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These 4 items are available as a set for $79 including shipping, 15% off the retail price (Item EXUKR3). Any additional books ordered will be shipped free of charge.

Alexievich, Svetlana. Voices from Chernobyl, The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster. Picador USA, 2006. These powerful eyewitness accounts include ordinary citizens, firefighters and politicians. For her fearlessness and masterful writing, Alexievich won the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature. (PAPER, 236 Pp., $16.00, Item RUS434)

Plokhy, Serhii. The Gates of Europe, A History of Ukraine. Perseus, 2015. Plokhy ushers readers through over 2,500 years of Ukrainian history, focusing on the nation’s struggle for collective identity and sovereignty, showing that Ukraine’s present-day conflict with Russia is, in fact, history repeating itself. (HARD COVER, 416 Pp., $29.99, Item UKR24)

Evans, Andrew. Bradt Guide Ukraine. Bradt Publications, 2013. This guide in the popular British series features comprehensive practical information and provides a short section on the country’s history and culture. With over 30 maps. (PAPER, 440 Pp., $26.99, Item UKR12)

ITMB. Ukraine Map. ITMB, 2015. A map of Ukraine at a scale of 1:1,000,000. (MAP, Pp., $12.95, Item RUS86)

MAPS & GUIDEBOOKS

Freytag & Berndt. Kiev Map. Freytag & Berndt, 2012. A detailed street map (1:15,000). (MAP, Pp., $12.95, Item UKR17)

Lonely Planet. Lonely Planet Ukrainian Phrasebook. Lonely Planet Publications, 2014. This handy pocket phrasebook includes pronunciation, basic grammar and essential vocabulary. (PAPER, 292 Pp., $9.99, Item UKR19)

HISTORY, CULTURE & EXPLORATION

Leatherbarrow, Andrew, and Elizabeth Petrey. Chernobyl 01:23:40. Ingram Publisher Services, 2016. On April 26th, 1986, Chernobyl was permanently evacuated, an event that devastated the Soviet Union and resulted in the death of thousands. This is the most recent account of the nuclear disaster and its aftermath, written after five years of research and personal investigation. Includes 45 pages of photographs and diagrams. (PAPER, 256 Pp., $16.99, Item UKR25)

Reid, Anna. Borderland, A Journey through the History of Ukraine. Perseus, 2000. Reid, the former Kiev correspondent for The Economist, combines first-person reports, interviews and history in this vivid portrait of the region and its people. With chapters on Kiev and Odessa. (PAPER, 272 Pp., $17.00, Item RUS84)

Wilson, Andrew. The Ukrainians, Unexpected Nation. Yale University Press, 2015. An outstanding guide to modern identity, politics and history in Ukraine, highly recommended for an understanding of the geopolitics of the region and, especially, uneasy relations with mother Russia. (PAPER, 416 Pp., $23.00, Item RUS125)

TRAVEL, BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR

Blackwell, Andrew. Visit Sunny Chernobyl. St. Martins, 2013. With biting humor, Blackwell sets off to visit the most polluted places on the planet, starting with Chernobyl and working his way through lands ravaged by oil processing in Northern Alberta and Port Arthur, Texas, checking out deforestation in the Amazon and heading down India’s dirtiest river. (PAPER, 306 Pp., $15.99, Item RUS586)

Muhling, Jens. A Journey into Russia. Haus Publishing, 2015. For this empathetic glimpse into the Russian soul, award-winning journalist Jens Muhling travels far from the bright lights of Moscow and into Ukraine and the Russian heartland. His personal encounters provide a deeply human portrait of the vast nation. (HARD COVER, 275 Pp., $24.95, Item RUS569)

Savage, Ania. Return to Ukraine. Texas A&M University Press, 2000. An engaging account of a return journey to Ukraine by a journalist who fled the country with her family in 1944. Savage interweaves history, modern travelogue and personal anecdote. (HARD COVER, 272 Pp., $29.95, Item RUS126)

LITERATURE

Akhtiorskaya, Yelena. Panic in a Suitcase. Riverhead Books, 2015. A thoughtful novel that explores the relationship between the American Dream and the contemporary immigrant experience through the lives of a migrant family in Brighton Beach and the one member who stayed behind in Odessa to become a famous poet. (PAPER, 307 Pp., $16.00, Item UKR23)

Bulgakov, Mikhail, and Marian Schwartz (Translator). The White Guard. Yale University Press, 2008. Set on the eve of war in Kiev in 1918, the royalist Turbin family is at the center of Bulgakov’s first novel, newly translated. (PAPER, 352 Pp., $22.00, Item RUS58)

NATURAL HISTORY & FIELD GUIDES

Dean, Cornelia (Editor) and Neil Degrasse Tyson (Foreword). The New York Times Book of Physics and Astronomy, More Than 100 Years of Covering the Expanding Universe. Sterling, 2013. Selected by former science editor Cornelia Dean, this collection of 125 articles chronicles a century of important scientific advances and setbacks. (HARD COVER, 557 Pp., $24.95, Item SCI357)

Medvedev, Zhores A. The Legacy of Chernobyl. Lightning Source, 1992. Medvedev, a Russian scientist, exposes the catastrophe at Chernobyl from its origins to the horrific events of April 26, 1986 to its aftermath in this powerful, well-documented polemic. (PAPER, 352 Pp., $23.00, Item RUS447)

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Johnson, George. Fire in the Mind: Science, Faith, and the Search for Order. Vintage Books, 1996. George Johnson explores the relationship between science and religion in attempt to answer questions such as: are there really laws governing the universe? Is what we call science only a set of myths in which quarks, DNA and information fill the role once occupied by gods? (PAPER, 402 Pp., $17.95, Item SCI354)

Johnson, George. The Cancer Chronicles. Vintage Books, 2014. Science writer Johnson’s elegant scholarship is both personal and educational, compiling everything we know -- and don’t know-- about cancer in this poignant chronicle. (PAPER, 284 Pp., $15.95, Item SCI353)

Johnson, George. The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments. Vintage Books, 2009. With a novelist’s flair, Johnson collects 10 of the most groundbreaking experiments in history, recounting each in engaging detail. Includes Galileo, Isaac Newton and Ivan Pavlov. (PAPER, 192 Pp., $15.95, Item SCI352)