Plume imprint: 843 books
by Terry Lenzner
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
The Los Angeles Times once called investigative lawyer Terry Lenzner “one of the most powerful and dreaded private investigators in the world.” In his fifty-year career, Lenzner has worked with politicians, celebrities, governments, and corporations worldwide; with a steadfast commitment to the...
Top Secret Recipes--Sodas, Smoothies, Spirits, & Shakes
Creating Cool Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Drinks
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2002
#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series!
Todd Wilbur shares his best-kept secrets for making knockoffs of your favorite drinks-right in your own kitchen and without spending a lot of money. Readers can re-create the delicious taste of America's best-loved brand-name soft drinks, beverages,...
More Top Secret Recipes
More Fabulous Kitchen Clones of America's Favorite Brand-Name Foods
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1994
#1 bestselling Top Secret Recipes series with more than 4 million books sold!
Nabisco Oreo Cookies... J&J Super Pretzels... Dunkin' Donuts... Little Caesar's Crazy Bread... These are some of America's greatest food inventions. Now, thanks to intrepid kitchen sleuth Todd Wilbur, you can...
by Barbara Pym
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1992
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 1992
Shortlisted for the 1977 Booker Prize
This is the story of four people in late middle-age - Edwin, Norman, Letty and Marcia - whose chief point of contact is that they work in the same office and they suffer the same problem - loneliness. Lovingly, poignantly, satirically and with much humour,...
That's What She Said
The Most Versatile Joke on Earth
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
The perfect punch line for all the double entendres in everyday life.
With the help of The Office, TWSS-or "That's what she said"-has quickly become the hottest joke of the twenty-first century. Now,in a book exploding with laughs, Justin Wishne and Bryan Nicolas, founders of TWSSstories.com,...
101 Ways to Flirt
How to Get More Dates and Meet Your Mate
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1997
Since the publication of her first book, How to Attract Anyone, Anytime, Anyplace, love guru Susan Rabin has heard from hundreds of people who have used her innovative flirting techniques to enhance their lives. In this delightfully instructive guide, she draws on their fascinating front-line experiences,...
Building Great Sentences
How to Write the Kinds of Sentences You Love to Read
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Based on the bestselling series from The Great Courses, Building Great Sentences celebrates the sheer joy of language—and will forever change the way you read and write.
Great writing begins with the sentence. Whether it’s two words (“Jesus wept.”) or William Faulkner’s 1,287-word...
The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends
A Very Trippy Miscellany
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2008
Read Adriano Sack's posts on the Penguin Blog.
“Curiouser and curiouser” —fun and fascinating facts from the world of drugs.
Following in the tradition of The Ultimate Book of Useless Information, The Curious World of Drugs and Their Friends is a wry potpourri of interesting information...
Dogged Pursuit
How a Rescue Dog Rescued Me
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2009
Read Robert Rodi's posts on the Penguin Blog.
"A charming, hilarious look at a little-documented world." -- People
In dog years, Robert Rodi is 350. Age, however, couldn't possibly have prepared him for his experience with canine agility-the athletic cousin to best-of-breed...
It's Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump
And Other Life Lessons I Learned from Dogs
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2006
A charming and hilarious New York Times bestseller about the enduring wisdom of dogs, from the host of the enormously popular National Dog Show
It’s Okay to Miss the Bed on the First Jump is more than a mere celebration of man’s best friend. In this lighthearted exploration of how and why...
by Leigh Stein
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 2, 2016
"[A] thoughtful and compelling elegy to a troubled man, a broken love, and a broken dream of the west."—Leslie Jamison, New York Times bestselling author of The Empathy Exams
An MSN Best Book of 2016
Set against the stark and surreal landscape of New Mexico, Land of Enchantment...
by Melissa Rossi
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
The What Every American Should Know series returns with a timely guide to the region Americans need to understand the most (and know the least)
The latest edition of Melissa Rossi's popular What Every American Should Know series gives a crash course on one of the most complex and important...
Microthrills
True Stories from a Life of Small Highs
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2006
Raised in Manhattan by her overprotective sex-therapist mother (who wore “nine inches of shoulder pads”), Wendy Spero has always sought excitement in microthrills, the small, strange highs that give her life meaning—from finding a strip tease video of her grandmother to selling knives door-to-door....
The Universe in the Rearview Mirror
How Hidden Symmetries Shape Reality
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
“A great read… Goldberg is an excellent guide.”—Mario Livio, bestselling author of The Golden Ratio
Physicist Dave Goldberg speeds across space, time and everything in between showing that our elegant universe—from the Higgs boson to antimatter to the most massive group of galaxies—is...