Penelope: 837 books

Penelope Weiss moves with the speed of light. She conveys a sense of New York life in a New York heartbeat. You will meet Egon and his sisters as well as Mr. K. and his kite. In whimsical stories set in New York City and in Vermont, you will encounter real and imagined animals such as a hanger-bird ...

Matt is going off to college and Mea is entering middle school. At their family emergency meeting, Matt and Mea are surprised to learn Mom is having twin baby boys. Matt, Mea, and Grandma Nonie watch and wonder if twins Max and Mickey will be magical, too?For readers: Ages 5 -8

A collection of unforgettable short stories from one of the most talented creators of contemporary Australian fiction. From the disappointment of Francis Drake who runs away to sea, to the love and sacrifice of a mother for her child. These brilliantly realised stories exceed the limits of everyday...

My parents found a giant San Francisco tour van for sale. The inside had seats for a dozen people touring San Francisco each day. They bought the van so my dad could rest. He had lung cancer. Mom helped my father take out the seats to create a bed in the back of the van. While my mother was teaching...

This is the complete bundle of all five "Lost in His Woods" releases. She woke alone and cold, close to death in the snow. No memories of how she came to be stranded in the icy Siberian wood. No chance for survival on her own. He saved her and brought her into his secluded sanctuary....

It's Anna's twenty first birthday and she wants Brandon to know she's all grown up and he can stop thinking of her as his boss's little girl. A few drinks at her party convince her to surprise him at his house, but when he doesn't come home alone, Anna's surprise is double the trouble. There's only one thing for a wild child like Anna to do, and that's stay and have the best birthday ever!

From the Author Has someone ever told you a secret that won’t stop haunting you? Once I knew a lovely, rich, well-educated white lady who lived in the fairy tale she was taught would make her happy. It did not. She spent her days feeling guilty about being miserable, and her nights, exhausted, without...

In revealing patterns of you/thou use in Shakespeare's plays, this study highlights striking and significant shifts from one to the other. Penelope Freedman demonstrates that understanding of the implications of you/thou use in early modern English has been bedevilled by overconcern with issues of...

Madoc y Fallon. Dos adolescentes que no se conocen y que juegan al límite entre el amor y la guerra. Ella ha vuelto. Durante los dos años que estuvo en el internado, no supe nada de ella. Cuando volvió, de día ni me hablaba y de noche dejaba la puerta de su habitación abierta. Entonces era un...

Madoc y Fallon. Dos adolescentes que no se conocen  y que juegan al límite entre el amor y la guerra. Ella ha vuelto. Durante los dos años que estuvo en el internado, no supe nada de ella. Cuando volvió, de día ni me hablaba y de noche dejaba la puerta de su habitación abierta. Entonces era...

In Foucault's Futures, Penelope Deutscher reconsiders the role of procreation in Foucault's thought, especially its proximity to risk, mortality, and death. She brings together his work on sexuality and biopolitics to challenge our understanding of the politicization of reproduction. By analyzing...

An island in a bleak harbour; an isolated quarantine station where a group of nurses works tirelessly to care for sailors and immigrants recovering from the effects of the long sea voyage to the new land. Kahu swims ashore, searching for a woman. Young nurse Liesel, caught in a passionate triangle,...

Dhum the dwarf, Hazzard the barbarian and Avariss the half-elf are great at fighting, but terrible at financial planning. No matter how many monsters they slay, somehow they always end up broke. In this hilarious collection of stories their endless quest for treasure takes them to a...

When my fiance left me at the altar, I thought nothing could be worse.  I was wrong.  I wanted to leave my hum-drum life. I wished for an adventure, a way to escape.  I should have been careful what I wished for.  Now he has me. I can't run. I can't escape. Every time...