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The Riddle of the Sands
A Record of Secret Service A Penguin Enriched eBook Classic
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The Riddle of the Sands, a work of espionage and military strategy, centers on Davies and Carruthers, a minor official in the Foreign Office, and their suspicion of a German plot to invade England. Navigating a tiny sail boat up a sandbank-ridden waterway, Davies and Carruthers explore the shallow...
Irresistible
The Rise of Addictive Technology and the Business of Keeping Us Hooked
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2017
“One of the most mesmerizing and important books I’ve read in quite some time. Alter brilliantly illuminates the new obsessions that are controlling our lives and offers the tools we need to rescue our businesses, our families, and our sanity.” —Adam Grant, New York Times bestselling author...
Stalin
Paradoxes of Power, 1878-1928
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
A magnificent new biography that revolutionizes our understanding of Stalin and his world
It has the quality of myth: a poor cobbler’s son, a seminarian from an oppressed outer province of the Russian empire, reinvents himself as a top leader in a band of revolutionary zealots. When the band...
Just Don't Fall
A Hilariously True Story of Childhood, Cancer, Amputation, Romantic Yearning, Truth, and Olympic Greatness
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2010
Read Josh Sundquist's posts on the Penguin Blog.
One moment Josh Sundquist was your typical energetic and inquisitive nine year- old boy. The next, his entire life changed when he was diagnosed with Ewing's Sarcoma, a particularly virulent cancer strain that would eventually claim Josh's left...
The Death of King Arthur
The Immortal Legend (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation.
The names of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad, the sword of Excalibur, and the court of Camelot are as recognizable as any from the world of myth. Although many versions...
by Nancy Atherton
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2008
Penguin's popular Aunt Dimity series returns and "loyal fans will be thrilled by every new revelation"(Kirkus Reviews)
Everyone's favorite paranormal detective is back in Nancy Atherton's thirteenth Aunt Dimity mystery-but this time Lori's supernatural confidante may not be the only...
by M. L. Longworth
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2011
The first installment in the beloved, sumptuous mystery series set in Provence, featuring chief magistrate Antoine Verlaque and his old flame Marine Bonnet, who must team up to solve a pair of murders
The newest book in the Provençal Mystery series, The Secrets of the Bastide Blanche, is...
Listening Is an Act of Love
A Celebration of American Life from the StoryCorps Project
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2007
**A New York Times bestseller!
As heard on NPR, a wondrous nationwide celebration of our shared humanity**
StoryCorps founder and legendary radio producer Dave Isay selects the most memorable stories from StoryCorps' collection, creating a moving portrait of American life.
The...
Heart of Darkness
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In a novella which remains highly controversial to this day, Conrad explores the relations between Africa and Europe. On the surface, this is a horrifying tale of colonial exploitation. The narrator, Marlowe journeys on business deep into the heart of Africa. But there he encounters Kurtz, an idealist...
Alpine Giggle Week
How Dorothy Parker Set Out to Write the Great American Novel and Ended Up in a TB Colony Atop an Alpine Peak (A Penguin Classics Special)
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
A little known, rediscovered letter: an SOS from a woman trapped on a Swiss mountaintop in a TB colony with no idea how to escape—that woman being Dorothy Parker.
“Kids, I have started one thousand (1,000) letters to you, but they all through no will of mine got to sounding so gloomy...
X Saves the World
How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2008
Read Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog
In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive "manifesto for a generation that's never had much use for manifestos," Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the "Smells Like Teen Spirit"breakthrough of the early 1990s,...
The Silent Companions
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
**“[An] extraordinary, memorable and truly haunting book.” *—*Jojo Moyes, #1 New York Times bestselling author
Laura Purcell's latest novel, The Poison Thread, is now out from Penguin!**
Some doors are locked for a reason.
When Elsie married handsome young heir Rupert Bainbridge,...
Has Wal-Mart Found Its Soul?
A New Introduction to the National Bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect: A Penguin eSp ecial
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2011
The behind-the-scenes report on how Wal-Mart has become arguably the most powerful force for environmental change anywhere.
In his national bestseller The Wal-Mart Effect, award-winning journalist Charles Fishman penetrated the store’s once impenetrable wall of secrecy to chart Wal-Mart’s...
Okinawa
The Last Battle of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 1996
Penguin delivers you to the front lines of The Pacific Theater with the real-life stories behind the HBO miniseries.
Former Marine and Pacific War veteran Robert Leckie tells the story of the invasion of Okinawa, the closing battle of World War II. Leckie is a skilled military historian, mixing...