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Arika Okrent Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Linguist, author of IN THE LAND OF INVENTED LANGUAGES and HIGHLY IRREGULAR ("I love everything about this book"-@GrammarGirl)

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Book Cover for: Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme--And Other Oddities of the English Language, Arika Okrent

Highly Irregular: Why Tough, Through, and Dough Don't Rhyme--And Other Oddities of the English Language

Arika Okrent
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An Interview with Arika Okrent, author of Highly Irregular via @LiteraryAshland https://t.co/L4ZVQIePCk

Paperback, 2024

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel
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The audiobook of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy, narrated by Ben Miles, was fantastic. It kept me company for a long time and I miss it.

Paperback, 2021

$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Wanderers, Kings, Merchants, Peggy Mohan

Wanderers, Kings, Merchants

Peggy Mohan
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Book#3 Wanderers, Kings, Merchants by Peggy Mohan. History of languages of India. Exactly what I was looking for. Having spent so much time on the history of language layering in English I wanted a full account of the process in a totally different environment

Hardcover, 2021

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Emissary, Yoko Tawada

The Emissary

Yoko Tawada
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Book#4 Yoko Tawada's The Emissary. Assigned to my high school kid so read it too. Not your typical future dystopia novel (of which I have had enough). Very gentle and love centered but gets under the skin

Paperback, 2018

$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Sea, the Sea: Booker Prize Winner

Iris Murdoch
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Next audio The Sea The Sea by Iris Murdoch. Amazing narration by @simvan really makes this strange book.

Paperback, 2001

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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