Ambers Aglow (Bilingual) Item#: BK2428
Ambers Aglow: An Anthology of Contemporary Polish Women's Poetry (1981-1995) Edited and Translated from the Polish by Regina Grol The most expansive anthology of its kind, Ambers Aglow features the work of 30 of Poland's most influential and ...
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Bacacay Item#: BK2421
Bacacay Written by Witold Gombrowicz Translated from the Polish by Bill JohnstonFirst published in 1957 in Poland, Bacacay is a collection of twelve short stories by Witold Gombrowicz, one of the major European literary figures of the 20th ...
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Between Dawn and the Wind (Bilingual) Item#: BK2429
Between Dawn and the Wind, 2nd Edition Written by Anna Frajlich Translated from the Polish by Regina Grol Dubbed "the best Polish poetess of her generation," Anna Frajlich has developed an extensive body of work, which reflects her struggles ...
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Bones in the Backyard Item#: BK2416
Bones in the Backyard, a Bahia Gordon Mystery Written by Florence W. Clowes and Lois J. BlackburnMeet Bashia Gordon, a women of Polish background who helps residents in Northeastern Connecticut decorate their homes. Her curiosity leads her to ...
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Captive Mind, The Item#: BK2388
The Captive Mind Written by Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by Jane Zielonko Written in the early 1950s, when Eastern Europe was in the grip of Stalinism and many Western intellectuals placed their hopes in the new order of the East, ...
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Chain of Chance, The Item#: BK2375
The Chain of Chance Written by Stanislaw Lem Translated from the Polish by Louis IribarneWritten in the style of a detective novel, The Chain of Chance is classic Lem: a combination of action, hard science, and philosophical investigation. An ...
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Children of Strangers: Stories Item#: BK2524
Children of Strangers: Stories by Anthony BukoskiThe second collection of stories by teacher/writer Anthony Bukoski. These heart gripping fourteen short stories mainly take place within Polish American communities of Superior."Bukoski's ...
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Defense of Ardor, A Item#: BK2426
A Defense of Ardor: Essays Written by Adam Zagajewski Translated from the Polish by Clare CavanaghArdor, inspiration, the soul, the sublime: such terms have long since fallen from favor among critics and artists alike. In his new collection ...
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Dreams and Stones Item#: BK2423
Dreams and Stones Written by Magdalena Tulli Translated from the Polish by Bill JohnstonDreams and Stones is a small masterpiece, one of the most extraordinary works of literature to come out of Central and Eastern Europe since the fall of ...
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Flaw Item#: BK2425
Flaw Written by Magdalena Tulli Translated from the Polish by Bill JohnstonA single streetcar line runs around the sleepy suburban square of an unnamed city. One day, out of nowhere, a group of hapless refugees pour from the streetcar and set ...
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Framing the Polish Home Item#: BK2444
Framing the Polish Home: Postwar Cultural Constructions of Hearth, Nation, and Self Edited by Bozena ShallcrossAs the subject of ideological, aesthetic, and existential manipulations, the Polish home and its representation is an ever-changing ...
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His Masters Voice Item#: BK2376
His Master's Voice Written by Stanislaw Lem Translated from the Polish by Michael KandelTwenty-five hundred scientists have been herded into an isolated site in the Nevada desert. A neutrino message of extraterrestrial origin has been received ...
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Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Item#: BK2439
Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising Written by Jerzy Andrzejewski Forward by Jan Gross Introduction & Commentary by Oscar E. SwanAt the height of the Nazi extermination campaign in the Warsaw Ghetto, a young Jewish woman, ...
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Issa Valley, The Item#: BK2384
The Issa Valley: A Novel Written by Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by Louis IribarneThomas, the child-protagonist of The Isa Valley, is subject to both the contradictions of nature in this severe northern setting and the sometimes ...
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Legends of Modernity Item#: BK2387
Legends of Modernity: Essays and Letters from Occupied Poland, 1942-1943 Written by Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by Madeline G. Levine Introduction by Jaroslaw AndersLegends of Modernity brings together some of Czeslaw Milosz's ...
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Madame Item#: BK2445
Madame Written by Antoni Libera Translated from the Polish by Agnieszka KolakowskaIn Communist-dominated Warsaw a self-absorbed Polish teenager pursues intellectual maturity - and the woman of his dreams, his French teacher, the mysterious ...
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Main Currents of Marxism Item#: BK2437
Main Currents of Marxism: The Founders, The Golden Age, The Breakdown Written by Leszek Kolakowski Translated from the Polish by P.S. FallaRenowned philosopher Leszek Kolakowski was one of the first scholars to reveal both the shortcomings and ...
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Mass for Arras, A Item#: BK2448
A Mass for Arras: A Novel Written by Andrzej Szczypiorski Translated from the Polish by Richard LourieWith this historical tragedy at its core, A Mass for Arras explores the personal and political consequences of fear, fanaticism, and fascism ...
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Memoirs of a Space Traveler Item#: BK2377
Memoirs of a Space Traveler: Further Reminiscences of Ijon Tichy Written by Stanislaw Lem Translated from the Polish by Joel Stern and Maria Swiecicka-ZiemianekIjon Tichy is an ordinary space traveler whose extraordinary curiosity leads him to ...
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Miloszs ABCs Item#: BK2381
Milosz's ABC's Written by Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by Madeline G. LevineThe ABC book is a Polish genre, a literary from loosely composed of short, alphabetically arranged entries. Milosz's telling eye for detail and sharp ...
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Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska Item#: BK2438
Miracle Fair: Selected Poems of Wislawa Szymborska Written by Wislawa Szymborska Translated from the Polish by Joanna Trzeciak Forward by Czeslaw MiloszThis long-awaited volume samples the full range of Nobel Prize-winning poet Wislawa ...
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Moving Parts Item#: BK2424
Moving Parts Written by Magdalena Tulli Translated from the Polish by Bill JohnstonA feckless, comical narrator struggles against all odds to tell a story for which he is responsible, but which he neither controls nor understands. His ...
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Mrozek Reader, The Item#: BK2447
The Mrozek Reader Written by Slawomir Mrozek Edited by Daniel GerouldSlawomir Mrozek has reigned as the preeminent playwright of Eastern Europe for the past half century. This landmark new edition compiles his inventive and extraordinary work ...
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Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition Item#: BK2385
Native Realm: A Search for Self-Definition Written by Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by Catherine S. LeachIn his compelling autobiography, Native Realm, Nobel laureate Czeslaw Milosz offers a vivid account of his early life in his ...
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New Poems Item#: BK2422
New Poems Written by Tadeusz Rozewicz Translated from the Polish by Bill JohnstonWritten in a pared-down, direct language, and filled with allusions to everything from philosophy to TV talk shows, the poetry of Tadeusz Rozewicz encompasses the ...
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Old Secrets Never Die Item#: BK2417
Old Secrets Never Die, a Bahia Gordon Mystery Written by Florence W. Clowes and Lois J. BlackburnAmateur sleuth Bashia Gordon, a semi-retired interior decorator, and Trooper Mark Jankowski team up again to investigate when bodies start popping ...
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Poems by Urszula Koziol (Bilingual) Item#: BK2430
Poems Written by Urszula Koziol Translated from the Polish by Regina Grol Urszula Koziol is a poet of soaring introspection, a poet with a heightened awareness of herself as a person, as "the other", as inhabitant of the planet Earth, or of ...
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Poland Item#: BK2396
Poland: A Novel by James A. MichenerLike the heroic land that is its subject, James Michener's Poland teems with vivid events and unforgettable characters in the sweeping span of eight tumultuous centuries. In a tradition of resistance to ...
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Polish Officer, The Item#: BK2390
The Polish Officer: A Novel by Alan Furst September 1939. As Warsaw falls to Hitler's Wehrmacht, Captain Alexander de Milja is recruited by the intelligence service of the Polish underground. His mission: to transport the national gold reserve ...
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Polish Writers on Writing: The Writers World Series Item#: BK2569
Polish Writers on Writing: The Writers World Series Edited by Adam Zagajewski Featuring twentieth-century writers, including Nobel Prize winners Czeslaw Milosz and Wislawa Szymborska, as well as celebrated poet Zbigniew Herbert and ...
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Polonaise: Stories Item#: BK2525
Polonaise: Stories by Anthony BukoskiThe twelve short stories in Bukoski's third collection are both a dirge and an homage to a passing way of life for the East End neighborhood of Superior, Wisconsin. "Hurry, our closing is imminent," a priest ...
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Push Not The River Item#: BK2262
Push Not The River: A Novel by James Conroyd Martin Panoramic and lush, Push Not the River is the romantic epic of one young countess's coming-of-age during the upheaval of eighteenth-century Poland--a time of heartache and turmoil as the ...
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Road-side Dog Item#: BK2382
Road-side Dog Written by Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by the Author & Robert HassIn this memorable collection of poems and essays, aphorisms and anecdotes, Czeslaw Milosz addresses a wide range of topics with extraordinary insight ...
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Self-Portrait with Woman Item#: BK2449
Self-Portrait with Woman: A Novel Written by Andrzej Szczypiorski Translated from the Polish by Bill JohnstonKamil, a Warsaw sociologist, is summoned to Geneva to participate in an oral history project about the collapse of Eastern European ...
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Snow White and Russian Red Item#: BK2446
Snow White and Russian Red Written by Dorota Maslowska Translated from the Polish by Benjamin Paloff Illustrations by Krzysztof OstrowskiA searing, audacious, and darkly comic novel from a new literary voice of international importance, Snow ...
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Testaments: Two Novellas of Emigration & Exile Item#: BK2442
Testaments: Two Novellas Of Emigration and Exile Written by Danuta Mostwin Translated from the Polish by Marta Erdman and Nina Dyke Introduction by Joanna Rostropowicz Clark Afterword by Thomas J. NapierkowskiFor more than two hundred ...
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Time Between Trains: Stories Item#: BK2526
Time Between Trains: Stories by Anthony BukoskiWelcome to Superior, Wisconsin, the westernmost port of the Great Lakes, home to a declining population, often-dismal weather, and dying ethnic communities. Despite the biting winter winds and the ...
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To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays Item#: BK2386
To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays Written by Czeslaw Milosz Edited and with an Introduction by Bogdana Carpenter & Madeline G. LevineTo Begin Where I Am is the most complete one-volume edition of Czeslaw Milosz's prose writings available in ...
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Visions from San Francisco Bay Item#: BK2383
Visions from San Francisco Bay Written by Czeslaw Milosz Translated from the Polish by Richard LourieInterrelated essays by the Nobel Laureate on his adopted home of California, which Lewis Hyde, writing in The Nation, called "remarkable, ...
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Without End: New and Selected Poems Item#: BK2427
Without End: New and Selected Poems Written by Adam Zagajewski Translated from the Polish by Clare Cavanagh and Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, and C. K. WilliamsWithout End draws from each of Adam Zagajewski's English-language ...
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