Penguin Books
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Napoleon: A Life
$24.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling author Paul Johnson, “a very readable and entertaining biography” (The Washington Post) about one of the most important figures in modern European history: Napoleon Bon… [more below]
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 02 2006
- ISBN10: 0143037455
- Language: English
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How to Be Drawn
$25.00 Add to cartA finalist for the 2015 National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award
In How to Be Drawn, his daring fifth collection, Terrance Hayes explores how we see and are seen. While many of t- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Hayes, Terrance
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 0143126881
- Language: English
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Travels with Epicurus: A Journey to a Greek Island in Search of a Fulfilled Life
$16.00 Add to cartAdvice on achieving a fulfilling old age from one of the bestselling authors of Plato and a Platypus Walk into a Bar . . .
After being advised by his dentist to get tooth implants, Daniel Klein decide- Author: Klein, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2014
- ISBN10: 0143126628
- Language: English
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The Power Paradox: How We Gain and Lose Influence
$17.00 Add to cartA revolutionary and timely reconsideration of everything we know about power. Celebrated UC Berkeley psychologist Dr. Dacher Keltner argues that compassion and selflessness enable us to have the most … [more below]
- Author: Keltner, Dacher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0143110292
- Language: English
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The Ghost in My Brain: How a Concussion Stole My Life and How the New Science of Brain Plasticity Helped Me Get It Back
$19.00 Add to cartThe dramatic story of one man’s recovery offers new hope to those suffering from concussions and other brain traumas
In 1999, Clark Elliott suffered a concussion when his car was rear-ended. Overnight- Author: Elliott, Clark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 31 2016
- ISBN10: 0143108298
- Language: English
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The Stanislavski System: The Professional Training of an Actor
$17.00 Add to cartThis clearly written guide to the Stanislavski method has long been a favorite among students and teachers of acting. Now, in light of books and articles recently published in the Soviet Union, Sonia … [more below]
- Series: Penguin Handbooks
- Author: Moore, Sonia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 02 1984
- ISBN10: 0140466606
- Language: English
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War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History, Revised and Updated
$24.00 Add to cart“Remarkable…breathtaking in its scope and historical precision, this is highly recommended volume for both publivc and academic libraries.–Library Journal.
- Author: Shlaim, Avi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: August 01 1995
- ISBN10: 0140245642
- Language: English
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The Hopi Survival Kit: The Prophecies, Instructions and Warnings Revealed by the Last Elders
$17.00 Add to cartNow made public for the first time–an ancient Hopi spiritual guide that may hold the key to our survival in the next millennium
For nearly a century the Elders of Hotevilla–a tiny village on a remo- Series: Compass
- Author: Mails, Thomas E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140195459
- Language: English
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Childish Literature
$18.00 Add to cart“Hopeful, funny, and full of wisdom. A meditation on fatherhood by one of our most perceptive writers.” –Tara Westover, author of Educated
From the author of My Documents and Chilean Poet, a wise, h- Author: Zambra, Alejandro
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 08 2024
- ISBN10: 0143138081
- Language: English
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The Wolves of Eternity
$22.00 Add to cartAn NPR Best Book of 2023
“Knausgaard is back, with a compulsively readable new novel.” —The Washington Post
“The Wolves of Eternity, like some 19th-century Russian novel, wrestles with the great contr- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 0593490851
- Language: English
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Autumn
$18.00 Read moreThe New York Times bestseller.
“This book is full of wonders…Loose teeth, chewing gum, it all becomes noble, almost holy, under Knausgaard’s patient, admiring gaze. The world feels repainted.”
—The- Author: Knausgaard, Karl Ove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05, 2019
- ISBN10: 0399563326
- Language: English
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The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
$18.00 Add to cartAn unforgettable true story, The Midwife is the basis for the hit PBS drama Call the Midwife
At the age of twenty-two, Jennifer Worth leaves her comfortable home to move into a convent and become a mi- Series: Midwife Trilogy #1
- Author: Worth, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 07 2009
- ISBN10: 0143116231
- Language: English
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Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life
$25.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post and NPR
“We come to see in FDR the magisterial, central figure in the greatest and richest political tapestry of our nation’s entire history” –Nig- Author: Dallek, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0143111213
- Language: English
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Leaves of Grass and Selected Poems and Prose
$27.00 Add to cartFrom A to Z, the Penguin Drop Caps series collects 26 unique hardcovers–featuring cover art by Jessica Hische
It all begins with a letter. Fall in love with Penguin Drop Caps, a new series of twenty-- Series: Penguin Drop Caps
- Author: Whitman, Walt
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 20 2014
- ISBN10: 0143107437
- Language: English
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Children of the Flames: Dr. Josef Mengele and the Untold Story of the Twins of Auschwitz
$20.00 Add to cartDuring World War II, Nazi doctor Josef Mengele subjected some 3,000 twins to medical experiments of unspeakable horror; only 160 survived. In this remarkable narrative, the life of Auschwitz’s Angel o… [more below]
- Author: Lagnado, Lucette Matalon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 1992
- ISBN10: 0140169318
- Language: English
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The Divided Self: An Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
$19.00 Add to cartDr. Laing’s first purpose is to make madness and the process of going mad comprehensible. In this, with case studies of schizophrenic patients, he succeeds brilliantly, but he does more: through a vis… [more below]
- Author: Laing, R. D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 30 1965
- ISBN10: 0140135375
- Language: English
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On Marriage
$12.00 Add to cartFrom New York Times bestselling authors Timothy Keller and Kathy Keller, a book devoted to helping you start your marriage strong and keeping it strong as the years pass
Significant events such as bir- Series: How to Find God #2
- Author: Keller, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 03 2020
- ISBN10: 0143135368
- Language: English
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How to Disappear: Notes on Invisibility in a Time of Transparency
$17.00 Add to cartIt is time to reevaluate the merits of the inconspicuous life, to search out some antidote to continuous exposure, and to reconsider the value of going unseen, undetected, or overlooked in this new wo… [more below]
- Author: Busch, Akiko
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 11 2020
- ISBN10: 1101980427
- Language: English
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Ardennes 1944: The Battle of the Bulge
$22.00 Add to cartThe prizewinning historian and bestselling author of D-Day, Stalingrad, and The Battle of Arnhem reconstructs the Battle of the Bulge in this riveting new account
On December 16, 1944, Hitler launched- Author: Beevor, Antony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0143109863
- Language: English
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Reluctant Saint: The Life of Francis of Assisi
$16.00 Add to cartAcclaimed biographer Donald Spoto strips away the legends from the life of Francis of Assisi to reveal the true story of a man who has too often been obscured by pious iconography. Drawing on unpreced… [more below]
- Series: Compass
- Author: Spoto, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 30 2003
- ISBN10: 0142196258
- Language: English
