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Darra GoldsteinThe Georgian FeastCCS02 | 2013 | 229 pages | PAPERHistorian and food expert Goldstein explores the food,traditions and geography of Georgia, as beautiful as itis bountiful, in this savory cultural history. Withillustrations by delightful 19th-century primitivist NikoPisosmani.$29.95

Thomas De WaalThe Caucasus, An IntroductionCCS48 | 2010 | 288 pages | PAPERA timely, readable portrait of the Caucasus by anexperienced journalist working in the region. Withhistorical background, insight into energy productionand an analysis of struggles for independence.$18.95

John NobleLonely Planet Georgia, Armenia & AzerbaijanCCS05 | 2016 | 320 pages | PAPERAn excellent practical guide featuring a good overviewof culture, history and nature, 16 pages of colorphotos, 40 maps and a language guide.$24.99

Freytag & BerndtCaucasus: Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan MapCCS01 | 2011 | 2 pages | MAPA travel map of the Caucasus at a scale 1:1,000,000.$14.95

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Tim BurfordBradt Guide GeorgiaCCS03 | 2015 | 288 pages | PAPERThis convenient guide is a personal, detailed overviewof Georgia. It includes coverage of the Black Seacoast, Tbilisi and other major towns, as well asinformation on history, culture and accommodations.$26.99

Nikki KazimovaCulture Smart! AzerbaijanCCS49 | 2011 | 168 pages | PAPERA concise, well-illustrated and practical guide to localcustoms, etiquette and culture, equally of interest tothe traveler and business person.$9.95

Alice FeiringFor the Love of WineCCS79 | 2016 | 208 pages | HARD COVERAfter falling in love with Georgia and its celebratedwine, Alice Feiring travels throughout the countrymeeting winemakers, farmers, artists and more,collecting both stories and recipes to present acompelling portrait of a stunning country and itsremarkable people.$24.95

Caroline Eden, Eleanor FordSamarkandCAS248 | 2016 | 256 pages | HARD COVERAn excellent introduction to Samarkand (by turnsinhabited by Uzbeks, Tajiks, Russians, Turks, Koryo-Sarams, Jews and Afghans), this compendium bringsthe region to life with essays, photos and plenty ofrecipes little-known to the West.$34.95

Naomi DuguidTaste of Persia, A Cook's Travels ThroughArmenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Iran, and KurdistanCCS77 | 2016 | 400 pages | HARD COVERCentering on a culinary tradition that is (alas) poorlyunderstood in the West, this cookbook presents 125recipes from the Caucasus and Middle East, framedwith locals' stories and photographs.$35.00

Neal AschersonBlack SeaRUS46 | 1996 | 306 pages | PAPERIn this skillful regional portrait, Ascherson weaves hisown travels and impressions with a fascinatingaccount of the Black Sea's history. From ancientmythology to modern politics, he admirably neverloses sight of the sea itself.$22.00

Michael KhodarkovskyRussia's Steppe Frontier, The Making of a ColonialEmpire, 1500-1800CCS28 | 2005 | 290 pages | PAPERIn this sweeping, scholarly history Khodarkovskytraces Russian imperial adventures in the Caucasusfrom the decline of the Mongols to the end of the 18thcentury.$26.00

Charles KingThe Ghost of Freedom, A Modern History of theCaucasusCCS39 | 2009 | 336 pages | PAPERA professor at Georgetown, King reveals the imperialambitions, larger-than-life personalities and romanceof this strategic region.$20.95

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Vasily GrossmanAn Armenian SketchbookCCS63 | 2013 | 135 pages | PAPERNewly translated, Grossman's journal of a stay inArmenia in the early 1960s affectionately depicts thepeople and traditions of a mountain village.$14.95

Peter BalakianBlack Dog of Fate, A MemoirCCS12 | 2009 | 304 pages | PAPERThis powerful memoir combines Balakian's coming-of-age as an Armenian-American in New Jersey with hisgrowing realization of the horrors suffered by hisfamily in the Armenian genocide of 1915 in OttomanTurkey.$16.99

Nicholas GriffinCaucasus, A Journey to the Land betweenChristianity and IslamCCS25 | 2004 | 256 pages | PAPERAn engaging account of travels in the Caucasus in thefootsteps of Imam Shamil, a Muslim who resisted theRussians in the 19th century. The book is a portrait ofthe people, land and issues in the region.$23.00

Yo'av KarnyHighlanders, A Journey to the Caucasus in Questof MemoryCCS20 | 2001 | 436 pages | PAPERIn this astute portrait of a complex region in the wakeof the Soviet Union dissolution, an Israeli journalisttravels into the Caucasus to uncover what fuels theconflicts that divide the region's many ethnic andreligious communities.$32.00

Michael J. Arlen, Clark Blaise (Introduction)Passage to AraratCCS11 | 2006 | 293 pages | PAPERArlen's National Book Award-winning memoir of hisfather and the rediscovery of his Armenian heritage.He interweaves stories of travel and family with anaccount of the troubled history of the country.$20.00

Nora Seligman Favorov (Translator), Oleg V.KhlevniukStalin: New Biography of a DictatorCCS71 | 2016 | 424 pages | PAPERAn authoritative, illuminating biography of GeorgianJosef Stalin, who ruled the Soviet Union from 1929until his death in 1953 and caused the death andimprisonment of more than a million Soviet citizensper year.$25.00

Wendell SteavensonStories I Stole, A Journey to GeorgiaCCS22 | 2004 | 277 pages | PAPERWitty, engaging and attuned to the complexities ofhistory and ethnicity, Steavenson, a veteran journalist,spins lyrical tales of the former Soviet Republic ofGeorgia as it crumbles around her in the late 1990s.$13.00

Tom ReissThe Orientalist, Solving the Mystery of a Strangeand Dangerous LifeCCS27 | 2006 | 286 pages | PAPERA storyteller of the first order, Reiss weaves awonderful tapestry of information about the culturesand religions in the Caucasus with this wonderful taleof the remarkable life of Lev Nussimbaum -- a fabulist,interpreter of cultures, novelist and rogue whoreinvented himself as Kurban Said.$17.00

Natasha Randall (Translator), Mikhail LermontovA Hero of Our TimeRUS316 | 2009 | 174 pages | PAPERThe story of the bored and cynical antihero Pechorin.A subtle, psychological and brooding masterpiece ofRussian Romanticism originally published in 1840, itinfluenced later 19th century greats including Tolstoy,Dostoyevsky and Chekhov.$15.00

Charles CummingA Spy by NatureCCS44 | 2008 | 355 pages | PAPERIntroducing the London School of Economics graduateand reluctant British spy Alec Milius. When he lands aprime job for a British oil company, Alec finds himselftrapped in a world of secrets and lies that could costhim his life.$18.99

Paul Theroux (Afterword), Kurban SaidAli and Nino, A Love StoryCCS26 | 2013 | 240 pages | PAPERThe deeply sentimental tale, set in Baku in the yearsbefore WWI, of an Azerbaijani Muslim boy in love witha Georgian Christian girl, originally published in 1937.$15.95

Michael ChabonGentlemen of the RoadMDE125 | 2008 | 224 pages | PAPERThis medieval adventure by Pulitzer Prize-winnerChabon is set in the Caucasus Mountains, where twothieves for hire are responsible for the fate of theempire of the Khazars.$15.00

Leo Tolstoy, Aylmer Maude (Translator)Hadji MuradCCS18 | 2003 | 192 pages | PAPERA short war novel by the incomparable, masterfulRussian writer. Set in the 19th-century Caucasus it isinspired by Tolstoy's time as a soldier and narratesconflicts between the occupying Russians and Muslimgroups in the region.$15.00

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