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by Kim Man-jung, Heinz Insu Fenkl
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2019
**Korea’s most prized literary masterpiece: a Buddhist journey questioning the illusions of human life—presented in a vivid new translation by PEN/Hemingway finalist Heinz Insu Fenkl
*Named one of the year's most anticipated books by The New York Times, The Millions, and i09***
Often...
by H. T. Tsiang, Floyd Cheung, Floyd Cheung
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A subversively comic, genre-bending satire of bourgeois life by an essential Chinese American voice
A Penguin Classic
It's Depression-era New York, and Mr. Nut, an oblivious American everyman, wants to strike it rich, even if at the moment he's unemployed, with no job prospects in sight....
On Slavery and Abolitionism
Essays and Letters
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2015
A collection of historic writings from the slave-owner-turned-abolitionist sisters portrayed in Sue Monk Kidd’s novel The Invention of Wings
Sarah and Angelina Grimké’s portrayal in Sue Monk Kidd’s latest novel, The Invention of Wings, has brought much-deserved new attention to these...
Inside Villawood: Penguin Special
How I managed a detention centre
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
When ordinary bloke Peter Mitchell took what he hoped would be a quiet public service job in the Department of Immigration in 1990, he couldn't imagine he would end up as manager of the infamous Villawood Detention Centre.
The detention of asylum seekers and illegal immigrants remains one of...
A Wary Embrace: A Lowy Institute Paper: Penguin Special
What the China-Russia relationship means for the world
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2017
?With Western countries consumed by domestic problems, will it be China and Russia that now define the rules of global politics?
In a disorderly world, each has become increasingly assertive, and their partnership has emerged from relative obscurity to acquire a new prominence. Yet appearances...
by Paul French
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2017
Saturday, August 14, 1937 - that summer Shanghai was expecting to be hit by a typhoon of 'violent intensity'. The typhoon passed, but what did strike Shanghai was a man-made typhoon of bombs and shrapnel that brought aerial death and destruction such as no city had ever seen before. The clock outside...
by Fiona Farrell
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Fiona Farrell's first novel - always moving, often hilarious - is a breathtakingly accomplished debut. It presents a head-on confrontation with a New Zealand psyche rarely found in history books. Skinny Louie, daughter of Shanghai Lil, has a baby in the Begonia House on the day of the royal visit....
by Younghill Kang, Sunyoung Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
**"A wonderfully resplendent evocation of a newcomer's America" (Chang-rae Lee, author of Native Speaker) by the father of Korean American literature
A Penguin Classic**
Having fled Japanese-occupied Korea for the gleaming promise of the United States with nothing but four dollars and...
A Diary of The Lady
My First Year As Editor
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2010
Rachel Johnson takes on the challenge of saving The Lady, Britain's oldest women's weekly, in her hilarious diary, A Diary of The Lady: My First Year and a Half as Editor.
'The whole place seemed completely bonkers: dusty, tatty, disorganized and impossibly old-fashioned, set in an age of doilies...
Behind the Scenes
or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2005
Originally published in 1868—when it was attacked as an “indecent book” authored by a “traitorous eavesdropper”—Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom...
The Last Days of Dorothy Parker
The Extraordinary Lives of Dorothy Parker and Lillian Hellman and How Death Can Be Hell on Friendship (A Penguin Classics Special)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Dorothy Parker biographer Marion Meade shares insight into the last days in the life of Dorothy Parker—the horrible and the hilarious—including her colorful friendship with Lillian Hellman, and the bizarre afterlife of Parker’s remains from a file cabinet on Wall Street to a small burial site...
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
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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...