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Anna Karenina
• Leo Tolstoy
• Larissa Volokhonsky
• Richa Pevear
LITERATURE •
2004 •
PAPER
• 838 PAGES
Tolstoy's tragic love story of the beautiful, but married Anna, and her passionate affair with the dashing Count Vronsky. An adulterous relationship in late 19th Century Russia is not without its harsh consequences -- Anna loses her family and is ostracized by those around her in a social downfall. Interwoven with the story of Konstantin Levin and Princess Kitty Shcerbatsky, this epic work is a timeless novel of desire, weakness, and the search for love.
(RUS81, $17.00) |
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Battle of the Baltic, The Wars 1918-1945
• Robert Jackson
HISTORY •
2007 •
HARD COVER
• 224 PAGES
A well written, illustrated survey of the underexamined clashes that took place around the Baltic Sea during and between the first and second World Wars.
(BLT34, $39.95) |
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Bradt Guide Estonia
• Neil Taylor
GUIDEBOOK •
2010 •
PAPER
• 288 PAGES
This convenient guide features an overview of the history and culture of Estonia along with a few color photographs and many maps.
(BLT28, $25.99) |
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Bradt Guide Latvia
• Chris Baister
• Chris Patrick
GUIDEBOOK •
2007 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
A comprehensive guide for the traveler from the popular and informative British series.
(BLT20, $23.99) |
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Bradt Guide Lithuania
• 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) |
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Carmen and Other Stories
• Prosper Merimee
• Nicholas Jotcham
LITERATURE •
1999 •
PAPER
• 361 PAGES
A sophisticated Parisian, Merimee preferred tales of high drama, banditry, outlaws and outcasts set in exotic locales, preferably in the past. This collection of nine stories includes: Carmen, the source for the opera; Columba, set in Corsica; the Etruscan Vase, one of his Parisian tales; The Storming of the Redoubt, involving Napoleon's 1812 Russian campaign; and Lokis, set in the forests of Medieval Lithuania.
(FRN201, $13.95) |
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Clara's Grand Tour, Travels With a Rhinoceros in Eighteenth-century Europe
• Glynis Ridley
HISTORY •
2006 •
PAPER
• 240 PAGES
The entertaining history of a most unusual eighteenth-century European celebrity. Clara the Indian rhinoceros was brought to Europe in 1741 by the Dutch sea captain Douwemout Van der Meer, and toured for seventeen years, to the delight of heads of state such as Louis XV and Frederick the Great. A marvelous and unique look at the introduction of Eastern wildlife into the Western world.
(FRN536, $12.00) |
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The Corrections
• Jonathan Franzen
LITERATURE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 592 PAGES
It's really that good -- 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 (Lithuania). A big, heart wrenching, comic book (and pretty dead on about Eastern European politics).
(EUR122, $16.00) |
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Eastern Europe in the Twentieth Century and After
• R. J. Crampton
HISTORY •
1997 •
PAPER
• 526 PAGES
A well-written, insightful scholarly country-by-county history of modern Eastern Europe.
(EUR273, $43.95) |
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Footprint Tallinn
• Clare Thomson
GUIDEBOOK •
2006 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
Nuts-and-bolts information, plus an overview of history and culture, geared for the independent traveler.
(BLT27, $12.95) |
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The Gothic Enterprise, A Guide to Understanding the Medieval Cathedral
• Robert A. Scott
ART & ARCHITECTURE •
2005 •
PAPER
• 294 PAGES
Scott, whose interest in the history of cathedrals began when he first saw the magnificent Cathedral Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Salisbury, England, takes his reader on a historical, architectural and sociological tour of the magnificent spires and stained-glass windows that dot the landscape of Europe. It's an accessible, personable overview.
(EUR190, $21.95) |
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A Hedonist's Guide to Tallinn
• Laurence Shorter
GUIDEBOOK •
2005 •
HARD COVER
• 208 PAGES
A guide to the vibrant city, with comprehensive listings of accommodations, restaurants and bars.
(BLT29, $16.95) |
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Here Is Where We Meet
• John Berger
LITERATURE •
2006 •
PAPER
• 256 PAGES
This novel weaves a portrait of several European countries through encounters with the dead, from the narrator's mother, whom he discovers on a park bench in Lisbon, to a childhood friend wandering a market in Krakow. "The dead don't stay where they are buried," the protagonist's mother tells him, and this becomes the mantra for this most unusual journey through Europe's history and people.
(EUR189, $15.00) |
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The Kalevala
• Keith Bosley
LITERATURE •
2009 •
PAPER
• 679 PAGES
This national epic of Finland, based on ancient heroic poetry, was a rallying flag for national aspirations as Finland struggled to break away from Russia in the 19th century. So important is this great literary monument that Finland celebrates February 28 as Kalevala day. Incorporating incantation and humor and including a role for magic, this classic informs some of Sibelius' greatest music. 1999 marks the 150th anniversary of the first edition of the poem.
(SCN14, $15.95) |
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Lonely Planet Estonia, Latvia & Lithuania
• Lonely Planet
GUIDEBOOK •
2009 •
PAPER
• 456 PAGES
In its hallmark style, this practical guide to the Baltic nations by Lonely Planet features maps, a good overview of culture, history and language, and much nuts-and-bolts information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing. With color photographs and excellent travel information.
(BLT05, $25.99) |
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Lonely Planet Scandinavia
• Glenda Bendure
• Ned Friary
GUIDEBOOK •
2011 •
PAPER
• 550 PAGES
An excellent practical guide to Scandinavian countries, as well as St. Petersburg and Tallinn, featuring a good overview of culture, history and nature, and plenty of information on excursions, accommodations and sightseeing.
(SCN01, $25.99) |
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Mammals of Europe
• Priscilla Barrett
• David W. MacDonald
FIELD GUIDE •
2002 •
PAPER
• 320 PAGES
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, it's a comprehensive handbook, with detailed descriptions, range maps and commentary on behavior.
(FG61, $38.50) |
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Michelin Green Guide Scandinavia and Finland
• Michelin Travel Publications
GUIDEBOOK •
2008 •
PAPER
• 526 PAGES
A survey of the cities, villages and sites of Scandinavia in the classic Michelin style, featuring brief descriptions of all the major attractions, and with excellent full-color city maps. Organized alphabetically for easy reference,
(SCN10, $21.95) |
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Purge
• Sofi Oksanen
LITERATURE •
2010 •
PAPER
• 400 PAGES
Oksanen sets her powerful first novel, a bestseller in Europe, in Estonia during the Soviet era, weaving the stories of two troubled women brought together by happenstance.
(BLT43, $14.95) |
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To Begin Where I Am, The Selected Prose of Czeslaw Milosz
• 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. There couldn't be a better national spokesperson than this brilliant writer, who has taught Slavic Languages and Literature at UC Berkeley since the 1950s. As a sample of Milosz's prose, these selections cover everything from Polish poetry to modern philosophy to personal memoirs of life in Wilno, Warsaw, Paris and California.
(PLD25, $17.00) |
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