Penguin Books
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The Hour Between Dog and Wolf: How Risk Taking Transforms Us, Body and Mind
$19.00 Add to cart“Brilliant.” —David Brooks, The New York Times
“A profoundly unconventional book . . . So absorbing that I wound up reading it twice.” —Bloomberg Finalist for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs B- Author: Coates, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143123408
- Language: English
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The White Hotel
$24.00 Add to cartThe million copy, Booker Prize finalist, besteller
“To describe this novel as spine-tingling in its indescribable poetic effect would be to trivialize its profoundly tragic theme. Say then that it is- Author: Thomas, D. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140231730
- Language: English
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Drop City
$24.00 Add to cartIt is 1970, and a down-at-the-heels California commune devoted to peace, free love, and the simple life has decided to relocate to the last frontier–the unforgiving landscape of interior Alaska–in t… [more below]
- Author: Boyle, T. C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: January 27 2004
- ISBN10: 0142003808
- Language: English
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Yugoslavia: Death of a Nation
$17.00 Add to cart“The most authoritative account in English or any other language about how the war began.”–The Washington Post Book World. “An essential resource for anyone of the conflict.”–The New York Times Book… [more below]
- Author: Silber, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: February 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0140262636
- Language: English
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The Meritocracy Trap: How America’s Foundational Myth Feeds Inequality, Dismantles the Middle Class, and Devours the Elite
$18.00 Add to cartA revolutionary new argument from eminent Yale Law professor Daniel Markovits attacking the false promise of meritocracy
It is an axiom of American life that advantage should be earned through abilit- Author: Markovits, Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 0735222010
- Language: English
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The Tao of Love and Sex: The Ancient Chinese Way to Ecstasy
$20.00 Add to cartTwo thousand years ago, at a time when the Christian West was frantically repressing sexuality, the Chinese were enjoying an erotic life that fused the sensual and the spiritual, in which sexual guilt… [more below]
- Series: Compass
- Author: Chang, Jolan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 16 1991
- ISBN10: 0140193383
- Language: English
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The Vikings: A History
$20.00 Read moreA comprehensive and thrilling history of the Vikings for fans of the History Channel series, soon to return for its fifth season
From Harald Bluetooth to Cnut the Great, the feared seamen and plundere- Author: Ferguson, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 28 2010
- ISBN10: 0143118013
- Language: English
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The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy
$23.00 Read moreIn this pioneering new work, celebrated historian David Nasaw examines the life of Joseph P. Kennedy, the founder of the twentieth century’s most famous political dynasty. Drawing on never-before-publ… [more below]
- Author: Nasaw, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 912
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0143124072
- Language: English
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The House of Wisdom: How Arabic Science Saved Ancient Knowledge and Gave Us the Renaissance
$19.00 Add to cartA myth-shattering view of the Islamic world’s myriad scientific innovations and the role they played in sparking the European Renaissance.
Many of the innovations that we think of as hallmarks of Wes
- Author: Al-Khalili, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0143120565
- Language: English
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Sea Power: The History and Geopolitics of the World’s Oceans
$19.00 Add to cartFrom one of the most admired admirals of his generation–and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO–comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies o… [more below]
- Author: Stavridis, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 05 2018
- ISBN10: 0735220611
- Language: English
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Life & Times of Michael K
$16.00 Read moreFrom author of Waiting for the Barbarians and Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee.
J.M. Coetzee’s latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be availa- Author: Coetzee, J. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: January 08 1985
- ISBN10: 0140074481
- Language: English
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Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation
$19.00 Add to cartWhat motivates us as students, employees, and individuals?
If you reward your children for doing their homework, they will usually respond by getting it done. But is this the most effective method of- Author: Deci, Edward L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: August 01 1996
- ISBN10: 0140255265
- Language: English
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Astral Weeks: A Secret History of 1968
$19.00 Add to cartA mind-expanding dive into a lost chapter of 1968, featuring the famous and forgotten: Van Morrison, folkie-turned-cult-leader Mel Lyman, Timothy Leary, James Brown, and many more
Van Morrison’s Astr- Author: Walsh, Ryan H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 05 2019
- ISBN10: 0735221367
- Language: English
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A Legacy of Spies
$17.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
From the New York Times bestselling author of Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service,- Author: Le Carr?, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 01 2018
- ISBN10: 0735225133
- Language: English
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Certain Magical Acts
$28.00 Add to cartAn important new work of poetry from Alice Notley, winner of the 2015 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize
Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the vision- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Notley, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 07 2016
- ISBN10: 0143108166
- Language: English
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The Glassmaker
$19.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Historical Novel of 2024 by The Sunday Times, The Independent, and BookPage
A Parade and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of June “This charming fable is at once a love story that ski- Author: Chevalier, Tracy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 0525558292
- Language: English
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The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
$21.00 Add to cartThe instant New York Times bestseller – Named a Best Book of the Year by TIME, NPR, People, Town & Country, and Air Mail
“Warm and perceptive.” —New York Times “Griffin Dunne knows how to tell a stor- Author: Dunne, Griffin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 0593652843
- Language: English
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End of Empire
$20.00 Add to cartFrom a prizewinning poet whose work “points to an unfathomably bright future for the canon” (Danez Smith), a stunningly lush collection about desire, resilience, and our fraught and ecstatic relations… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Poets
- Author: Davis, Marissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0143138472
- Language: English
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First Frost: A Longmire Mystery
$18.00 Add to cartThe past and future collide in this gripping new addition to the beloved New York Times bestselling Longmire series.
It’s the summer of 1964, and recent college graduates Walt Longmire and Henry Stand- Series: Longmire Mystery
- Author: Johnson, Craig
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0593830695
- Language: English
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Can I Go Now?: The Life of Sue Mengers, Hollywood’s First Superagent
$27.00 Add to cart“To call Sue Mengers a ‘character’ is an understatement, unless the word is written in all-caps, followed by an exclamation point and modified by an expletive. And based on Brian Kellow’s assessment i… [more below]
- Author: Kellow, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 06 2016
- ISBN10: 0143108875
- Language: English
