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Great Expectations
Great ExpectationsBy Charles DickensIn an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan boy named Pip. The convict terrifies Pip and threatens to kill him unless the boy helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in a ruined garden where he meets the embittered and crazy Miss H...
Frogs and Other Plays
Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated by David Barrett with revisions, an i...
I Ching or Book of Changes: Ancient Chinese wisdom to inspire and enlighten
At least 5000 years old, the "I Ching" is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience. Used for divination, it is a method of exploring the unconscious; through the symbolism of its hexagrams we are guided towards the solution of difficult problems and life situations. It can also be read...
The Confessions of Nat Turner
A first-person narrative that depicts a good man's transformation into an avenging angel. A Pulitzer Prize winner. In 1831 Nat Turner awaits death in a Virginia jail cell. He is a slave, a preacher, and the leader of the only effective slave revolt in the history of 'that peculiar institution'. William ...
Puss in Boots
Imagine how Jacques feels when he learns that his older brothers have inherited the mill and the donkey, and all he's got is the CAT! Well, he's not fed up for long, because he soon discovers that Puss is no ordinary cat...Not only can he talk (which is pretty unusual for a cat), but he's also got brain...
Seven Deadly Sins
'I was 22 years old, a hard-on with a pulse: wretched vice-ridden, too much to burn and not enough minutes in a hour to do so. 1995 was a full 365-day year of drinking, fucking, lying, raging and exploration for me - not a dull one in the bunch. It was a time of self-shit: self-importance, self-absorpti...
The Geek Manifesto: Why Science Matters
Whether we want to improve education or cut crime, to enhance public health or to generate clean energy, we need the experimental methods of science - the best tool humanity has yet developed for working out what works. Yet from the way we're governed to the news we're fed by the media we're let down by...
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle Designer Edition
The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-winkle was first published in 1905, and is as charming today as it was then. It tells the tale of a hidden home high in the hills. It is discovered one day by a little girl called Lucie, who is in search of her missing pocket handkerchiefs. She knocks on the tiny door, and meets Mr...
Across the Barricades (Kevin and Sadie #2)
Across the Barricades is part of Joan Lingard's ground-breaking Kevin and Sadie series, the sequel to The Twelfth Day of July. Both books are part of The Originals from Penguin - iconic, outspoken, first. Kevin and Sadie just want to be together, but it's not that simple. Things are bad in Belfast. Sold...
Saving Itsy Bitsy (Vet Cadets #3)
Abbey, Hannah and Talika are new recruits at Willowvale boarding school's Vet Cadets program. And what a year it is turning out to be! Henrietta, the school pig, has had a very large litter of piglets. But something is wrong with Itsy Bitsy, the smallest piglet, and the girls must work together to fight...
Think Like an Anthropologist
How does anthropology help us understand who we are? What can it tell us about culture, from Melanesia to the City of London? Why does it matter? For well over one hundred years, social and cultural anthropologists have traversed the world from urban Zimbabwe to suburban England, Beijing to Barcelona, u...
Thinking Without A Banister: Essays in Understanding, 1953-1975
Hannah Arendt; Jerome Kohn (Editor)
Hannah Arendt was born in Germany in 1906 and lived in America from 1941 until her death in 1975. Thus her life spanned the tumultuous years of the twentieth century, as did her thought. She did not consider herself a philosopher, though she studied and maintained close relationships with two great phil...
Who Was Joan of Arc?
Joan of Arc was born in a small French village during the worst period of the Hundred Years' War. For generations, France had been besieged by the British. At age 11, Joan began to see religious visions telling her to join forces with the King of France Joan of Arc was born in a small French village du...
The Connector Manager: Why Some Leaders Build Exceptional Talent-and Others Don't
Jaime Roca; Sari Wilde; Audrey Taylor
The best managers work smarter, not harder After conducting a unique global study of over 9,000 people, analysts at the world-leading sales research firm Gartner identified four distinct types of manager. Incredibly, they found one type consistently performs far better than the rest, and it wasn't the...
A Slow Fire Burning
The scorching new thriller from Sunday Times No.1 bestseller author of The Girl on the Train 'What is wrong with you?' Laura has spent most of her life being judged. She's seen as hot-tempered, troubled, a loner. Some even call her dangerous. Miriam knows that just because Laura is witnessed leaving the...
Ragna Crimson 06
In this action-packed dark fantasy, humanity lives under the threat of annihilation by immensely powerful dragons. The dragon hunter Ragna embarks on a revenge-fueled quest to eliminate that threat once and for all! Together with the Argentum Corps, Ragna and Crimson face off against a swarm of drag...
The Shape of Dust (PB)
An incredible true tale of overcoming injustice and ode to the fierce love within one family, The Shape of Dust is a haunting appraisal of the way Australia treats its citizens, both at home and abroad. In 2018, on his way to a family holiday in Cairo, Australian-Egyptian citizen Hazem Hamouda disappea...
Foul Play
The heart-stopping new crime thriller in the Detective Jack Hawksworth series by blockbuster author Fiona McIntosh. Superstar footballer Luca Bruni is being blackmailed for a night of lust he swears he didn't participate in...except the ransom photo denies that. A media darling on and off the field, he...
Futari Escape Vol. 4
EDITORIAL ESCAPEKouhai is hard-pressed by deadlines (what's new?) and is looking (as she always is) for ways to lighten the mood. The difference? This time, she and her unemployed partner-in-crime Senpai are embarking on a journey to escape the realities of adulthood--with the help of her editor!The fin...
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