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25 Articles Tagged Penguin

General Literature
May 16 2022

A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   Happy May! As spring winds down and summer is on the horizon, we’re looking forward to more opportunities for quality time spent in the sun with friends, family, and, of course, books. Luckily we have an exciting roster of new Classics dropping

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A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

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May 16 2022
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April 8 2022

From Page to Screen: Watch the Movie Trailer for This Summer’s Where the Crawdads Sing

Where the Crawdads Sing, the #1 New York Times bestselling book by Delia Owens has been adapted into a major motion picture, coming to theaters nationwide on July 15.  For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found

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From Page to Screen: Watch the Movie Trailer for This Summer’s Where the Crawdads Sing

General Common Reads Literature
April 8 2022
General Literature
April 6 2022

Dolen Perkins-Valdez on her new book, Take My Hand

“I believe that in order to heal, we must remember. Once we remember, we acknowledge. Once we acknowledge, we can take more significant action.”   Watch Dolen Perkins-Valdez discuss her inspiration for writing Take My Hand:   Montgomery, Alabama, 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend intends to make a difference, especially in her African

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Dolen Perkins-Valdez on her new book, Take My Hand

General Literature
April 6 2022
General Literature
March 10 2022

Facts into Fiction: How genealogy and local history enriched the narrative of What Sammy Knew

By David Laskin   After a long career successful in narrative nonfiction (The Children’s Blizzard, The Long Way Home, The Family), I decided a few years ago to jump the fence to fiction. My first novel, What Sammy Knew, is the story of a high school senior named Sammy Stein who, in the first months

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Facts into Fiction: How genealogy and local history enriched the narrative of What Sammy Knew

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March 10 2022
General Literature History
September 13 2021

Americanon Author Jess McHugh asks “Who gets to tell the American Story?”

By: Jess McHugh   Who gets to tell the American story?   That was the question that preoccupied me in the years of researching and writing Americanon. I was fascinated by the ways in which commonplace books, owned by millions of Americans—from almanacs to primers to cookbooks—shaped and reshaped American identity over generations of reading.

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Americanon Author Jess McHugh asks “Who gets to tell the American Story?”

General Literature History
September 13 2021
General
September 7 2021

Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

Kabul-born novelist Khaled Hosseini, author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, is known for his evocative storytelling deeply rooted in Afghanistan’s history and culture. Like so many of us, he watched Afghanistan fall to the Taliban with profound sadness. In the wake of these events, Penguin Random House has updated the educator’s guides for Hosseini’s

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Now Available: Updated Educator Guides for Khaled Hosseini’s The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns

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September 7 2021
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August 25 2021

Carolyn Forché is awarded the American Book Award for In the Lateness of the World

Carolyn Forché is being awarded the American Book Award for In the Lateness of the World, a tenebrous book of crossings, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past, life and death. The world here seems to be steadily vanishing, but in the moments before the uncertain end, an illumination

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Carolyn Forché is awarded the American Book Award for In the Lateness of the World

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August 25 2021
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August 16 2021

An Interview with Bruce Feiler, author of Life is in the Transitions

Q: What is a life transition and why are they important right now?   A: At its simplest, a life transition is the way humans cope with periods of change. When we get hit by a major life disruption, or lifequake as I call these times, we often freeze with indecision and fear. The life

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An Interview with Bruce Feiler, author of Life is in the Transitions

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August 16 2021
Business & Economics
May 24 2021

Unlock the Key to Empowering Teams in Work That Counts: Breaking Down the Barriers to Extraordinary Results

One of Silicon Valley’s top leadership trainers distills his proven framework that has empowered teams at the world’s most innovative companies—from Google and Facebook to Cisco Systems and biotech giant Genentech/Roche—to do the best work of their lives.     Richard Lee has worked with thousands of ambitious leaders and their teams, and has found

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Unlock the Key to Empowering Teams in Work That Counts: Breaking Down the Barriers to Extraordinary Results

Business & Economics
May 24 2021
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April 6 2021

A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

  Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   After a long winter spent indoors (while we’re still prepared for seasonal showers and any unseasonable flurry if we have to), we’re just happy to be able to read outside again and watch nature bloom, so read on for some Classics

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April 6 2021
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March 8 2021

A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   Well, it’s March, which means we’ve been in our new stay-home normal for a whole year. Fortunately, books have proven to be some of the greatest comforts and means of connection through it all, and we feel honored and privileged to play

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March 8 2021
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February 23 2021

A Monthly Update from Penguin Classics

Because what you read matters.   Subscribe to the Penguin Classics Newsletter here.   Meet February’s winter chill with the warmth of reading new Classics this month. Discover our first Penguin Classic with the world-leading cultural institution, the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, to celebrate Black History Month; our new one-volume translation of China’s

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February 23 2021
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