-374-11543-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Bosnia and Hercegovina: A Tradition Betrayedby Robert J. Donia, John V. A. FineISBN 0231101619 (0-231-10161-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Bravest Battle: The Twenty-Eight Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprisingby Dan KurzmanISBN 0306805332 (0-306-80533-2)
Softcover, Perseus Books
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The Bridge of Sighsby Olen SteinhauerISBN 0312326017 (0-312-32601-7)
Softcover, Minotaur Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Bridge of Sighs'Book summary:It's August, 1948, three years after the Russians "liberated" the nation from German Occupation. But the Red Army still patrols the capital's rubble-strewn streets, and the ideals of the Revolution are but memories. Twenty-two-year-old Detective Emil Brod finally gets his chance to serve his country, investigating murder for the People's Militia.
The first victim is a state songwriter, but the facts point to a political motive. Emil would like to investigate further, but his colleagues in Homicide are suspicious or silent: He is on his own in this new, dangerous world.
The Bridge of Sighs launches a unique series of crime novels featuring a cast of characters in an ever-evolving landscape, the politically volatile terrain of Eastern Europe in the second half of the 20th century.[via]The Bridge of Sighs is a 2004 Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel. 
Brothers and Strangers: The East European Jew in German and German Jewish Consciousness, 1800-1923by Steven E. AschheimISBN 0299091147 (0-299-09114-7)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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A Century of Ambivalence: The Jews of Russia and the Soviet Union, 1881 to the Presentby Zvi Y. GitelmanISBN 0253214181 (0-253-21418-1)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewryby Mark KurlanskyISBN 0345448146 (0-345-44814-6)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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› Find signed collectible books: 'A Chosen Few: The Resurrection of European Jewry'Book summary:A POWERFUL, DEEPLY MOVING NARRATIVE OF HOPE REBORN
IN THE SHADOW OF DESPAIR
Fifty years after it was bombed to rubble, Berlin is once again a city in which Jews gather for the Passover seder. Paris and Antwerp have recently emerged as important new centers of Jewish culture. Small but proud Jewish communities are revitalizing the ancient centers of Budapest, Prague, and Amsterdam. These brave, determined Jewish men and women have chosen to settleor remainin Europe after the devastation of the Holocaust, but they have paid a price. Among the unexpected dangers, they have had to cope with an alarming resurgence of Nazism in Europe, the spread of Arab terrorism, and the impact of the Jewish state on European life.
Delving into the intimate stories of European Jews from all walks of life, Kurlansky weaves together a vivid tapestry of individuals sustaining their traditions, and flourishing, in the shadow of history. An inspiring story of a tenacious people who have rebuilt their lives in the face of incomprehensible horror, A Chosen Few is a testament to cultural survival and a celebration of the deep bonds that endure between Jews and European civilization.
Consistently absorbing . . . A Chosen Few investigates the relatively uncharted territory of an encouraging phenomenon.
Los Angeles Times
I can think of no book that portrays with such intelligence, historical understanding, and journalistic flair what life has been like for Jews determined to build lives in Europe.
SUSAN MIRON
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Collected Poems in Englishby Joseph Brodsky, Ann KjellbergISBN 0374125457 (0-374-12545-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The Columbia History of Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Centuryby Joseph HeldISBN 0231076975 (0-231-07697-5)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Communist Manifestoby Friedrich Engels, K. Marx, John E. ToewsISBN 0312157118 (0-312-15711-8)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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A Concise Historical Atlas of Eastern Europeby Dennis P. Hupchick, Harold E. CoxISBN 0312158955 (0-312-15895-5)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan
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The Confessionby Olen SteinhauerISBN 0312338155 (0-312-33815-5)
Softcover, Griffin
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A Desert in Bohemiaby Jill Paton WalshISBN 0312262639 (0-312-26263-9)
Hardcover, St. Martin's Press
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Disorganized Capitalism: Contemporary Transfromation of Work and Politicsby Claus Offe, John KeaneISBN 0262650312 (0-262-65031-2)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Doubly Chosen: Jewish Identity, the Soviet Intelligentsia, and the Russian Orthodox ChurchISBN 0299194841 (0-299-19484-1)
Softcover, Univ of Wisconsin Pr
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Draculaby Bram Stoker, John Paul RiquelmeISBN 0312241704 (0-312-24170-4)
Softcover, Bedford/st Martins
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula'Book summary:Bram Stoker's classic novel of suspense and horror was a bestseller in Britain when it was published in 1897. A late 20th-century biographer of Stoker has suggested that famed Victorian actor Henry Irving, for whom Stoker worked for many years, was an inspiration for some of Count Dracula's characteristics. [via]
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Dracula : Case Studiesby Bram StokerISBN 0312863586 (0-312-86358-6)
Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Dracula : Case Studies'Book summary:First published in 1897, Dracula by Bram Stoker has become the standard against which all other vampire stories are compare and the inspiration for countless film and stage adaptations. Indeed, the name "Dracula" has been synonymous with the Undead for at least a century, and the original novels till has the power to chill.[via]
Come then to Castle Dracula, hidden in the forbidding peaks of the Carpathian Mountains, where an undying creature of evil casts his sights on unsuspecting England. Voyage on the doomed ship Demeter as it carries a monster out of ancient superstition in search of new life and new blood. Tremble as first one woman, the another succumbs to the unholy thirst of the nosferatu, and as a small band of men and women, horrified by the supernatural forces arrayed against them, risk their lives and their very souls to oppose the evil known only as...Dracula.More editions of Dracula : Case Studies:
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Dracula, Prince of Many Faces: His Life and Timesby Radu R. Florescu, Raymond T. McNallyISBN 0316286567 (0-316-28656-7)
Softcover, Little Brown & Co
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Dreamworld and Catastrophe: The Passing of Mass Utopia in East and Westby Susan Buck-MorssISBN 0262523310 (0-262-52331-0)
Softcover, Mit Pr
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Economic Origins of Antisemitism: Poland and Its Jews in the Early Modern Periodby Hillel LevineISBN 0300052480 (0-300-05248-0)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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The Encyclopedia of the Deadby Danilo Kis, Michael Henry HeimISBN 0374148260 (0-374-14826-0)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The End of a Family Storyby Peter Nadas, Imri Goldshtain, Imri GoldsteinISBN 0374148325 (0-374-14832-5)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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A History of the Ostrogothsby Thomas S. BurnsISBN 0253206006 (0-253-20600-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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If That Were Christ Would You Give Him Your Blanketby Richard WurmbrandISBN 0340125349 (0-340-12534-9)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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In God's Undergroundby Richard WurmbrandISBN 0340109610 (0-340-10961-0)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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› Find signed collectible books: 'In God's Underground'Book summary:Imprisoned by the Romanian Communists for his work in the Christian Underground, and subjected to medieval torture, Wurmbrand kept his faithand strengthened it. For fourteen years, he shared that faith with suffering cellmates and gave them solace. In solitary confinement, he tapped out his message of hope and Christian love. In Room Four, the death room , he helped dying patients even though his lungs were riddled with tuberculosis and his body lacerated and bloody from whips and kicks. Anguished over the fate of his wife and son, he could still tell jokes and stories to make despairing prisoners laugh. Sorely tempted by the promise of release and reprieve, he refused to become a Communist collaborator.
And the miracle is that he survived.
With humble gratitude to God and Christ, he tells his personal story. Its an inspiring drama of triumphant faith. [via]More editions of In God's Underground:
The Jews of East Central Europe Between the World Warsby Ezra MendelsohnISBN 0253204186 (0-253-20418-6)
Softcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Jews of Warsaw, 1939-1943: Ghetto, Underground, Revoltby Yisrael GutmanISBN 0253331749 (0-253-33174-9)
Hardcover, Indiana Univ Pr
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The Key to My Neighbor's House: Seeking Justice in Bosnia and Rwandaby Elizabeth NeufferISBN 0312302827 (0-312-30282-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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King of Children: A Biography of Janusz Korczakby Betty Jean LiftonISBN 0374181241 (0-374-18124-1)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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The King of Children : The Life and Death of Janusz Korczakby Betty J. Lifton, Elie WieselISBN 0312155603 (0-312-15560-3)
Softcover, St. Martin's Press
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Let's Go Eastern Europe 2005by Let's Go, IncISBN 0312335458 (0-312-33545-8)
Softcover, St Martins Pr Special
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Let's Go Eastern Europe 2005'Book summary:Completely revised and updated, Let's Go: Eastern Europe is your comprehensive guide to many of Europe's hottest travel destinations. Let's Go's forty-five years of travel savvy deliver must-have facts, from practical tips on getting there and getting around to insider info on local culture. This edition features more diverse listings, more insider advice in cities, and expanded outdoors coverage, from Abakan to Zagreb. Whether you'd prefer to soak the day away in the thermal baths of Hungary or traverse the Slovak-Polish borders by hiking the Tatras Mountains, Let's Go's intrepid researchers are there to lead the way.[via]More editions of Let's Go Eastern Europe 2005:
Life with a Starby Jiri Weil, Ruzena Kovourikova, Roslyn Schloss, R. Klima, Philip RothISBN 0374187371 (0-374-18737-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Mendelssohn Is on the Roofby Jiri Weil, Marie WinnISBN 0374208107 (0-374-20810-7)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Middlesexby Jeffrey EugenidesISBN 0312422156 (0-312-42215-6)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Middlesex'Book summary:"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day in January of 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of 1974." And so begins Middlesex, the mesmerizing saga of a near-mythic Greek American family and the "roller-coaster ride of a single gene through time." The odd but utterly believable story of Cal Stephanides, and how this 41-year-old hermaphrodite was raised as Calliope, is at the tender heart of this long-awaited second novel from Jeffrey Eugenides, whose elegant and haunting 1993 debut, The Virgin Suicides, remains one of the finest first novels of recent memory.
Eugenides weaves together a kaleidoscopic narrative spanning 80 years of a stained family history, from a fateful incestuous union in a small town in early 1920s Asia Minor to Prohibition-era Detroit; from the early days of Ford Motors to the heated 1967 race riots; from the tony suburbs of Grosse Pointe and a confusing, aching adolescent love story to modern-day Berlin. Eugenides's command of the narrative is astonishing. He balances Cal/Callie's shifting voices convincingly, spinning this strange and often unsettling story with intelligence, insight, and generous amounts of humor:
Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." & I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life, and now that I've entered my story, I need them more than ever.
When you get to the end of this splendorous book, when you suddenly realize that after hundreds of pages you have only a few more left to turn over, you'll experience a quick pang of regret knowing that your time with Cal is coming to a close, and you may even resist finishing it--putting it aside for an hour or two, or maybe overnight--just so that this wondrous, magical novel might never end. --Brad Thomas Parsons [via]
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Montenegroby Starling LawrenceISBN 0374214077 (0-374-21407-7)
Hardcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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Nicholas and Alexandraby Robert K. MassieISBN 0345438310 (0-345-43831-0)
Softcover, Ballantine Books
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In this commanding book, Pulitzer Prizewinning author Robert K. Massie sweeps readers back to the extraordinary world of Imperial Russia to tell the story of the Romanovs lives: Nicholass political naïveté, Alexandras obsession with the corrupt mystic Rasputin, and little Alexiss brave struggle with hemophilia. Against a lavish backdrop of luxury and intrigue, Massie unfolds a powerful drama of passion and historythe story of a doomed empire and the death-marked royals who watched it crumble.More editions of Nicholas and Alexandra:
The Nimrod Flipoutby Etgar Keret, Miriam Shlesinger, Sondra SilverstonISBN 0374222436 (0-374-22243-6)
Softcover, Farrar Straus & Giroux
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On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbulby Jason GoodwinISBN 0312420676 (0-312-42067-6)
Softcover, Picador
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One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovichby Alexander Solzhenitsyn, H. T. WillettsISBN 0374226431 (0-374-22643-1)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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Hardcover, Henry Holt & Co - One Day In The Life Of Ivan Denisovich: ISBN 0370014545 (0-370-01454-5)
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The Other Europeby Jacques RupnikISBN 0297794655 (0-297-79465-5)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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The Pastor's Wifeby Sabina Wurmbrand, Charles FoleyISBN 0340109904 (0-340-10990-4)
Hardcover, Hodder & Stoughton
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The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945by Wladyslaw SzpilmanISBN 0312263767 (0-312-26376-7)
Softcover, Picador USA
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945'Book summary:Written immediately after the end of World War II, this morally complex Holocaust memoir is notable for its exact depiction of the grim details of life in Warsaw under the Nazi occupation. "Things you hardly noticed before took on enormous significance: a comfortable, solid armchair, the soothing look of a white-tiled stove," writes Wladyslaw Szpilman, a pianist for Polish radio when the Germans invaded. His mother's insistence on laying the table with clean linen for their midday meal, even as conditions for Jews worsened daily, makes palpable the Holocaust's abstract horror. Arbitrarily removed from the transport that took his family to certain death, Szpilman does not deny the "animal fear" that led him to seize this chance for escape, nor does he cheapen his emotions by belaboring them. Yet his cool prose contains plenty of biting rage, mostly buried in scathing asides (a Jewish doctor spared consignment to "the most wonderful of all gas chambers," for example). Szpilman found compassion in unlikely people, including a German officer who brought food and warm clothing to his hiding place during the war's last days. Extracts from the officer's wartime diary (added to this new edition), with their expressions of outrage at his fellow soldiers' behavior, remind us to be wary of general condemnation of any group. --Wendy Smith [via]
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Playing the Moldovans at Tennisby Tony HawksISBN 0312305184 (0-312-30518-4)
Softcover, St Martins Pr
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Poland in the Second World Warby Josef GarlinskiISBN 0333392582 (0-333-39258-2)
Hardcover, Macmillan
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The Polish Kitchenby Mary PininskaISBN 0333568710 (0-333-56871-0)
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The Political Lives Of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Changeby Katherine VerderyISBN 0231112319 (0-231-11231-9)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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The Quest for Christa T.by Christa WolfISBN 0374239886 (0-374-23988-6)
Hardcover, Farrar, Straus & Giroux
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The Revenge of History: Marxism and the East European Revolutionsby Alex CallinicosISBN 0271007672 (0-271-00767-2)
Hardcover, Pennsylvania State Univ Pr
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The Romanov Prophecyby Steve BerryISBN 0345460065 (0-345-46006-5)
Softcover, Random House Publishing Group
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Romanov Prophecy : A Novel'Book summary:Ekaterinburg, Russia: July 16, 1918. Ten months have passed since Nicholas IIs reign was cut short by revolutionaries. Tonight, the White Army advances on the town where the Tsar and his family are being held captive by the Bolsheviks. Nicholas dares to hope for salvation. Instead, the Romanovs are coldly and methodically executed.
Moscow: Present Day. Atlanta lawyer Miles Lord, fluent in Russian and well versed in the countrys history, is thrilled to be in Moscow on the eve of such a momentous event. After the fall of Communism and a succession of weak governments, the Russian people have voted to bring back the monarchy. The new tsar will be chosen from the distant relatives of Nicholas II by a specially appointed commission, and Miles job is to perform a background check on the Tsarist candidate favored by a powerful group of Western businessmen. But research quickly becomes the least of Miles concerns when he is nearly killed by gunmen on a city plaza.
Suddenly Miles is racing across continents, shadowed by nefarious henchmen. At first, his only question is why people are pursuing him. But after a strange conversation with a mysterious Russian, who steers Miles toward the writings of Rasputin, he becomes desperate to know moremost important, what really happened to the family of Russias last tsar?
His only companion is Akilina Petrov, a Russian circus performer sympathetic to his struggle, and his only guide is a cryptic message from Rasputin that implies that the bloody night of so long ago is not the last chapter in the Romanovs story . . . and that someone might even have survived the massacre. The prophecys implications are earth-shatteringnot only for the future of the tsar and mother Russia, but also for Miles himself.
Steve Berry, national bestselling author of the phenomenal thriller The Amber Room, once again delves into rich historical fact to produce an explosive page-turner. In The Romanov Prophecy, the authentic and the speculative meld into a fascinating and exceptionally suspenseful work of fiction.
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The Romanovs: The Final Chapterby Robert K. MassieISBN 0345406400 (0-345-40640-0)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Romanovs: The Final Chapter'Book summary:In July 1991, nine skeletons were exhumed from a shallow mass grave near Ekaterinburg, Siberia, a few miles from the infamous cellar room where the last tsar and his family had been murdered seventy-three years before. But were these the bones of the Romanovs? And if these were their remains, where were the bones of the two younger Romanovs supposedly murdered with the rest of the family? Was Anna Anderson, celebrated for more than sixty years in newspapers, books, and film, really Grand Duchess Anastasia? The Romanovs provides the answers, describing in suspenseful detail the dramatic efforts to discover the truth. Pulitzer Prize winner Robert K. Massie presents a colorful panorama of contemporary characters, illuminating the major scientific dispute between Russian experts and a team of Americans, whose findings, along with those of DNA scientists from Russia, America, and Great Britain, all contributed to solving one of the great mysteries of the twentieth century.
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The Serbs: History, Myth and the Destruction of Yugoslaviaby Tim JudahISBN 0300085079 (0-300-08507-9)
Softcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Soviet Policy in Eastern Europeby Sarah Meiklejohn TerryISBN 0300031319 (0-300-03131-9)
Hardcover, Yale Univ Pr
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Stalin: Triumph and Tragedyby Dmitri Volkogonov, Harold ShukmanISBN 0297810804 (0-297-81080-4)
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Stalinismby Graeme GillISBN 031217764X (0-312-17764-X)
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There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshokby Yaffa EliachISBN 0316232521 (0-316-23252-1)
Hardcover, Little Brown & Co
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› Find signed collectible books: 'There Once Was a World: A 900-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshok'Book summary:This is the history of a singular yet representative Jewish community from its origins in the Middle Ages to its destruction during the Second World War. For 900 years, this Polish shtetl was a home to generations of Jewish families. In 1944, almost every Jew in Eishyshok was murdered, and with them died a way of life that had survived since the eleventh century. Yaffa Eliach was four years old when the Nazis entered the town and machine-gunned all but thirty-six of its inhabitants. She and her family hid for two years in forests and in a tiny cellar beneath a pigsty. She has devoted the last seventeen years to documenting the stories of the other inhabitants of Eishyshok, collecting thousands of photographs and personal stories from all over the world. The result is this extraordinary book, which weaves these stories into a comprehensive and moving study of shtetl life and culture. Yaffa Eliach has written a landmark history that triumphantly brings to life a people and a world the Nazis sought to destroy. [via]
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There Once Was a World: A Nine-Hundred-Year Chronicle of the Shtetl of Eishyshokby Yaffa ElaichISBN 0316232394 (0-316-23239-4)
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Thunder at Twilight: Vienna 1913/1914by Frederic MortonISBN 0306810212 (0-306-81021-2)
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The Ukrainians: Unexpected Nationby Andrew WilsonISBN 0300093098 (0-300-09309-8)
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Under the Frogby Tibor FischerISBN 0312278713 (0-312-27871-3)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Under the Frog'Book summary:Shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.[via]More editions of Under the Frog:
Vaclav Havel: The Authorized Biographyby Eda Kriseova, Caleb CrainISBN 0312103174 (0-312-10317-4)
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Vichy France: Old Guard and New Order, 1940-1944by Robert O. PaxtonISBN 0231124694 (0-231-12469-4)
Softcover, Columbia Univ Pr
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Words to Outlive Usby Philip Boehm, Michal GrynbergISBN 0312422687 (0-312-42268-7)
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