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Holding Our World Together
Ojibwe Women and the Survival of Community
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2012
A groundbreaking exploration of the remarkable women in Native American communities.
Too often ignored or underemphasized in favor of their male warrior counterparts, Native American women have played a more central role in guiding their nations than has ever been understood. Many Native communities...
In Defense of Food
An Eater's Manifesto
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2008
#1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of How to Change Your Mind, The Omnivore's Dilemma, and Food Rules
Food. There's plenty of it around, and we all love to eat it. So why should anyone need to defend it?
Because in the so-called Western diet, food has been replaced by nutrients,...
The Wasp That Brainwashed the Caterpillar
Evolution's Most Unbelievable Solutions to Life's Biggest Problems
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
**“A bizarre collection of evolution tales . . . the weirder, the better.” —Entertainment Weekly
A fascinating exploration of the awe-inspiring, unsettling ingenuity of evolution from Wired writer Matt Simon, author of Plight of the Living Dead (coming soon from Penguin Books)**
On...
by Eugene O'Neill
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2001
A selection of early work—including two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays—from Eugene O'Neill, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
A Penguin Classic
Included in this volume are seven one-act plays (The Moon of the Caribbees, Bound East for Cardiff, In the Zone, The Long Voyage Home,...
Bill Warrington's Last Chance
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2010
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A magnificent debut about a man's odyssey toward family redemption- with his granddaughter along for the ride
Bill Warrington realizes he has Alzheimer's and his lucid days are numbered. Determined to repair a lifetime...
The Golden Key
And Other Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm (A Penguin Special from Viking)
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
The perfect Halloween literary treat: three Brothers Grimm fairy tales retold by Philip Pullman, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Golden Compass
Here are three enchanting Brothers Grimm fairy tales retold by one of the most accomplished authors of our time on their 200th anniversary....
Metamorphosis and Other Stories
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2008
A brilliant new translation of Kafka’s best-known work, published for the 125th anniversary of his birth
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This collection of new translations brings together the small proportion of Kafka’s works that he thought worthy of publication. It includes Metamorphosis, his most famous work, an exploration...
The Canterbury Tales
A Retelling by Peter Ackroyd (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic.
by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Patrick O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
"A generation grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken", was how F. Scott Fitzgerald defined his age. Perhaps nowhere in American fiction is this statement better exemplified than in Fitzgerald's first two volumes of short fiction: Flappers and Philosophers and Tales...
The Divine Comedy
Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2013
This Everyman’s Library edition–containing in one volume all three cantos, Inferno, Purgatorio, and Paradiso–includes an introduction by Nobel Prize—winning poet Eugenio Montale, a chronology, notes, and a bibliography. Also included are forty-two drawings selected from Botticelli's marvelous...
by Georges Simenon
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
A battle of wills between Inspector Maigret and an adversary from the past. The twenty-fourth novel in the new Penguin Maigret series.
When a friend's brother-in-law is accused of murdering his daughter's lover, Maigret arrives in a small French town to help and is plunged into an atmosphere...
Edie Kiglatuk's Christmas
An Edie Kiglatuk Mystery (A Penguin Special)
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
A Christmas e-special from the CWA Dagger Award nominated author of White Heat and The Boy in the Snow
Days before Christmas in the vast Arctic landscape of Ellesmere Island and the sun hasn’t come up for nearly two months. A hunter comes upon a body in the snow: head crusted with frozen...
by Robert Wrigley
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1999
Described by the late James Dickey as "one of the finest new poets to come along in years," Robert Wrigley fulfills that early promise with this, his newest collection. Reign of Snakes is a book about desire, the soul's desire as much as the body's. As Jane Hirshfield said of Wrigley's previous book,...
by Rilla Askew
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1998
Few first novels garner the kind of powerful praise awarded this epic story that takes place on the dusty, remorseless Oklahoma frontier, where two brothers are deadlocked in a furious rivalry. Fayette is an enterprising schemer hoping to cash in on his brother's talents as a gunsmith. John, determined...