Plume imprint: 843 books
by Alexandra Potter
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 30, 2010
From the "fantastically funny" (Elle), "sharp" (Salon) author of the international bestseller Me and Mr. Darcy, an enchanting drive down the road not taken, in the most surprising company
At age thirty-one, American Charlotte Merryweather has spent ten years in London pursuing personal and...
The Darwin Awards II
Unnatural Selection
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2001
**The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift!
The Darwin Awards II: Unnatural Selection** brings together a fresh collection of the hapless, the heedless, and the just plain foolhardy among us. Salute the owner of an equipment training school who demonstrates...
by Wendy Northcutt
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2004
The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift!
Honoring those who improve our gene pool by inadvertently removing themselves fromit, The Darwin Awards III includes more than one hundred brand new, hilariously macabre mishaps and misadventures.
From...
by Susan Breen
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
Read Susan Breen's posts on the Penguin Blog.
A witty, honest, and hugely entertaining story for anyone who loves books, or has a difficult mother. And, let’s face it, that’s practically everybody . . .
On paper, Arabella Hicks seems more than qualified to teach her fiction class...
by George MacDonald Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
“Flashman strikes again… Wonderful… hilarious.”—USA Today
Lusting after a clergyman’s wife, smuggling opium to Hong Kong, coupling with an Amazonian woman river pirate, groveling before a ruthless warlord, and becoming the sexual plaything of the most beautiful and evil woman in...
The Debt
What America Owes to Blacks
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
Both an unflinching indictment of past wrongs and an impassioned call to America to educate its citizens about the history of Africa and its people, The Debt says in no uncertain terms what white America owes blacks—and what blacks owe themselves.
In this powerful and controversial book,...
Cosmos and Psyche
Intimations of a New World View
Language: English
Release Date: January 19, 2006
From a philosopher whose magisterial history of Western thought was praised by Joseph Campbell and Huston Smith comes a brilliant new book that traces the connection between cosmic cycles and archetypal patterns of human experience. Drawing on years of research and on thinkers from Plato to Jung,...
Unabrow
Misadventures of a Late Bloomer
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2015
In between highbrow and lowbrow, there’s Unabrow.
"Take the cast of ‘Bridesmaids,’ add a dash of pre-pubescent Eugene Levy, and you have the humor stylings of Una LaMarche."—Ann Imig, founder of Listen to Your Mother
As a girl, Una LaMarche was as smart as she was awkward. She...
The Dord, the Diglot, and an Avocado or Two
The Hidden Lives and Strange Origins of Common and Not-So-Common Words
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2007
From the creator of the popular A.Word.A.Day e-mail newsletter
A collection of some of the most interesting stories and fascinating origins behind more than 300 words, names, and terms by the founder of WordSmith.org.
Did you know:
There’s a word for the pleasant smell that accompanies...
Ask a Queer Chick
A Guide to Sex, Love, and Life for Girls Who Dig Girls
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2016
**“Fresh and authentic… [King-Miller] combine[s] the 'directness' of Dan Savage with the 'compassion and gentleness' of Cheryl Strayed.” –BITCH magazine
This guide to sex, love and life for girls who like girls is useful whether you’re a lady-dating veteran or still trying to come...
by George MacDonald Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2013
“A jolly read.”—The Wall Street Journal
The tenth installment in The Flashman Papers finds Captain Harry Flashman of Her Majesty's Secret Service in the antebellum South, where the irrepressible, globe-trotting Victorian becomes the target of blackmailing beauties.
Evading danger,...
Searching for Mary Poppins
Women Write About the Relationship Between Mothers and Nannies
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2007
With wit, sensitivity, and unflinching honesty, Searching for Mary Poppins brings together twenty-five of today’s leading woman writers—including Marisa de los Santos, Susan Cheever, Joyce Maynard, and Jacquelyn Mitchard—to explore the emotional minefield of mother-nanny relationships. From...
The Darwin Awards
Evolution in Action
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2002
The hilarious New York Times bestselling phenomenon and the perfect funny gift!
The Darwin Awards shares the stories of those human beings who improve the gene pool by removing themselves from it in a sublimely idiotic fashion.
Marvel at the thief who tries to steal live electrical wires....
The Truth About Children and Divorce
Dealing with the Emotions So You and Your Children Can Thrive
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Nationally recognized expert Robert Emery applies his twenty-five years of experience as a researcher, therapist, and mediator to offer parents a new road map to divorce. Dr. Emery shows how our powerful emotions and the way we handle them shape how we divorce—and whether our children suffer or...