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Get to Work
. . . And Get a Life, Before It's Too Late
Language: English
Release Date: June 8, 2006
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Does changing a toddler ’s diapers count as a fulfilling job? Is the glass ceiling that keeps women from advancing in their careers actually located in the home? In Get to Work, a book that instantly ignited a firestorm of debate, Hirshman...
Holding Our World Together
Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.
Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities...
In Defense of Food
An Eater's Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules
Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients,...
Bill Warrington's Last Chance
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
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A magnificent debut about a man's odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride
Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer's and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime...
by Georges Simenon
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A battle of wills between Inspector Maigret and an adversary from the past. The twenty-fourth novel in the new Penguin Maigret series.
When a friend's brother-in-law is accused of murdering his daughter's lover, Maigret arrives in a small French town to help and is plunged into an atmosphere...
Edie Kiglatuk's Christmas
An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery (A Penguin Special)
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A Christmas e-special from the CWA Dagger Award nominated author of White Heat and The Boy in the Snow
Days before Christmas in the vast Arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island and the sun hasn’t come up for nearly two months. A hunter comes upon a body in the snow: head crusted with frozen...
by Robert Wrigley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Described by the late James Dickey as "one of the finest new poets to come along in years," Robert Wrigley fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. Reign of Snakes is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As Jane Hirshfield said of Wrigley's previous book,...
by Rilla Askew
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Few first novels garner the kind of powerful praise awarded this epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalry. Fayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a gunsmith. John, determined...
The Breaking of Eggs
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
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The Breaking of Eggs is the story of the curmudgeonly Feliks Zhokovski, Polish by birth, Communist at heart, who at age 61 finds that just about everything he has based his life on is crumbling. Separated from him family as...
Stories in the Stars
An Atlas of Constellations
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
A beautifully illustrated Penguin Hardcover that invites readers to travel the night sky and discover the universe of stories in the stars
To those who can decipher it, the night sky is alive with gods and goddesses, animals and mythical creatures—an endless carnival played out in shining...
Bitch
One Tale from the Short Story Collection Switch Bitch (A Penguin Special)
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2012
"Dahl is too good a storyteller to become predictable." —The Daily Telegraph
“Bitch” is the last story in Switch Bitch, a collection of four tales of seduction and suspense told by the grand master of the short story, Roald Dahl. It features Dahl's notorious hedonist Oswald...
The Jackal's Share
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
"Terrific news for fans of first-class thrillers." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR.org
A murder in a Tehran hotel leaves the London art world spinning. The deceased, beloved at home as a proud dealer in antiquities, now stands accused of smuggling artifacts out of Iran for sale in the West....
Norse Greenland
A Controlled Experiment in Collapse--A Selection from Collapse (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2012
A timely and fascinating exploration of the collapse of prehistoric Norse society in Greenland—excerpted from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author Jared Diamond’s Collapse
This excerpt from the New York Times–bestselling book Collapse takes a timely and fascinating look at prehistoric...
A Nation Without Borders
The United States and Its World in an Age of Civil Wars, 1830-1910
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
**A Pulitzer Prize–winning historian’s "breathtakingly original" (Junot Diaz) reinterpretation of the eight decades surrounding the Civil War. "Capatious [and] buzzing with ideas." --The Boston Globe
Volume 3 in the Penguin History of the United States, edited by Eric Foner**
In...