Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
by Hilton Als
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019
"This book will change you." --Chicago Tribune
White Girls is about, among other things, blackness, queerness, movies, Brooklyn, love (and the loss of love), AIDS, fashion, Basquiat, Capote, philosophy, porn, Eminem, Louise Brooks, and Michael Jackson. Freewheeling and dazzling, tender...
The Art of Character
Creating Memorable Characters for Fiction, Film, and TV
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2013
Former private investigator and New York Times notable author David Corbett offers a unique and indispensable toolkit for creating characters that come vividly to life on the page and linger in memory. Corbett provides an inventive, inspiring, and vastly entertaining blueprint to all the elements...
Miracles
What They Are, Why They Happen, and How They Can Change Your Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
The #1 bestselling author of Bonhoeffer and Martin Luther explores miracles in an inspiring response to the “New Atheists”
Not since C. S. Lewis in 1947 has an author of Eric Metaxas’s stature undertaken a major exploration of the phenomenon of miracles. In this groundbreaking work, Metaxas...
by William Trevor
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1993
**A collection of short stories from celebrated author William Trevor in which he shines a light on the day-to-day life of Ireland and its citizens. **
From his debut collection, “The Day We Got Drunk on Cake,” published in 1968, to “Family Sins” (1990), William Trevor has crafted...
by John Hodgman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
In the great tradition of the American almanac, The Areas of My Expertise is a brilliant and hilarious compendium of handy reference tables, fascinating trivia, and sage wisdom on all topics large and small. Although bestsellers such as Poor Richard’s Almanack and The Book of Lists were certainly...
by John Hodgman
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2012
John Hodgman—bestselling author, The Daily Show's "Resident Expert," minor television celebrity, and deranged millionaire—brings us the third and final installment in his trilogy of Complete World Knowledge.
In 2005, Dutton published The Areas of My Expertise, a handy little book of Complete...
The Way of the Knife
The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
A Pulitzer Prize–winning reporter’s riveting account of the transformation of the CIA and America’s special operations forces into man-hunting and killing machines in the world’s dark spaces: the new American way of war
The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade...
Sovereign
A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
The third Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery by C. J. Sansom, the bestselling author of Winter in Madrid and Dominion
C. J . Sansom has garnered a wider audience and increased critical praise with each new novel published. His first book in the Matthew Shardlake series, Dissolution, was selected...
Postwar
A History of Europe Since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2006
**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the Council on Foreign Relations Arthur Ross Book Award
One of the New York Times'Ten Best Books of the Year**
Almost a decade in the making, this much-anticipated grand history of postwar Europe from one of the world's most esteemed...
Death in Sicily
The First Three Novels in the Inspector Montalbano Series--The Shape of Water; The Terra-Cotta Dog; The Snack Thief
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
Collected in one volume—the first three books in the bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series
**“You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven’t read him yet. Each novel in this wholly addictive, entirely magical series, set in Sicily and starring a detective unlike any other in...
The Stuff of Thought
Language as a Window into Human Nature
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2007
**This New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now.
"Curious, inventive, fearless, naughty."
--The New York Times Book Review**
Bestselling author...
Building the Great Society
Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018
**The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform, to Medicare...
Cry Havoc!
The Crooked Road to Civil War, 1861
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
A "compact, engrossing narrative"* that vividly reimagines the events that led to the outbreak of the Civil War
What separates historian Nelson D. Lankford's engaging examination of the causes of the Civil War from other books on the subject is its willingness to consider the alternative...
Fateful Choices
Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2007
The newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-volume portrait of Hitler, Fateful Choices puts Ian Kershaw?s analytical and storytelling gifts on dazzling display. From May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world?s six major powers made a series of...