Children's and reference books
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Bulgaria and the Romany people
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Children's books
The Boy on a Black Horse by Nancy Springer
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School & Library Binding - 166 pages (March 1994), Our price: $14.95
Reading level: Ages 9-12
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Synopsis: A young girl struggling to recover from her own deep wounds, becomes involved with Chav, a mysterious and intriguing new boy in her class, who claims that he and his two younger siblings are searching for their father, the King of the Gypsies.
Card catalog description: Intrigued by the mysterious and angry Romany boy who joins her class, thirteen-year-old Gray finds that he shares her love of horses but harbors a dark secret.
Gypsy Folktales by Diane Tong
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Paperback - 252 pages (May 1989), List Price: $16.00, Our Price: $12.80, You Save: $3.20 (20%)
Reading level: All Ages
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Synopsis: Stretching back over the ages, the Gypsy oral tradition has accumulated a vast and diverse treasure of folktales. The 80 stories published in this volume are gathered from 31 countries. 16-page photo insert.
Gypsy Rizka by Lloyd Alexander
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Hardcover - 176 pages (April 1999), List Price: $16.99, Our Price: $11.89, You Save: $5.10 (30%) |
Reading level: Ages 9-12
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This tome from Alexander (The Iron Ring, 1997, etc.) showcases all the elements of a farce as mayors and councilmen, gypsies and ragamuffins supplant kings and princes, warriors and magic cats. Episodic chapters resemble short skits as the orphaned gypsy girl Rizka, with intentional but lighthearted mockery, merrily exposes the townspeople of Greater Dunitsa for all their quirks and quixotic notions. She is soothsayer, matchmaker, and healer rolled int o one. With a glint in her eye and a trick up her sleeve, the quick-witted Rizka can make grown men cluck like chickens, believe in town hall ghosts, or stuff herring down their pants in an effort to grow smarter, all ``in the name of civic duty.'' For a stretch, the plot is more of the same, pitting Rizka against the evil Chief Councilor Sharpnack, who seeks only to rid the town of the ``pestilential Gypsy vixen'' and her impudent cat Petzel, ``the only blot(s) on the town's reputation.'' In a series of `` carefully managed coincidences,'' snowballing plot elements land many of the bumbling government officials in their own jail. All comes right again, for as Rizka has wound her way into the lives of the townspeople, she has also found her way into their hea rts. Alexander has a flair for finding the comedic in his pageant of characters, while his chain of absurdities reveals a truth or two about the human condition along the way. Copyright 1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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The Gypsy Princess by Phoebe Gilman (Illustrator)
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School & Library Binding - 32 pages (March 1997), List Price: $15.95, Our Price: $11.17,You Save: $4.78 (30%) |
Reading level:Ages 4-8
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Like many little girls, gypsy girl Cinnamon dreams of being a princess. After she tells the fortune of a real princess, she receives an invitation to live a t the royal palace. It's not surprising that "Princess" Cinnamon eventually tires of her lonely life of luxury. What is unexpected is Cinnamon's discovery that it can be very difficult to give up wealth, even if keeping it means unhappiness. This is a smoothly told story, albeit with some dubious gypsy stereotypes thrown in. But it's the romantic--if stilted--full-page paintings of little girls with golden crowns, pomaded hair, and silk ball gowns that will capture young readers' attention. Once Cinnamon is at the palace, tiny framed miniatures show what is happening at home. Expressly for the princess-book crowd.
Reference books
Bulgaria (Enchantment of the World) by Abraham Resnick
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School & Library Binding - 172 pages (December 1995), Our Price: $32.00
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Bulgaria (Nations in Transition) by Steven Otfinoski, Andrew Wentick
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Hardcover - 192 pages (December 1998), Our Price: $19.95
Reading level: Ages 9-12
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Synopsis: Examines the people, religion, daily life, politics, culture, history, and geography of Bulgaria, emphasizing its transition from a communist to a free nation.
Bulgaria...in Pictures (Visual Geography) by Mary M. Rodgers (Editor)
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Library Binding - 64 pages (May 1994), Our Price: $26.50
Reading level: Ages 9-12
Bulgaria, a Travel Guide (Pelican International Guide Series) by Philip Ward
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Paperback - 320 pages Pelican ed edition (January 1991), Our Price: $18.95
Bulgarian Rhapsody : The Best of Balkan Cuisine by Linda J. Forristal
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Paperback - 152 pages 1 edition (April 1, 1998), Our Price: $14.95 |
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Amazon.com: Bulgaria is a small Balkan country that gets little attention. On a visit in 1990, however, Linda Joyce Forristal fell in love with both the country and its food. In Bulgarian Rhapsody, she painstakingly presents Bulgarian cooking, placing emphasis on many of its full-flavored and colorful vegetarian dishes, though popular meat dishes are included as well. The Bulgarian kitchen is heavily influenced by Mediterranean cooking, not a surprise since the neighboring Turks occupied it for 500 years. Greece is also a neighbor, along with Romania and Yugoslavia. Bulgarians favor the slow cooking of stews and soups. They use fresh vegetables, particularly tomatoes, sweet red peppers, eggplant, zucchini, and potatoes. Stuffed grape leaves, phyllo pies, and mousaka--the Bulgarian spelling--will be familiar. Forristal offers a meatless mousaka made with zucchini and several kinds of plakiya , stews that are vibrant with tomatoes and onions, similar to dishes you find in Greek restaurants. The gyuveches are baked stews that resemble their Romanian counterparts. The typical meatless one made with string beans, tomatoes, eggplant, cabbage, potatoes, carrots, red and green bell peppers, and zucchini, resembles a ratatouille. The one made with sausages and red peppers is much simpler. If you enjoy discovering new dishes, tutmanik, a quickbread made with cheese, and Baked Peppers Stuffed with White Beans are alluring. The potato salad seasoned with oregano and paprika is also diff erent from the usual. Do ignore one technique Forristal uses: peeling roasted peppers under running water washes away much of their flavor. Better to leave a few charred specks of skin than to do this. --Dana Jacobi
Traditional Bulgarian Cookbook by Atanas Slavov
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Hardcover - 150 pages (March 1998), Our Price: $22.50 |
A Concise History of Bulgaria (Cambridge Concise Histories) by R. J. Crampton
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Paperback - 280 pages (March 1997), Our Price: $15.95 |
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Book Description: For the increasing number of western travellers who visit Bulgaria either on holiday or on business, this is the ideal introduction to the country's fascinating past. The rich and dramatic story of the Bulgarians is traced from medieval times through Ottoman rule and the cultural flowering of the nineteenth century to the turbulent years of the twentieth century. The story is told in straightforward, non-academi c style, and is the only compact, illustrated history of Bulgaria in the English language.
This book provides a general introduction to the history of Bulgaria and the Bulgarians. The text and illustrations trace the rich and dramatic story from the days when Bulgaria was the centre of a powerful mediaeval empire, through the long centuries of Ottoman rule, to the cultural renaissance of the nineteenth century and the political upheavals of our own century.
Essential Bulgaria by David Ash
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The Rough Guide to Bulgaria (Rough Guide) by Jonathan Bousfield, Dan Richardson
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Paperback 2nd edition (July 1996), List Price: $16.95, Our Price: $13.56,You Save: $3.39 (20%)
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Book Description: From the Danube plains to the Black Sea coast, The Rough Guide is your passport to Bulgaria's medieval citadels, Byzantine ruins, secluded fishing villages, local vineyards, and the country's famous rose plantations. You'll find detailed coverage of hiking, climbing, and skiing, and sun-drenched getaways along the coast. Includes 36 maps and 8 pages of color photos.
A reader from Houston, Texas , March 14, 1999:
The best book i've found on visiting Bulgaria. I visited Bulgaria in Sept 96 and the book is incredibly thorough on all the small towns of Bulgaria. I'm going back,and this book will be in my backpack!
Gypsies (Roma) in Bulgaria (Studien Zur Tsiganologie Und Folkloristik, Bd. 18) by Elena Marushiakova, Veselin Popov
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Paperback (June 1997), Our Price: $42.95
Sinti and Roma : Gypsies in German-Speaking Society and Literature (Culture and Society in Germany, Vol 2) by Susan Tebbutt (Editor)
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Hardcover (November 1998), Our Price: $39.95
Gypsies of Europe : Roma (Civil Rights Reporter Ser.) by Lewis B. Sckolnick
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Paperback (March 1994), Our Price: $45.00
Roma, Gypsies, Travellers (1994) by P. Liegeois
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Mass Market Paperback - 323 pages 1 edition (June 1994), Our Price: $21.00 |
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Book Description: This book provides an understanding of Gypsies and Travellers by introducing the reader to the richness of their culture and lifestyle.
Bury Me Standing : The Gypsies and Their Journey by Isabel Fonseca
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Hardcover - 322 pages (October 1995), List Price: $25.00, Our Price: $17.50, You Save: $7.50 (30%) |
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Amazon.com:They travel endlessly and seem to appear almost everywhere, yet they are the world's most mysterious people: Gypsies. Isabel Fonseca has done the impossible, entering into their world, living and traveling with Gypsies during several long trips to Eastern Europe, and she has brought back an insightful, highly personal, and very readable account of who the Gypsies are and how they live. The Gypsies have a legendary aversion to "gadje," or outsiders, but Fonseca has lifted the curtain and written gracefully about their lives on the edge of society.
Gypsies by Jan Yoors
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Paperback (August 1987), Our Price: $12.50 |
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A first-hand, highly personal account of European Gypsies! At the age of twelve, Jan Yoors ran away from his cultured Belgian family to join a wandering band, a kumpania, of Gypsies. For ten years, he lived as one of them, traveled with them from country to country, shared both their pleasures and their hardships--and came to know them as no one, no outsider, ever has. Here, in this first-hand and highly personal account of an extraordinary people, Yoors tells the real story of the Gypsies' fascinating customs and their neverending struggle to survive as free nomads in a hostile world.
The Gypsies (Peoples of Europe) by Angus Fraser
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Gypsy Folk Medicine by Wanja Von Hausen, Marlene Ekman (Illustrator), E. Reinersmann (Translator)
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Paperback - 128 pages (April 1992), List Price: $6.95, Our Price: $5.56, You Save: $1.39 (20%)
Historical Dictionary of the Gypsies (Romanies) (European Historical Dictionaries, No 27) by Donald Kenrick, Gillian Taylor (Contributor)
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Hardcover - 320 pages (May 1998), Our Price: $55.00
A History of the Gypsies of Eastern Europe and Russia by David M. Crowe
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- 317 pages (February 1995), Our Price: $49.95 Paperback (February 1996), List Price: $16.95, Our Price: $13.56, You Save: $3.39 (20%) |
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Synopsis: Crowe draws from previously untapped East European, Russian, and traditional sources to explore the life, history, and culture of the Gypsies, or Romanys, from their entrance into the region in the Middle Ages to the present.
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