Books from Penguin Mass Market

Lady Sings the Blues
By Billie Holiday, William Dufty
In a poignant, dramatic memoir, Billie Holiday tells not only of her rise to fame as a blues singer, but also of the exploitation and racial prejudice she encountered as well as of her struggle with heroin addiction.
The New Penguin Dictionary of Quotations
By John Michael Cohen, M. J. Cohen
This volume of memorable quotations, old and new, will be useful for competition entries and crosswords, speeches or letters or purely to dip into for entertainment.
The Emmys: Star Wars, Showdowns, and the Supreme Test of TV's Best
By Thomas O'Neil
A year-by-year history of the Emmy awards provides television lovers, star watchers, and trivia buffs with the ultimate reference source to the most prestigious awards in the television industry. Original. National ad/promo.
The New Penguin History of the World
By John Morris Roberts
A revised edition of the sweeping world history chronicles from early hominid life through the global events of the twenty-first century, following a central theme that human history is a story of change through a deliberate shaping of ...
Selected Essays
By T. S. Eliot, Thomas Stearns Eliot
In this magisterial volume, first published in 1932, Eliot gathered his choice of the miscellaneous reviews and literary essays he had written since 1917 when he became assistant editor of The Egoist.
Things Will be Different for My Daughter: A Practical Guide to Building Her Self-esteem and Self-reliance
By Mindy Bingham, Sandy Stryker, Susan Allstetter Neufeldt
Offers concrete advice and strategies on how to raise your daughter to be confident and capable.
Tales from Ovid Limited Edition: Twenty Four Passages from the Metamorphoses
By Ted Hughes
The" Metamorphoses of Ovid" stands with the works of Homer, Virgil, Dante, and Milton as a classic of world poetry; Hughes translated twenty-four of its stories with great power and directness.
Good Intentions: How Big Business And the Medical Establishment Are Corrupting the Fight Against AIDS
By Bruce Nussbaum
Nussbaum tells of vaulting ambition and greed, of vast sums of money filtered through government agencies and into the profit statements of the manufacturer of AZT, Burroughs Wellcome. 16 pages of photographs.
Animal Farm: A Fairy Story
By George Orwell
Presents a tragic fable where the animals drive out Mr Jones and attempt to run the farm themselves.
Granta 58
By Ian Jack, Emeritus Professor of English Ian Jack
More than 140,000 readers around the world savor the fiction, reportage, polemics, autobiography, history, and travel writing presented in GRANTA.
Let the Dog Drive
By David Bowman
The only member of his household exempt from its laws was Lester — now a five - year - old with the serious brow of an old man . As Ben and his father finished discussing Clifford Brown , Lester himself padded into the kitchen .
Chickenhawk - Back in the World: Life After Vietnam
By Robert Mason
From the author of the bestselling autobiography Chickenhawk--selling over 540,000 copies--comes a triumphant sequel that reveals the Vietnam War's shattering legacy in the heart of a returning vet.
William Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing
By Roger Sales
Analyses of Shakespeare's themes and purposes of his Much ado about nothing, placing the work in context by offering biographical and historical information. Enhances the student's literary appreciation and understanding.
Rude Rhymes
By Michael Rosen
Rude Rhymes
Scratching the Beat Surface: Essays on New Vision from Blake to Kerouac
By Michael McClure
This insider's view of the Beat scene of the fifties and early sixties vividly marks the advancement of a new perception of art as "a living bio-alchemical organism" through essays by a poet and playwright who helped shape the movement.
Fever Pitch
By Nick Hornby
It captures the truth and absurdities of an obsessed fan's mind, and whether you are interested in soccer or not, this is a sophisticated study of obsession, masculinity, class, identity and loyalty.
The Greek Myths
By Robert Graves
A retelling of the ancient myths includes Heracles' labors, the Olympian tales, and the myths of Sisyphus, Midas, and the Argonauts.
Teaching Thinking
By Edward de Bono
Is thinking a matter of intelligence or a skill that can be taught deliberately? Can thinking be taught directly as a curriculum subject in schools?
The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: After Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
By Arthur Conan Doyle
Eleven stories follow Holmes as he investigates cases involving a mysterious disappearance, the theft of a rare book, a series of inexplicable death threats, and murder
The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles
By David G. Wells
The Penguin Book of Curious and Interesting Puzzles