This biography of Lewis Hamilton looks at his career as well as his upbringing and early involvement in motor racing.
This biography of Andy Murray looks at his career as well as his upbringing and early involvement in tennis.
Hundreds of shark facts and dramatic underwater illustrations allow kids to dive into the deep-sea world of these fascinating predators. Readers will learn that all sharks have a sixth sense, see well in the dark, and lose as many as 20,000 teeth in a lifetime!
The tragic story of the complex bond between two migrant laborers in Central California. They are George Milton and Lennie Small, itinerant ranch hands who dream of one day owning a small farm. George acts as a father figure to Lennie, who is a very large, simple-minded man, calming him and helping to rein in his immense physical strength.
Today, nearly forty years after his death, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck remains one of America's greatest writers and cultural figures. We have begun publishing his many works for the first time as blackspine Penguin Classics featuring eye-catching, newly commissioned art. This season we continue with the seven spectacular and influential books East of Eden, Cannery Row, In Dubious Battle,…
Originally written in German, but the German manuscript was lost & only the manuscript of the English translation survived. Darkness At Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned & psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes inc…
Darkness at Noon stands as an unequaled fictional portrayal of the nightmare politics of our time. Its hero is an aging revolutionary, imprisoned and psychologically tortured by the Party to which he has dedicated his life. As the pressure to confess preposterous crimes increases, he relives a career that embodies the terrible ironies and human betrayals of a totalitarian movement masking itsel…