With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. From such witty items as “The Flea,” which transforms the image of a louse into something marvelous, to the intimate and intense Holy Sonnets, Donne breathed new vigor into poetry by drawing lucid and often startling metaphors from the world in which he lived.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. This rich representation reflects the wide diversity of his poetry. One of England’s preeminent poets, John Donne’s poems are among the most passionate, profound, and spiritual in the English language. A new selection spanning the breadth of Donne’s verse
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When it’s time for the event to begin, you should be able to refresh the page until the live video shows up as a new post. She has won many awards, including two Edgar Awards, and has been published in more than thirty countries. She is the author of more than 50 other books for children and adults. Nancy Springer is the author of the nationally bestselling Enola Holmes novels, including The Case of the Missing Marquess, which was made into the hit Netflix movie, Enola Holmes. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. “What stays with you in ‘Klara and the Sun’ is the haunting narrative voice-a genuinely innocent, egoless perspective on the strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status and fear.” -Booker Prize committee On PRESIDENT OBAMA’S SUMMER 2021 READING LIST.a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” ( Is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures. Klara and the Sun Never Let Me Go is an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This August marks the release “The Plants of Baxter State Park,” co-authored with botanist Alison Dibble and six others, which contains the first complete inventory of the park’s 857 types of plants, information gathered over five years. It would be a challenge to make a complete list of all of Mittelhauser’s lists, but in the 30 plus years since Mittelhauser arrived in Maine to attend the College of the Atlantic, he’s inventoried Acadia’s plants in a book called “The Plants of Acadia,” the sedges of Maine (flowering plants different from grasses and rushes) in another book and Isle au Haut’s winter population of nesting Harlequin ducks. But using GPS and a careful grid system as he inventories the plants of this salt marsh, Mittelhauser can send the botanist of the future to an exact location to see just how the natural world has changed as a result of development, climate change or some other factor. From a century ago, those are helpful clues. In his own field work he’s been grateful for the naturalists of the past who used even something as basic as a place name to note where they found a species. “What tidbit can I get in there for them?” he said. "You can never be sure about the destination of first love. Yes, poetry in the guise of storytelling. all these ruminations, juxtaposed with the myths and metaphors of local cuisine, evidenced to Merlinda Bobis's unquestionable knack for storytelling. How she missed the sound of her nickname, how she longed for Manolito's twin guavas, how she played complicit in the scandals of the street, how she despaired for the salvific smile of her mother who took her as a precursory plague, how she wished that eruptions were not part of one's childhood. I shred the tiny exhalation, be it elated or mournful, believing it is hiding there." In Banana Heart Summer (2020 reprint, Anvil), Nenita recalls how her keen interest in the infinite possibilities of chilies and coconut milk brought her to the many realizations a twelve-year-old girl was not fully ready to accept and conquer. 165: "Some sweet is always tucked into a sigh. People come to Italy for love and gelato, someone tells her, but sometimes they discover much more. It's a secret that will change everything Lina knew about her mother, her father-and even herself. A world that inspires Lina, along with the ever-so-charming Ren, to follow in her mother's footsteps and unearth a secret that has been kept for far too long. Suddenly Lina's uncovering a magical world of secret romances, art, and hidden bakeries. But what kind of father isn't around for sixteen years? All Lina wants to do is get back home.īut then Lina is given a journal that her mom had kept when she lived in Italy. She's only there because it was her mother's dying wish that she get to know her father. Lina is spending the summer in Tuscany, but she isn't in the mood for Italy's famous sunshine and fairy-tale landscape. A summer in Italy turns into a road trip across Tuscany in this sweeping New York Times bestseller filled with romance, mystery, and adventure. With chapters addressing the needs of specific age groups, from newborns through teens, The Highly Sensitive Child delivers warmhearted, timely information for parents, teachers, and the sensitive children in their lives. In this pioneering work, parents will find helpful self-tests and case studies to help them understand their HSC, along with thorough advice on parenting a highly sensitive child. These qualities can make for smart, conscientious, creative children, but with the wrong parenting or schooling, they can become unusually shy or timid, or begin acting out. She divides her time between San Francisco and New York. She is the author of The Highly Sensitive Person, The Highly Sensitive Person in Love, and The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook. Rooted in Aron's years of experience as a psychotherapist and her original research on child temperament, The Highly Sensitive Child shows how HSCs are born deeply reflective, sensitive to the subtle, and easily overwhelmed. Aron, Ph.D., is a psychotherapist, workshop leader, researcher, and highly sensitive person herself. Now, Aron shifts her focus to highly sensitive children. With the publication of The Highly Sensitive Person, Elaine Aron became the first person to identify the inborn trait of high sensitivity and to show how it affects the lives of those who possess it. Aron, PhD, addresses the trait of high sensitivity in children and offers a breakthrough parenting guidebook for highly sensitive children and their caregivers. Bestselling author and psychologist Elaine N. Most of us feel overstimulated every once in a while, but for the highly sensitive person, its a way of life. The Tunbridge Wells-based author said: “I’m absolutely delighted that I’ll be published by The Borough Press and William Morrow. Her other titles for Bloomsbury include A Trick of the Dark, Tyme’s End and Gamerunner. Her first novel, The Traitor Game (Bloomsbury), won the Branford Boase Award in 2009. When Emmett is apprenticed to a binder, he starts to suspect his own recollections may have been tampered with.Ĭollins has previously written under the name of B R Collins. The Binding explores love, prejudice and memory in a world where bookbinders remove unwanted memories and trap them safely in writing where they can be kept from escaping. Borough Press and William Morrow will publish simultaneously in January 2019. North American rights to both books also went to HarperCollins, in a pre-empt, to editor Jessica Williams at William Morrow. Suzie Dooré, publishing director at Borough Press, acquired British and Commonwealth rights (excluding Canada) from Sarah Ballard at United Agents. The story centres on a world where bookbinders trap unwanted memories in writing and the HarperCollins imprint bought two books by the author for six-figures. Borough Press has won a “hotly contested” first adult novel from YA author Bridget Collins after an eight-way auction. With the help of Daniel McAdam, her attractive and charismatic confidante, Kat plunges into her own past to investigate. Charlotte makes the cook an offer she cannot refuse-if Kat can discover the identity of Joe's murderer, Charlotte will give her a share of the fortune Joe left behind. Kat is jolted by Charlotte’s claims that not only was Joe murdered, but he had amassed a small fortune before he died. In Victorian-era London, amateur sleuth and cook Kat Holloway must solve a murder to claim an inheritance she didn’t know she had in a riveting new historical mystery from the New York Times bestselling author of Death at the Crystal PalaceĪ stranger who appears on Kat's doorstep turns out to be one Charlotte Bristow, legal wife of Joe Bristow, the man Kat once believed herself married to-who she thought died at sea twelve years ago. |