Penelope: 837 books

"In this haunting new novel, the act of forgetting is as strange and interesting as the power of remembering." —The New York Times Book Review Look out for Penelope Lively’s new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Penelope Lively is renowned for her signature combination...

Look out for Penelope Lively’s new book, The Purple Swamp Hen and Other Stories. Hailed by critics as a benchmark in a career full of award-winning achievements, Making It Up is Penelope Lively's answer to the oft-asked question, "How much of what you write comes from your own life?"...

From New York Times bestselling author Penelope Ward, comes a new forbidden STANDALONE romance. What happens when the one you want is the only one you can’t have? It was set in stone. Elle and I were getting married. After years of rebelling against everything good and wholesome, I...

Penelope Chetwode's middle-aged companion on her ride over the mule tracks and goat paths of Andalusia in 1961 was a twelve-year-old mare, La Marquesa. This treasured animal, borrowed from the Duke of Wellington's Spanish stables, brought her experience of native travel conditions to the expedition,...

A classic sweeping tale of intense passion as wide as the open prairie, from the bestselling romance novelist Penelope Williamson. Clementine Kennicutt, a ladylike New Englander, aches to leave her home and her oppressive father. So when Gus McQueen, a cowboy with laughing eyes and big dreams,...

Penelope Leach's Your Baby & Child is the most loved, trusted and comprehensive book in its field--with almost two million copies sold in America alone. Newsweek says that it is not only one of the best parenting books, but also "by far the most pleasurable to read." This new version, completely...

Practising Reiki is not simply about healing others - it is also about healing yourself and growing spiritually. In LIVING THE REIKI WAY, Penelope Quest offers practical and spiritual guidance on how you can absorb the six key Reiki principles into your everyday life. They are: * Live in the...

Get these two books on the increasingly popular Reiki healing technique—an over $35 value for only $23.99! Penelope Quest is one the most respected and sought-after teachers and practitioners of Reiki, a powerful energy-healing technique. Now, readers can enjoy and learn from her seminal...

Winner of the 2014 Nautilus Award represents “Better Books for a Better World”—the Silver Award in the category of Body-Centered Practices and Movement Therapies. Practicing Reiki is not simply about healing others—it is also about healing yourself and growing spiritually. In Living...

Penelope Leach is one of today’s foremost authorities on child care, author of the greatly admired Your Baby & Child: From Birth to Age Five, which Dr. T. Berry Brazelton has called “a wonderful book. Well researched, well written and sensitive to both parents’ and children’s needs in the...

Children First is the most important and urgent book on childcare we have yet had from the internationally admired author of the classic Your Baby & Child. In it Penelope Leach calls on us as individuals and as a nation to make good on the promise of our endless rhetoric about the importance...

The modern professions have a long history that predates the development of formal institutions and examinations in the nineteenth century. Long before the Victorian era the emergent professions wielded power through their specialist knowledge and set up informal mechanisms of control and self-regulation. Penelope...

«*Un libro che non deluderà i fan della Lively nè chi la legge per la prima volta. Un romanzo che in modo profondamente originale racconta i segreti nascosti dietro la superficie di una famiglia in apparenza normale.*»The Daily Telegraph su Un posto perfetto «*Una scrittura dalla grande...

Born in Cairo in 1942, Penelope married Oliver Worsley and went to live in Yorkshire, where they had four children. ‘Footsteps to the Jungle’ traces Penelope’s earlier life, the discovery of Huntington’s Disease, the death of her son Richard and what led her to set up an international charity...