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Penguin Press was founded in 2003 by Ann Godoff and launched its debut list in the Winter of 2004. Dedicated to publishing quality nonfiction and literary fiction, it has published numerous New York Times and national bestsellers, including four Pulitzer Prize winners: Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars, in 2005 for General Nonfiction; Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance, in 2010 for History; Ron Chernow’s Washington, in 2011 for Biography; and John Lewis Gaddis’s George F. Kennan, in 2012 for Biography. |
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Pub Date 10 Oct 2017
Ulysses S. Grant's life has typically been misunderstood. All too often he is caricatured as a chronic loser and an inept businessman, or as the triumphant but brutal Union general of the Civil War. But...
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Pub Date 12 Sep 2017
"I read LITTLE FIRES EVERYWHERE in a single, breathless sitting. With brilliance and beauty, Celeste Ng dissects a microcosm of American society just when we need to see it beneath...
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Little Fires Everywhere
Celeste Ng
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Pub Date 15 Aug 2017
You know there's good blood and bad blood, don't you? That bad blood there, it's good that it's coming out. You've...
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The Shape of Bones
Daniel Galera
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Pub Date 01 Aug 2017
Stella Krakus, a curator at Manhattan's renowned Central Museum of Art, is having the roughest week in approximately ever. Her soon-to-be ex-husband (the perfectly awful Whit Ghiscolmbe) is...
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Impossible Views of the World
Lucy Ives
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Pub Date 11 Jul 2017
No single invention of the last half century has changed the way we live now as much as the Internet. Alexander Klimburg was a member of the generation for whom it was a utopian ideal turned reality: a place where ideas, information, and knowledge could be shared and new freedoms found and enjoyed. Two decades later, the future isn’t so bright any more:...
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The Darkening Web
Alexander Klimburg
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Pub Date 27 Jun 2017
Lakota Oglala Sioux Nation, South Dakota. Two Native American cousins, Rick Overlooking Horse and You Choose Watson, though bound by blood and by land, find themselves at odds as they grapple with the implications of their shared heritage. When escalating anger towards the injustices, historical...
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Quiet Until the Thaw
Alexandra Fuller
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Sea Power
The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
by Admiral Jim Stravridis, USN (Ret.)
Pub Date 06 Jun 2017
From the time of the Greeks and the Persians, clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has...
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Sea Power
Admiral Jim Stravridis, USN (Ret.)
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The Tincture of Time
A Memoir of (Medical) Uncertainty
by Elizabeth L. Silver
Pub Date 25 Apr 2017
Growing up as the daughter of a dedicated surgeon, Elizabeth L. Silver felt an unquestioned faith in medicine. When her six-week-old daughter, Abby, was rushed to the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with sudden seizures, and scans revealed a serious brain bleed, her relationship to medicine began to change.
The Tincture of Time is Silver’s gorgeous and haunting...
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The Tincture of Time
Elizabeth L. Silver
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Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels...
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Becoming Wise
An Inquiry into the Mystery and the Art of Living
by Krista Tippett
Pub Date 05 Apr 2016
Over the fifteen years that Krista Tippett has hosted her award-winning and nationally beloved radio program on NPR, first under the title Speaking of Faith and then...
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Pub Date 05 Apr 2016
Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England...
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From one of the most interesting and iconic musicians of our time, a piercingly tender, funny, and harrowing account of the path from suburban poverty and alienation to a life of beauty, squalor and unlikely success out of the NYC club scene of the late '80s and '90s.
There were many reasons Moby was never going to make it as a DJ and musician in the New...
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Self-Reg
How to Help Your Child (and You) Break the Stress Cycle and Successfully Engage with Life
by Stuart Shanker
Pub Date 21 Jun 2016
Self-Reg is a ground-breaking book that presents an entirely new understanding of your child's emotions and behavior that serves as a practical guide for parents to help their kids engage calmly and...
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Playing to the Edge
American Intelligence in the Age of Terror
by Michael V. Hayden
Pub Date 23 Feb 2016
For General Michael Hayden, playing to the edge means playing so close to the line that you get chalk dust on your cleats. Otherwise, by playing back, you may protect...
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Playing to the Edge
Michael V. Hayden
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Pub Date 21 Jul 2015
Barbarian Days is William Finnegan’s memoir of an obsession, a complex enchantment. Surfing only looks like a sport. To initiates, it is something else entirely: a beautiful addiction, a demanding course of study, a morally dangerous pastime, a way of life. Raised in...
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Barbarian Days
William Finnegan
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Eleanor and Hick
The Love Affair That Shaped a First Lady
by Susan Quinn
Pub Date 27 Sep 2016
In 1932, as her husband assumed the presidency, Eleanor Roosevelt entered the...
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Pub Date 16 Jun 2015
At some point, every one of us embarks on a journey to find love. We meet people, date, get into and out of relationships, all with the hope of finding someone with whom we share a deep...
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Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari, Eric Klinenberg
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Reclaiming Conversation
The Power of Talk in a Digital Age
by Sherry Turkle
Pub Date 06 Oct 2015
Renowned media scholar Sherry Turkle investigates how a flight from conversation undermines our relationships, creativity, and productivity—and why reclaiming face-to-face conversation can help us regain lost ground.
We live in a technological universe in which we are always communicating. And yet we have sacrificed conversation for mere connection.
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Reclaiming Conversation
Sherry Turkle
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Brand Luther
How an Unheralded Monk Turned His Small Town into a Center of Publishing, Made Himself the Most Famous Man in Europe--and Started the Protestant Reformation
by Andrew Pettegree
Pub Date 27 Oct 2015
When an obscure monk named Martin Luther tacked his “theses” on the door of the Wittenberg church in 1517, protesting corrupt practices, he was virtually unknown. Within months, his ideas spread across Germany, then all of...
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PENGUIN GROUP The Penguin Press
Penguin Press was founded in 2003 by Ann Godoff and launched its debut list in the Winter of 2004. Dedicated to publishing quality nonfiction and literary fiction, it has published numerous New York Times and national bestsellers, including four Pulitzer Prize winners: Steve Coll’s Ghost Wars, in 2005 for General Nonfiction; Liaquat Ahamed’s Lords of Finance, in 2010 for History; Ron Chernow’s Washington, in 2011 for Biography; and John Lewis Gaddis’s George F. Kennan, in 2012 for Biography.
