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Jessica Hische
This revised edition of design-world darling Jessica Hische's career-spanning art book offers a fascinating inside look at her work in progress, featuring highlights from her most exciting recent projects and…
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Amy Tan
In 1949, four Chinese women–drawn together by the shadow of their past–begin meeting in San Francisco to play mah jong, invest in stocks and say stories. They call their gathering…
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From the New York Times best-selling creator of Tomorrow I'll Be Brave comes a delightful spin on the traditional alphabet book, featuring creatively hand-lettered words from A to Z and…
Journey through the beautifully hand-lettered messages by award-winning illustrator Jessica Hische, now available in board book for the youngest readers. This uplifting and positive book encourages kids to promise that…
Robert Louis Stevenson
Since his first literary appearance in 1886, the murderous Mr Hyde has embodied the evil that even good men including his alter ego, Henry Jekyll - are capable of when…
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A delightful picture book by New York Times bestselling author-illustrator Jessica Hische that follows an inquisitive little letter 'u' as she goes on a class field trip to find out…
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Tomorrow I'll be kind, my heart, my guiding light. The smallest spark of kindness shines through the darkest night.
In a follow-up to Tomorrow I'll Be Brave, award-winning author and…
Amelia Westwood
The Invisible Labour: Annabel's Journey Through Cesarean Birth and Trauma is a poignant exploration of one woman's transformative experience with childbirth. Annabel's journey unfolds with the unexpected twists and emotional…
In a follow-up to Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave, award-winning illustrator Jessica Hische brings to life another series of inspirational words and scenes with her lovely hand-lettering and adorable illustrations. This…
Journey through the beautifully hand-lettered messages by award-winning illustrator Jessica Hische. This uplifting and positive book encourages kids to promise that tomorrow, they will try new things, do their best…
John O'Hara
A bestseller when it was originally published in 1935, this is a brilliant, brutal portrait of New York’s speakeasy generation. Like Henry James, O'Hara could create a world where class…
Ellery Queen
Originally published: New York: Frederick A. Stokes Company,
Gustave Flaubert
This translation first published … 2010 –T.p. verso.
James Joyce
A classic novel which follows Stephen Dedalus as he progresses from boyhood to his coming of age in Ireland at the beginning of the 20th century, describing his sexual awakening…
Walt Whitman
W is for Whitman. When Walt Whitman self-published his Leaves of Grass in July 1855, he altered the course of literary history. One of the greatest masterpieces of American literature…
Sigrid Undset
First published in Penguin Books 1997 –T.p. verso.
Kazuo Ishiguro
But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to…
E. Nesbit
This beautiful HarperCollins Children’s Classics edition of E. Nesbit’s Five Children and It is the perfect addition to any bookshelf.
Jane Austen
Elizabeth Bennet’s early determination to dislike Mr. Darcy is a prejudice only matched by the folly of his arrogant pride. Their first impressions give way to true feelings in a…
George Eliot
Middlemarch par George Eliot. George Eliot etait un romanciere britannique (1819-1880).
Herman Melville
First published in the United States of America by Harper & Brothers 1851 –Title page verso.
William Golding
Simplified Chinese edition of Lord of the Flies, the classic novel by the 1983 Nobel prize winner William Golding about a group of boys who, after a plane crash, set…
John Steinbeck,Jessica Hische
Adventures of cannery workers living in the run-down waterfront section of Monterey, California.
Salman Rushdie
The author of The Satanic Verses returns with his most humorous and accessible novel yet. This is the story of Haroun, a 12-year-old boy whose father Rashid is the greatest…
Chang-rae Lee
Henry Park has spent his entire life trying to become a true American–a native speaker. But even as the essence of his adopted country continues to elude him, his Korean…
William Butler Yeats
Y is for Yeats. A specially compiled edition for the Penguin Drop Caps series, When You Are Old will include the most accessible, best-known poems by W.B. Yeats from his…
Sue Monk Kidd
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father’s account of…
Francois Voltaire
This translation first published in Penguin Classics (UK) 2005; first published in the United States of America by Penguin Books (USA) 2005 –T.p. verso.
Hermann Hesse
Integrating Eastern and Western spiritual traditions with psychoanalysis and philosophy, this title tells the story of a young Brahmin’s search for ultimate reality after meeting with the Buddha.
Charles Dickens
This Norton Critical Edition, edited by the pioneer of Great Expectations scholarship, presents the most thorough textual edition of the novel (1861) available.
Marcel Proust
This text is the original translation of the first part of the first volume of Remembrance of Things Past . It paints a portrait of French society at the close…
Xinran
In this volume, Xinran recreates Shuwen’s extraordinary search for her missing husband, Kejun in Tibet. It follows her entry into a landscape that nothing had prepared her for and her…
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
A boy named Daniel selects a novel from a library of rare books, enjoying it so much that he searches for the rest of the author’s works, only to discover…
Seth Fishman
A hilarious and gorgeous picture book by A Hundred Billion Trillion Stars author Seth Fishman, following a bad drawer who works together with his friends to help bring his wildest…
Put bravery, kindness, and creativity into action in this gorgeous gratitude journal by New York Times best-selling author-illustrator Jessica Hische!
Following up Tomorrow I’ll Be Brave and Tomorrow I’ll Be…
