Three Men in a Boat: To Say Nothing of the Dog! by Jerome K. Jerome
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials
'Let your boat of life be light, packed with only what you need - a homely home and simple pleasures, one or two friends, worth the name, someone to love and someone to love you, a cat, a dog, and a pipe or two, enough to eat and enough to wear, and a little more than enough to drink; for thirst is a da ...Show more
The Almost Nearly Perfect People: Behind the Myth of the Scandinavian Utopia by Michael Booth
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
The Danes are the happiest people in the world, and pay the highest taxes. 'Neutral' Sweden is one of the biggest arms manufacturers in the world. Finns have the largest per capita gun ownership after the US and Yemen. 54 per cent of Icelanders believe in elves. Norway is the richest country on earth. 5 ...Show more
White Chrysanthemum by Mary Lynn Bracht
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'Look for your sister after each dive. Never forget. If you see her, you are safe.' This is the story of Hana and her little sister Emi, who are part of an island community of haenyo, ...Show more
The Gathering by Anne Enright
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"The nine surviving children of the Hegarty clan gather in Dublin for the wake of their wayward brother Liam. It wasn t the drink that killed him although that certainly helped it was what happened to him as a boy in his grandmother s house, in the winter of 1968. His sister Veronica was there then, as ...Show more
Minimum of Two by Tim Winton
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction
Tim Winton's characters are ordinary people who battle to maintain loyalty against all odds; women, children, men whose relationships strain under pressure and leave them bewildered, hoping, sometimes fleeing, but often finding strength in forgotten parts of themselves.
White Teeth by Zadie Smith
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Penguin Essentials | Reading Level: good-very good
One of the most talked about fictional debuts of recent years, White Teeth is a funny, generous, big-hearted novel, adored by critics and readers alike. Dealing - among many other things - with friendship, love, war, three cultures and three families over three generations, one brown mouse, and the tric ...Show more
Why Weren't We Told? by Henry Reynolds
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
Historian Henry Reynolds has found himself being asked these questions by many people, over many years, in all parts of Australia. The acclaimed Why Weren't We Told?is a frank account of his personal journal towards the realisation that he, like generations of Australians, grew up with a distorted and i ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'I write this sitting in the kitchen sink...' This is the story of Cassandra, precocious and charming, who begins a journal detailing her life with her bohemian family in a crumbling o ...Show more
Behind the Beautiful Forevers: life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
WINNER OF THE 2012 LA TIMES BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF THE 2012 US NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR NONFICTION SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2013 PULITZER PRIZE From Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo comes a landmark work of narrative nonfiction that tells the dramatic and sometimes heartbreaking story of families striving to ...Show more
Depends What You Mean by Extremist - Going Rogue with Australian Deplorables by John Safran
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
No one turns up where they're not wanted quite like John Safran. In this hilarious and disorienting adventure he gets among our diverse community of white nationalists, ISIS supporters, anarchists and more, digging away at the contradictions that many would prefer be left unexamined. Who is this black p ...Show more
Hedda Gabler and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Penguin Spinner | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very goodgood
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Gigi by Colette
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
Meet ten of literature's most iconic heroines, jacketed in bold portraits by female photographers from around the world 'He must know by now, I should think, that I can give as good as I get!' This is the story of Gigi, educated as a future courtesan in Paris, her days are filled with cigars, lobster, l ...Show more