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  • The Ingenious Language

    Nine Epic Reasons to Love Greek

    by Andrea Marcolongo ...
    Translated by Will Schutt ...
    An Italian journalist pleads her case for learning ancient Greek in modern times.For word nerds, language loons, and grammar geeks, an impassioned and informative literary leap into the wonders of the Greek language. Here are nine ways Greek can transform your relationship to time and to those around you, nine reflections on the language of Sappho, Plato, and Thucydides, and its relevance to our ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The History of the World in 12 Soccer Matches

    by Stefano Bizzotto ...
    Translated by Will Schutt ...
    An epic tale of war, revolution, economic crisis, and social transformation told through the story of twelve historic soccer games, with a gallery of unexpected heroes, thwarted tragedies, and stunning, world-changing results . . .Soccer has always intersected with history—sometimes during an anonymous match, sometimes in a major world final—because, from the sport's beginning in 1848, echoes of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Elena Ferrante's Key Words

    by Tiziana de Rogatis ...
    Translated by Will Schutt ...
    "Tackles novelist Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan quartet in terms of their 'creative forms of [female] resistance' . . . A richly layered study." — Kirkus Reviews"I greatly admire the work of Tiziana de Rogatis. She is a reader of deep refinement. Often I think that she knows my books better than I. So, I read her with admiration and remain silent." —Elena Ferrante, in the magazine, San Lian Sheng ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Beautiful

    by Massimo Cuomo ...
    Translated by Will Schutt ...
    This magical tale of love and rivalry between two brothers in Mexico is an "intense, engaging, psychologically deep [novel that] lives up to its title" ( Ex Libris).Miguel is beautiful. His beauty is so rare and miraculous that it has made him the object of cult-like devotion in the city. With a mix of admiration and disquiet, his older brother Santiago observes the prodigious effect that Miguel's ... Read more

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  • Blues for Outlaw Hearts and Old Whores

    by Massimo Carlotto ...
    Translated by Will Schutt ...
    Series Book 6 - The Alligator Mysteries
    This Alligator mystery, "a simple gangster revenge tale . . . gets more and more emotionally intense . . . Crime writing this good just has to be read" (NB Magazine).International secret police operations, drug trafficking, prostitution, and identity theft set the stage for the eternal struggle between Good and Evil.Acclaimed as one of today's best contemporary noir writers, Massimo Carlotto ... Read more

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  • The Golden Voice of Mussolini and Roosevelt

    Radio Journalist Lisa Sergio

    by Sandro Gerbi ...
    Translated by Will Schutt ...
    Series series History (R0)
    On the evening of May 9, 1936, a slim, elegant woman stood in Rome’s Piazza Venezia and – in perfect English – broadcast Mussolini’s famous speech on the conquest of Ethiopia. Her name was Lisa Sergio (1905–1989), her nickname “the golden voice” of Mussolini. A Florentine journalist, with American parents, she was fired from her job at the Propaganda Ministry the following summer, most likely for ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Brief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems

    by Fabio Pusterla ...
    Translated by Will Schutt ...
    Series series The Lockert Library of Poetry in Translation
    Award-winning new translations of a major contemporary Italian poetBrief Homage to Pluto and Other Poems collects forty-five poems by Fabio Pusterla, one of the most distinguished Italian-language poets writing today. Born in Switzerland and resident in Italy, Pusterla engages the pressing moral concerns of his age and excavates the hidden realities of our concrete world. These are poems of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    The Art of Running

    Learning to Run Like a Greek

    by Andrea Marcolongo ...
    Narrated by Mandi Kaye ...

    Unabridged

    5 hours 35 min

    Join Andrea Marcolongo, renowned classicist and one of today’s most original thinkers on antiquity, for an inspiring journey as she learns to run—and to live—like a Greek.Why do we run? To what end, all the effort and pain? Wherefore this love of muscle, speed, and sweat? The Greeks were the first to ask these questions, the first to suspend war, work, politics, to enjoy public celebrations of ... Read more

    $23.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The Colombian Mule

    by Massimo Carlotto ...
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    Series Book 1 - The Alligator Mysteries
    "Think The Sopranos meets Goodfellas—without the Americanized gloss . . . [A] not-for-the-faint-hearted novel by an Italian master" ( Reading Matters).In The Colombian Mule, the author called "the reigning king of Mediterranean noir" ( The Boston Phoenix) and "the best living Italian crime writer" ( Il Manifesto) brings to riveting life the story of Arías Cuevas, who sets in motion a chain of ... Read more

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  • The Master of Knots

    by Massimo Carlotto ...
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    Series Book 2 - The Alligator Mysteries
    "Dangerous, edgy noir crime fiction at its absolute finest and certain to be one of my books of the year" featuring PI Marco "The Alligator" Burrati (reviewingtheevidence.com).A woman has gone missing. Her husband, too ashamed to admit to the police that he and his wife were part of a ring of sexual adventurers that organized sadomasochistic orgies, turns instead to the Alligator. Marco Burrati ... Read more

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    Translated by Antony Shugaar ...
    Series Book 3 - The Alligator Mysteries
    PI Marco "the Alligator" Buratti returns in a thriller from the author whose "brand of crime writing is tougher than even the toughest American noir" (Josh Bazell, national bestselling author).Massimo Carlotto has been described as "the reigning king of Mediterranean noir" ( Boston Phoenix), "about as gritty as they come" ( The New York Times), and "the best living Italian crime writer" ( Il ... Read more

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  • Gang of Lovers

    by Massimo Carlotto ...
    Series Book 4 - The Alligator Mysteries
    PI Marco "the Alligator" Buratti returns in a "raucous, delicious ride" from the celebrated Italian crime writer and author of Bandit Love ( Cedar Rapids Gazette).Padua, Italy. An unremarkable man, a husband and father, disappears without a trace. After a few months of searching, the police send his file to the cold cases department to be thrown in with the files of other missing persons. One ... Read more

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