Episode 80: Books in Translation

Black Flags, Blue Waters: The Epic History of America's Most Notorious Pirates By Eric Jay Dolin Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781631496226
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Published: Liveright - September 17th, 2019

With surprising tales of vicious mutineers, imperial riches, and high-seas intrigue, Black Flags, Blue Waters is “rumbustious enough for the adventure-hungry” (Peter Lewis, San Francisco Chronicle).


The Push: A Novel By Ashley Audrain Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9781984881687
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Published: Penguin Books - January 4th, 2022

A Good Morning America Book Club Pick | A New York Times bestseller!

“Utterly addictive.” —Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train


“Hooks you from the very first page and will have you racing to get to the end.”—Good Morning America


Baby Teeth: A Novel By Zoje Stage Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9781250170767
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Published: St. Martin's Griffin - July 16th, 2019

One of Entertainment Weekly’s Must-Read Books for July | People Magazine's Book of the Week | One of Bustle's "Fifteen Books With Chilling Protagonists That Will Keep You Guessing" | One of PopSugar's "25 Must-Read Books That Will Make July Fly By!" | One of the "Biggest Thrillers of the Summer"SheReads | A Barnes and Noble Blog Best T


Portrait of a Thief: A Novel By Grace D. Li Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593184738
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Published: Tiny Reparations Books - April 5th, 2022

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
An Edgar Award Nominee for Best First Novel
Longlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize
Named a New York Times Best Crime Novel of 2022


A Lady for a Duke By Alexis Hall Cover Image
$15.99
ISBN: 9781538753750
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Published: Forever - May 24th, 2022

From the bestselling author of Husband Material comes a lush, sweeping queer historical romance where sparks fly between childhood friends after a life-changing separation—perfect for fans of Bridgerton, Evie Dunmore, and Lisa Kleypas!​ When Viola Carroll was presumed dead at Waterloo she took the opportunity to live, at last, as herself.


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Her Majesty's Royal Coven: A Novel (The HMRC Trilogy #1) By Juno Dawson Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143137146
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Published: Penguin Books - May 31st, 2022

“Superb and almost unbearably charming, Her Majesty’s Royal Coven… expertly launches an exciting new trilogy."The New York Times Book Review
 


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A Restless Truth (The Last Binding #2) By Freya Marske Cover Image
$27.99
ISBN: 9781250788917
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Published: Tordotcom - November 1st, 2022

"A breathtaking romp of a plot, prose as sparkling and luxuriant as a diamond sautoir, and at the heart of it all a sense of wondrous possibility."—The New York Times


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A Marvellous Light (The Last Binding #1) By Freya Marske Cover Image
$28.99
ISBN: 9781250788870
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Published: Tordotcom - November 2nd, 2021

An International Bestseller!
Winner of the 2022 Romantic Novel Award in Fantasy!
Locus Award Finalist!

An Indie Next pick and LibraryReads pick—with four starred reviews!
A Best of 2021 Pick for NPR | Amazon | Kobo | Barnes & Noble


Bunny: A Novel By Mona Awad Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780525559757
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Published: Penguin Books - June 9th, 2020

Soon to be a major motion picture

"Jon Swift + Witches of Eastwick + Kelly 'Get In Trouble' Link + Mean Girls + Creative Writing Degree Hell! No punches pulled, no hilarities dodged, no meme unmangled! O Bunny you are sooo genius!" —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter


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Alice Isn't Dead: A Novel By Joseph Fink Cover Image
$16.99
ISBN: 9780062844149
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Published: Harper Perennial - August 31st, 2021

A New York Times Bestseller

From the bestselling co-author of It Devours! and Welcome to Night Vale comes a fast-paced thriller about a truck driver searching across America for the wife she had long assumed to be dead.


Legends & Lattes: A Novel of High Fantasy and Low Stakes By Travis Baldree Cover Image
$15.99
Likely available, but must be ordered by email/phone
ISBN: 9798985663211
Published: Cryptid Audio LLC - February 22nd, 2022

High Fantasy with a double-shot of self-reinvention



Friend of the Devil By Stephen Lloyd Cover Image
$26.00
ISBN: 9780593331385
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Published: G.P. Putnam's Sons - May 10th, 2022

High school can be hell. Literally.


A demonic detective novel best devoured in a single sitting--from acclaimed TV writer Stephen Lloyd.


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Book Lovers By Emily Henry Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780593334836
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Published: Berkley - May 3rd, 2022

“One of my favorite authors.”—Colleen Hoover

An insightful, delightful, instant #1 New York Times bestseller from the author of Beach Read and People We Meet on Vacation.


The Good Left Undone: A Novel By Adriana Trigiani Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593183328
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Published: Dutton - April 26th, 2022

AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

"[An] immersive saga. . . . A celebration of family and a paean to the power of storytelling.”People, "Book of the Week"

"Trigiani conveys the beauty of Italy, the hardships of war, the taste of family recipes, and the enduring love of family."Library Journal (starred)


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Daphne: A Novel By Josh Malerman Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780593157015
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Published: Del Rey - September 20th, 2022

Horror has a new name: Daphne. A brutal, enigmatic woman stalks a high school basketball team in a reimagining of the slasher genre by the New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box.

“A superb serial killer novel and a great coming-of-age story.”—Gabino Iglesias, author of The Devil Takes You Home


Lectures On Russian Literature By Vladimir Nabokov Cover Image
$17.99
ISBN: 9780156027762
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Published: Mariner Books - December 16th, 2002

The acclaimed author presents his unique insights into the works of great Russian authors including Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Gogol, Gorky, and Chekhov.

In the 1940s, when Vladimir Nabokov first embarked on his academic career in the United States, he brought with him hundreds of original lectures on the authors he most admired.


History of Western Philosophy By Bertrand Russell Cover Image
$28.00
ISBN: 9780671201586
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Published: Touchstone -

Hailed as “lucid and magisterial” by The Observer, this book is universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject of Western philosophy.

Considered to be one of the most important philosophical works of all time, the History of Western Philosophy is a dazzlingly unique exploration of the ideologies of significant philosophers


The History of Philosophy By A. C. Grayling Cover Image
$20.00
ISBN: 9781984878762
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Published: Penguin Books - February 2nd, 2021

“A witty, learned, authoritative survey of philosophical thought.” —The New York Times Book Review

The first authoritative and accessible single-volume history of philosophy to cover both Western and Eastern traditions, from one of the world’s most eminent thinkers

 


Dracula: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Bram Stoker, Ruben Toledo (Illustrator) Cover Image
By Bram Stoker, Ruben Toledo (Illustrator)
$17.00
ISBN: 9780143106166
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Published: Penguin Classics - November 30th, 2010

The acclaimed Couture Classics with cover designs by Ruben Toledo have become collector's items in the worlds of literature, fashion, design, and popular culture.


Bunnicula: 40th Anniversary Edition (Bunnicula and Friends) By James Howe, Deborah Howe, Alan Daniel (Illustrator) Cover Image
By James Howe, Deborah Howe, Alan Daniel (Illustrator)
$10.99
ISBN: 9781534435933
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Published: Atheneum Books for Young Readers - May 21st, 2019

Bunnicula rules!” —Dav Pilkey, creator of the Captain Underpants series

Celebrate the fortieth anniversary of the fluffy and fearsome classic Bunnicula with this pocket-sized edition, perfect for accompanying readers on all their mischievous adventures.


Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The cult classic that inspired Dracula By Sheridan Le Fanu Cover Image
$18.95
ISBN: 9781782275848
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Published: Pushkin Press - September 7th, 2021

A beautifully produced edition of the ORIGINAL vampire story — predating Dracula by more than 25 years — with a stunning iconic cover + thoughtful design and layout to ensure the most seductive reading experience...


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Demons (Vintage Classics) By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translated by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by) Cover Image
By Fyodor Dostoevsky, Richard Pevear (Translated by), Larissa Volokhonsky (Translated by)
$20.00
ISBN: 9780679734512
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Published: Vintage - August 1st, 1995

Inspired by the true story of a political murder that horried Russians in 1869, Fyodor Dostoevsky conceived of Demons as a "novel-pamphlet" in which he would say everything about the plague of materialist ideology that he saw infecting his native land. What emerged was a prophetic and ferociously funny masterpiece of ideology and murder in pre-revolutionary Russia.


The Odyssey By Homer, Emily Wilson (Translated by) Cover Image
By Homer, Emily Wilson (Translated by)
$18.95
ISBN: 9780393356250
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - November 6th, 2018

A New York Times Notable Book of 2018

"Wilson’s language is fresh, unpretentious and lean…It is rare to find a translation that is at once so effortlessly easy to read and so rigorously considered." —Madeline Miller, author of Circe


The Odyssey: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) By Homer, Robert Fagles (Translated by), Bernard Knox (Introduction by), Bernard Knox (Notes by) Cover Image
By Homer, Robert Fagles (Translated by), Bernard Knox (Introduction by), Bernard Knox (Notes by)
$19.00
ISBN: 9780140268867
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Published: Penguin Classics - November 1st, 1997

The great epic of Western literature, translated by the acclaimed classicist Robert Fagles

A Penguin Classic

 


Pale Fire (Vintage International) By Vladimir Nabokov Cover Image
$17.00
ISBN: 9780679723424
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Published: Vintage - April 23rd, 1989

A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century, the acclaimed author of Lolita.


In Search of Lost Time Volume I Swann's Way (Modern Library Classics) By Marcel Proust, Richard Howard (Introduction by), C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translated by), Terence Kilmartin (Translated by), D.J. Enright (Revised by) Cover Image
By Marcel Proust, Richard Howard (Introduction by), C.K. Scott Moncrieff (Translated by), Terence Kilmartin (Translated by), D.J. Enright (Revised by)
$18.00
ISBN: 9780375751547
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Published: Modern Library - June 23rd, 1998

In Swann’s Way, the themes of Proust’s masterpiece are introduced, and the narrator’s childhood in Paris and Combray is recalled, most memorably in the evocation of the famous maternal good-night kiss.


The Inferno By Dante, Robert Hollander (Translated by), Jean Hollander (Translated by) Cover Image
By Dante, Robert Hollander (Translated by), Jean Hollander (Translated by)
$19.00
ISBN: 9780385496988
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Published: Anchor - January 8th, 2002

“Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring" translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literaturefrom a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet.


Beowulf By Seamus Heaney (Editor) Cover Image
By Seamus Heaney (Editor)
$15.95
ISBN: 9780393320978
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Published: W. W. Norton & Company - February 17th, 2001

New York Times bestseller and winner of the Costa Book Award.


Beowulf: A New Translation By Maria Dahvana Headley Cover Image
$16.00
ISBN: 9780374110031
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Published: MCD x FSG Originals - August 25th, 2020

Named one of the Best Poetry Books of 2021 by The Guardian

Longlisted for the 2021 National Translation Award in Poetry. Picked for Kirkus Reviews’ Best Fiction in Translation of 2020. Named a Book of the Year by NPR, Vox, and The New Statesman. Picked for Loyalty Books’ Holiday List.


Experience the Star Wars saga reimagined as an Elizabethan drama penned by William Shakespeare himself, complete with authentic meter and verse, and theatrical monologues and dialogue by everyone from Darth Vader to R2D2.