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  • The traveling circus
    Author:
    Gay, Marie-Louise, Homel, David
    Summary:

    Charlie and his family are about to embark on another trip, to another out-of-the-way place off the beaten path. This time they are heading to an island in Croatia -- an incredibly beautiful country that lives in the shadow of war and...
  • The hired man
    Author:
    Forna, Aminatta
    Summary:

    Gost is surrounded by mountains and fields of wild flowers. The summer sun burns. The Croatian winter brings freezing winds. Beyond the boundaries of the town an old house which has lain empty for years is showing signs of life. One of...
  • The heart of hell
    Author:
    Mattich, Alen
    Summary:

    The third installment in Alen Mattich's highly addictive Marko della Torre series. Autumn 1991. Civil war has broken out in Yugoslavia with Croatia's declaration of independence, and former secret policeman Marko della Torre is set...
  • The Albanian
    Author:
    Mazza, Donna
    Summary:

    Rosa longs for mystery, adventure, the exotic, and escape from small country-town Australia. Fatally attracted to a romantic image of Eastern Europe, she arrives alone in Dubrovnik in the months before the implosion of the old...
  • From generation to generation
    Author:
    Tomasov, Agnes
    Summary:

    Hiding from the Nazis in the forests of Slovakia’s Low Tatra Mountains in the fall of 1944, in constant danger from the Germans occupying nearby villages, fourteen-year-old Agnes Grossmann and her family made the daring decision to...
  • Drink in the summer : a memoir of Croatia
    Author:
    Fabijančić, Tony
    Summary:

    Since childhood, Tony Fabijančić has travelled frequently to Yugoslavia and Croatia, the homeland of his father. He spent time with his peasant family in the village of Srebrnjak in the north and escaped to the Adriatic islands in the...
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