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Finding George Orwell in Burma
Emma Larkin
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• Author(s): Emma Larkin • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Asia - CentralA fascinating political travelogue that traces the life and work of George Orwell, author of 1984 and ANIMAL FARM, in Southe...
View full detailsSoaring on Your Strengths: Discover, Use, and Brand Your Best Self for Career Success
Robin Ryan
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• Author(s): Robin Ryan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Careers - GeneralRobin Ryan's groundbreaking new book is designed to help readers take advantage of a paradigm shift in the workp...
View full detailsEverything She Thought She Wanted
Elizabeth Buchan
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: WomenElizabeth Buchan's beloved bestsellers, Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman and The Good Wife Strikes Back, have made her...
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The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
The Prison Angel: Mother Antonia's Journey from Beverly Hills to a Life of Service in a Mexican Jail
Mary Jordan
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• Author(s): Mary Jordan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: ReligiousThe winners of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for international reporting tell the astonishing story of Mary Clarke. At the ag...
View full detailsSpeaking Freely: Trials of the First Amendment
Floyd Abrams
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• Author(s): Floyd Abrams • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: ConstitutionalThe rights guaranteed in the First Amendment--including freedom of expression--are among the fundamental touchstones of our...
View full detailsMiss Julia's School of Beauty
Ann B. Ross
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• Author(s): Ann B. Ross • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralImagine Aunt Bee from The Andy Griffith Show with a lot more backbone and confidence," wrote Publishers Weekly...
View full detailsThe Memory of Running
Ron McLarty
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• Author(s): Ron McLarty • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Humorous - General"Smithy is an American original, worthy of a place on the shelf just below your Hucks, your Holdens, your Yossarians." -...
View full detailsWhose Bible Is It?: A Short History of the Scriptures
Jaroslav Pelikan
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• Author(s): Jaroslav Pelikan • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: HistoryJaroslav Pelikan, widely regarded as one of the most distinguished historians of our day, now provides a clear and engaging ac...
View full detailsHonor Killing: Race, Rape, and Clarence Darrow's Spectacular Last Case
David E. Stannard
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• Author(s): David E. Stannard • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: United States - State & Local - West (AK, CA, CO, HI, ID, MTIn the fall of 1931, Thalia Massie, the bored, aristocratic wife of ...
View full detailsThe Dominion of War: Empire and Liberty in North America, 1500-2000
Fred Anderson
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• Author(s): Fred Anderson • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: United States - GeneralAmericans often think of their nation's history as a movement toward ever-greater democracy, equality, and freedo...
View full detailsHouse: A Memoir
Michael Ruhlman
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• Author(s): Michael Ruhlman • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Remodeling & Renovation - GeneralMichael Ruhlman's uncanny knack for taking a wide range of subjects and making them completely hi...
View full detailsRumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders
John Mortimer
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• Author(s): John Mortimer • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - TraditionalThe Rumpole renaissance continues to build, and now the beloved barrister's many follower...
View full detailsThe United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy
T. R. Reid
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• Author(s): T. R. Reid • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: International Relations - Arms Control"A first-rate journalist, Reid provides impressive evidence to support his hypothesis." --T...
View full detailsOh, Play That Thing
Roddy Doyle
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• Author(s): Roddy Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapRoddy Doyle's last novel, A Star Called Henry," was chosen by the "The New York Times Bo...
View full detailsA Continual Feast: Words of Comfort and Celebration, Collected by Father Tim
Jan Karon
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• Author(s): Jan Karon • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: CounselingFrom Jan Karon, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mitford series comes a collection of Father Tim's favori...
View full detailsThe Geographer's Library
Jon Fasman
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• Author(s): Jon Fasman • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Thrillers - Espionage"A brainy noir . . . [a] winningly cryptic tale . . . a cabinet of wonders written by a novelist whose surname and sen...
View full detailsMartin Luther King, Jr.: A Life
Marshall Frady
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• Author(s): Marshall Frady • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Political"a quick introduction to the life of a great American" -- The New York TimesAn inspiring portrait of the incredible ...
View full detailsDearest Dorothy, Who Would Have Ever Thought?!: Dearest Dorothy, Who Would Have Ever Thought?!: Welcome to Partonville, Book Four
Charlene Ann Baumbich
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• Author(s): Charlene Ann Baumbich • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralCharlene Ann Baumbich has won a loyal following of readers with the first three books in the Dearest Dorothy s...
View full detailsDeath in Hamburg: Society and Politics in the Cholera Years
Richard J. Evans
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• Author(s): Richard J. Evans • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Europe - Germany"A tremendous book, the biography of a city which charts the multifarious pathways from bacilli to burgomas...
View full detailsLife Studies: Stories
Susan Vreeland
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• Author(s): Susan Vreeland • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)With her richly textured novels Susan Vreeland has offered pioneering portraits of the artist's ...
View full detailsRosa Parks: A Life
Douglas G. Brinkley
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• Author(s): Douglas G. Brinkley • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Cultural & RegionalFifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last g...
View full detailsAuthor, Author
David Lodge
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• Author(s): David Lodge • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryFrom the Inside FlapA new literary, historical novel from the popular author of Therapy and Thinks. The protagonist is t...
View full detailsDavid's Copy: The Selected Poems of David Meltzer
David Meltzer
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• Author(s): David Meltzer • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: American - GeneralOne of the most respected poets of the Beat and San Francisco Renaissance periods, David Meltzer has kept alive intere...
View full detailsLucrezia Borgia: Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
Sarah Bradford
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• Author(s): Sarah Bradford • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: HistoricalThe very name Lucrezia Borgia conjures up everything that was sinister and corrupt about the Renaissance--incest, political a...
View full detailsThe Inner Voice: The Making of a Singer
Renee Fleming
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• Author(s): Renee Fleming • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MusicThe fascinating personal story of one of the most celebrated talents in today's music scene The star of the Metropolitan ...
View full detailsThe Fall of Baghdad
Jon Lee Anderson
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• Author(s): Jon Lee Anderson • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Wars & Conflicts - Iraq War (2003-2011)"Reminiscent of the best war literature, such as John Hersey's Hiroshima, Michae...
View full detailsLa vida secreta de las abejas: Una novela
Sue Monk Kidd
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• Author(s): Sue Monk Kidd • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryAmbientada en Carolina del Sur en 1964, La vida secreta de las abejas es la historia de Lily Owens, cuya vida ha sido formada al...
View full detailsThe Pacific and Other Stories
Mark Helprin
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• Author(s): Mark Helprin • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)A dazzling collection of short stories by Mark Helprin, bestselling author of Winter's Tale, which...
View full detailsThe Inner Circle
T. C. Boyle
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• Author(s): T. C. Boyle • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the award-winning author of The Tortilla Curtain comes "a fascinating, fictional rendering of what life...
View full detailsA Bit on the Side
William Trevor
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• Author(s): William Trevor • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Short Stories (single author)From the Inside FlapWilliam Trevor's stunning new collection of stories displays this renowned craftsman a...
View full details78 Reasons Why Your Book May Never Be Published and 14 Reasons Why It Just Might
Pat Walsh
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• Author(s): Pat Walsh • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Publishers & Publishing IndustryFor the hundreds of thousands who buy writers' guides every year, at last there's one that tel...
View full detailsRiver of Darkness: The First John Madden Mystery
Rennie Airth
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• Author(s): Rennie Airth • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural"It's the tactics and the terrain, the morale and the characters that make the diffe...
View full detailsC'est La Vie: An American Woman Begins a New Life in Paris and--Voila!--Becomes Almost French
Suzy Gershman
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• Author(s): Suzy Gershman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsBestselling writer Suzy Gershman (dubbed "Super Shopper Suzy" by Oprah) is our answer to Peter Mayle in this heartfelt,...
View full detailsBlack Arrow
I. J. Parker
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• Author(s): I. J. Parker • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - HistoricalIn I. J. Parker's latest mystery set in ancient Japan, a cold and hostile land pits Akitada...
View full detailsOld Boys: A Thriller
Charles McCarry
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• Author(s): Charles McCarry • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Thrillers - EspionageIn his magnificent new novel, Charles McCarry returns to the world of his legendary character, Paul Chr...
View full detailsUrsula, Under
Ingrid Hill
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• Author(s): Ingrid Hill • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: LiteraryIn Michigan's Upper Peninsula, a dangerous rescue effort draws the ears and eyes of the entire country. A two-and-a-half-year-old ...
View full detailsA Treasury of Deception: Liars, Misleaders, Hoodwinkers, and the Extraordinary True Stories of History's Greatest Hoaxes, Fakes, and Frauds
Michael Farquhar
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• Author(s): Michael Farquhar • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Curiosities & WondersWe may say that honesty is the best policy, but history--to say nothing of business, politics, and...
View full detailsThey Would Never Hurt a Fly: War Criminals on Trial in The Hague
Slavenka Drakulic
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• Author(s): Slavenka Drakulic • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Eastern Europe - General"Who were they? Ordinary people like you or me--or monsters?" asks internationally acclaimed author Slavenka...
View full detailsSomething Rotten: A Thursday Next Novel
Jasper Fforde
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• Author(s): Jasper Fforde • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths"Prepare to be delighted" (Time) with the fourth novel in the New York Times bestsellin...
View full detailsThe Right Nation: Conservative Power in America
John Micklethwait
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• Author(s): John Micklethwait • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Conservatism & LiberalismThe Right Nation is not "for" liberals, and it's not "for" conservativ...
View full detailsNamath: A Biography
Mark Kriegel
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• Author(s): Mark Kriegel • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: SportsIn between Babe Ruth and Michael Jordan there was Joe Namath, one of the few sports heroes to transcend the game he playe...
View full detailsThe Gilded Chamber: A Novel of Queen Esther
Rebecca Kohn
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• Author(s): Rebecca Kohn • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Christian - GeneralFor centuries her name has been a byword for feminine beauty, guile, and wisdom. This sweeping, meticulously researche...
View full detailsThe Best of Everything
Rona Jaffe
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• Author(s): Rona Jaffe • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Literary"Sixty years later, Jaffe's classic still strikes a chord, this time eerily prescient regarding so many of the circumstan...
View full detailsClosed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court
Edward Lazarus
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• Author(s): Edward Lazarus • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Legal HistoryFrom the Back Cover"Operating within a Network of Byzantine Secrecy, The United States Supreme Court is the most...
View full detailsThe Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood
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• Author(s): Gordon S. Wood • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical"I cannot remember ever reading a work of history and biography that is quite so fluent, so perfectly composed and ...
View full detailsThe Myth of Solid Ground: Earthquakes, Prediction, and the Fault Line Between Reason and Faith
David L. Ulin
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• Author(s): David L. Ulin • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Earth Sciences - Seismology & VolcanismEarthquakes are one of the great unsolved geological mysteries. Attempts to predict...
View full detailsWork and Other Sins: Life in New York City and Thereabouts
Charlie Leduff
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• Author(s): Charlie Leduff • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: United States - State & Local - Middle Atlantic (DC, DE, MD,From the New York Times bestselling author of Detroit: An American Auto...
View full detailsA Terrible Love of War
James Hillman
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• Author(s): James Hillman • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Social PsychologyWar is a timeless force in the human imagination--and, indeed, in daily life. Engaged in the activity of destruction, i...
View full detailsScribbling the Cat: Travels with an African Soldier
Alexandra Fuller
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• Author(s): Alexandra Fuller • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Africa - South - GeneralWhen Alexandra ("Bo") Fuller was home in Zambia a few years ago, visiting her parents for Christmas...
View full detailsMiss Julia Meets Her Match
Ann B. Ross
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• Author(s): Ann B. Ross • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Humorous - GeneralIn the 5th installment of the New York Times bestselling Miss Julia series, Miss Julia has finally met her mat...
View full detailsSomething from the Oven: Reinventing Dinner in 1950s America
Laura Shapiro
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• Author(s): Laura Shapiro • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Women's StudiesAuthor of the forthcoming What She Ate: Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories (Summer 2017...
View full detailsOccidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
Ian Buruma
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• Author(s): Ian Buruma • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: International Relations - GeneralTwenty-five years ago, Edward Said's Orientalism spawned a generation of scholarship on the deni...
View full detailsOrigins of the Crash: The Great Bubble and Its Undoing
Roger Lowenstein
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• Author(s): Roger Lowenstein • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Economic HistoryWith his singular gift for turning complex financial events into eminently readable stories, Roger Lowenste...
View full detailsThe Good Wife Strikes Back
Elizabeth Buchan
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• Author(s): Elizabeth Buchan • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: LiteraryElizabeth Buchan's New York Times bestseller Revenge of the Middle-Aged Woman was hailed as "a thoughtful, intellig...
View full detailsPost-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Blacks and Befor
Nelson George
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• Author(s): Nelson George • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Minority StudiesOne of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 19...
View full detailsExcursion to Tindari
Andrea Camilleri
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• Author(s): Andrea Camilleri • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural"The novels of Andrea Camilleri breathe out the sense of place, the sense of hum...
View full detailsWaiting for Birdy: A Year of Frantic Tedium, Neurotic Angst, and the Wild Magic of Growing a Family
Catherine Newman
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• Author(s): Catherine Newman • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: MemoirsTo fifty thousand readers, Catherine Newman is the beloved author of "Bringing Up Ben & Birdy," a weekly column ...
View full detailsThe Cross and the Crescent: The Dramatic Story of the Earliest Encounters Between Christians and Muslims
Richard Fletcher
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• Author(s): Richard Fletcher • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: HistoryIn this immensely readable history that couldn't be more timely, award-winning historian Richard Fletcher chronicles the relat...
View full detailsA Star Called Henry
Roddy Doyle
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• Author(s): Roddy Doyle • Publisher: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Adult Hc/Tr • BISAC: Historical - GeneralFrom the Inside FlapAn historical novel like none before it, A Star Called Henry marks a new chapter in Booker Prize-w...
View full detailsThe Forest Lover
Susan Vreeland
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• Author(s): Susan Vreeland • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group • BISAC: Historical - GeneralIn her acclaimed novels, Susan Vreeland has given us portraits of painting and life that are as dazzling ...
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