A Day in the Life of a Penguin

This brutal, shattering glimpse of the fate of millions of Russians under Stalin shook Russia and shocked the world when it first appeared. Discove...

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

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...

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

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. 'The hottest book of the summer' JOSIE SILVER, author of bestselling One Day in December'The perfect escapist romp' LAURA JANE WILLIAMS, author of ...

FROM THE BOOKER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF GIRL, WOMAN, OTHER'Wildly entertaining, deeply affecting' Ali SmithLondinium, AD 211. Zuleika is a modern g...

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...

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...

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

Reducere. It's a Christmas miracle The Golden Girls are back by popular demand in a holiday Mad Libs fit for a queen... or four. Merry Christmas from sunny M...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Give young nature explorers and zoologists an exciting way to learn about the icy homes, physical features, and behaviours of this Antarctic bird b...

Ahmed drives his donkey cart through the streets of Cairo, delivering butane gas cylinders to his father's customers. He knows everyone and has a p...

A collection of modernist short stories which create a picture of the day-to-day experience of Dublin life. The author stories are rooted in the ri...

In 1975 Kapuscinski flew into Luanda in Angola, to cover the murderous civil war that had broken out after independence. This book is a record of h...

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

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 ...

The inspirational work that has been guiding Benedictine monks for fifteen centuries Founder of a monastery at Monte Cassino, between Rome and Napl...

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdAuthor(s): Nuala EllwoodNumber of pages: 336Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 198 x 130 x 23Cover type: Paperback / sof...

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

Description'After my death, ' George V said of his eldest son and heir, 'the boy will ruin himself within twelve months.' The forecast proved uncan...

DescriptionRichard I's reign is both controversial and seemingly contradictory. One of England's most famous medieval monarchs and a potent symbol ...

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...

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

"One of the greatest writers of the twentieth century . . . Simenon was unequaled at making us look inside, though the ability was masked by his br...

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...

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

Short stories that are bigger on the inside. Tracking three extraordinary short adventures from across the Whoniverse, The Triple Knife is the firs...

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 ...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

DescriptionNow in mass market paperback, discover a high stakes world with unexpected and sinister twists that's "visual, kinetic, and furiously pa...

Elmore Green started life as an only child, as many children do. He had a room all to himself, and everything in it was his. But one day, everythin...

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

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...

Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink.When wait...

Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink.When weal...

Reducere. Including an introduction from writer and feminist activist Scarlett Curtis, curator of Sunday Times Bestseller Feminists Don't Wear Pink.New movie...

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

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

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

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

Philosopher, astronomer and mathematician, Khayyam as a poet possesses a singular originality. His poetry is richly charged with evocative power an...

From number 1 New York Times bestselling author Marie Lu - when a game called Warcross takes the world by storm, one girl hacks her way into its da...

As soon as Pollyanna arrives in Beldingsville to live with her strict and dutiful maiden aunt, she begins to brighten up everybodys life. The glad ...

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...

Part of Ella Bailey's acclaimed series of nonfiction for young readers, we follow a young penguin through a day in its life in the Antarctic.

Reducere. Discover the importance of a piece of bread or an extra bowl of soup, the incredible luxury of a book, a piece of string or a single match in a wor...

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...

"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...

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

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

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. 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...

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