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Randa Jarrar
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• Author(s): Randa Jarrar • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom America to the Middle East and back again-- the sparkling story of one girl's childhood, by an exciting new voice ...
View full detailsThe Island at the End of the World
Sam Taylor
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• Author(s): Sam Taylor • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryA chilling post-apocalyptic tale of how far a father will go to protect his children?from the author of The Amnesiac In a world nea...
View full detailsAngler: The Cheney Vice Presidency
Barton Gellman
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• Author(s): Barton Gellman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American Government - Executive BranchThe landmark exposé of the most powerful and secretive vice president in American histo...
View full detailsLiberty
Garrison Keillor
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• Author(s): Garrison Keillor • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralJust in time for the Fourth of July, a firecracker of a Lake Wobegon novel from bestselling author and ra...
View full detailsDispatches from Juvenile Hall: Fixing a Failing System
John Aarons
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• Author(s): John Aarons • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: CriminologyA revolutionary book that offers a fresh, bold approach to confronting the juvenile crime epidemic With the rise of violent cri...
View full detailsHitler's Empire: How the Nazis Ruled Europe
Mark Mazower
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• Author(s): Mark Mazower • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralDraw ing on an unprecedented range and variety of original research, Hitler's Empi...
View full detailsMiral
Rula Jebreal
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• Author(s): Rula Jebreal • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiterarySoon to be a major motion picture from the award-winning director Julian Schnabel, starring Freida Pinto. WRITTEN BY ...
View full detailsIntroducing Aunt Dimity, Paranormal Detective: The First Two Books in the Beloved Series
Nancy Atherton
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• Author(s): Nancy Atherton • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Women SleuthsAn irresistible introduction to everyone's favorite bestselling cozy mystery series. W...
View full detailsThe Truth-Teller's Lie: A Zailer and Waterhouse Mystery
Sophie Hannah
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• Author(s): Sophie Hannah • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Thrillers - Suspense"A superbly creepy, twisty thriller" (The Times (London)) by the internationally best-selling author of Th...
View full detailsThe Book of Murder
Guillermo Martinez
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• Author(s): Guillermo Martinez • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralA chilling new tale of literary intrigue from the author of the international sensation The Oxford...
View full detailsDeaf Sentence
David Lodge
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• Author(s): David Lodge • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryThe subject of enthusiastic and widespread reviews, David Lodge's fourteenth work of fiction displays the humor and shre...
View full detailsThe Sacred Book of the Werewolf
Victor Pelevin
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• Author(s): Victor Pelevin • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryThe world's first Zen Buddhist paranormal romance?published to coincide with Halloween One of the most progressive wr...
View full detailsCity of Strangers
Ian MacKenzie
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• Author(s): Ian MacKenzie • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFaith, family, and the weight of history intersect in this remarkable debut from a rising literary talent A cold, gra...
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Adrian Matejka
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• Author(s): Adrian Matejka • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - African American & BlackSelected for the 2008 National Poetry Series by Kevin Young The poems in Adrian Matej...
View full detailsThe Girl from Foreign
Sadia Shepard
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• Author(s): Sadia Shepard • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsA search for shipwrecked ancestors, forgotten histories, and a sense of home Fascinating and intimate, The Girl from F...
View full detailsThe Convict's Sword: A Mystery of Eleventh-Century Japan
I. J. Parker
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• Author(s): I. J. Parker • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - HistoricalThe latest in the "terrifically imaginative" (The Wall Street Journal) Akitada mystery series brings ...
View full detailsLearning from the Cold War: Rebuilding America's Strategic Vision in the 21st Century
Jonathan Stevenson
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• Author(s): Jonathan Stevenson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: TerrorismAn ingenious look at the Cold War?and how it can help America move forward Adding a fresh perspective to the de...
View full detailsOf Parrots and People: The Sometimes Funny, Always Fascinating, and Often Catastrophic Collision of Two Intelligent Species
Mira Tweti
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• Author(s): Mira Tweti • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Essays & NarrativesThere are an estimated 50 million parrots in the United States today. Their intelligence and extraordinary...
View full detailsMr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It
Julia Keller
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• Author(s): Julia Keller • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Science & TechnologyA provocative look at the life and times of the man who created the original weapon of mass destruction Drawing o...
View full detailsGirl, Undressed: On Stripping in New York City
Ruth Fowler
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• Author(s): Ruth Fowler • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsA young British woman-broke and out of luck-does battle with Manhattan's underworld of dancers, drugs, and the sex indust...
View full detailsOnly a Theory: Evolution and the Battle for America's Soul
Kenneth R. Miller
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• Author(s): Kenneth R. Miller • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Philosophy & Social AspectsAn inspiring book about the power and the passion of science Few have weighed in on the na...
View full detailsLopsided: A Memoir
Meredith Norton
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• Author(s): Meredith Norton • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MemoirsBy the age of thirty -four, Meredith Norton had been a hymnal editor, art restorer, game-show producer, and a public school tea...
View full detailsDescent into Chaos: The U.S. and the Disaster in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia
Ahmed Rashid
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• Author(s): Ahmed Rashid • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - 21st CenturyThe classic account of America's experience in Afghanistan, explaining the rise of the Taliban in t...
View full detailsArt in America
Ron McLarty
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• Author(s): Ron McLarty • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"McLarty's storytelling skills shine in this ribald, riotously funny, but also poignant novel." --David Baldacci With hi...
View full detailsBlack Postcards: A Rock & Roll Romance
Dean Wareham
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• Author(s): Dean Wareham • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MusicA bewitching memoir about the lures, torments, and rewards of making and performing music in the indie rock world Dean Wareham's se...
View full detailsA Few Seconds of Panic: A Sportswriter Plays in the NFL
Stefan Fatsis
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• Author(s): Stefan Fatsis • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Football"An insightful and . . . amusing look at the inner workings of pro football" (The New York Times) from the bestselling...
View full detailsThe Liberal Hour: Washington and the Politics of Change in the 1960s
Robert Weisbrot
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• Author(s): Robert Weisbrot • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - 20th CenturyAn engaging be hind-the-scenes look at the lesser-known forces that fueled the profound social r...
View full detailsThe Religious Case Against Belief
James P. Carse
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• Author(s): James P. Carse • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ReligiousAn insightful explanation for why belief-not religion-keeps us in a perilous state of willful ignorance Through car...
View full detailsThe Ballad of Abu Ghraib
Philip Gourevitch
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• Author(s): Philip Gourevitch • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)The first full reckoning of what actually happened at Abu Ghraib prison-"one of...
View full detailsWhile America Aged: How Pension Debts Ruined General Motors, Stopped the NYC Subways, Bankrupted San Diego, and Loom as the Next Financial Crisis
Roger Lowenstein
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• Author(s): Roger Lowenstein • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Personal Finance - Retirement PlanningThe retirement crisis facing America-and the road map for a way out-from The New York...
View full detailsThe Legend of Colton H. Bryant
Alexandra Fuller
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• Author(s): Alexandra Fuller • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: HistoricalA heartrending story of the human spirit from the author of the bestselling Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight A...
View full detailsNow the Hell Will Start: One Soldier's Flight from the Greatest Manhunt of World WarII
Brendan I. Koerner
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• Author(s): Brendan I. Koerner • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MilitaryAn epic saga of hubris, cruelty, and redemption, Now the Hell Will Start tells the remarkable tale of the greatest manhunt ...
View full detailsLucky Everyday
Bapsy Jain
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• Author(s): Bapsy Jain • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryAn inspiring novel about a women named Lucky who is anything but . . . Forced to flee Bombay when her wealthy and charmin...
View full detailsA Place Called Canterbury: Tales of the New Old Age in America
Dudley Clendinen
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• Author(s): Dudley Clendinen • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: GerontologyAn "affectionate, touchingly empathetic" (Janet Maslin, The New York Times) look at old age in America today Welcome to Ca...
View full detailsWhy We're Liberals: A Handbook for Restoring America's Most Important Ideals
Eric Alterman
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• Author(s): Eric Alterman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismThe bestselling author and Newsweek columnist takes a characteristically i...
View full detailsIroquois Diplomacy on the Early American Frontier
Timothy J. Shannon
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• Author(s): Timothy J. Shannon • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Indigenous - GeneralThe newest addition to the Penguin Library of American Indian History explores the most influential N...
View full detailsManatee/Humanity
Anne Waldman
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• Author(s): Anne Waldman • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: American - GeneralA fascinating work from an internationally renowned poet Anne Waldman's new investigative hybrid-poem explores the nua...
View full detailsBlood Kin
Ceridwen Dovey
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• Author(s): Ceridwen Dovey • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: PoliticalRarely does a debut novel attract the sweeping critical acclaim of Ceridwen Dovey's Blood Kin. Shortlisted for two p...
View full detailsThe Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War
Frances Richey
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• Author(s): Frances Richey • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsA "heart-rending"(Anna Quindlen, Newsweek) memoir-in-verse that speaks to a mother's love for her son When Frances Ri...
View full detailsThe Fighting 69th: From Ground Zero to Baghdad
Sean Michael Flynn
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• Author(s): Sean Michael Flynn • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Military - United StatesOne of the most celebrated units in the military for more than a century, by 1990, New York City'...
View full detailsWinter in Madrid
C. J. Sansom
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• Author(s): C. J. Sansom • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralAwarded the CWA Diamond Dagger - the highest honor in British crime writing A #1 internationally bestsellin...
View full detailsTwenty Chickens for a Saddle: The Story of an African Childhood
Robyn Scott
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• Author(s): Robyn Scott • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MemoirsAn exquisitely rendered portrait of an African childhood from an astonishing new talent When Robyn Scott 's parents decide to uproo...
View full detailsChasing the Flame: One Man's Fight to Save the World
Samantha Power
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• Author(s): Samantha Power • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Social ActivistsNow a Netflix biopic, Sergio, with Narcos star Wagner Moura playing diplomat Sergio Vieira de Mello. "The bes...
View full detailsReappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century
Tony Judt
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• Author(s): Tony Judt • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Modern - 20th Century - General"Exhilarating . . . brave and forthright." --The New York Times Book Review "Perhaps the greatest s...
View full detailsThe Bin Ladens: An Arabian Family in the American Century
Steve Coll
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• Author(s): Steve Coll • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: PoliticalFrom the Pulitzer Prize-winning and bestselling author of Ghost Wars and The Achilles Trap "Riveting . . . The most psychologically detailed p...
View full detailsHere Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations
Clay Shirky
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• Author(s): Clay Shirky • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Management - General"A fascinating survey of the digital age . . . An eye-opening paean to possibility." --The Boston Globe "Mr....
View full detailsThe Meaning of Sunglasses: And a Guide to Almost All Things Fashionable
Hadley Freeman
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• Author(s): Hadley Freeman • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Beauty & Grooming - GeneralWith subscriptions nearing 1.2 million, Vogue magazine proves that if there's anything a fashionista enj...
View full detailsAll the Sad Young Literary Men
Keith Gessen
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• Author(s): Keith Gessen • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryBy the author of A Terrible Country and Raising Raffi, a novel of love, sadness, wasted youth, and literary and intelle...
View full detailsThe Deportees: and Other Stories
Roddy Doyle
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• Author(s): Roddy Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)Stories that take a new slant on the immigrant experience, from the Booker Prize-winning author of ...
View full detailsThe Accident Man
Tom Cain
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• Author(s): Tom Cain • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryBreathlessly paced, international in scope, and featuring one of the most intriguing heroes in recent fiction, Tom Cain's s...
View full detailsSonata for Miriam
Linda Olsson
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• Author(s): Linda Olsson • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryA haunting novel of loss, love, and human connection from the author of Astrid & Veronika Linda Olsson's first novel, Astrid...
View full detailsAmerican Indians and the Law
N. Bruce Duthu
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• Author(s): N. Bruce Duthu • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Indigenous - GeneralA perfect introduction to a vital subject very few Americans understand-the constitutional status of Amer...
View full detailsReturn to Dragon Mountain: Memories of a Late Ming Man
Jonathan D. Spence
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• Author(s): Jonathan D. Spence • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical"Splendid . . . One could not imagine a better subject than Zhan Dai for Spence." (The New Republic) Celebrated...
View full detailsThe Last Day: Wrath, Ruin, and Reason in the Great Lisbon Earthquake of 1755
Nicholas Shrady
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• Author(s): Nicholas Shrady • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Europe - SpainThe Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 was no run-of-the-mill misfortune-it was a watershed moment that shook the pillars of an i...
View full detailsMiss Julia Paints the Town
Ann B. Ross
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• Author(s): Ann B. Ross • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralThe inimitable Miss Julia is back and ready for a fight in her latest rollicking adventure. Don't miss Miss Ju...
View full detailsThe Lodger Shakespeare: His Life on Silver Street
Charles Nicholl
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• Author(s): Charles Nicholl • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Literary FiguresIn 1612, Shakespeare gave evidence in a court case at Westminster-and it is the only occasion on which his actual spok...
View full detailsCome to Think of It: Commentaries from National Public Radio's Senior News Analyst
Daniel Schorr
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• Author(s): Daniel Schorr • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: EssaysPeerless commentary on recent politics and history from one of the preeminent reporters of our time?now with new materia...
View full detailsElizabeth & Leicester: The Truth about the Virgin Queen and the Man She Loved
Sarah Gristwood
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• Author(s): Sarah Gristwood • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: RoyaltyView our feature on Sarah Gristwood's Elizabeth & Leicester.Though the story has been told on film--and whispered in histor...
View full detailsThe Tellington TTouch: Caring for Animals with Heart and Hands
Linda Tellington-Jones
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• Author(s): Linda Tellington-Jones • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ReferenceHow to heal animals and improve their behavior from one of today's most respected trainers When distinguish...
View full detailsDown Town
Ferrol Sams
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• Author(s): Ferrol Sams • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Historical - GeneralA rollicking tale of a small Southern town by the bestselling author of Run with the Horsemen With his naturalistic an...
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