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Death Under Sail (Popular Penguins Crime) by C. P. Snow
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Roger Mills, a Harley Street specialist, is taking a sailing holiday on the Norfolk Broads. When his six guests find him at the tiller of his yacht with a smile on his face and a gunshot through his heart, all six fall under suspicion.
Don't Look Now and Other Stories (Popular Penguins Crime) by Daphne Du Maurier
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
A grieved couple depart to Venice after the sudden death of their daughter. Here the visions of a blind psychic push their already fragile relationship to its limits. Will they heed her warnings or disregard the ramblings of an old woman; and at what cost? In this work of short stories, Du Maurier parad ...Show more
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
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Category: History | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Niall Ferguson's Empire is one of the most successful and controversial history books of recent years. Brilliantly re-telling the story of Britain's imperial past, it shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all h ...Show more
Farewell My Lovely: Popular Penguins by Raymond Chandler
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Farewell, My Lovely by Raymond Chandler This is one of Chandler's most famous crime novels featuring the detective Philip Marlowe, who's about to give up on a completely routine case when he finds himself in the wrong place at the right time to get caught up in a murder that leads to a ring of jewel thi ...Show more
Flesh in Armour: War Popular Penguins by Mann Leonard
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Category: Military History | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Nearly 420 000 Australians enlisted during the First World War, and more than half were killed, wounded or captured. the conflict was the most costly in Australia's history. In the fates of his protagonists in his acclaimed Flesh in Armour - one dies valiantly, one dies in an abject and mentally unhinge ...Show more
Foe (Popular Penguin) by J. M. Coetzee
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Nobel Laureate and two-time Booker prize-winning author of Disgrace and The Life and Times of Michael K, J. M. Coetzee reimagines Daniel DeFoe's classic novel Robinson Crusoe in Foe. Published as a Penguin Essential for the first time.In an act of breathtaking imagination, J.M Coetzee radically reinvent ...Show more
Gideon's Fire (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard has to deal successively with news of a mass murderer, a depraved maniac, and the deaths of a family in an arson attack on an old building south of the river. This leaves little time for the crisis developing at home.
Goodbye to All That (War Popular Penguin) by Robert Graves
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Category: Poetry | Series: War Popular Penguins
In one of the most honest and candid self-portraits ever committed to paper, Robert Graves tells the extraordinary story of his experiences as a young officer in the First World War. He describes life in the trenches in vivid, raw detail, how the dehumanizing horrors he witnessed left him shell-shocked. ...Show more
Hamlet: Popular Penguins by William Shakespeare
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: near fine
Arguably William Shakespeare's most influential play, Hamlet portrays a young Prince's dilemma in choosing between moral integrity and the need for revenge following the murder of his father. Dealing with themes of love, death and revenge, Hamlet is a rich and complex tragedy that continues to entertain ...Show more
Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
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Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
With honesty and insight Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV.The mid-seventies - at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of ...Show more
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
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Category: True Crime | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, wh ...Show more
Inspector West Takes Charge (Popular Penguins Crime) by John Creasey
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Category: Fiction | Series: Green Popular Penguins
Extortion is the name of the game. In this first story of the Inspector West series, the Scotland Yard officer has to get to the bottom of a blackmail bid against the Dreem cigarette factory. With those behind the attempt prepared to murder anyone who might get in their way, Inspector West has to unrave ...Show more