Penguin Books
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Reading in the Brain: The New Science of How We Read
$20.00 Add to cart“Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling narrative. A revelatory work.”–Oliver Sacks, M.D.
The act of reading is so easily taken for granted that- Author: Dehaene, Stanislas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 26 2010
- ISBN10: 0143118056
- Language: English
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Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, Its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the 2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award
“Terrific.” -Timothy Egan, The New York Times
“A riveting investigation of both American myth-making and the real history that lies beneath.” –Claudio- Author: Harden, Blaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0525561684
- Language: English
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Encounters with Jesus: Unexpected Answers to Life’s Biggest Questions
$18.00 Read moreNew York Times bestselling author of The Prodigal Prophet Timothy Keller explores how people are changed by meeting Jesus personally–and how we can be changed encountering him today.
The people who m- Author: Keller, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: March 03 2015
- ISBN10: 1594633533
- Language: English
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Self-Made Man: One Woman’s Year Disguised as a Man
$19.00 Add to cartA journalist’s provocative and spellbinding account of her eighteen months spent disguised as a man.
Norah Vincent became an instant media sensation with the publication of Self-Made Man, her take on- Author: Vincent, Norah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0143038702
- Language: English
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Why I Write
$15.00 Add to cartA selection of George Orwell’s politically charged essays on language and writing that give context to his dystopian classic, 1984
Throughout history, some books have changed the world. They have tran- Series: Great Ideas
- Author: Orwell, George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 06 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036351
- Language: English
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The Third Plate: Field Notes on the Future of Food
$19.00 Read more“Not since Michael Pollan has such a powerful storyteller emerged to reform American food.” —The Washington Post
Today’s optimistic farm-to-table food culture has a dark secret: the local food moveme- Author: Barber, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 07 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127152
- Language: English
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Civilization: The West and the Rest
$20.00 Add to cartFrom the bestselling author of The Ascent of Money and The Square and the Tower
“A dazzling history of Western ideas.” —The Economist “Mr. Ferguson tells his story with characteristic verve and an ey- Author: Ferguson, Niall
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: October 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122061
- Language: English
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Our Women on the Ground: Essays by Arab Women Reporting from the Arab World
$17.00 Add to cartNineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection, with a foreword by CNN chief international corresponden… [more below]
- Author: Hankir, Zahra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 06 2019
- ISBN10: 0143133411
- Language: English
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The Truths We Hold: An American Journey
$20.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller
From Vice President Kamala Harris, one of America’s most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what- Author: Harris, Kamala
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0525560734
- Language: English
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If the Buddha Dated: A Handbook for Finding Love on a Spiritual Path
$19.00 Add to cartZen and the art of falling in love . . .
At once practical, playful, and spiritually sound, this book is about creating a new love story in your life. Drawing from Christian, Buddhist, Sufi and other- Series: Compass
- Author: Kasl, Charlotte
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 01 1999
- ISBN10: 140195831
- Language: English
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Chaos: Making a New Science
$23.00 Add to cartThe million-copy New York Times bestseller and finalist for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award that reveals the science behind chaos theory
A work of popular science in the tradition- Author: Gleick, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113453
- Language: English
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The Inheritance of Rome: Illuminating the Dark Ages, 400-1000
$25.00 Add to cart“The breath of reading is astounding, the knowledge displayed is awe-inspiring and the attention quietly given to critical theory and the postmodern questioning of evidence is both careful and sincere… [more below]
- Series: Penguin History of Europe
- Author: Wickham, Chris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: August 03 2010
- ISBN10: 0143117424
- Language: English
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The Face of Battle
$18.00 Add to cart
The Face of Battle is military history from
John Keegan’s groundbreaking portrayal of the common soldier in the heat of battle — a masterpiece that explores the physical and mental aspects of warfare- Author: Keegan, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: January 27 1983
- ISBN10: 0140048979
- Language: English
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The Songs of Trees: Stories from Nature’s Great Connectors
$19.00 Add to cartWINNER OF THE 2018 JOHN BURROUGHS MEDAL FOR OUTSTANDING NATURAL HISTORY WRITING
“Both a love song to trees, an exploration of their biology, and a wonderfully philosophical analysis of their role they… [more below]- Author: Haskell, David George
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 143111302
- Language: English
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Wait for Signs: Twelve Longmire Stories
$17.00 Add to cartA New York Times-bestselling collection of Longmire adventures
Craig Johnson’s The Highwayman and An Obvious Fact are now available from Viking. Ten years ago, Craig Johnson wrote his first short sto- Series: Longmire Mystery
- Author: Johnson, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127829
- Language: English
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Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the- Author: Horwitz, Tony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 12 2020
- ISBN10: 1101980303
- Language: English
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The Zoologist’s Guide to the Galaxy: What Animals on Earth Reveal about Aliens–And Ourselves
$18.00 Add to cartA wildly fun and scientifically sound exploration of what alien life must be like
Scientists are confident that life exists elsewhere in the universe. Yet rather than taking a realistic approach to wh- Author: Kershenbaum, Arik
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1984881981
- Language: English
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Call for the Dead: A George Smiley Novel
$17.00 Add to cartThe first of his peerless novels of Cold War espionage and international intrigue, Call for the Dead is also the debut of John le Carr?’s masterful creation George Smiley.
“Go back to Whitehall and l- Author: Le Carr?, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 02 2012
- ISBN10: 0143122576
- Language: English
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This Is Where You Belong: Finding Home Wherever You Are
$18.00 Add to cartIn the spirit of Gretchen Rubin’s megaseller The Happiness Project and Eric Weiner’s The Geography of Bliss, a journalist embarks on a project to discover what it takes to love where you live
The aver- Author: Warnick, Melody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 04 2017
- ISBN10: 014312966X
- Language: English
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The Wild Silence: A Memoir
$20.00 Add to cartAN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
“Heartfelt and heartening … a full-throated paean to the fundamental importance of nature in all its glory, fury and impermanence.” –Wall Street Journal The incredible f- Author: Winn, Raynor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 06 2021
- ISBN10: 0143136429
- Language: English
