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Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind
Bruce Watson
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• Author(s): Bruce Watson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Criminals & OutlawsIn this groundbreaking narrative of one of America's most divisive trials and executions, award-winning ...
View full detailsBroken Government: Broken Government: How Republican Rule Destroyed the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Branches
John W. Dean
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• Author(s): John W. Dean • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesThe concluding volume of The New York Times bestselling trilogy One of today's most outspoken and re...
View full detailsBeethoven Was One-Sixteenth Black
Nadine Gordimer
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• Author(s): Nadine Gordimer • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)Always exploring the boundaries of race, identity, politics, memory, sexuality, and love with fearless in...
View full detailsWhy Kerouac Matters: The Lessons of On the Road (They're Not What You Think)
John Leland
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• Author(s): John Leland • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American - GeneralLegions of youthful Americans have taken On the Road as a manifesto for rebellion and an inspiration to hit th...
View full detailsThe Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
Ronald Brownstein
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• Author(s): Ronald Brownstein • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesIn recent years American politics has seemingly become much more partisan, more zero-...
View full detailsMuseum: Behind the Scenes at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Danny Danziger
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• Author(s): Danny Danziger • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Individual Architects & Firms - GeneralAn ?intriguing? oral portrait of the people behind the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
View full detailsThe Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics
Matt Bai
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• Author(s): Matt Bai • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Political Process - Political PartiesWidely cited by journalists and bloggers as the man to read to understand the political races,...
View full detailsIndependents Day: Awakening the American Spirit
Lou Dobbs
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• Author(s): Lou Dobbs • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Public Policy - GeneralFrom The New York Times bestselling author of War on the Middle Class, a powerful look at the critical issu...
View full detailsEthel Merman: A Life
Brian Kellow
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• Author(s): Brian Kellow • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Entertainment & Performing Arts"Kellow's chronology is dishy and seamless; he understands the dynamics of the theater world...
View full detailsSalt
Jeremy Page
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• Author(s): Jeremy Page • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryA family saga that explores the relationship between people and the landscape in which they live, Jeremy Page's atmosphe...
View full detailsAugust Heat
Andrea Camilleri
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• Author(s): Andrea Camilleri • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - International Crime & Mystery"The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, ...
View full detailsThe Sharper Your Knife, the Less You Cry: Love, Laughter, and Tears in Paris at the World's Most Famous Cooking School
Kathleen Flinn
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• Author(s): Kathleen Flinn • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Memoirs"...engaging, intelligent, and surprisingly suspenseful." --Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, LoveThe unforgetta...
View full detailsA Life Decoded: My Genome: My Life
J. Craig Venter
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• Author(s): J. Craig Venter • Publisher: MixIG • Publisher Imprint: MixIG • BISAC: MemoirsThe triumphant memoir of the man behind one of the greatest feats in scientific history Of all the scientific achievements of the past century, perhaps non...
View full detailsNo Simple Victory: World War II in Europe, 1939-1945
Norman Davies
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• Author(s): Norman Davies • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralOne of the world's leading historians re-examines World War II and its outcome A...
View full detailsMay Day
Phillis Levin
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• Author(s): Phillis Levin • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: American - GeneralA sensuous and musical new collection from acclaimed poet Phillis Levin May Day is a work of a visionary imagination....
View full detailsClosing the Leadership Gap: Why Women Can an Must Help Run the World
Marie C. Wilson
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• Author(s): Marie C. Wilson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Political Process - GeneralThe defining examination of the new role of women in America--now fully revised When first publi...
View full detailsObit.: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives
Jim Sheeler
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• Author(s): Jim Sheeler • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Motivational & InspirationalLike Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obi...
View full detailsWar Without Death: A Year of Extreme Competition in Pro Football
Mark Maske
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• Author(s): Mark Maske • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: FootballIn this masterpiece of sports reportage, Washington Post staff writer Mark Maske--one of the most respected journalists w...
View full detailsThe Shawnees and the War for America
Colin G. Calloway
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• Author(s): Colin G. Calloway • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Indigenous - GeneralWith the courage and resilience embodied by their legendary leader Tecumseh, the Shawnees waged a war ...
View full detailsThe War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo
Roy Adkins
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• Author(s): Roy Adkins • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Military - NavalA brutal, action-packed account of the sea battles of the Napoleonic War by the author of the bestselling Nelson'...
View full detailsOne Perfect Day: The Selling of the American Wedding
Rebecca Mead
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• Author(s): Rebecca Mead • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Popular CultureAstutely observed and deftly witty, One Perfect Day masterfully mixes investigative journalism and social commen...
View full detailsFateful Choices: Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941
Ian Kershaw
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• Author(s): Ian Kershaw • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - World War II - GeneralThe newest immensely original undertaking from the historian who gave us the defining two-vol...
View full detailsReading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters
Elizabeth Brown Pryor
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Brown Pryor • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical"Pryor's biography helps part with a lot of stupid out there about Lee - chiefly, that he was, somehow, 'ant...
View full detailsInner Workings: Literary Essays 2000-2005
J. M. Coetzee
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• Author(s): J. M. Coetzee • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: EssaysJ.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available Janua...
View full detailsStrawberry Fields
Marina Lewycka
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• Author(s): Marina Lewycka • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralThe bestselling author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is back with an 'effervescent comedy' (T...
View full detailsFinding Life in the Land of Alzheimer's: One Daughter's Hopeful Story
Lauren Kessler
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• Author(s): Lauren Kessler • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Diseases & Conditions - Alzheimer's & Dementia"An excellent book...an emotional and ruminative anchor...She leaves he...
View full detailsMan vs. Weather: Be Your Own Weatherman
Dennis Diclaudio
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• Author(s): Dennis Diclaudio • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Meteorology & ClimatologyA humorous and practical guide to the history and science of understanding the weather,...
View full detailsThe First Word: The Search for the Origins of Language
Christine Kenneally
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• Author(s): Christine Kenneally • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Life Sciences - EvolutionAn accessible exploration of a burgeoning new field: the incredible evolution of language The ...
View full detailsFallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
Nancy Isenberg
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• Author(s): Nancy Isenberg • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: HistoricalFrom the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Foundin...
View full detailsBody of Work: Meditations on Mortality from the Human Anatomy Lab
Christine Montross
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• Author(s): Christine Montross • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsA "gleaming, humane" (The New York Times Book Review) memoir of the relationship between a cadaver named Eve and a...
View full detailsRed Rover
Deirdre McNamer
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• Author(s): Deirdre McNamer • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryDeirdre McNamer has won praise for the intelligence, beauty, precision, and breadth of her fiction. This beautifully crafted, ...
View full detailsWho the Hell Is Pansy O'Hara?: The Fascinating Stories Behind 50 of the World's Best-Loved Books
Jenny Bond
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• Author(s): Jenny Bond • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary FiguresThe captivating stories behind fifty of the greatest authors and their most famous literary creations Before Who...
View full detailsThis Night's Foul Work
Fred Vargas
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• Author(s): Fred Vargas • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural"Wry humor and offbeat plots blend with a subtly dangerous charm to make Fred Vargas the queen ...
View full detailsConsequences
Penelope Lively
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• Author(s): Penelope Lively • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: SagasThe Booker Prize winning author's sweeping saga of three generations of women "One of the most accomplished writers of fiction of...
View full detailsMortal Syntax: 101 Language Choices That Will Get You Clobbered by the Grammar Snobs--Even If You're Right
June Casagrande
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• Author(s): June Casagrande • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Grammar & PunctuationThe only fun, friendly, and surefire defense against the grammar snobs Having already made a name ...
View full detailsFive Skies
Ron Carlson
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• Author(s): Ron Carlson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryBeloved story writer Ron Carlson's first novel in thirty years, Five Skies is the story of three men gathered high in th...
View full detailsGod Is Dead
Ron Currie
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• Author(s): Ron Currie • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryThe electrifying, "cutting-edge" (USA Today) debut work of fiction from Ron Currie, author of the forethcoming novel The ...
View full detailsAmong Other Things, I've Taken Up Smoking
Aoibheann Sweeney
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• Author(s): Aoibheann Sweeney • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryCritically acclaimed by reviewers across the country, Aoibheann Sweeney's beautifully written debut novel is a sto...
View full detailsMiss Julia Strikes Back
Ann B. Ross
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• Author(s): Ann B. Ross • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralThe irresistible, indefatigable Miss Julia is back, turning the tables on a thief who chose the wrong belle to...
View full detailsFour Queens: The Provencal Sisters Who Ruled Europe
Nancy Goldstone
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• Author(s): Nancy Goldstone • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: RoyaltyFor fans of Alison Weir and Antonia Fraser, acclaimed author Nancy Goldstone's thrilling history of the royal daughte...
View full detailsChez Moi
Agnes Desarthe
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• Author(s): Agnes Desarthe • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryAt forty-three, Myriam has been a wife, mother, and lover--but never a restauranteur. When she opens Chez Moi in a qu...
View full detailsThe Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir
A. M. Homes
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• Author(s): A. M. Homes • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Literary FiguresThe "fierce and eloquent" (New York Times) memoir from A.M Homes, award-winning author of May We Be Forgiven and the forthcoming novel...
View full detailsThe Amnesiac
Sam Taylor
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• Author(s): Sam Taylor • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - GeneralA gripping literary thriller from an exciting new voice in fiction Hailed as 'one to watch' by ...
View full detailsConquering Gotham: Building Penn Station and Its Tunnels
Jill Jonnes
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• Author(s): Jill Jonnes • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,"Superb. [A] first-rate narrative" (The Wall Street Journal) abo...
View full detailsThe Testament of Gideon Mack
James Robertson
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• Author(s): James Robertson • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Christian - GeneralA critical success on both sides of the Atlantic, this darkly imaginative novel from Scottish author James Robertso...
View full detailsSovereign: A Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery
C. J. Sansom
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• Author(s): C. J. Sansom • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - HistoricalThe third novel in the Matthew Shardlake Tudor Mystery series--the inspiration for the Hulu...
View full detailsReading Judas: The Gospel of Judas and the Shaping of Christianity
Elaine Pagels
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• Author(s): Elaine Pagels • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Christianity - HistoryThe instant New York Times bestseller interpreting the controversial long-lost gospel The recently unearthed Gospel of Judas ...
View full detailsUS Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man
Charlie Leduff
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• Author(s): Charlie Leduff • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Men's StudiesFrom the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Autopsy "A fearless, clear eyed companion into parts of...
View full detailsBrother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons
Cullen Thomas
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• Author(s): Cullen Thomas • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MemoirsCullen Thomas was just like the thousands of other American kids who travel abroad after college. He was hungry for meaning and e...
View full detailsThe Angel Maker
Stefan Brijs
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• Author(s): Stefan Brijs • Publisher: Penguin Books • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Books • BISAC: Thrillers - SuspenseA literary page-turner about one man's macabre ambition to create life-and secure immortality The village of Wolfheim is a quiet...
View full detailsHunk City
James Wilcox
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• Author(s): James Wilcox • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralAn astute and comical dissection of the culture wars-by the author of the much-loved Modern Baptists For Mor...
View full detailsWish I Could Be There: Notes from a Phobic Life
Allen Shawn
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• Author(s): Allen Shawn • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsIn addition to being the son of famous New Yorker editor William Shawn and brother of the distinguished playwright and ac...
View full detailsPetropolis
Anya Ulinich
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• Author(s): Anya Ulinich • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryIn her stunning debut novel, Anya Ulinich delivers a funny and unforgettable story of a Russian mail-order bride trying to find h...
View full detailsSupreme Conflict: The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court
Jan Crawford Greenburg
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• Author(s): Jan Crawford Greenburg • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: American Government - Judicial Branch"A tour de force...A fresh and detailed account of how the court works and, rela...
View full detailsThe Paper Moon
Andrea Camilleri
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• Author(s): Andrea Camilleri • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural"You either love Andrea Camilleri or you haven't read him yet. Each novel in thi...
View full detailsThe Golden Road: Notes on My Gentrification
Caille Millner
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• Author(s): Caille Millner • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsThe true story of a remarkable young woman's struggle to find a home in the world Caille Millner is a rising star on ...
View full detailsFamily Romance: A Love Story
John Lanchester
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• Author(s): John Lanchester • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: MemoirsThe author of The Debt to Pleasure digs into his family's extraordinary past in a memoir as enthralling as his finest fiction ...
View full detailsQuick, Answer Me Before I Forget the Question: 100 Answers You're Old Enough to Hear
Lynette Padwa
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• Author(s): Lynette Padwa • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: AgingJust for fun is this wonderful little book for anyone harassed by those inevitable signs of aging, e.g., short-term memory loss and...
View full detailsTraveler
Ron McLarty
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• Author(s): Ron McLarty • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralFrom the author of The Memory of Running-a beautifully crafted story of a man who returns home to discover the...
View full detailsThomas Hardy
Claire Tomalin
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• Author(s): Claire Tomalin • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Literary Figures"A masterful portrait" (The Philadelphia Inquirer) from a Whitbread Award-winning biographer, and author of A Life of M...
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