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Eastern European Region (Part 2) This Region Includes: Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Romania, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Moldova, Serbia, Kosovo, Albania, Switzerland and Albania.
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Burying the typewriter [electronic resource] : a memoir
by Carmen Bugan
The author recounts growing up on her grandparents' farm in the Romanian countryside and describes being shunned at school and by neighbors after discovering that her father was a political dissident during the time of Ceausescu. Original.
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The Angel Makers
by Jessica Gregson
Enjoying freedom and friendship with neighbor women in her 1916 Hungarian village when the abusive men in their lives go off to war, medicine woman Sari uses her skills to kill her returned husband and is quickly sought by her new friends for the same service, with dire results. A first novel.
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Bosnia's million bones : solving the world's greatest forensic puzzle
by Christian Jennings
This extraordinary story follows a team of forensic scientists who pioneered ground-breaking DNA technology to identify an estimated 8,100 victims of the 1995 Srebrenica massacre in eastern Bosnia, and shows how their work today is giving justice to families from Iraq, Libya, Chile and Colombia. 30,000 first printing.
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The sisters of the winter wood
by Rena Rossner
In a remote village surrounded by forests on the border of Moldova and Ukraine, sisters Liba and Laya have been raised on the honeyed scent of their Mami's babka and the low rumble of their Tati's prayers. But when a troupe of mysterious men arrives, Laya falls under their spell - despite their mother's warning to be wary of strangers. And this is not the only danger lurking in the woods
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The shadow land : a novel
by Elizabeth Kostova
After accidentally taking a package from a family she shared a cab with in Bulgaria, a young American tourist sets out to return it to them
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Voltaire in exile : the last years, 1753-78
by Ian Davidson
A fascinating portrait of Voltaire focuses on the last twenty-five years of his life--his forced exile from eighteenth-century France wherein he became a successful entrepreneur and social reformer, while writing his masterpiece, Candide.
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Girl at war : a novel
by Sara Novi
When her happy life in 1991 Croatia is shattered by civil war, 10-year-old Ana Juric is embroiled in a world of guerilla warfare and child soldiers before making a daring escape to America, where years later she struggles to hide her past. A first novel.
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