Penguin Books (2781 kníh )
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David Ezra Stein Leaves ENThis simple, charming story of a young bear's first autumn is perfectly suited to board book format. Bear is surprised when the leaves start falling off the trees, but when he tries to reattach them, it doesn't work. Eventually, he gets sleepy, and burrows into the fallen leaves for a long nap. When he wakes up, it's spring-and there are suddenly brand-new leaves all around, seeming to welcome him. With its…
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Tim Weiner Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA ENAll-powerful, brilliant, decisive, ruthlessly effective ... this is the image of the CIA as portrayed in countless films and novels. It is wrong. This shocking book, based on thousands of declassified documents and interviews with agents at all levels, shows the reality behind the glamorous myth: a blundering, chaotic and dangerously incompetent organization, so ineffective it was nicknamed 'Can't Identify Anything…
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Marie Lu Legend ENLos Angeles, California. Republic of America. He is Day. The boy who walks in the light. She is June. The girl who seeks her brother's killer. On the run and undercover, they meet by chance. Irresistably drawn together, neither knows the other's past. But Day murdered June's brother. And she has sworn to avenge his death.
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Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary ENDiscover everything you need to know about Lego Star WarsT sets and minifigures. If you love Lego Star Wars, then the updated and expanded edition of Lego Star Wars: The Visual Dictionary, complete with a rare and exclusive Lego Star Wars minifigure is perfect for you. You can learn all about Lego Star Wars ships, weapons, and even the Death Star through amazing Star Wars images and incredible details. You can come…
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Catherine Merridale Lenin on the Train ENA gripping account of how, in the depths of the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a 'sealed train' across Europe and changed the history of the worldBy 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stalemate that was itself destroying Europe. In the German government a small group of men had a brilliant idea: why…
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Victor Hugo Les Misérables ENThe first new Penguin Classics translation in forty years of Victor Hugo's masterpiece—published in a stunning Graphic Deluxe edition. The subject of the world's longest-running musical and the recent Academy Award-nominated and BAFTA-winning film starring Hugh Jackman and Anne Hathaway, Les MisErables is a genuine literary treasure. Victor Hugo's tale of injustice, heroism, and love follows the fortunes of Jean…
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Lesley Pearse Lesser Evil ENWhen Fifi moves to London with her bricklayer boyfriend Dan, her mother is outraged. Despite initial feelings of horror at her new surroundings, Fifi finds the freedom from her middle-class family background exhilarating.
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Ziauddin Yousafzai Let Her FlyIn this intimate and extraordinary memoir, Ziauddin Yousafzai, the father of Malala, gives a moving account of fatherhood and his lifelong fight for equality - proving there are many faces of feminism...
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Paul Bowles Let It Come Down ENLet It Come Down, with its title from Macbeth, tells the story of Dyar, a New York bank clerk who throws up his secure, humdrum job to find a reality abroad with which to identify himself, and his macabre experiences in the inferno of Tangiers as he gives in to his darkest impulses. Rich in descriptions of the corruption and decadence of the International Zone in the last days before Moroccan independence, Bowles's…
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Stephanie Shirley, Richard Askwith Let It Go: My Extraordinary StoryA moving memoir from a woman who made a fortune in a man's world and then gave it all away... soon to be turned into a film. In 1962, Stephanie 'Steve' Shirley created a software company when the concept of software barely existed. Freelance...
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John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle Let it Snow ENAn ill-timed storm on Christmas Eve buries the residents of Gracetown under multiple feet of snow and causes quite a bit of chaos. One brave soul ventures out into the storm from her stranded train and sets off a chain of events that will change quite a few lives. Over the next three days one girl takes a risky shortcut with an adorable stranger, three friends set out to win a race to the Waffle House (and the hash…
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John Green, Maureen Johnson, Lauren Myracle, John Green, John Green Let it SnowMajor motion picture in the works! A Christmas Eve snowstorm transforms one small town into a romantic haven, the kind you see only in movies. Well, kinda. After all, a cold and wet hike from a stranded train through the middle of nowhere would not normally end with a delicious kiss from a charming stranger. And no one would think that a trip to the Waffle House through four feet of snow would lead to love with an…
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Shirley Jackson Let Me Tell You ENFrom the peerless author of The Lottery and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark and funny stories, essays, lectures, letters and drawings. Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank and inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large, rowdy family; and revelatory personal letters and…
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Yvon Chouinard Let My People Go SurfingIn this newly revised 10th anniversary edition, Yvon Chouinard—legendary climber, businessman, environmentalist, and founder of Patagonia, Inc.—shares the persistence and courage that have gone into being head of one of the most respected and...
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John Verdon Let the Devil Sleep ENJohn Verdon, the internationally bestselling author of Think of a Number and Shut Your Eyes Tight, is making retired NYPD homicide detective, Dave Gurney, work harder than ever in Let the Devil Sleep, his third mind-boggling puzzle masterpiece which will keep readers up all night. Ten years ago a serial killer went quiet - now he's back... Dave Gurney, a retired NYPD homicide detective, agrees to meet a young woman…
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Martin Luther King Letter from Birmingham JailThis landmark missive from one of the greatest activists in history calls for direct, non-violent resistance in the fight against racism, and reflects on the healing power of love...
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Georges Simenon Letter to My MotherSimenon explores the complexity of parent child relationships and the bitterness of things left unsaid in this stark, confessional piece. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the ...
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Italo Calvino Letters 1941 – 1985 ENThis is the first, comprehensive translation of Calvino's letters into English, by Martin McLaughlin. They cover virtually all of Calvino's adult life, from shortly after the outset of WWII until his sudden death in 1985. These letters paint a remarkable portrait of one of the twentieth century's most original and extraordinary writers.
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca Letters from a StoicSelected from the Epistulae Morales ad Lucilium, Seneca's Letters from a Stoic are a set of 'essays in disguise' from one of the most insightful philosophers of the Silver Age of Roman literature. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin with an introduction by Robin Campbell.A philosophy that saw self-possession as the key to an existence lived 'in accordance with nature', Stoicism called for the…
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Cherry Healey Letters to my Fanny ENIn this hilarious and candid memoir about twenty-first-century womanhood, Cherry Healey shares outrageous, poignant and eye-wateringly funny confessions. This book is a love letter, to my body. In fact it's several letters - to every part from my brain to my belly. I spent most of my life hating by body. I forced it to survive on a diet of ham; I squeezed it into asphyxiating support pants; I accidentally cut my…
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Vladimir Nabokov Letters to Vera ENEdmund White called Vladimir Nabokov 'the most passionate novelist of the twentieth century.' Nabokov's passion for his wife Véra spanned the last fifty-four years of his life, from the first poem he wrote for her in 1923, after only hours in her company, to a half-century of marriage later when he dedicated the last of his books published in his lifetime, like its twenty predecessors,'To Véra'. Though they were…
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Fiona Beddall, John Grisham Level 4: The ConfessionDonte Drumm is four days away from execution for a murder that he didn’t commit, when the real murderer decides to confess to the crime. But will the lawyers, judges, and politicians listen to his confession? Is it too late now to save...
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Paul Auster Leviathan ENSo begins the story told by Peter Aaron about his best friend, Benjamin Sachs. Sachs had a marriage Aaron envied, an intelligence he admired, a world he shared. And then suddenly, after a near-fatal fall that might or might not have been intentional, Sachs disappeared. Now Aaron must piece together the life that led to Sachs's death. His sole aim is to tell the truth and preserve it, before those who are…
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M.J. Arlidge Liar Liar ENIn the dead of night, three raging fires light up the city skies. It's more than a tragic coincidence. For DI Helen Grace the flames announce the arrival of an evil she has never encountered before. Because this is no firestarter seeking sick thrills, but something more chilling: a series of careful, calculating acts of murder. But why were the victims chosen? What's driving the killer? And who will be next? A…