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The Ruba'iyat of Omar Khayyam
Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his "Ruba'iyat". The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express personal feelings, beliefs and doubts with wit and clarity, and Khayyam became one ...
My Father's Dragon - Three Stories
The classic fantasy trilogy of Elmer Elevator and the flying baby dragon hasdelighted children and their parents for generations. Now, on the occasion oftheir fiftieth anniversary, Random House is proud to bring the three timelesstales together in one beautiful commemorative edition, complete with theor...
All Souls
"All Souls" is a compelling black comedy of Oxford life by Javier Marias, whose highly-anticipated new novel "The Infatuations" is published in 2013. This Penguin Modern Classics edition features a new Introduction by John Banville, author of "The Sea". The pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracts many e...
Our Australian Girl: Meet Pearlie (Book 1)
Join Pearlie, a young girl living in WWII-era Australia, as she tries to prove that her best friend isn't a spyIt's 1941. . . and the war is changing Pearlie's life every day. Darwin is full of soldiers, there's a spy on the loose, and people are turning against Pearlie's best friend, Naoko, just becaus...
The Art of Joy
Goliarda Sapienza's The Art of Joy was written over a nine year span, from 1967 to 1976. At the time of her death in 1996, Sapienza had published nothing in a decade, having been unable to find a publisher for what was to become her most celebrated work, due to its perceived immorality. One publisher's ...
Mr Kafka
Enter the gas-lit streets of post-war Prague, the steelworks run by singed men, the covered market that smells of new-born babes, the cacophonous open-air dance hall. Mr Kafka is avoiding his landlady's blueberry wine breath, a stonemason witnesses the destruction of a monument to Stalin he risked his l...
Magic Feet (Ellyse Perry #2)
"When cricket season is over, there's only one thing to do . . . play soccer!Soccer season is here and Ellyse is desperate to pull on her boots and start dribbling and defending. Unlike club cricket where she is the only girl on the team, her best friends Charlie and Jazz also play soccer and it's so mu...
Clementine Rose Collection Three
Three Clementine Rose stories in one gorgeous collection Clementine Rose was delivered not in the usual way, at a hospital, but in the back of a mini-van, in a basket of dinner rolls. So begins the story of a lovely little girl who lives in Penberthy Floss in a large ramshackle house with her mother, La...
The Penguin History of Modern Russia: From Tsarism to the Twenty-First Century, Fifth Edition
Revised and updated with a new introduction and new final chapter.Russia's recent past has encompassed revolution, civil war, mass terror and two world wars, and the country is still undergoing huge change and upheaval.In his acclaimed history, now updated to 2009, Robert Service provides a superb panor...
Killer in the Kremlin: The instant bestseller - a gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny
An explosive account of Putin's presidency and his long-term ambitions, including first-hand reporting from the invasion of Ukraine.THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER - NOW UPDATED WITH FOUR NEW CHAPTERS'This swashbuckling book is a furious attack on the Russian president. Killer in the Kremlin traces ...
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