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Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
258 pages
Illuminates the scientific factors that shape the hidden patterns of a day and challenge scheduled activities, drawing on research in the disciplines of psychology, biology, and economics to share practical advice and anecdotes for promoting a richer, more engaged life.
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Blessed Unrest
Penguin Group USA |
April 1, 2008 |
342 pages
The environmentalist author of Natural Capitalism traces the contributions of a diverse, worldwide grassroots humanitarian movement through which conscientious individuals and organizations are dedicating their efforts to restoring the environment and fostering social justice. Reprint.
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Don't Bullsh*t Yourself!
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
224 pages
Bar Rescue's Jon Taffer presents a new guide to getting what you want in life and business--to stop making excuses so you can get back to winning. During his many years as an entrepreneur, consultant, and star of the Paramount Network's hit show Bar Rescue, Jon Taffer has witnessed the destruction... More Info
Enlightenment Now
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
556 pages
An assessment of the human condition in the twenty-first century presents data demonstrating that life quality, health, prosperity, safety, peace, knowledge, and happiness are on the rise throughout the world because of the Enlightenment ideal of using reason and science.
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Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector, & Selected Stories
Penguin UK |
December 1, 2005 |
330 pages
Nikolai Gogol's short fiction, collected here as The Diary of a Madman, The Government Inspector and Selected Stories, deeply influenced later Russian literature with powerful depictions of a society dominated by petty bureaucracy and base corruption. This Penguin Classics edition is translated... More Info
The Prose Edda
Penguin UK |
July 28, 2005 |
180 pages
The stirring, bloody, and tragic saga that inspired such artists as Wagner, Borges, and Tolkien Written in Iceland a century after the close of the Viking Age, The Prose Edda is the source of most of what we know of Norse mythology. Its tales are peopled by giants, dwarves, and elves, superhuman... More Info
Islandborn
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
48 pages
"Lola was just a baby when her family left the Island, so when she has to draw it for a school assignment, she asks her family, friends, and neighbors about their memories of her homeland...and in the process, comes up with a new way of understanding her own heritage"--
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Holding the Man
Penguin Books |
June 24, 2015 |
304 pages
"The mid-seventies and satin baggies and chunky platforms reigned supreme. Jethro Tull did battle with glam-rock for the airwaves. At an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave fell wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of the football team. So began a relationship that was... More Info
The Big Fat Activity Book for Pregnant People
Penguin |
April 25, 2017 |
176 pages
"Funny as hell."--Amy Morrison, founder of Pregnant Chicken The ultimate must-have for any mom-to-be with a sense of humor: an irreverent, laugh-out-loud activity book filled with quizzes, mazes, fill-in-the-blanks, journaling pages, and hysterical musings on what pregnancy is really like. Baby... More Info
Fall of Man in Wilmslow
Penguin Canada |
April 4, 2017 |
368 pages
From the author of the #1 bestseller The Girl in the Spider's Web, an electrifying thriller that begins with Alan Turing's suicide and then opens out to take in a young detective's awakening to painful secrets about his own life--and the life of his country. It's 1954. Several English nationals... More Info
Y Is for Yesterday
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
496 pages
Of #1 New York Times-bestselling author Sue Grafton, NPR's Maureen Corrigan said, "Makes me wish there were more than 26 letters." With only one letter left, Grafton's many devoted readers will share that sentiment. The darkest and most disturbing case report from the files of Kinsey Millhone, Y is... More Info
The Perfect Nanny
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
240 pages
"When Myriam, a French-Moroccan lawyer, decides to return to work after having children, she and her husband look for the perfect nanny for their two young children. They never dreamed they would find Louise: a quiet, polite, devoted woman who sings to the children, cleans the family's chic... More Info
Descartes' Error
Penguin (Non-Classics) |
April 26, 2018 |
312 pages
Linking the process of rational decision making to emotions, a scientist who has done extensive research with brain-damaged patients notes the dependence of thought processes on feelings and the body's survival-oriented regulators. Reprint.
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My Very First Book of Colors
Penguin USA |
April 26, 2018 |
20 pages
Challenges preschoolers to match the colors presented with objects that share that color, in a split-page board book full of fun and surprises.
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Little Fires Everywhere
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
352 pages
"Witty, wise and tender. It's a marvel." - Paula Hawkins, New York Times-bestselling author of The Girl on the Train and Into the Water From the bestselling author of Everything I Never Told You, a riveting novel that traces the intertwined fates of the picture-perfect Richardson family and the... More Info
Pointe
Penguin |
May 5, 2015 |
352 pages
Four years after Theo's best friend, Donovan, disappeared at age thirteen, he is found and brought home and Theo puts her health at risk as she decides whether to tell the truth about the abductor, knowing her revelation could end her life-long dream of becoming a professional ballet dancer.
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Songlines
Penguin Canada |
June 7, 1988 |
304 pages
"First published in the United States of America by Viking Penguin Inc. 1987; published in Penguin Books 1988"--T.p. verso.
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George F. Kennan
Penguin Press HC |
April 26, 2018 |
784 pages
The full scope of George Kennan's long life and vast influence is revealed by one of today's most important Cold War scholars. Yale historian Gaddis began this magisterial history almost 30 years ago; the result is a remarkably revealing view of how this greatest of Cold War strategists came to... More Info
Glorious And/Or Free
Penguin Books Canada |
October 1, 2017 |
"A hilarious tour through Canada's history, from the nation's most trusted news source: The Beaverton. The Beaverton, North America's trusted news source, has quickly become the funniest--and most biting--source of Canadian satire. Its headlines have been misinforming Canadians across the country,... More Info
Growth of the Soil
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
328 pages
The epic novel of man and nature that won its author the Nobel Prize in Literature When it was first published in 1917, Growth of the Soil was immediately recognized as a masterpiece. In the story of Isak, who leaves his village to clear a homestead and raise a family amid the untilled tracts of... More Info
Grant
Penguin Press HC |
October 17, 2017 |
928 pages
Pulitzer Prize-winner and biographer of Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, and John D. Rockefeller, Ron Chernow returns with a sweeping and dramatic portrait of one of our most compelling generals and presidents, Ulysses S. Grant. Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All... More Info
Real Food Heals
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
320 pages
Healthy cooking reinvented by top chef Seamus Mullen, with over 125 Paleo-inspired recipes designed to revitalize your health every day. In the high-end food world, "healthy cooking" has long been taboo. But as one of the only high-profile chefs today guided by the understanding that the food we... More Info
Akata Warrior
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
496 pages
Now stronger, feistier, and a bit older, Sunny Nwazue, along with her friends from the the Leopard Society, travel through worlds, both visible and invisible, to the mysterious town of Osisi, where they fight in a climactic battle to save humanity.
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We Are Okay
Penguin |
February 14, 2017 |
240 pages
From the award-winning author of Hold Still comes an achingly beautiful novel about grief and the enduring power of friendship. ★ "Exquisite." - Kirkus, starred review ★ "LaCour paints a captivating depiction of loss, bewilderment, and emotional paralysis . . . raw and beautiful." - Booklist,... More Info
Akata Witch
Penguin |
July 11, 2017 |
384 pages
Affectionately dubbed "the Nigerian Harry Potter," Akata Witch weaves together a heart-pounding tale of magic, mystery, and finding one's place in the world. Twelve-year-old Sunny lives in Nigeria, but she was born American. Her features are African, but she's albino. She's a terrific athlete, but... More Info
Peter Pan
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
234 pages
'All children, except one, grow up.' Peter Pan originally appeared as a baby living a magical life among birds and fairies in J.M. Barrie's sequence of stories, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens. His later role as flying boy hero of Neverland was brought to the stage by Barrie's play Peter Pan... More Info
Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
304 pages
You know the type: the woman who won't shut up, who's too brazen, too opinionated - too much. She's the unruly woman, and she embodies one of the most provocative and powerful forms of womanhood today. In Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud, popular BuzzFeed columnist Anne Helen Petersen examines this... More Info
You Can't Touch My Hair
Penguin |
October 4, 2016 |
320 pages
A NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * "A must-read...Phoebe Robinson discusses race and feminism in such a funny, real, and specific way, it penetrates your brain and stays with you." -Ilana Glazer, co-creator and co-star of Broad City A hilarious and timely essay collection about race, gender, and pop... More Info
Streetfight
Penguin |
March 7, 2017 |
368 pages
As NYC's Transportation Commissioner, Janette Sadik-Khan managed the seemingly impossible and transformed the streets of one of the world s greatest, toughest cities into dynamic spaces safe for pedestrians and bikers. Her approach was dramatic and effective: she rewrote the rule book and involved... More Info
$36.00
Devil's Bargain
Penguin |
July 18, 2017 |
288 pages
Based on dozens of interviews conducted over six years, Green spins the master narrative of the 2016 campaign from its origins in the far fringes of right-wing politics and reality television to its culmination inside Trump's penthouse on election night.
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$10.95
Chess
Penguin Classics |
June 1, 2017 |
50 pages
'... a human being, an intellectual human being who constantly bends the entire force of his mind on the ridiculous task of forcing a wooden king into the corner of a wooden board, and does it without going mad!' A group of passengers on a cruise ship challenge the world chess champion to a match.... More Info
$22.99
Incarnations
Penguin Press |
April 27, 2017 |
352 pages
'Incarnations makes the mind fly across time, place and history. You may smile as, mentally, you walk alongside Khilnani up some flinty slope. You will keep thinking about what he said long after' Daily Telegraph For all of India's myths, its sea of stories and moral epics, Indian history remains a... More Info
The First Rule of Punk
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
336 pages
Twelve-year-old María Luisa O'Neill-Morales (who really prefers to be called Malú) reluctantly moves with her Mexican-American mother to Chicago and starts seventh grade with a bang--violating the dress code with her punk rock aesthetic and spurning the middle school's most popular girl in favor... More Info
American Kingpin
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
352 pages
The unbelievable true story of the man who built a billion-dollar online drug empire from his bedroom--and almost got away with it In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web site hosted on the Dark... More Info
Democracy in Chains
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
368 pages
"Focusing on Nobel Prize-winning economist James McGill Buchanan (1919-2013), whom Charles Koch funded and championed, MacLean elaborates on [what he sees as] the Koch brothers' insidious, dangerous manipulation of American politics. Based on Buchanan's papers as well as published sources, MacLean... More Info
$29.00
What We Lose
Penguin |
April 26, 2018 |
224 pages
"The debut novel of the year." --Vogue "Stunning. . . . Powerfully moving and beautifully wrought, What We Lose reflects on family, love, loss, race, womanhood, and the places we feel home." --Buzzfeed "Remember this name: Zinzi Clemmons. Long may she thrill us with exquisite works like What We... More Info
$31.99
Karl Marx
Penguin UK |
May 4, 2017 |
500 pages
'A deeply original and illuminating account of Marx's journey through the intellectual history of the nineteenth century... a profound reappraisal and a gripping read' Christopher Clark, author of The Sleepwalkers As the nineteenth century unfolded, its inhabitants had to come to terms with an... More Info
$21.99
The Art of Flight
Penguin UK |
July 25, 2017 |
192 pages
Stories just begin. We rarely know where and almost never why. It doesn't matter. Nothing is certain any longer. I just want to shut my eyes, point at random and say, as a sort of experiment, that once, when I was sixteen years old, I spent a whole night singing romantic songs in the top of a pine... More Info
$23.00
Here I Am
Penguin Canada |
July 18, 2017 |
592 pages
Longlisted for the 2017 International Dylan Thomas Prize Jacob and Julia Bloch are about to be tested . . . By Jacob's grandfather, who won't go quietly into a retirement home. By the family reunion that everyone is dreading. By their son's heroic attempts to get expelled. And by the sexting affair... More Info
$40.00
The Dark Web
Penguin Press HC |
July 11, 2017 |
400 pages
In its earliest days, the Internet seemed to all of us to be an unqualified good: It was a way to share information, increase productivity, and experience new freedoms and diversions. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the idealistic generation that came of age with the Internet. Two decades later,... More Info
$16.99
Anybody Out There?
Penguin Books |
August 2, 2012 |
640 pages
Winner of the 2007 Popular Fiction Prize, Anybody Out There by Marian Keyes is a novel of love, loss and jealousy that is as sharply funny as it is deeply moving. It is the fourth of Marian Keyes's internationally best-selling Walsh sisters novels which also include Watermelon, Rachel's Holiday,... More Info
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