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What to Read When
The Books and Stories to Read with Your Child--and All the Best Times to Read Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2009
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The books to read aloud to children at the important moments in their lives.
In What to Read When, award-winning educator Pam Allyn celebrates the power of reading aloud with children. In many ways, books provide the first opportunity for children...
by Emiliano Ponzi
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2015
To celebrate 80 years of Penguin Books, a charming picture book that tells the imagined story of the penguin who waddled his way into history as the symbol of a beloved publisher
A lonely Antarctic penguin, dreaming of adventure, sets off on a long swim north. Arriving at last in London in 1935,...
Lord of the Flies
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
William Golding’s unforgettable classic of boyhood adventure and the savagery of humanity comes to Penguin Classics in a stunning Graphic Deluxe Edition with a new foreword by Lois Lowry
As provocative today as when it was first published in 1954, Lord of the Flies continues to ignite passionate...
by Geoffrey Chaucer, Nevill Coghill
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2003
Nevill Coghill’s masterly and vivid modern English verse translation with all the vigor and poetry of Chaucer’s fourteenth-century Middle English
A Penguin Classic
In The Canterbury Tales Chaucer created one of the great touchstones of English literature, a masterly collection of...
The Unraveling
An Update to The Gamble (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2010
In this timely supplement to his 2009 New York Times bestseller The Gamble, Thomas E. Ricks reveals how the Iraq war has changed and how the national conversation has shifted since the time of writing. This Penguin eSpecial offers new insights into the difficulties likely to confront the United States in Iraq in the coming year, from our most trusted expert on the conflict there.
by Jorge Amado
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
**A Brazilian Lord of the Flies, about a group of boys who live by their wits and daring in the slums of Bahia
A Penguin Classics**
They call themselves “Captains of the Sands,” a gang of orphans and runaways who live by their wits and daring in the torrid slums and sleazy back alleys...
Bad Money
The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
In his acclaimed book American Theocracy, Kevin Phillips warned of the perilous interaction of debt, financial recklessness, and the spiking cost (and growing scarcity) of oil- warnings that are proving to be frighteningly accurate. Now, in his most significant and timely book yet, Phillips takes...
by Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Chinua Achebe
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2012
**Barack Obama, via Facebook: “A compelling story of how the transformative events of history weigh on individual lives and relationships.”
The Nobel Prize–nominated Kenyan writer’s best-known novel**
Set in the wake of the Mau Mau rebellion and on the cusp of Kenya's independence...
by Jean Larteguy
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
Jean Lartéguy's unflinching sequel to The Centurions, a searing novel of modern warfare admired by military experts, with a foreword by General Stanley McChrystal
Based on the events of May 1958 in France and Algeria, The Praetorians picks up in the footsteps of The Centurions, which was called...
After the Fall
The Inexcusable Failure of American Finance: An Update to Bad Money (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2009
A fascinating up-to-date look at the roots of our financial crisis from the New York Times bestselling author Kevin Phillips Kevin Phillips’s Bad Money revealed the roots of the financial malignance that led to 2008’s devastating market meltdown, explaining how the financial sector hijacked the...
Political Tribes
Group Instinct and the Fate of Nations
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother, Yale Law School Professor Amy Chua offers a bold new prescription for reversing our foreign policy failures and overcoming our destructive political tribalism at home
Humans are tribal. We need to belong to groups. In many parts of...
by Jose Garcia Villa
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2008
The centennial edition of major Filipino writer José Garcia Villa's collected poetry
Known as the "Pope of Greenwich Village," José Garcia Villa had a special status as the only Asian poet among a group of modern literary giants in 1940s New York that included W. H. Auden, Tennessee...
How the Democrats Can Win by Leading America to a Better Future in 2010 and Beyond
An Update to The Audacity to Win (A Penguin Group eSpecial from Penguin Books)
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
Since David Plouffe helped design the plan that brought candidate Obama to the White House, the lessons of that plan have become only more relevant. Today, conservative forces led by figures like Sarah Palin and Glenn Beck threaten to derail the tremendous promise of Democrats’ recent gains, making...
by Minsoo Kang
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A new, definitive translation of thequintessential Korean classic: the Robin Hood story of a magical boy who joins a group of robber bandits and becomes a king
*Selected as a Best Book of the Year by NPR and The Washington Post*
The Story of Hong Gildong is arguably the single most important...