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The Silent Oligarch
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2012
“A happy partner to the work of Deighton, Archer, and le Carré... carried on craftily understated prose that approaches cold poetry… a first-class novel." (Booklist, starred review)
Racing between London and Moscow, Kazakstan and the Caymans, The Silent Oligarch reveals a sinister...
Christmas in Absaroka County
Walt Longmire Christmas Stories (A Penguin Special)
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2012
It’s holiday season in Absaroka County and Sheriff Walt Longmire gets personal in this delightful collection of four short stories from New York Times–bestselling author Craig Johnson.
Full of Longmire’s dry wit and good heart, Christmas in Absaroka County is a holiday must-have for every...
Stalin
Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band...
Just Don't Fall
A Hilariously True Story of Childhood, Cancer, Amputation, Romantic Yearning, Truth, and Olympic Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
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One moment Josh Sundquist was your typical energetic and inquisitive nine year- old boy. The next, his entire life changed when he was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a particularly virulent cancer strain that would eventually claim Josh's left...
by Nancy Atherton
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Penguin's popular Aunt Dimity series returns and "loyal fans will be thrilled by every new revelation"(Kirkus Reviews)
Everyone's favorite paranormal detective is back in Nancy Atherton's thirteenth Aunt Dimity mystery-but this time Lori's supernatural confidante may not be the only...
Listening Is an Act of Love
A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
**A New York Times bestseller!
As heard on NPR, a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity**
StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects the most memorable stories from StoryCorps' collection, creating a moving portrait of American life.
The...
X Saves the World
How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
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In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s,...
The Silent Companions
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**“[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book.” *—*Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Laura Purcell's latest novel, The Poison Thread, is now out from Penguin!**
Some doors are locked for a reason.
When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge,...
Has Wal-Mart Found Its Soul?
A New Introduction to the National Bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect: A Penguin eSp ecial
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The behind-the-scenes report on how Wal-Mart has become arguably the most powerful force for environmental change anywhere.
In his national bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect, award-winning journalist Charles Fishman penetrated the store’s once impenetrable wall of secrecy to chart Wal-Mart’s...
Okinawa
The Last Battle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing...
The Lakotas and the Black Hills
The Struggle for Sacred Ground
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The story of the Lakota Sioux's loss of their spiritual homelands and their remarkable legal battle to regain it
The Lakota Indians counted among their number some of the most famous Native Americans, including Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse. Their homeland was in the magnificent Black Hills...
Middle Passages
African American Journeys to Africa, 1787-2005
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2007
Penguin announces a prestigious new series under presiding editor Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Many works of history deal with the journeys of blacks in bondage from Africa to the United States along the ?middle passage,? but there is also a rich and little examined history of African Americans...
Napoleon: Ascent to Power
A Selection from Napoleon's Wars: An International History (Penguin Tracks)
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
A panoramic chronicle of Napoleon Bonaparte’s rise to power—excerpted from celebrated historian Charles Esdaile’s masterwork Napoleon’s Wars
Napoleon’s Wars offers a definitive account of the violent conflicts that seethed within Europe from the end of the Peace of Amiens in 1803...
The Inheritance of Rome
Illuminating the Dark Ages 400-1000
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
**"The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere."--The Daily Telegraph (UK)
"A superlative work of historical scholarship."--Literary...