Episode 3: Illicit Pleasures & Joan of Arc feat. David Elliott!

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Bull By David Elliott Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780544610606
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Published: Clarion Books - March 28th, 2017

Much like Lin-Manuel Miranda did in Hamilton, the New York Times best-selling author David Elliott turns a classic on its head in form and approach, updating the timeless story of Theseus and the Minotaur.


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Bull By David Elliott Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781328596338
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Published: Clarion Books - March 26th, 2019

David Elliott turns a classic on its head: this rough and rowdy retelling of the Minotaur myth in verse will have readers reevaluating one of mythology's most infamous monsters. 
THE MYTH OF THE MINOTAUR?


Voices: The Final Hours of Joan of Arc By David Elliott Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781328987594
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Published: Clarion Books - March 26th, 2019

"Stunning . . . elegant . . . arresting . . . supple and harrowing.” - The Wall Street Journal

★“An innovative, entrancing account of a popular figure that will appeal to fans of verse, history, and biography.” - Kirkus, starred review


Matilda By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
$8.99
ISBN: 9780142410370
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Published: Viking Books for Young Readers - August 16th, 2007

From the bestselling author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and The BFG!

Now a musical on Broadway and streaming on Netflix!


James and the Giant Peach By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Roald Dahl, Quentin Blake (Illustrator)
$8.99
ISBN: 9780142410363
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Published: Viking Books for Young Readers - August 16th, 2007

From the World's No. 1 Storyteller, James and the Giant Peach is a children's classic that has captured young reader's imaginations for generations.

One of TIME MAGAZINE’s 100 Best Fantasy Books of All Time


Treasure Island By Robert Louis Stevenson, John Seelye (Editor), John Seelye (Introduction by) Cover Image
By Robert Louis Stevenson, John Seelye (Editor), John Seelye (Introduction by)
$10.00
ISBN: 9780140437683
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Published: Penguin Classics - December 1st, 1999

The quintessential adventure story that first established pirates in the popular imagination 


Kidnapped (Oxford Worlds Classics) By Robert Louis Stevenson, Ian Duncan Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780199674213
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Published: Oxford University Press, USA - May 1st, 2014

'Your bed shall be the moorcock's, and your life shall be like the hunted deer's, and ye shall sleep with your hand upon your weapons.'


Tuck Everlasting By Natalie Babbitt Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780312369811
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Published: Square Fish - August 21st, 2007

Critically acclaimed when it was first published, Natalie Babbitt's Tuck Everlasting has become a much-loved, well-studied modern-day classic. Now a major motion film available on streaming, featuring stars Alexis Bledel, Ben Kingsley, and Sissy Spacek!

What if you could live forever?


A Brief History of Vice: How Bad Behavior Built Civilization By Robert Evans Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780147517609
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Published: Plume - August 9th, 2016

A celebration of the brave, drunken pioneers who built our civilization one seemingly bad decision at a time, A Brief History of Vice explores a side of the past that mainstream history books prefer to hide. History has never been more fun—or more intoxicating.


Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire: A 500-Year History By Kurt Andersen Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780812978902
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Published: Random House Trade Paperbacks - June 5th, 2018

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “The single most important explanation, and the fullest explanation, of how Donald Trump became president of the United States . . . nothing less than the most important book that I have read this year.”—Lawrence O’Donnell

How did we get here?


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The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) By N. K. Jemisin Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780316229296
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Published: Orbit - August 4th, 2015

At the end of the world, a woman must hide her secret power and find her kidnapped daughter in this "intricate and extraordinary" Hugo Award winning novel of power, oppression, and revolution. (The New York Times)

This is the way the world ends. . .for the last time.


Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland By Patrick Radden Keefe Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780307279286
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Published: Anchor - February 25th, 2020

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER From the author of Empire of Pain—a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions.


The City in the Middle of the Night By Charlie Jane Anders Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780765379979
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Published: Tor Books - February 11th, 2020

A LOCUS AWARD FINALIST!

Charlie Jane Anders, the nationally bestselling author of All the Birds in the Sky delivers a brilliant new novel set in a hauntingly strange future with #10 LA Times bestseller The City in the Middle of the Night.

WOULD YOU GIVE UP EVERYTHING TO CHANGE THE WORLD?


All the Birds in the Sky By Charlie Jane Anders Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9780765379955
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Published: Tor Books - April 11th, 2017

Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now
Winner of the 2017 Nebula Award for Best Novel
Finalist for the 2017 Hugo Award for Best Novel

Paste's 50 Best Books of the 21st Century (So Far) List


Three Women By Lisa Taddeo Cover Image
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ISBN: 9781451642308
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Published: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster - July 7th, 2020

SOON TO BE A SERIES ON STARZ STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY * BETTY GILPIN * DeWANDA WISE * GABRIELLE CREEVY * with BLAIR UNDERWOOD

“Staggeringly intimate...Groundbreaking.” —Entertainment Weekly
“A breathtaking and important book.” —Cheryl Strayed
“Extraordinary...A nonfiction literary masterpiece.” R


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In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History By Mitch Landrieu Cover Image
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ISBN: 9780525559467
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Published: Penguin Books - March 19th, 2019

The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate.