Penguin Publishing Group: 18231 books

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by Bob Proehl
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2016

**“A Kavalier & Clay for the Comic-Con Age, this is a bighearted, inventive, exuberant debut.” —Eleanor Henderson, author of Ten Thousand Saints "Proehl creates worlds within worlds within worlds, all of them full of surprise and wonder." —Charles Yu, author of How to...
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Ghost Hunters

William James and the Search for Scientific Proof of Life After Death

by Deborah Blum
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2007

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Poision Squad and The Poisoner's Handbook tells the amazing story of William James's quest for empirical evidence of the spirit world What if a world -renowned philosopher and professor of psychiatry at Harvard suddenly announced he believed in ghosts?...
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Summer of Blood

England's First Revolution

by Dan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016

From the New York Times bestselling author of Crusaders and a top authority on the historical events that inspired Game of Thrones, a vivid, blood-soaked account of one of the most famous rebellions in history—the first mass uprising by the people of England against their feudal masters. In...
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Magna Carta

The Birth of Liberty

by Dan Jones
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015

**"Dan Jones has an enviable gift for telling a dramatic story while at the same time inviting us to consider serious topics like liberty and the seeds of representative government." —Antonia Fraser From the New York Times bestsellingauthor of The Plantagenets, a lively, action-packed history...
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The Fierce Urgency of Now

Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society

by Julian E. Zelizer
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2015

A majestic big-picture account of the Great Society and the forces that shaped it, from Lyndon Johnson and members of Congress to the civil rights movement and the media Between November 1963, when he became president, and November 1966, when his party was routed in the midterm elections, Lyndon...
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Building the Great Society

Inside Lyndon Johnson's White House

by Joshua Zeitz
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2018

**The author of Lincoln's Boys takes us inside Lyndon Johnson's White House to show how the legendary Great Society programs were actually put into practice: Team of Rivals for LBJ. The personalities behind every burst of 1960s liberal reform - from civil rights and immigration reform, to Medicare...
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Shadows at Dawn

An Apache Massacre and the Violence of History

by Karl Jacoby
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009

A masterful reconstruction of one of the worst Indian massacres in American history In April 1871, a group of Americans, Mexicans, and Tohono O?odham Indians surrounded an Apache village at dawn and murdered nearly 150 men, women, and children in their sleep. In the past century the attack,...
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by Craig Davidson
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2019

An irresistible and bittersweet coming-of-age story in the vein of Stranger Things and Stand by Me about a group of misfit kids who spend an unforgettable summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends "A celebration of the secret lives of children, both their wonders and their...
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The Obamians

The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power

by James Mann
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012

The definitive analysis of the events, ideas, personalities, and conflicts that have defined Obama’s foreign policy When Barack Obama took office, he brought with him a new group of foreign policy advisers intent on carving out a new global role for America in the wake of the Bush administration’s...
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The Hindus

An Alternative History

by Wendy Doniger
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2009

From one of the world?s foremost scholars on Hinduism, a vivid reinterpretation of its history An engrossing and definitive narrative account of history and myth that offers a new way of understanding one of the world?s oldest major religions, The Hindus elucidates the relationship between...
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The Balkans

Nationalism, War, and the Great Powers, 1804-2011

by Misha Glenny
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012

This unique and lively history of Balkan geopolitics since the early nineteenth century gives readers the essential historical background to recent events in this war-torn area. No other book covers the entire region, or offers such profound insights into the roots of Balkan violence, or explains...
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What She Ate

Six Remarkable Women and the Food That Tells Their Stories

by Laura Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017

**A Washington Post Notable Nonfiction Book of 2017 One of NPR Fresh Air's "Books to Close Out a Chaotic 2017" NPR's Book Concierge Guide To 2017’s Great Reads “How lucky for us readers that Shapiro has been listening so perceptively for decades to the language of food.” *—*Maureen...
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Exile's Return

A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s

by Malcolm Cowley
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1994

The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "The Lost Generation" are brought to life here by one of the group's most notable members. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Crowley, and many other writers "escaped"...
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by Keith Gessen
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2018

**A New York Times Editors' Choice Named a Best Book of 2018 by Bookforum, Nylon, Esquire, and Vulture "This artful and autumnal novel, published in high summer, is a gift to those who wish to receive it." —Dwight Garner, The New York Times** "Hilarious, heartbreaking...
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