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High Fidelity: Popular Penguins by Nick Hornby
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserabl ...Show more
Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
With honesty and insight Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV.The mid-seventies - at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of ...Show more
How Language Works: Popular Penguins by David Crystal
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins500
David Crystal's How Language Worksis a fascinating tour through the world of language from one of today's most renowned experts. It ranges over everything from how children learn to read to what makes words rude or polite, from eyebrow flashes to whistling languages. Unlocking the secrets of communicati ...Show more
How the Light Gets In: Popular Penguins by M.J. Hyland
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
HOW THE LIGHT GETS IN is a cleverly observed, complex story of a girl on the verge of adulthood, whose world--like Holden Caulfield’s before her--is full of mixed messages. Louise Connor, a precocious and unhappy Australian 16-year-old, is offered a place as an exchange student in America. But when Lou’ ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
I, Claudius: Popular Penguins by Robert Graves
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Bringing to life the subterfuge and double-dealing of Roman nobility, Robert Graves's I, Claudius brings the ancient world to life with startling clarity and meticulous realism. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is a includes an introduction by Barry Unsworth.Despised for his weakness and regarded by ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan ...Show more
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.The literary heritage of the Bronte sisters entered the treasury of national English culture g ...Show more
Journey from Venice - A memoir by Ruth Cracknell
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
The Serene City beckons, promising Paradise regained for Ruth Cracknell and her husband, Eric, as they set forth on a carefully planned holiday. What they are seeking is time. Time to think, time to gaze, time for each other. But from the moment the holiday becomes an uncharted journey, their time is me ...Show more
Junky (Popular Penguins) by William S. Burroughs
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Junk is not, like alcohol or a weed, a means to increased enjoyment of life. Junk is not a kick. It is a way of life. In his debut novel, Junky, Burroughs fictionalized his experiences using and peddling heroin and other drugs in the 1950s into a work that reads like a field report from the underworld o ...Show more
Keep the Aspidistra Flying: Popular Penguins by George Orwell
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A novel by the author of 1984 about a man determined to reject middle-class values who finds living in noble poverty more difficult than expected. Gordon Comstock despises the materialism and shallowness of middle-class life--the worship of money, the striving for dull, stuffy respectability. To live ...Show more