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The Museum of Whales You Will Never See

And Other Excursions to Iceland's Most Unusual Museums

by A. Kendra Greene

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Books

Pub Date 12 May 2020

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Mythic creatures, natural wonders, and the mysterious human impulse to collect are on beguiling display in this poetic tribute to the museums of an otherworldly island nation.

Iceland is home to only 330,000 people but more than 265 museums and public collections, ranging from the intensely physical, like the Icelandic Phallological Museum, which collects...

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Storm Lake

Change, Resilience, and Hope in America's Heartland

by Art Cullen

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Books

Pub Date 21 Jan 2020

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"A reminder that even the smallest newspapers can hold the most powerful among us accountable."—The New York Times Book Review

Iowa plays an outsize role in national politics. Iowa introduced Barack Obama and voted bigly for Donald Trump. But is it a bellwether for America, a harbinger of its future? Art Cullen’s answer is complicated and honest. In truth...

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The Turning (Movie Tie-In)

The Turn of the Screw and Other Ghost Stories

by Henry James

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Books

Pub Date 31 Dec 2019

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One of the greatest ghost stories ever told, The Turn of the Screw is now a feature film from Universal Pictures premiering January 24th, produced by Steven Spielberg and starring Finn Wolfhard and Mackenzie Davis

This unsettling collection brings together eight of Henry James's tales exploring ghosts and the uncanny, including his infamous ghost story, "The...

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How to Feed a Dictator

Saddam Hussein, Idi Amin, Enver Hoxha, Fidel Castro, and Pol Pot Through the Eyes of Their Cooks

by Witold Szablowski

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Books

Pub Date 28 Apr 2020

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A chilling look from within the kitchen at the appetites of five of the twentieth century's most infamous dictators, by the acclaimed author of Dancing Bears

What was Pol Pot eating while two million Cambodians were dying of hunger? Did Idi Amin really eat human flesh? And why was Fidel Castro obsessed with one particular cow?

Traveling across four...

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Franci's War

A Woman's Story of Survival

by Franci Rabinek Epstein

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Books

Pub Date 17 Mar 2020

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The engrossing memoir of a spirited and glamorous young fashion designer who survived World War ll, with an afterword by her daughter, Helen Epstein.

In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek--designated a Jew by the Nazi racial laws--arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the...

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The Safety Net

by Andrea Camilleri

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Books

Pub Date 17 Mar 2020

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The new novel in the transporting New York Times bestselling Inspector Montalbano mystery series

Vigàta is bustling as the new filming location for a Swedish television series set in 1950. In the production frenzy, the director asks the locals to track down movies and vintage photos to faithfully recreate the air of Vigata in that time. Engineer Ernesto...

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Who Ate the First Oyster?

The Extraordinary People Behind the Greatest Firsts in History

by Cody Cassidy

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin Books

Pub Date 05 May 2020

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Who wore the first pants? Who painted the first masterpiece? Who first rode the horse? This madcap adventure across ancient history uses everything from modern genetics to archaeology to uncover the geniuses behind these and other world-changing innovations.

Who invented the wheel? Who told the first joke? Who drank the first beer? Who was the murderer in...

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Lean Against This Late Hour

by Garous Abdolmalekian

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 14 Apr 2020

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A vivid, affecting portrait of life in the shadow of violence and loss, for readers of both English and Persian

The first selection of poems by renowned Iranian poet Garous Abdolmalekian to appear in English, this collection is a mesmerizing, disorienting descent into the trauma of loss and its aftermath. In spare lines, Abdolmalekian conjures surreal...

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Legendary Children

The First Decade of RuPaul's Drag Race and the Last Century of Queer Life

by Tom Fitzgerald; Lorenzo Marquez

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 03 Mar 2020

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A definitive deep-dive into queer history and culture with hit reality show RuPaul's Drag Race as a touchstone, by the creators of the pop culture blog Tom and Lorenzo

From the singular voices behind Tom and Lorenzo comes the ultimate guide to all-things RuPaul's Drag Race and its influence on modern LGBTQ culture. Legendary Children centers itself around...

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Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year

by Allie Esiri

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 13 Oct 2020

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A magnificent collection of 365 passages from Shakespeare's works, for the Shakespeare scholar and neophyte alike.

Make Shakespeare a part of your daily routine with Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year, a yearlong collection of passages from Shakespeare's greatest works. Drawing from the full spectrum of plays and sonnets to mark each day of the year...

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The Awakening and Selected Stories

by Kate Chopin

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 25 Feb 2020

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The groundbreaking depiction of a woman who dares to defy the expectations of society in the pursuit of her desire, with an insightful introduction by author Claire Vaye Watkins, now a part of the Penguin Vitae series.

A Penguin Classic Hardcover

When Kate Chopin's classic was first published in 1899, charges of sordidness and immorality seemed to consign it...

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And Then We Grew Up

On Creativity, Potential, and the Imperfect Art of Adulthood

by Rachel Friedman

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 31 Dec 2019

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One of Publishers Weekly’s Best Books of 2019

A journey through the many ways to live an artistic life—from the flashy and famous to the quiet and steady—full of unexpected insights about creativity and contentment, from the author of The Good Girl’s Guide to Getting Lost.

Rachel Friedman was a serious violist as a kid. She quit music in college but never...

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The Keeper

A Novel

by Jessica Moor

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 10 Mar 2020

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An addictive literary thriller about a crime as shocking as it is commonplace.

When Katie Straw's body is pulled from the waters of the local suicide spot, the police are ready to write it off as a standard-issue female suicide. But the residents of the domestic violence shelter where Katie worked disagree. These women have spent weeks or even years waiting...

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I Know You Know Who I Am

Stories

by Peter Kispert

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 11 Feb 2020

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"Peter Kispert's dazzling collection is a reminder that fiction tells lies in order to discover truth. Here is a confident, psychologically astute new writer with a bold new vision." —Garrard Conley, New York Times bestselling author of Boy Erased

"Kispert is unequivocally a writer to watch.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Spark of...

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The Book of Ichigo Ichie

The Art of Making the Most of Every Moment, the Japanese Way

by Héctor García; Francesc Miralles

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 31 Dec 2019

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Find happiness by living fully in the present with this definitive guide to ichigo ichie--the Japanese art of making the most of every moment--from the bestselling authors of Ikigai.

Every moment in our life happens only once, and if we let it slip away, we lose it forever--an idea captured by the Japanese phrase ichigo ichie (pronounced itchy-GO itchy-A)...

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Laughter Yoga

Daily Practices for Health and Happiness

by Madan Kataria, M.D.

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 07 Apr 2020

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Bring into your life more laughter--and all its physical and emotional benefits--with this definitive guide by the founder of the worldwide laughter yoga movement.

Could you use a good laugh?

This book will show you how to bring laughter into your life at any time of day--no special equipment needed, no new wardrobe, no expensive classes, not even a sense of...

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The Age of Innocence

by Edith Wharton

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 01 Mar 1996

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Edith Wharton’s acclaimed novel of love, duty, and half-known truths in Gilded Age New York society, with a foreword by bestselling author Elif Batuman

Dutiful Newland Archer, an eligible young man from New York high society, is about to announce his engagement to May Welland, a suitable match from a good family, when May’s cousin, the beautiful and exotic...

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My Meteorite

Or, Without the Random There Can Be No New Thing

by Harry Dodge

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 17 Mar 2020

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An expansive, radiant, and genre-defying investigation into bonding—and how we are shaped by forces we cannot fully know

Is love a force akin to gravity? A kind of invisible fabric which enables communications through space and time? Artist Harry Dodge finds himself contemplating such questions as his father declines from dementia and he rekindles a...

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Sister Outsider

Essays and Speeches

by Audre Lorde

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 25 Feb 2020

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Presenting the essential writings of black lesbian poet and feminist writer Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider celebrates an influential voice in twentieth-century literature, with a foreword by Mahogany L. Browne

A Penguin Classic Hardcover

In this charged collection of fifteen essays and speeches, Lorde takes on sexism, racism, ageism, homophobia, and class, and...

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For the Ride

by Alice Notley

PENGUIN GROUP Penguin

Pub Date 03 Mar 2020

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A major new book-length visionary poem from a writer "whose poems are among the major astonishments of contemporary poetry" (Robert Polito, the Poetry Foundation)

Alice Notley has become one of the most highly regarded figures in American poetry, a master of the visionary mode acclaimed for genre-bending, book-length poems of great ambition and...


The Museum of Whales You Will Never See 12 May 2020 Travel	Storm Lake 21 Jan 2020 Politics	The Turning (Movie Tie-In) 31 Dec 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	How to Feed a Dictator 28 Apr 2020 Biographies & Memoirs	Franci's War 17 Mar 2020 Biographies & Memoirs

The Safety Net 17 Mar 2020 Mystery & Thrillers	Who Ate the First Oyster? 05 May 2020 History	Lean Against This Late Hour 14 Apr 2020 Poetry	Legendary Children 03 Mar 2020 LGBTQIA	Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year 13 Oct 2020 Arts & Photography

The Awakening and Selected Stories 25 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	And Then We Grew Up 31 Dec 2019 Self-Help	The Keeper 10 Mar 2020 Mystery & Thrillers	I Know You Know Who I Am 11 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	The Book of Ichigo Ichie 31 Dec 2019 Self-Help

Laughter Yoga 07 Apr 2020 Self-Help	The Age of Innocence 01 Mar 1996 General Fiction (Adult)	My Meteorite 17 Mar 2020 Biographies & Memoirs	Sister Outsider 25 Feb 2020 Nonfiction (Adult)	For the Ride 03 Mar 2020 Poetry


The Museum of Whales You Will Never See 12 May 2020 Travel	Storm Lake 21 Jan 2020 Politics	The Turning (Movie Tie-In) 31 Dec 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	How to Feed a Dictator 28 Apr 2020 Biographies & Memoirs

Franci's War 17 Mar 2020 Biographies & Memoirs	The Safety Net 17 Mar 2020 Mystery & Thrillers	Who Ate the First Oyster? 05 May 2020 History	Lean Against This Late Hour 14 Apr 2020 Poetry

Legendary Children 03 Mar 2020 LGBTQIA	Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year 13 Oct 2020 Arts & Photography	The Awakening and Selected Stories 25 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	And Then We Grew Up 31 Dec 2019 Self-Help

The Keeper 10 Mar 2020 Mystery & Thrillers	I Know You Know Who I Am 11 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	The Book of Ichigo Ichie 31 Dec 2019 Self-Help	Laughter Yoga 07 Apr 2020 Self-Help

The Age of Innocence 01 Mar 1996 General Fiction (Adult)	My Meteorite 17 Mar 2020 Biographies & Memoirs	Sister Outsider 25 Feb 2020 Nonfiction (Adult)	For the Ride 03 Mar 2020 Poetry


The Museum of Whales You Will Never See 12 May 2020 Travel	Storm Lake 21 Jan 2020 Politics

The Turning (Movie Tie-In) 31 Dec 2019 General Fiction (Adult)	How to Feed a Dictator 28 Apr 2020 Biographies & Memoirs

Franci's War 17 Mar 2020 Biographies & Memoirs	The Safety Net 17 Mar 2020 Mystery & Thrillers

Who Ate the First Oyster? 05 May 2020 History	Lean Against This Late Hour 14 Apr 2020 Poetry

Legendary Children 03 Mar 2020 LGBTQIA	Shakespeare for Every Day of the Year 13 Oct 2020 Arts & Photography

The Awakening and Selected Stories 25 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult)	And Then We Grew Up 31 Dec 2019 Self-Help

The Keeper 10 Mar 2020 Mystery & Thrillers	I Know You Know Who I Am 11 Feb 2020 General Fiction (Adult)

The Book of Ichigo Ichie 31 Dec 2019 Self-Help	Laughter Yoga 07 Apr 2020 Self-Help

The Age of Innocence 01 Mar 1996 General Fiction (Adult)	My Meteorite 17 Mar 2020 Biographies & Memoirs

Sister Outsider 25 Feb 2020 Nonfiction (Adult)	For the Ride 03 Mar 2020 Poetry

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