Penguin imprint: 8468 books
by Carlos Bulosan, Jeffrey Arellano Cabusao
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
A 1946 Filipino American social classic about the United States in the 1930s from the perspective of a Filipino migrant laborer who endures racial violence and struggles with the paradox of the American dream, with a foreword by novelist Elaine Castillo
Poet, essayist, novelist, fiction writer...
by Walt Whitman
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Language: Spanish
Release Date: April 27, 2017
Los mejores libros jamás escritos.
«Nunca ha habido otro comienzo que este,
ni más juventud que esta, ni más vejez que esta,
y nunca habrá más perfección que esta,
ni más cielo, ni más infierno que este.»
Walt Whitman fue el poeta de la democracia, de la naturaleza, del deísmo,...
by Lana Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
A Penguin Young Reader based on the popular Disney Jr. animated show Kate & Mim-Mim!
In this book perfect for beginning readers, Kate learns a valuable lesson when her best friend Mim-Mim makes a wish to change himself in the magical land of Mimiloo.
Death Comes for the Archbishop
Penguin Classics
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2018
'Quite simply a masterpiece ... I am completely bowled over by it; by the power of its writing, by the vividness of its scene painting and by the stories it tells' A. N. Wilson
'Where there is great love there are always miracles'
Two French priests have been sent to New Mexico to reawaken...
by Charlotte Randall
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2005
This brilliant, compelling and unusual novel - part mystery, part philosophy and part social history - is set in the early years of the 19th century. The narrator is an inmate in Bedlam, the London mental asylum, where he is chained to a wall in unspeakably disgusting conditions. Yet he is witty,...
The Age of Turbulence
Adventures in a New World
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2008
From the bestselling author of The Map and the Territory and Capitalism in America
The Age Of Turbulence is Alan Greenspan’s incomparable reckoning with the contemporary financial world, channeled through his own experiences working in the command room of the global economy longer and with...
by David Nasaw
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
**A New York Times bestseller!
The definitive account of the life of Andrew Carnegie**
Celebrated historian David Nasaw, whom The New York Times Book Review has called "a meticulous researcher and a cool analyst," brings new life to the story of one of America's most famous and successful...
by Jeff Pearce
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
The poor boy who made his fortune . . . not just once but twice.
Little Jeff Pearce grew up in a post-war Liverpool slum. His father lived the life of an affluent gentleman whilst his mother was forced to steal bread to feed her starving children. Life was tough and from the moment Jeff could...
by Tom Gjelten
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 21, 2012
Language: Spanish
Release Date: February 21, 2012
En 1862, Facundo Bacardí apostó por crear en Cuba una pequeña destilería de ron, una bebida que hasta entonces solo consumían marineros y obreros. Pronto el ron Bacardí se convertiría en la bebida favorita de la isla y quedaría ligado a la identidad cubana.
Recorriendo la historia de...
Gods and Kings
The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2015
More than two decades ago, John Galliano and Alexander McQueen arrived on the fashions scene when the business was in an artistic and economic rut. Both wanted to revolutionize fashion in a way no one had in decades. They shook the establishment out of its bourgeois, minimalist stupor with daring,...
Damaged Goods
The Rise and Fall of Sir Philip Green (The Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller)
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
DISCOVER THE SHOCKING TRUTH BEHIND THE BUSINESS AND LIFESTYLE OF SIR PHILIP GREEN
'Superb' Evening Standard
'From the glitzy parties to the threatening phone calls, the larger-than-life characters to the speedy downfall, this real-life tale of hubris has all the elements of a Greek tragedy'...
In Montmartre
Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2015
A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century
In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic...
River of Shadows
Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2004
**Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism and the Mark Lynton History Prize
Through the story of the pioneering photographer Eadweard Muybridge, the author of Men Explain Things to Me explores what it was about California in the late 19th-century that enabled it to become...
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay
Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
**New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012
"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author...