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  • What's Cooking in the Kremlin

    From Rasputin to Putin, How Russia Built an Empire with a Knife and Fork

    by Witold Szablowski ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    **A New York Times Editors’ Choice“Entertaining . . . A heady mix of propaganda and paranoia . . . [Szabłowski writes] sensitively . . . not just about food but also its terrible absence.” —The New York Times Book Review“Riveting—a delicious odyssey full of history, humor, and jaw-dropping stories. If you want to understand the making of modern Russia, read this book.” —Daniel Stone, bestselling ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Cosmos

    A Novel

    by Witold Gombrowicz ...
    A "creatively captivating and intellectually challenging" existential mystery from the great Polish author—"sly, funny, and . . . lovingly translated" ( The New York Times).Winner of the 1967 International Prize for LiteratureMilan Kundera called Witold Gombrowicz "one of the great novelists of our century." Now his most famous novel, Cosmos, is available in a critically acclaimed translation by ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Possessed

    by Witold Gombrowicz ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    From “a master of verbal burlesque [and] a connoisseur of psychological blackmail” (John Updike), Witold Gombrowicz’s harrowing and hilarious pastiche of the Gothic novel, now in a new, authoritative English translationWitold Gombrowicz is considered by many to be Poland’s greatest modernist, and in The Possessed, he demonstrates his playful brilliance and astonishing range by using the familiar ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Twas the Night Before Christmas

    by Clement C. Moore, Marcin Nowakowski ...
    Series series Picture Storybooks
    An adaptation of the much-loved Christmas story by Clement C. Moore, celebrating the magic and wonder of Christmas Eve. Beautiful illustrations bring this classic poem to life. The perfect family story for the holiday season. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How to Feed a Dictator

    Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

    by Witold Szablowski ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    **“Amazing stories . . . Intimate portraits of how [these five ruthless leaders] were at home and at the table.” —Lulu Garcia-Navarro, NPR’s Weekend Edition SundayAnthony Bourdain meets Kapuściński in this chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears and What’s Cooking in the Kremlin**Now ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Dancing Bears

    True Stories of People Nostalgic for Life Under Tyranny

    by Witold Szablowski ...
    Translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones ...
    ***As heard on NPR’s All Things Considered*“Utterly original.” —The New York Times Book Review“Mixing bold journalism with bolder allegories, Mr. Szabłowski teaches us with witty persistence that we must desire freedom rather than simply expect it.” —Timothy Snyder, New York Times bestselling author of On Tyranny and The Road to UnfreedomAn incisive, humorous, and heartbreaking account of people ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Legend: The Story of Witold Pilecki The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz

    by B.P. Stone ...
    Legend: The Story of Witold Pilecki is a sweeping, immersive novel that traces the arc of a life lived in the crucible of war and oppression. From the embattled parlor of the Pilecki estate to the blood-soaked trenches of the Polish-Soviet War, from the clandestine cellars of occupied Warsaw to the unspeakable machinery of Auschwitz, this is the story of a man who chose to walk willingly into hell ... Read more

    $4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • How Architecture Works

    A Humanist's Toolkit

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    The prize-winning scholar's "expert, holistic, down-to-earth guide" to the beauty and function of architecture ( Booklist , starred review).We spend most of our days and nights in buildings. They are the setting of our everyday lives as well as a public art form. Yet architecture remains a mystery to most of us. In How Architecture Works, Witold Rybczynski, a renowned critic and winner of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Driving Machine

    A Design History of the Car

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    **“[A] compact epic.… Brisk, lucid and enjoyable.” —Richard Snow, Wall Street JournalThe renowned design writer on the extraordinary history of car design.**In this lively and entertaining work, Witold Rybczynski—hailed as “one of the best writers on design working today” by Publishers Weekly—tells the story of the most distinctive cars in history and the artists, engineers, dreamers, and ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Story of Architecture

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    An inviting exploration of architecture across cultures and centuries by one of the field’s eminent authorsIn this sweeping history, from the Stone Age to the present day, Witold Rybczynski shows how architectural ideals have been affected by technological, economic, and social changes—and by changes in taste. The host of examples ranges from places of worship such as Hagia Sophia and Brunelleschi ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

  • Last Harvest

    From Cornfield to New Town

    by Witold Rybczynski ...
    In Last Harvest, the award-winning author of Home and A Clearing in the Distance tells the compelling story of New Daleville, a brand-new residential subdivision in rural Pennsylvania. When Witold Rybczynski first heard about New Daleville, it was only a developer's idea, attached to ninety acres of cornfield an hour and a half west of Philadelphia. Over the course of five years, Rybczynski met ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Out of the Lion's Maw

    High Adventure in the Ancient Mediterranean

    by Witold Makowiecki, Tom Pinch ...
    Series Book 1 - Fleeing Carthage
    A European bestseller, in print continuously since 1946, now for the first time in English.Can an elderly Zoroastrian priest and his young apprentice foil a dark plot to foment civil war in Egypt?570 BC. Carthage, Sicily, Greece, Egypt, Libya. Two heroes rush across the Mediterranean on a secret diplomatic mission followed by spies and assassins, the Carthaginian navy, and eventually -- the whole ... Read more

    $16.05 CAD