A Day in the Life of a Penguin

Reducere. A major new work from the author of the renowned My Struggle series, The Morning Star is an astonishing, ambitious, and rich novel about what we do...

Reducere. Collected here in one volume is James T. Farrell's renowned trilogy of the youth, early manhood, and death of Studs Lonigan: Young Lonigan, The You...

Reducere. After a recent trip to his homeland, Australia's best-loved French chef, Manu Feildel, was inspired by a way of life that values the quality of foo...

Reducere. An illustrated edition of Gertrude Stein's most well-known work, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas, bursting with the bright, sophisticated, and...

Reducere. We all have a story. When your great-grandchildren's children pick up your story one day, WOW This is a treasure beyond any other treasure that you...

Reducere. Invercargill, at the far southern end of New Zealand. It's the late 1960s and two blokes sit in a modest shed drinking tea. The old bloke is tellin...

Reducere. From New York Times bestselling author Mari Andrew, a collection of essays and illustrations, divided into phases of the sky--twilight, golden hour...

Description"Riveting...A true-life mix of James Bond, Lawrence of Arabia and 'Casablanca.'" -The Wall Street Journal The astonishing untold story o...

Reducere. DescriptionPrepare to be amazed as Louise (AKA The Great Louweezie) predicts the future in the first book of this easy-to-read series Arnold is a l...

One of the New York Times Ten Best Books of the Year - A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist - A New York Times Notable Book A timely explo...

Contributor(s): Author: Michael C. HarrisAuthor: Who HqIllustrator: Jerry HoareStep back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life reb...

Reducere. Spur AwardsBrian Hall's compulsively readable novel vividly re-creates Lewis and Clark's extraordinary journey into the unknown western frontier. F...

Description"One of the most influential doctors in the UK (...) I could talk to Rangan all day (...) he's amazing"- Chris Evans **From the author o...

A thriller set in occupied France, drawn from a real life historical conspiracy which was felt at the top of the British establishment. Set to coin...

A DAILY TELEGRAPH AND BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE BOOK OF THE YEAR 2019'A remarkable book: the dramatic story of a truly extraordinary man ... brilliant' ...

Reducere. In one of his finest achievements, Nobel Prize winner Saul Bellow presents a multifaceted portrait of a modern-day hero, a man struggling with the ...

Reducere. In 1834, Richard Henry Dana Jr. left the comforts of Boston for the hardships and abuses of the most exploited segment of the American working clas...

Three stories of triumph combine to empower young readers to look inward for strength and create their own definition of bravery. Told in gentle, r...

Reducere. A heart-stopping novel of psychological suspense from the internationally bestselling author of The Wrong Mother and The Other Woman's House Ruth B...

Reducere. The most trivial slips of the tongue or pen, Freud believed, can reveal our secret ambitions, worries, and fantasies. The Psychopathology of Everyd...

In The Laws, Plato describes in fascinating detail a comprehensive system of legislation in a small agricultural utopia he named Magnesia. His laws...

These sumptuous new hardback editions mark the 70th anniversary of Fitzgerald's death.Jay Gatsby is the man who has everything. Everybody who is an...

DescriptionBeneath the cover of France's most exquisite vineyards, a city of women defy an army during World War I, from the New York Times bestsel...

1986 was a pivotal year in South African history. It was the year of the vigilante, the year of the necklace - but also the year the talking began....

Reducere. One of Entertainment Weekly's 25 most anticipated books of 2016--Matt Haig's accessible and life-affirming memoir of his struggle with depression, ...

Reducere. Drakulic's composite portrait provides a clear-eyed look at European values, and what they really amount to. --The New Yorker An evocative and time...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Salina YoonGeisel Honor-winning author/illustrator Salina Yoon's beloved character Penguin searches for his match in Pengui...

Reducere. ``Nezhukumatathil's poems contain elegant twists of a very sharp knife. She writes about the natural world and how we live in it, filling each poem...

Reducere. Description"Fascinating . . . Ad le has glanced at the covenant of modern womanhood--the idea that you can have it all or should at least die tryin...

Reducere. What would you do if your life turned upside down overnight? Witnessing the devastation of 9/11 before his eyes and narrowly escaping death, Kushal...

In this portrait of life in Ancient Rome, the author begins by painting a backcloth on which the social, political, cultural and religious aspects ...

Why do so many of us love or hate our work? How has it come to dominate our lives? And what should we do about it?Work makes us. Without it we are ...

Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relativel...

Reducere. " A] definitive work of millennial literature . . . wretchedly riveting." --Jia Tolentino, The New Yorker "Girls + Office Space + My Year of Rest a...

For Willi Kufult, prison life means staying out of trouble, keeping his cell clean, snagging a precious piece of tobacco - and dreaming of the day ...

The Dalai Lama serves as a living symbol of holiness and selfless triumph over tribulation for people of all religious traditions-as well as those ...

DescriptionThis heartwarming book celebrates the love that fathers and children share in the animal kingdom, while also teaching young readers abou...

Reducere. To understand the most contentious issues around religious liberty, this volume provides influential philosophical ideas from the U.S.'s founding t...

DescriptionContemporary / British English These stories paint colourful pictures of life in Britain and America in the past. We meet some unusual p...

Leads us on a kind of psychic Grand Tour, in which a latter-day Candide named Hippolyte's violently imaginative dream life becomes indistinguishabl...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2020After The Childhood of Jesus and The Schooldays of Jesus, the Nobel Prize-winning author completes his hauntin...

Mrs Jordan's Profession is the acclaimed biography of Dora Jordan by bestselling author Claire Tomalin 'Intelligent, finely made and wonderfully re...

The phenomenal "Sunday Times" bestseller "Periodic Tales" by Hugh Andersey-Williams, packed with fascinating stories and unexpected information abo...

The Life and Death of Mary Wollstonecraft is the acclaimed bestselling biography by Claire Tomalin Winner of the Whitbread First Book Prize Witty, ...

Conventional thinking says that entrepreneurship is all about excitement and big bets, while traditional career paths are all about stability. But ...

Publisher: Pearson Education LimitedAuthor(s): Nathanael WestNumber of pages: 240Collection: Penguin Modern ClassicsPublication date: 2000Dimension...

Michael L. Printz AwardNina LaCour's award-winning, achingly beautiful novel is now available in paperback -Includes a new foreword by Nicola Yoon,...

Reducere. Emily and Austin have a reputation for delivering heartwarming, provoking, and real contemporary YA novels.--BuzzFeed Fitz Holton waits in fear for...

The powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system, now with a new introduction With precision, vitality, and a fury that earned him prai...

*** now nominated for six oscars, including best picture, supporting actor and supporting actress *** Lion is the heartbreaking and inspiring origi...

Frog is a richly complex new novel about China's one-child policy by Mo Yan, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2012.Gugu is beautiful, charis...

Catherine Alliott, bestselling author of One Day in May and A Crowded Marriage, takes a heart-warming look at what happens when your whole world is...

Dreamy, scatty and impossibly romantic, Polly McLaren is a secretary in an advertising agency, but the day a stranger on a train catches her eye, h...

"The greatest object in the universe, says a certain philosopher, is a good man struggling with adversity." When Dr Primrose loses his fortune in a...

A Sunday Times and Financial Times Book of the YearWhat happens in our brains when we wake up, savour a meal or a glass of wine, walk the dog, star...

Rowan came back from the shamans in Mongolia a changed boy. The three most debilitating effects of his autism - his incontinence, his endless tantr...

Why would a man in Morocco who doesn't have enough to eat buy a television? Why do the poorest people in India spend 7 percent of their food budget...

DescriptionChannel the power of your inner ocean goddess, their life and style, mythology and spirituality. Mermaid Magic will inspire you to creat...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

A collection of tales that range from one man's honeymooning epiphany in "Hassan's Tower" to the journeying fantasies of "A Voyage to Cythera", and...

It is the fiesta 'Day of the Dead' in the small Mexican town of Quauhnahuac. In the shadow of the volcano, ragged children beg coins to buy skulls ...

Leventhal is a natural victim; a man uncertain of himself, never free from the nagging suspicion that the other guy may be right. So when he meets ...

From the same author that brought us The Little Book of Hygge, this book reveals the secret to filling your life with happy moments, and how to rem...

The simple but profound story of a life of detachment through wandering and prayer, and one of the most widely circulated prayer guides in the worl...

THE TOP TEN BESTSELLERLONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE 2022'A deeply emotional love story that follows one day in the life of Elle Bishop as she na...

Gideon calls me his angel, but he's the miracle in my life. My gorgeous, wounded warrior, so determined to slay my demons while refusing to face hi...

Farewell, My Lovely is a classic novel by Raymond Chandler, the master of hard-boiled crime. Eight years ago Moose Malloy and cute little redhead V...

Nobel prize winner and author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals i...

The notorious and celebrated novel that established modern realism For this novel of French bourgeois life in all its inglorious banality, Flaubert...

Deliciously dark and fantastically funny, Rachel's Holiday is the story of a young woman living life rather too well until the day she takes it too...