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Under the Harrow
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
**"A thriller for fans of The Girl on the Train and Gone Girl...[with] a striking, original voice all Berry’s own.” —The New York Times Book Review
Winner of the Edgar Award for Best First Novel
Named one of the "10 Best Mystery Books and Thrillers of the Year" by The Washington Post
Named...
The Lost Book of the Grail
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2017
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Bookman’s Tale comes a new novel about an obsessive bibliophile’s quest through time to discover a missing manuscript, the unknown history of an English Cathedral, and the secret of the Holy Grail
Arthur Prescott is happiest when surrounded...
Long Players
A Love Story in Eighteen Songs
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
**ARTFORUM Ten Best Books of 2018
“Sad, joyous, funny, heart-cracking: I can’t remember the last time I read a book that rendered such raw feeling with such intricate intelligence.” —Gayle Salamon, ARTFORUM
“A beautiful book. Deeply personal and yet entirely universal. . ....
Revolution on the Nile
A New Afterword to The Black Nile: A Penguin eSpecial
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
*Revolution on the Nile *is a new introduction to Dan Morrison's acclaimed work, The Black Nile.
Upon hearing the news of tenuous peace in Sudan, foreign correspondent Dan Morrison bought a plank-board boat, summoned a friend who'd never left America, and set out from Uganda, paddling the...
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire
The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2007
Read Rafe Esquith's posts on the Penguin Blog.
From one of America’s most celebrated educators, an inspiring guide to transforming every child’s education
In a Los Angeles neighborhood plagued by guns, gangs, and drugs, there is an exceptional classroom known as Room 56. The fifth...
Gang Leader for a Day
A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
**A New York Times Bestseller
Foreword by Stephen J. Dubner, coauthor of** Freakonomics
When first-year graduate student Sudhir Venkatesh walked into an abandoned building in one of Chicago’s most notorious housing projects, he hoped to find a few people willing to take a multiple-choice...
Passing Strange
A Gilded Age Tale of Love and Deception Across the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2009
Read Martha A. Sandweiss's posts on the Penguin Blog
The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved
Clarence King was a late nineteenth-century celebrity, a brilliant scientist and explorer once described by Secretary of State John Hay as "the...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2011
Penguin's yearly offering of outstanding essays and poetry on faith and spirituality.
Every year, the acclaimed Best Spiritual Writing series offers readers the opportunity to explore the most intriguing work on spirituality published in the past year. Featuring a splendid and varied selection,...
Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2010
Read Beth Hoffman's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.
Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom
Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother,...
by Wallace Stegner
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1990
From the “dean of Western writers” (The New York Times) and the Pulitzer Prize winning–author of Angle of Repose and Crossing to Safety, his National Book Award–winning novel
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A Penguin Classic**
Joe Allston is a retired literary agent who is, in his own words, "just killing...
The Road Not Taken
Finding America in the Poem Everyone Loves and Almost Everyone Gets Wrong
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
A cultural “biography” of Robert Frost’s beloved poem, arguably the most popular piece of literature written by an American
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood . . .” One hundred years after its first publication in August 1915, Robert Frost’s poem “The Road Not Taken” is so...
Gods and Soldiers
The Penguin Anthology of Contemporary African Writing
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2009
A one-of-a-kind collection showcasing the energy of new African literature
Coming at a time when Africa and African writers are in the midst of a remarkable renaissance, Gods and Soldiers captures the vitality and urgency of African writing today. With stories from northern Arabic-speaking...
The Piano Teacher
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2009
**"A rare and exquisite story . . . Transports you out of time, out of place, into a world you can feel on your very skin." —Elizabeth Gilbert
The New York Times bestseller
Janice Y.K. Lee's latest novel, The Expatriates, is now available from Penguin**
In the sweeping tradition...
The Dharma Bums
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 1971
Jack Kerouac’s classic novel about friendship, the search for meaning, and the allure of nature
First published in 1958, a year after On the Road put the Beat Generation on the map, The Dharma Bums stands as one of Jack Kerouac's most powerful and influential novels. The story focuses on...