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Persuasion: Popular Penguins by Jane Austen
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good
Eight years ago, Anne rejected the man she loved because her friends and family persuaded her that he wasn't rich or important enough. In all that time, she's never found anyone to match Captain Wentworth. With her snobbish father and spoiled sister always ready to embarrass her in polite society, Anne ...Show more
The ANZACS: War Popular Penguins by Patsy Adam-Smith
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Category: AUSTRALIANA | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Gallipoli was the final resting place for thousands of young Australians. Death struck so fast there was no time for escape or burial. and when Gallipoli was over there was the misery of the European Campaign. Patsy Adam-Smith read over 8000 diaries and letters to write her acclaimed best-seller about t ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Popular Penguins by Mark Twain
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Category: FICTION | Series: Popular Penguins
Wild child Huck has to get away. His violent drunk of a father is back in town again, raising Cain. He won't rest until he has Huck's money. So the enterprising boy fakes his own death and sets out in search of adventure and freedom. Teaming up with Jim, an escaped slave with a price on his head, the tw ...Show more
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Alain de Botton has performed a stunning feat: he has transformed arcane philosophy into something accessible and entertaining, useful and kind. Drawing on the work of six of the world's most brilliant thinkers, de Botton has arranged a panoply of wisdom to guide us through our most common problems. Fro ...Show more
The Day of the Triffids: Popular Penguins by John Wyndham
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
Bill Masen, bandages over his wounded eyes, misses the most spectacular meteorite shower England has ever seen. Removing his bandages the next morning, he finds masses of sightless people wandering the city. He soon meets Josella, another lucky person who has retained her sight, and together they leave ...Show more
The Great Gatsby: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne, his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whispe ...Show more
The Lucky Country: Popular Penguins by Donald Horne
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Category: No Category | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Damien Cave: (New York Times bureau chief in Sydney & friend of Bookoccino) "This often-oversimplified classic raises difficult questions about Australia's elites that are still worth asking. Are Australians, for example, still 'a largely non-contemplative people' who have "a limited view of the pos ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: FICTION | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more
The Plague: Popular Penguins by Albert Camus
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Category: FICTION | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
First published in 1947, The Plague was an immediate best-seller, striking a powerful chord with readers who were struggling to understand the fascist 'plague' that had just overwhelmed Europe. Seventy years later, author and director Neil Bartlett has adapted Camus' classic for our own dangerous times. ...Show more
The Surgeon of Crowthorne: Popular Penguins by Simon Winchester
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Category: FICTION | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Simon Winchester'sThe Surgeon of Crowthorne was an international bestseller and tells an extraordinary true story of murder, madness and an extraordinary friendship in the nineteenth century. It is the tale of James Murray, the compiler of the first Oxford English Dictionary, and his most valued helper- ...Show more