Plume imprint: 843 books
by Deborah Wright
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2008
Who would you date if you had a time machine?
Lucy’s love life needs a boost. When she isn’t flirting with the gorgeous guy at the newsstand, she’s daydreaming about torrid affairs with Lord Byron and George Clooney—anyone but her boyfriend Anthony. So she does what any sensible woman...
The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten
100 Experiments for the Armchair Philosopher
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2006
Perfect for gifting to lovers of philosophy or mining intelligent ice-breaker topics for your next party, The Pig That Wants to Be Eaten offers one hundred philosophical puzzles that stimulate thought on a host of moral, social, and personal dilemmas. Taking examples from sources as diverse as Plato...
The House on Teacher's Lane
A Memoir of Home, Healing, and Love's Hardest Questions
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2010
The bestselling author of Riding the Bus with My Sister shares an illuminating and beautifully woven memoir about the unexpected ways a home renovation can repair a heart.
When Rachel Simon and her architect husband begin to renovate their house on Teacher's Lane, she braces herself for the...
Writers Between the Covers
The Scandalous Romantic Lives of Legendary Literary Casanovas, Coquettes, and Cads
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2013
What happened off the page was often a lot spicier than what was written on it...
Why did Norman Mailer stab his second wife at a party? Who was Edith Wharton’s secret transatlantic lover? What motivated Anaïs Nin to become a bigamist?
Writers Between the Covers rips the sheets off...
Comics for a Strange World
A Book of Poorly Drawn Lines
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
**"One of the funniest books I've read this year."
—Boing Boing
Absurd comics for our absurd times, from the artist behind the wildly popular webcomic Poorly Drawn Lines.**
In his follow up to the New York Times bestselling Poorly Drawn Lines, beloved webcomic artist Reza Farazmand...
Drek!
The Real Yiddish Your Bubbe Never Taught You
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
One doesn't have to be Jewish to recognize the words that have made their way into every fold of popular language: Chutzpah, Mensch, Tokhes, Mishmash, Nudge, Shtick, Schmaltzy, Schlep, Icky, and so on. Then there are phrases whose meaning and syntax are borrowed from Yiddish: "bite your tongue", "drop...
The Tao
The Living Wisdom Series
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2003
The Tao Te Ching is one of the most influential philosophies in the Eastern world. As relevant now as it was 2,300 years ago, the ageless wisdom of the Tao offers profound guidance and shows readers how to seek contentment. In The Tao, Mark Forstater reinterprets and illuminates these mysterious ancient...
Cancer As a Turning Point
A Handbook for People with Cancer, Their Families, and Health Professionals
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 1994
Psychotherapist Lawrence LeShan has worked with cancer patients for more than thirty-five years and his research has led people with cancer to find new, effective ways to fight for their lives. He has put his findings--full of meaning and purpose--into this revised edition that shows how psychological...
by John Burnett
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2003
While sailing alone one night in the shipping lanes across one of the busiest waterways in the world, John Burnett was attacked by pirates. Through sheer ingenuity and a little bit of luck, he survived, and his shocking firsthand experience became the inspiration for Dangerous Waters.
Today's...
The Book of Hygge
The Danish Art of Contentment, Comfort, and Connection
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
**"One of the best guides to creating a more socially connected and rewarding life."—Shelf Awareness
Hygge (hoo-gah) is a Danish word but a universal feeling of being warm, safe, comforted, and sheltered—an experience of belonging to the moment and to each other. When life gets hectic,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2007
A gripping, emotional account of the worst school shooting in United States history, told by those who lived through it
Monday, April 16, 2007 started like any other Monday at Virginia Tech, with professors and students preparing for another busy week of classes. However, word quickly circulated...
No! I Don't Want to Join a Book Club
Diary of a Sixtieth Year
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2008
Read Virginia Ironside's posts on the Penguin Blog.
A screamingly funny and poignant story about embracing life beyond middle age
Marie Sharp is heading toward sixty and is just fine with it. She’s already had plenty of excitement in her life: sex and drugs in the freewheeling sixties,...
Yearn
Tales of Lust and Longing
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2013
Boundary-pushing erotica for readers eager to move beyond Fifty Shades of Gray
Tobsha Learner has won international acclaim for her deeply atmospheric and lyrical brand of erotic fiction. In Yearn, the author of Quiver and Tremble continues to probe the complexities of desire, obsession, and lust...
Twentysomething
Why Do Young Adults Seem Stuck?
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2012
A mother-daughter writing team reports on what's really up with kids today
Science writer Robin Marantz Henig and her daughter, journalist Samantha Henig, offer a smart, comprehensive look at what it's really like to be twentysomething—and to what extent it’s different for Millennials than...