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Beginning With My Streets

Beginning With My Streets

by Madeline G. Levine | Czeslaw Milosz

  • LITERATURE
  • 2010
  • PAPER
  • 304 PAGES

The great Polish writer celebrates Vilinius, city of his youth, using a street map as a backdrop for his essays and recollections of the people, places and rich cultural heritage of the city. (BLT45, $18.00)

The Avengers, A Jewish War Story

The Avengers, A Jewish War Story

by Rich Cohen

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 262 PAGES

The riveting tale of three kids from the Jewish ghetto, who went from the streets of Vilna to fighting the Germans and eventually wound up in a Kibbutz north of Tel Aviv. (BLT16, $16.00)

Bradt Guide Lithuania

by Gordon McLachlan

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2008
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

A practical guide in the popular Bradt series, featuring information on Lithuanian art, history and culture, as well as good travel information. (BLT21, $25.99)

Baltic States Map

Baltic States Map

by Freytag & Berndt

  • MAP

A double-sided detailed map of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania at a scale of 1:400,000. (BLT06, $14.95)

 
Culture Smart! Lithuania

Culture Smart! Lithuania


by Lara Belonogoff

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 168 PAGES

A concise, no-nonsense guide to local customs, etiquette and culture with a short overview of the land and people along with practical travel advice. (BLT31, $9.95)

Eyewitness Travel Guide Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania

Eyewitness Travel Guide Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania


by Eyewitness Guides

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2013
  • PAPER
  • 432 PAGES

Take along this compact, profusely illustrated travel guide featuring bright color photography, dozens of maps and a region-by-region synopsis. With a 50-page section on where to stay and eat. (BLT35, $28.00)

Lonely Planet Baltic Phrasebook

Lonely Planet Baltic Phrasebook


by Paul Jokubaitis | Jana Teteris | Lisa Trei

  • LANGUAGE & PHRASEBOOKS
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 284 PAGES

Learn the basics of Estonian, Latvian and Lithuanian with this handy guide. (BLT10, $8.99)

Rough Guide Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania

Rough Guide Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania


by Rough Guide

  • GUIDEBOOK
  • 2011
  • PAPER
  • 504 PAGES

This comprehensive travel guide to the Baltic States includes region-by-region descriptions of attractions and a good overview of history and culture. (BLT17, $24.99)

The Baltic

The Baltic


by Alan Palmer

  • HISTORY
  • 2007
  • PAPER
  • 448 PAGES

Palmer chronicles the Baltic region from the Viking era and Byzantine Empire through wars, uprisings and other political conflicts of the twentieth century, and on to modern times, where he finds a group of nations and peoples poised to emerge as some of Europe's most vital democracies. In addition to the prolific British historian's considerable learning, he provides some rather entertaining anecdotes. (BLT22, $19.95)

The Baltic Revolution

The Baltic Revolution


by Anatol Lieven

  • HISTORY
  • 1994
  • PAPER
  • 454 PAGES

A Latvian correspondent for the London Times, Lieven weaves history, interviews and analysis into a vivid cultural portrait of post-Glasnost Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. (BLT02, $47.00)

The Northern Crusades

The Northern Crusades


by Eric Christiansen

  • HISTORY
  • 1998
  • PAPER
  • 320 PAGES

The wilder-than-fiction story of the conquest and conversion of the pagan tribes of the Baltic coasts by the crusading knights of the Teutonic Order from the 13th to the 15th centuries. (BLT14, $17.00)

The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721

The Northern Wars: War, State and Society in Northeastern Europe, 1558-1721


by Robert I. Frost

  • HISTORY
  • 2000
  • PAPER
  • 401 PAGES

A scholarly, detailed history of the struggle over Estonia, Livonia and control of the Nordic-Baltic region during the 16th-18th centuries, a highly militarized period in the region's history. (BLT15, $76.33)

The Reconstruction Of Nations, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999

The Reconstruction Of Nations, Poland, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, 1569-1999


by Timothy Snyder

  • HISTORY
  • 2004
  • PAPER
  • 384 PAGES

A scholarly yet readable account of nation building in Eastern Europe since the sixteenth century. (EUR321, $25.00)

Baroque and Rococo Art

Baroque and Rococo Art


by Germain Bazin

  • ART & ARCHITECTURE
  • 1985
  • PAPER
  • 288 PAGES

An excellent illustrated survey of Baroque and Rococo art and architecture, this volume in the acclaimed "World of Art" series is a good companion to the golden age of Middle Europe. (EUR53, $21.95)

Native Realm, A Search for Self-Definition


by Czeslaw Milosz

  • BIOGRAPHY/MEMOIR
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 300 PAGES

The great Lithuanian-born Polish poet and Nobel laureate Milosz traces much of 20th Century European history in this tale of his own life, from his early years in Vilnius to the unimaginable horrors of Nazi-occupied Warsaw through to the 1950s. (EUR437, $16.00)

Carmen and Other Stories


by Prosper Merimee | Nicholas Jotcham

  • LITERATURE
  • 1999
  • PAPER
  • 361 PAGES

A collection of nine stories, including Carmen, memorably set in southern Spain -- and source for the Bizet opera of the same name. (FRN201, $13.95)

The Corrections

The Corrections


by Jonathan Franzen

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 592 PAGES

A dazzling novel of life and love and family and holidays that follows the peregrinations of the Lamberts -- father, mother and offspring -- from New York to Philadelphia to Vilnius. It's a madcap, tour de force of Christmas homecomings gone awry, cruise-ship follies, self-deluded academics, breast-obsessed screenwriters, stodgy old farts and edgy Tribeca bohemians equally at sea in their lives. (EUR122, $16.00)

To Begin Where I Am, The Selected Prose of Czeslaw Milosz

To Begin Where I Am, The Selected Prose of Czeslaw Milosz


by Czeslaw Milosz | Madeline G. Levine | Bogdana Carpenter

  • LITERATURE
  • 2002
  • PAPER
  • 272 PAGES

Culled from a lifetime's worth of publications, these essays by the Lithuanian-born Polish poet and Nobel laureate Milosz address the Polish experience at home and abroad in the 20th century. (PLD25, $17.00)

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