Penguin Books
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City at the Edge of Forever: Los Angeles Reimagined
$18.00 Add to cartAn engaging account of the uniquely creative spirit and bustling cultural ecology of contemporary Los Angeles
How did Los Angeles start the 20th century as a dusty frontier town and end up a century l- Author: Lunenfeld, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 0525561951
- Language: English
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A Man on the Moon: The Voyages of the Apollo Astronauts
$23.00 Add to cart“The authoritative masterpiece” (L. A. Times) on the Apollo space program and NASA’s journey to the moon
This acclaimed portrait of heroism and ingenuity captures a watershed moment in human history.- Author: Chaikin, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 01 2007
- ISBN10: 014311235X
- Language: English
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The Deluge: The Great War, America and the Remaking of the Global Order, 1916-1931
$21.00 Add to cartA searing and highly original analysis of the First World War and its anguished aftermath–from the prizewinning economist and author of Shutdown, Crashed and The Wages of Destruction
Winner of the L- Author: Tooze, Adam
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 0143127977
- Language: English
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The Night Ocean
$19.00 Read moreFrom the award-winning author and New Yorker contributor, a riveting novel about secrets and scandals, psychiatry and pulp fiction, inspired by the lives of H.P. Lovecraft and his circle.
Marina Wille- Author: La Farge, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: April 03 2018
- ISBN10: 1101981091
- Language: English
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China Room
$17.00 Read moreLONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE
“Sunjeev Sahota’s new novel follows cha
LONGLISTED FOR THE AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION’S CARNEGIE MEDAL
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2021 BY NPR, TIME, AND THE STAR-TRIBUNE- Author: Sahota, Sunjeev
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0593298225
- Language: English
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The Stuff of Thought: Language as a Window Into Human Nature
$20.00 Read moreThis New York Times bestseller is an exciting and fearless investigation of language from the author of Rationality, The Better Angels of Our Nature and The Sense of Style and Enlightenment Now.
“Curi- Author: Pinker, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: September 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143114247
- Language: English
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After the Last Border: Two Families and the Story of Refuge in America
$19.00 Add to cartThe story of two refugee families and their hope and resilience as they fight to survive and belong in America
The welcoming and acceptance of immigrants and refugees has been central to America’s ide- Author: Goudeau, Jessica
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: August 03 2021
- ISBN10: 0525559159
- Language: English
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Tales of a Shaman’s Apprentice: An Ethnobotanist Searches for New Medicines in the Rain Forest
$19.00 Read moreThe fascinating account of a pioneering ethnobotanist’s travels in the Amazon–at once a gripping adventure story, a passionate argument for conservationism, and an investigation into the healing powe… [more below]
- Author: Plotkin, Mark J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 1994
- ISBN10: 014012991X
- Language: English
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A Star Called Henry
$24.00 Add to cartRoddy Doyle’s acclaimed novel about an intrepid Irishman’s years of reckless heroism and adventure – “An extraordinarily entertaining epic.” (The Washington Post)
Born at the beginning of the twentiet- Series: Last Roundup #1
- Author: Doyle, Roddy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 05 2004
- ISBN10: 0143034618
- Language: English
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Last Night at the Lobster
$16.00 Read moreA frank and funny yet emotionally resonant tale set within a vivid work day world, from the author of Emily, Alone and Henry, Himself–named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, the San Fra… [more below]
- Author: O’Nan, Stewart
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: October 28 2008
- ISBN10: 0143114425
- Language: English
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Stealing Buddha’s Dinner
$18.00 Read moreWinner of the PEN/Jerard Award
“[A] perfectly pitched and prodigiously detailed memoir.” – Boston Globe As a Vietnamese girl coming of age in
Chicago Tribune Best Book of the Year
Kiriyama Notable Book- Author: Nguyen, Bich Minh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0143113038
- Language: English
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WAIS Na Misis: The Wise Homemaker
$15.99 Read moreDiscover the WAIS ways of Mrs Neri Miranda If you have enjoyed and learned from the snippets of my life as a ‘ Wais Na Misis’, through my Instagram and Facebook posts, you’ll most certainly get a kick… [more below]
- Author: Miranda, Neri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 9815162039
- Language: English
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My Inner Sky: On Embracing Day, Night, and All the Times in Between
$22.00 Read moreFrom New York Times bestselling author Mari Andrew, a collection of essays and illustrations, divided into phases of the sky–twilight, golden hour, night, and dawn–that serves as a loyal companion f… [more below]
- Author: Andrew, Mari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: March 02 2021
- ISBN10: 0143135244
- Language: English
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Visions of Cody
$32.00 Add to cart“What I’m beginning to discover now is something beyond the novel and beyond the arbitrary confines of the story. . . . I’m making myself seek to find the wild form, that can grow with my wild heart .… [more below]
- Author: Kerouac, Jack
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 01 1993
- ISBN10: 0140179070
- Language: English
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American Political Speeches
$16.00 Add to cartA selection of speeches by the most inspiring and persuasive orators in American history
Penguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and–above all–essential reads from American political- Series: Penguin Civic Classics
- Author: Golway, Terry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 28 2012
- ISBN10: 0143121952
- Language: English
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This Is Not a Book
$16.00 Add to cartFrom the internationally bestselling creator of Wreck This Journal, a curious, engaging, and creative rethinking of all the different things a book can be.
In this uniquely skewed look at the purpose- Author: Smith, Keri
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0399535217
- Language: English
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Wicked Fox
$13.99 Add to cartAn addictive fantasy-romance set in modern-day Seoul.
Eighteen-year-old Gu Miyoung has a secret–she’s a gumiho, a nine-tailed fox who must devour the energy of men in order to survive. Because so few- Author: Cho, Kat
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 21 2020
- ISBN10: 198481236X
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
$20.00 Read moreThis definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama
Defined by waves of idealism- Author: MacArthur, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0241982308
- Language: English
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The Sicilian Method
$16.00 Read moreIn the new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series, Montalbano finds his answers to a murder in a theatrical play
Mimi Augello is visiting his lover wh- Series: Inspector Montalbano Mystery
- Author: Camilleri, Andrea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 06 2020
- ISBN10: 0143134973
- Language: English
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River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West
$18.00 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, The Mark Lynton History Prize, and the Sally Hacker Prize for the History of Technology “A panoramic visio- Author: Solnit, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 02 2004
- ISBN10: 0142004103
- Language: English
