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A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Essentials
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is bestselling author Marina Lewycka's hilarious and award winning debut novel, now available as a Penguin Essential for the first time. 'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamorous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she ...Show more
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the famil ...Show more
Breakfast at Tiffany's by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
The dazzling New York novel that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn'What I've found does the most good is just to get into a taxi and go to Tiffany's. It calms me down right away, the quietness and the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there, not with those kind ...Show more
Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'My name is Eva, which means 'life', according to a book of names my mother consulted. I was born in the back room of a shadowy house, and grew up amidst ancient furniture, books in Latin, and human mummies, but none of those things made me melancholy, because I came into the world with a breath of the ...Show more
Everything is Illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Essentials
Everything Is Illuminated is Jonathan Safran Foer's bestselling novel of a search for truth,published as a Penguin Essential for the first time. The inspiration for the Liev Schreiber film, starring Elijah Wood A young man arrives in the Ukraine, clutching in his hand a tattered photograph. He is search ...Show more
Hell's Angels by Hunter S. Thompson
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'A phalanx of motorcycles came roaring over the hill from the west... the noise was like a landslide, or a wing of bombers passing over. Even knowing the Angels I couldn't quite handle what I was seeing. It was like Genghis Khan, Morgan's Raiders, the Wild One and the Rape of Nanking all at once.'In Sep ...Show more
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
Esther Freud's best-known novel, which inspired the Kate Winslet film, published as Penguin Essential for the first time. Two little girls are taken by their mother to Morocco on a 1960s pilgrimage of self-discovery. For Mum it is not just an escape from the grinding conventions of English life but a qu ...Show more
In Cold Blood - A True Account of a Multiple Murder And Its Consequences by Truman Capote
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: very good
'Dick became convinced that Perry was that rarity, 'a natural killer'- absolutely sane, but conscienceless, and capable of dealing, with or without motive, the coldest-blooded deathblows' On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children ...Show more
In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: Very good
Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home and beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business, but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of d ...Show more
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: near fine
New Penguin Essentials edition of Ralph Ellison's blistering, impassioned novel of African-American lives in 1940s America, Invisible Man. 'I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.' Defeated and embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being, the 'invisible man' retre ...Show more
Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Essentials Ser.
'I'm writing a history of the world,' she says . . . And in the process, my own.' Claudia Hampton is dying. A professional historian in her seventies, she casts her mind back through her own life to identify the currents and winds upon which she has been cast adrift. We see how this strong, independent ...Show more
On the Road by Jack Kerouac
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Essentials
'What's your road, man - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow'. Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search fo ...Show more