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  • The Name of the Rose

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by William Weaver, Richard Dixon ...
    Now available in a deluxe edition featuring never-before-seen illustrations by the author: the beloved internationally bestselling historical mystery about a brilliant monk called upon to solve a series of baffling murders in a fourteenth-century Italian abbey“Explodes with pyrotechnic inventions, literally as well as figuratively. Hold on till the end.” —New York Times“Whether you're into ... Read more

    $11.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Travels in Hyperreality

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    A "scintillating collection" of essays on Disneyland, medieval times, and much more, from the author of Foucault's Pendulum (Los Angeles Times).Collected here are some of Umberto Eco's finest popular essays, recording the incisive and surprisingly entertaining observations of his restless intellectual mind. As the author puts it in the preface to the second edition: "In these pages, I try to ... Read more

    Was $12.99 USD Now $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Love & Profanity

    A Collection of True, Tortured, Wild, Hilarious, Concise, and Intense Tales of Teenage Life

    by Steve Brezenoff, Rachael Hanel, Geoff Herbach, Kasandra Duthie, Anna Vodicka, Sarah Childers, Alicia Catt, Clint Edwards, Laurie Edwards, Carrie Mesrobian, Anika Fajardo, Esther Porter, Pete Hautman, Patrick Hueller, Trisha Speed Shaskan, Joey Franklin, Kyra Anderson, Joseph Bruchac, Natalie Singer-Velush, Kwame Alexander, Dayna Evans, Kim Lozano, Alexis Wiggins, Tom Moran, Adam Rex, Aaron Brown, William Weaver, Patti Kim, Alison McGhee, Da Chen, Jackie Buckle, Jessica Gunderson, Melissa Brandt, Jenna Scarbrough, Andrew Gottlieb, Rebecca Stanborough, Melissa Cistaro, Melody Heide, Kara Balcerzak, Jon Scieszka, Heather Sellers, Margaret MacInnis, Kyle Minor ...
    Love & Profanity features more than forty brief, brilliant, and unforgettable true stories from writers both renowned and on the rise. Discover strange and surprising scenes of people coming of age amidst the everyday intensity of teenage life. Witness transformative moments arising from the mundane. Behold the young adult in full splendor and horror, bursting with love and profanity. ... Read more

    $19.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Serendipities

    Language and Lunacy

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    Series series Italian Academy Lectures
    Best-selling author Umberto Eco's latest work unlocks the riddles of history in an exploration of the "linguistics of the lunatic," stories told by scholars, scientists, poets, fanatics, and ordinary people in order to make sense of the world. Exploring the "Force of the False," Eco uncovers layers of mistakes that have shaped human history, such as Columbus's assumption that the world was much ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • Zeno's Conscience

    by Italo Svevo, Elizabeth Hardwick ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    Series series Vintage International
    Long hailed as a seminal work of modernism in the tradition of Joyce and Kafka, and now available in a supple new English translation, Italo Svevo’s charming and splendidly idiosyncratic novel conducts readers deep into one hilariously hyperactive and endlessly self-deluding mind. The mind in question belongs to Zeno Cosini, a neurotic Italian businessman who is writing his confessions at the ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Sunday Woman

    by Carlo Fruttero, Franco Lucentini ...
    Translated by William Weaver ...
    Part whodunit, part satire of Turin’s ruling class, this lively and incisive detective novel by a beloved Italian literary duo navigates through the many layers of Turinese society, from the high to the low to the dubious.Carlo Fruttero and Franco Lucentini were a pair of legendary Italian writers widely celebrated as pioneers of modern crime fiction. The Sunday Woman was the first detective novel ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

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  • Boredom

    Translated by Angus Davidson ...
    by Alberto Moravia ...
    The novels that the great Italian writer Alberto Moravia wrote in the years following World War II represent an extraordinary survey of the range of human behavior in a fragmented modern society. Boredom, the story of a failed artist and pampered son of a rich family who becomes dangerously attached to a young model, examines the complex relations between money, sex, and imperiled masculinity. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Matrix Analysis Framed Structures

    by William Weaver, James M. Gere ...
    Matrix analysis of structures is a vital subject to every structural analyst, whether working in aero-astro, civil, or mechanical engineering. It provides a comprehensive approach to the analysis of a wide variety of structural types, and therefore offers a major advantage over traditional metho~ which often differ for each type of structure. The matrix approach also provides an efficient means of ... Read more

    $143.99 USD

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    If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Narrated by Jefferson Mays ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 59 min

    "You are about to begin reading Italo Calvino's new novel … Relax. Concentrate. Dispel every other thought. Let the world around you fade."—from If on a Winter's Night a TravelerItalo Calvino's stunning classic imagines a novel capable of endless possibilities in an intricately crafted, spellbinding story about writing and reading.If on a Winter's Night a Traveler is a feat of striking ingenuity ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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    Baudolino

    by Umberto Eco ...
    Narrated by George Guidall ...

    Unabridged

    18 hours 53 min

    The author of the international sensation The Name of the Rose returns to the Middle Ages in this beguiling tale of history, myth, and invention.It is April 1204, and Constantinople, the splendid capital of the Byzantine Empire, is being sacked and burned by the knights of the Fourth Crusade. Amid the carnage and confusion, one Baudolino saves a historian and high court official from certain death ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

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    Pharsalia (Unabridged)

    by Lucan Lucan ...
    Narrated by Arie Goodman, Robert Vanos, William Weaver ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 19 min

    In the tumultuous aftermath of Caesar's assassination, Rome is torn apart by civil war. Pharsalia, an epic poem by Lucan, transports readers to the heart of this conflict, where the fate of the empire hangs in the balance. Follow the rise and fall of Pompey and Caesar, two legendary generals whose rivalry ignites a bloody struggle that will forever alter the course of history. Witness the horrors ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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    The Baron in the Trees

    by Italo Calvino ...
    Narrated by Jefferson Mays ...

    Unabridged

    8 hours 47 min

    A landmark new translation of a Calvino classic, a whimsical, spirited novel that imagines a life lived entirely on its own termsCosimo di Rondó, a young Italian nobleman of the eighteenth century, rebels against his parents by climbing into the trees and remaining there for the rest of his life. He adapts efficiently to an existence in the forest canopy—he hunts, sows crops, plays games with ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook