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	Rough Guide Romania  •   Rough Guide GUIDEBOOK •  2008 •  PAPER  • 496 PAGES A compact, wide-ranging guide in the British series, nicely balancing general information on the country with practical travel details. (EUR144, $23.99)
	Balkan Ghosts, A Journey Through History  •  Robert D. Kaplan HISTORY •  2005 •  PAPER  • 307 PAGES Kaplan combines the skills of an old-fashioned literate traveler and an informed journalist in this eloquent, opinionated report that interweaves history, art and culture of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania and Greece with recent events to paint a portrait of the region in the 1980s. This new edition includes six opinion pieces that he wrote for the New York Times and Washington Post in the 1990s. Named one of the best of 1993 by the "New York Times." (BLK02, $16.00)
	Bury Me Standing  •  Isabel Fonseca CULTURAL PORTRAIT •  1996 •  PAPER  • 322 PAGES The Roma, as the Gypsies call themselves, have a long tradition in Eastern European culture -- influencing the music, foods, religious and folk traditions. This is an excellent book on the evasive subject of Roma culture in Eastern Europe, painstakingly researched by Ms. Fonseca as she traveled and lived among Gypsies. Black-and-white photos help give a human face to the conditions of the Roma, their history among the settled peoples of Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany and the prospects for their cultural survival in the "new" Eastern Europe. (EUR09, $14.95)
	Transylvania and Beyond  •  Dervla Murphy TRAVEL NARRATIVE •  1995 •  HARD COVER  • 239 PAGES Murphy spent eight months among the people of Transylvania, soaking up their stories and their thoughts on life in modern Romania, on a spirited return journey to the country after the fall of the Soviet empire. Her first visit as a child was in 1940. (EUR98, $21.95)
	Romania Moldova Map  •   Freytag & Berndt 2008 •  MAP This handy fold-up map at a scale of 1:700,000 includes a multilanguage legend and city plans. (EUR83, $12.95)

	Bucharest Map  •   Cartographia    •  Full-color map at a scale of 1:20,000. (EUR261, $8.00)
	Culture Smart! Romania  •  Debbie Stowe   • GUIDEBOOK  •  A concise and practical guide to local customs, etiquette and culture. (EUR298, $9.95)
	Language and Travel Guide to Romania  •  Rosemary Rennon   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This personal, comprehensive guide includes the history and culture of Romania, language essentials and practical travel information. (EUR258, $21.95)
	The Mountains of Romania  •  James Roberts   • GUIDEBOOK  •  This practical guide, with 40 color maps and photographs, includes the Carpathians, Bucegi Massif and monasteries of Bucovina. (EUR274, $24.95)
	In Search of Dracula, The History of Dracula and Vampires  •  Raymond McNally   • HISTORY  •  This history of Vlad Tepes (AKA Vlad the Impaler), the Romanian warrior prince upon whom Bram Stoker based his infamous blood-drinking count, draws on oral histories and archaeological evidence and also examines Dracula's many incarnations in film and literature. (EUR193, $16.00)
	Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Balkans  •  Dennis Hupchick   • HISTORY  •  The changing borders and complex history of the Balkans, clearly and concisely shown through 50 double-page maps, accompanied by essays and organized chronologically. (BLK41, $19.95)
	Return to Diversity: A Political History of East Central Europe Since World War II  •  Joseph Rothschild   • HISTORY • HARD TO FIND ELSEWHERE  •  An opinionated, well-written and clear political history of Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania since WWII, completely revised for this third edition to reflect post-Soviet realities. (EUR31, $34.95)
	Romania, An Illustrated History  •  Nicolae Klepper   • HISTORY  •  An illustrated primer on Romania's eventful history, from the bronze age to the period of the Dacians before and during Roman rule, the principalities from the 14th century until 1821 and modern times. (EUR291, $14.95)
	The Balkans, A Short History  •  Mark Mazower   • HISTORY  •  A brief, provocative survey of the complex and often contentious history of the Balkans. With eloquence and insight, Mazower addresses the issues of geography, nationalism and modern nation-building in the region. (BLK28, $13.95)
	The Heroic Present, Life Among the Gypsies  •  Jan Yoors   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  This handsome collection of photographs illuminates Gypsy life and culture. (EUR219, $35.00)
	The Moldovans: Romania, Russia and the Politics of Culture  •  Charles King   • HISTORY  •  A scholarly political and cultural history of Moldova, focusing on issues of national identity in a post-Soviet world. (EUR97, $24.95)
	Transylvania  •  Bronwen Riley   • CULTURAL PORTRAIT  •  Riley lovingly explores the mountain villages, history and people of this land steeped in myth and tradition in this superb book, featuring 150 haunting photographs by Dan Dinescu. (EUR316, $60.00)
	Rough Guide Music Balkan Gypsies  •   Rough Guide World Music   • MUSIC  •  Roots music journalist and record collector Dan Rosenberg delivers a rollicking introduction to some of the most prominent bands and singers from all over the region. This is authentic Gypsy music at its, with captivating brass bands, violin and dulcimer virtuosos. (BLK93, $14.95)
	All Rivers Run to the Sea  •  Elie Wiesel   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Nobel Laureate Elie Wiesel recounts his remarkable life, from his childhood in Romania to the horrors of Auschwitz, his days as a young writer in post-war France and New York and his many pilgrimages to Israel. (EUR153, $16.00)
	Between the Woods and the Water  •  Patrick Leigh Fermor   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Fermor's classic account of walking across Europe in 1933 continues with his youthful adventures in Hungary and Romania, culminating with his arrival at the Iron Gates, marking the divide with the Balkan Peninsula. (CEU31, $15.95)
	Hooligan's Return, A Memoir  •  Norman Manea   • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR  •  Manea recounts his journey from a Romanian Jewish childhood in concentration camps to a professorship at Bard College in New York. (EUR271, $30.00)
	On Foot to the Golden Horn: A Walk to Istanbul  •  Jason Goodwin   • TRAVEL NARRATIVE  •  Goodwin interweaves history, incident and reflection in this excellent portrait of Central Europe. With chapters on Cracow, Slovakia, Budapest, Transylvania, Brasov and Bulgaria (EUR81, $15.00)
	Dracula  •  Bram Stoker   • LITERATURE  •  The vampire novel that started it all, based on the legend of "Vlad the Impaler." The gothic shocker is set within the dank castles and misty forests of Transylvania, and the foggy streets and staid country houses of Victorian England. (EUR125, $11.00)
	Memoirs of an Anti-Semite, A Novel in Five Stories  •  Gregor Von Rezzori   • LITERATURE  •  Central Europe between the wars provides the background for this disturbing tale of a man, his complex prejudices and Jewish identity. The five interrelated stories are set in Romania and Vienna. (CEU27, $19.00)
	The Dance at Mociu  •  Peter D. Riley   • LITERATURE  •  A collection of stories, prose poems and meditations on Old Europe, drawn from the author's many visits to Transylvania. (EUR268, $15.00)
	The Dean's December  •  Saul Bellow   • LITERATURE  •  Bellow's novel tells the story of a college dean who witnesses unrest and corruption at home and abroad, first within the political community of Chicago, then under the oppressive communist rule of Romania. (EUR126, $15.00)
	The White King  •  Gyorgy Dragoman   • LITERATURE  •  Structured as a series of interconnected stories propelled by the energy of Dragoman's riveting prose, the chapters of The White King collectively illuminate the joys and humiliations of growing up, while painting a multifaceted and unforgettable portrait of life in an oppressive state much like Romania. (CEU40, $24.00)
	Train to Trieste  •  Domnica Radulescu   • LITERATURE  •  Mona returns to Romania to uncover the truth about the mysterious boy with whom she had fallen in love as a teenager in 1977 in this evocative debut novel. (EUR313, $23.95)
	Monster of God: The Man Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind  •  David Quammen   • NATURAL HISTORY  •  In search of lions in India's Gir forest, Australia's formidable saltwater crocodiles, Romania's brown bears and tigers in the Russian Far East. (BST84, $15.95)
	Birds of Europe  •  Killian Mullarney  •  Lars Svensson  •  Dan Zetterstrom  •  Peter J. Grant   • FIELD GUIDE • FAVORITE  •  A Princeton field guide to European birds, featuring 3,500 color illustrations that depict 722 species found across the continent. (FG47, $29.95)
	Bradt Guide Central and Eastern European Wildlife  •  Gerard Gorman   • FIELD GUIDE  •  An illustrated guide to the plants, mammals, birds and other wildlife of the region. (CEU36, $25.99)
	Mammals of Europe  •  Priscilla Barrett  •  David W. MacDonald   • FIELD GUIDE  •  Published by Princeton, this is a field guide to land and marine mammals throughout Europe, both endemic and introduced. With more than 600 color illustrations of over 200 mammals. (FG61, $34.95)

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