Penguin Books imprint: 2816 books
George F. Kennan
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
**Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award
Selected by The New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of the Year**
Drawing on extensive interviews with George Kennan and exclusive access to his archives, an eminent scholar of the Cold War...
A Summer of Hummingbirds
Love, Art, and Scandal in the Intersecting Worlds of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain , Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Martin Johnson Heade
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2008
**The country's most noted writers, poets, and artists converge at a singular moment in American life, a great companion to fans of the film A Quiet Passion, starring Cynthia Nixon as Emily Dickinson. **
At the close of the Civil War, the lives of Emily Dickinson, Mark Twain, Harriet Beecher...
Shooting Ghosts
A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
**"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score
A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls
"The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS...
King of Spies
The Dark Reign of an American Spymaster
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
The New York Times bestselling author of Escape from Camp 14 returns with the untold story of one of the most powerful spies in American history, shedding new light on the U.S. role in the Korean War, and its legacy
In 1946, master sergeant Donald Nichols was repairing jeeps on the sleepy island...
Fighter Boys
The Battle of Britain, 1940
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2004
For 123 days in the summer of 1940, 3,000 youthful airmen in the Royal Air Force fought back against Hitler’s advancing forces with a heroism that astonished the world. Drawing on interviews with scores of surviving pilots as well as diaries and letters never before seen, military historian and...
Blood Aces
The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created Vegas Poker
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2014
The astonishing story of Benny Binion—a rip-roaring saga of murder, money, and the making of Las Vegas
Benny Binion was many things: a cowboy, a pioneering casino owner, a gangster, a killer, and founder of the hugely successful World Series of Poker.
Blood Aces tells the story of...
Now the Hell Will Start
One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2008
An epic saga of hubris , cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt of World War II. Herman Perry, besieged by the hardships of the Indo-Burmese jungle and the racism meted out by his white commanding officers, found solace in opium and marijuana....
The Maid and the Queen
The Secret History of Joan of Arc
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
“Attention, ‘Game of Thrones’ fans: The most enjoyably sensational aspects of medieval politics—double-crosses, ambushes, bizarre personal obsessions, lunacy and naked self-interest—are in abundant evidence in Nancy Goldstone's The Maid and the Queen.” (Laura Miller, Salon.com)
Politically...
Genghis Khan and the Quest for God
How the World's Greatest Conqueror Gave Us Religious Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
A landmark biography by the New York Times bestselling author of Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World that reveals how Genghis harnessed the power of religion to rule the largest empire the world has ever known.
Throughout history the world's greatest conquerors have made their mark...
Churchill and Orwell
The Fight for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
**A New York Times bestseller!
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017
A dual biography of Winston Churchill and George Orwell, who preserved democracy from the threats of authoritarianism, from the left and right alike.**
Both George Orwell and Winston Churchill came...
by Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
**The #1 New York Times Bestseller
A hilarious, thoughtful, and in-depth exploration of the pleasures and perils of modern romance from Aziz Ansari, the star of Master of None and one of this generation’s sharpest comedic voices**
At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey...
Frank Lloyd Wright
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2008
Pulitzer Prize?winning critic Ada Louise Huxtable?s biography of America?s greatest architect
Renowned architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable?s biography Frank Lloyd Wright looks at the architect and the man, from his tumultuous personal life to his long career as a master builder. Along the...
by Rebecca Solnit
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
A stimulating exploration of wandering, being lost, and the uses of the unknown from the author of Men Explain Things To Me
Written as a series of autobiographical essays, A Field Guide to Getting Lost draws on emblematic moments and relationships in Rebecca Solnit's life to explore issues...
Old Masters, New World
America's Raid on Europe's Great Pictures
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2008
A spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world
In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe's extraordinary Old Master pictures, causing a major migration of art across the Atlantic. Old Masters,...