Penguin Books
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The Manuscripts Club: The People Behind a Thousand Years of Medieval Manuscripts
$26.00 Add to cart* A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice *
The acclaimed author of Meetings with Remarkable Manuscripts introduces us to the extraordinary keepers and companions of medieval manuscripts over a t- Author: de Hamel, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0525559434
- Language: English
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The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
$27.00 Add to cartIn this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coal… [more below]
- Author: Nash, Gary B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: May 30 2006
- ISBN10: 014303720X
- Language: English
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Conquest of the Useless: Fever Dreams in the Jungle
$18.00 Read moreNewly repackaged as a Penguin paperback, Conquest of the Useless, the legendary filmmaker Werner Herzog’s diary of the making of Fitzcarraldo, one of his most revered and classic films
In 1982, the vi- Author: Herzog, Werner
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0593832132
- Language: English
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Charles Dickens: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartWith the delectable wit, unforgettable characters, and challenging themes that won her a Pulitzer Prize and national bestseller status, Jane Smiley naturally finds a kindred spirit in the author of cl… [more below]
- Author: Smiley, Jane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 29 2011
- ISBN10: 0143119923
- Language: English
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Children of the Savage City
$20.00 Add to cartSome cities feed on secrets. Naples is ravenous.
A peaceful evening mass at the historic Chiesa del Ges? Nuovo is shattered when a young au pair is killed in one of the cathedral’s quiet chapels. The- Author: Heider, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 17 2026
- ISBN10: 0143138197
- Language: English
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A Treasury of Yiddish Stories: Revised and Updated Edition
$32.00 Add to cartFifty-two Yiddish short stories describe life in the shetl and other aspects of the Jewish experience, and include works produced by Jewish writers during the last two centuries.
- Author: Howe, Irving
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140144196
- Language: English
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Comandante: Hugo Ch?vez’s Venezuela
$27.00 Add to cart“An impressively well-researched and readable portrait . . . a useful reminder of what el Comandante did and didn’t achieve, how he got away with it, and the danger of statesmen-as-showmen whose promi… [more below]
- Author: Carroll, Rory
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0143124889
- Language: English
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Zapata
$32.00 Add to cartBefore there was Viva Zapata!, the acclaimed film for which John Steinbeck received Academy Award nominations for best story and screenplay, there was the original Zapata.
In the research library of UC
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140173226
- Language: English
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Horse Sense for People: The Man Who Listens to Horses Talks to People
$27.00 Add to cartFrom the author of the #1 bestseller The Man Who Listens to Horses
“Monty Roberts will make you marvel.”–The New York Times Book Review
In The Man Who Listens to Horses, Monty Roberts revealed the dept… [more below]- Author: Roberts, Monty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 28 2002
- ISBN10: 0142000973
- Language: English
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American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity
$32.00 Add to cartThe critically acclaimed author of Patriots offers profound insight into Vietnam’s place in America’s self-image
How did the Vietnam War change the way we think of ourselves as a people and a nation?- Author: Appy, Christian G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0143128345
- Language: English
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Amongst Women
$14.00 Add to cartMichael Moran is an old Irish Republican whose life was forever transformed by his days of glory as a guerrilla leader in the Irish War of Independence. Moran is till fighting with his family, his fri… [more below]
- Author: McGahern, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0140092552
- Language: English
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My First 500 Words: Abcs, Numbers, Shapes, Colors, Animals & More a Vibrant Picture Dictionary for Toddlers to Learn First Words I Ages 1+ [Penguin Ea
$7.99 Add to cartMy First 500 Words is the ultimate early learning companion for curious little minds. This beautifully illustrated picture book introduces preschoolers to 500 essential first words across a variety of… [more below]
- Author: Books, Penguin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 9815127640
- Language: English
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Mrs. Hemingway
$24.00 Add to cartThe Paris Wife was only the beginning of the story . . .
Paula McLain’s New York Times-bestselling novel piqued readers’ interest
A New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice
A Richard & Judy UK Pick- Author: Wood, Naomi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 27 2014
- ISBN10: 0143124617
- Language: English
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The Calico Cat at the Chibineko Kitchen: The Heartwarming Japanese Cat Novel about Fate and the Healing Power of Food
$18.00 Add to cartFollow the seashell path along Tokyo Bay until you get to the Chibineko Kitchen, where a traditional Japanese meal can summon anyone you choose from your past, but only for as long as it continues to … [more below]
- Series: Meals to Remember at the Chibineko Kitchen
- Author: Takahashi, Yuta
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 24 2026
- ISBN10: 0143138626
- Language: English
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Working Days: The Journals of the Grapes of Wrath
$27.00 Add to cartJohn Steinbeck wrote The Grapes of Wrath during an astonishing burst of activity between June and October of 1938. Throughout the time he was creating his greatest work, Steinbeck faithfully kept a jo… [more below]
- Author: Steinbeck, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0140144579
- Language: English
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Revelations: Visions, Prophecy, and Politics in the Book of Revelation
$18.00 Add to cartA profound exploration of the Bible’s most controversial book–from the bestselling author of Beyond Belief and The Gnostic Gospels
The strangest book of the New Testament, filled with visions of the- Author: Pagels, Elaine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 26 2013
- ISBN10: 0143121634
- Language: English
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When Harlem Was in Vogue
$27.00 Add to cart“A major study…one that thorougly interweaves the philosophies and fads, the people and movements that combined to give a small segment of Afro America a brief place in the sun.”–The New York Times… [more below]
- Author: Lewis, David Levering
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: June 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140263349
- Language: English
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Visions of Gerard
$24.00 Add to cartThe first novella in Jack Kerouac’s Duluoz Legend, detailing the writer’s early life as refracted through the prism of the untimely loss of his brother
“The earliest and most heartfelt chapter of Kero- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: June 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0140144528
- Language: English
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Girls at War: And Other Stories
$24.00 Add to cart“Twelve stories by the internationally renowned novelist which recreate with energy and authenticity the major social and political issues that confront contemporary Africans on a daily basis.”–
Autho… [more below]
- Author: Achebe, Chinua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0385418965
- Language: English
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Rosa Parks: A Life
$27.00 Add to cartFifty years after she made history by refusing to give up her seat on a bus, Rosa Parks at last gets the major biography she deserves. The eminent historian Douglas Brinkley follows this thoughtful an… [more below]
- Author: Brinkley, Douglas G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0143036009
- Language: English
