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  Trespass

  by Valerie Martin

  Chloe Dale’s life is in good order. Her only child, Toby, has started his junior year at New York University; her husband, an academic on sabbatical, is working at home on his book about the Crusades; and Chloe is busy creating illustrations for a special edition of Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights . Yet Chloe is disturbed—by the aggression of her government’s foreign policy, by the poacher who roams the land... (more)
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  Bosnian Trilogy: Book 2

  The Bridge on the Drina

  by Ivo Andrić

  Alternate title: The Bridge Over the DrinaThe Bridge on the Drina is a vivid depiction of the suffering history has imposed upon the people of Bosnia from the late 16th century to the beginning of World War I. As we seek to make sense of the current nightmare in this region, this remarkable, timely book serves as a reliable guide to its people and history. "No better introduction to the study of... (more)
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  Zlatarovo Zlato

  by August Šenoa

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  Plameni Inkvizitori

  by Marija Jurić Zagorka

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  Neither Here nor There

  Travels in Europe

  by Bill Bryson

  Like many of his generation, Bill Bryson backpacked across Europe in the early seventies — in search of enlightenment, beer and women. Twenty years later he decided to retrace the journey he undertook in the halcyon days of his youth. The result is Neither Here Nor There, an affectionate and riotously funny pilgrimage from the frozen wastes of Scandinavia to the chaotic tumult of Istanbul, with stops along the way... (more)
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  How We Survived Communism and Even Laughed

  by Slavenka Drakulić

  Hailed by feminists as one of the most important contributions to women's studies in the last decade, this gripping, beautifully written account describes the daily struggles of women under the Marxist regime in the former republic of Yugoslavia.
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  Croatia (Eyewitness Travel Guides)

  by Leandro Zoppe

  This title explores the best of what Croatia has to offer. It presents 3-D aerial views and cutaways which help to bring to life the azure coastline and archipelago, the Venetian and Ottoman architecture, the waterfalls, the Roman heritage and the famously lovely town of Dubrovnik.
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  S.: A Novel about the Balkans

  by Slavenka Drakulić

  Set in 1992, during the height of the Bosnian war, S. reveals one of the most horrifying aspects of any war: the rape and torture of civilian women by occupying forces. S. is the story of a Bosnian woman in exile who has just given birth to an unwanted child-one without a country, a name, a father, or a language. Its birth only reminds her of an even more grueling experience: being repeatedly raped by Serbian... (more)
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  The Return of Philip Latinowicz

  by Miroslav Krleža

  Text: English (translation) Original Language: Croatian
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  The Balkans

  Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-1999

  by Misha Glenny

  "The first comprehensive history of the relationship in the modern era between the great powers and the various Balkan peoples." (San Francisco Chronicle) This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives readers the essential historical background to recent events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into... (more)
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  The Black Book of Bosnia: The Consequences of Appeasement (A New Republic Book)

  The war in the former Yugoslavia has shamed the leading nations of the world. Unspeakable crimes against humanity have been committed in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia, yet American and European policy makers have cravenly stood aside while whole villages and communities were erased from the face of the earth. Americans are appalled by the images on their television screens of the carnage, but most of us are... (more)
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  Croatian Tales of Long Ago

  by Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić

  Publisher: New York : Frederick A. Stokes Co. Publication date: 1922 Subjects: Tales Fairy tales Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. (more)
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  Grička vještica

  by Marija Jurić Zagorka

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  Running Away to Home: Our Family's Journey to Croatia in Search of Who We Are, Where We Came From, and What Really Matters

  by Jennifer Wilson

  A middle class, Midwestern family in search of meaning uproot themselves and move to their ancestral village in Croatia Jennifer Wilson, her architect husband, and their two kids lived the typical soccer-and-ballet practice life in the most middle-American of places: Des Moines, Iowa. They overindulged themselves and their kids, and as a family they were losing each other in the rush of work, school, and... (more)
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  Central Europe

  Enemies, Neighbors, Friends

  by Lonnie Johnson

  Throughout the Cold War era, the Iron Curtain divided Central Europe into a Communist East and a democratic West, and we grew accustomed to looking at this part of the world in bipolar ideological terms. Yet many people living on both sides of the Iron Curtain considered themselves Central Europeans, and the idea of Central Europe was one of the driving forces behind the revolutionary year of 1989 as well as the... (more)
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  B612

  by Davor Poljakovic

  David Knežević from small-town Croatia joins the Army, hoping his girlfriend and his abusive father will come to respect him. On graduation day, his hopes are crushed once he realizes everyone has left with their families - what he thought was his didn't even bother to show up. Disappointed with life, he volunteers to serve in Kabul, training Afghani police and troops. When his best friend (and superior officer)... (more)
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  Doma je lijepo, ali svugdje je najljepše

  Pješice od Zagreba do Sahare

  by Boris Veličan

  Treća putopisna knjiga Borisa Veličana Doma je lijepo, ali svugdje je najljepše, vraća ovog avanturistu, filmskog producenta i putopisca njegovu i općeljudskom ishodištu, hodanju, pješačenju u najkicama (Nikeicama), nekom drugom osjeća(n)ju vremena i prostora.Naime, nakon što je u prvoj knjizi Meni je svaki dan nedjelja prikazao svoje pješačenje od Petrograda do Pariza, u ovoj nam prikazuje svoj novi... (more)
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  Jadranka

  by Marija Jurić Zagorka

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  The Culture of Lies

  Antipolitical Essays

  by Dubravka Ugrešić

  This is a collection of cynical but uniformly unbiased "antipolitical essays" portraying the reality of Communist and post-Communist Yugoslavia. Ugresic's (Have a Nice Day, LJ 3/1/95) intent is not to clarify the politics behind the fall of Yugoslavia but to question the definition of "Yugoslav identity" and critique its shattered culture. She firmly argues that, despite the fall of the Communist regime, the lives... (more)
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  Vitez slavonske ravni

  by Marija Jurić Zagorka