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Clockwork Orange: Popular Penguins by Anthony Burgess
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
'What's it going to be then, eh?'In this nightmare vision of youth in revolt, fifteen-year-old Alex and his friends set out on a diabolical orgy of robbery, rape, torture and murder. Alex is jailed for his teenage delinquency and the State tries to reform him - but at what cost?Social prophecy? Black co ...Show more
Cold Comfort Farm: Popular Penguins by Stella Gibbons
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A hilarious and merciless parody of rural melodramas and one of the best-loved comic novels of all time, Cold Comfort Farmby Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range.'We are not like other folk, maybe, but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm... ...Show more
Empire: How Britain Made the Modern World by Niall Ferguson
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Niall Ferguson's Empire is one of the most successful and controversial history books of recent years. Brilliantly re-telling the story of Britain's imperial past, it shows how a gang of buccaneers and gold-diggers from a rainy island in the North Atlantic came to build the most powerful empire in all h ...Show more
Flesh in Armour: War Popular Penguins by Mann Leonard
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Category: MILITARY HISTORY | Series: War Popular Penguins Ser.
Nearly 420 000 Australians enlisted during the First World War, and more than half were killed, wounded or captured. the conflict was the most costly in Australia's history. In the fates of his protagonists in his acclaimed Flesh in Armour - one dies valiantly, one dies in an abject and mentally unhinge ...Show more
From Russia with Love by Ian Fleming
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"SMERSH,the Russian intelligence unit, is hell-bent on destroying Special Agent James Bond. His death would deal a hammer blow to the heart of The British Secret Service. b>b>The lure?The chance for 007 to bring the Spektor decoding machine from Istanbul to London, and for the British to take the ...Show more
Holding the Man: Popular Penguins by Timothy Conigrave
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
With honesty and insight Holding the Man explores the highs and lows of any partnership, and the strength of heart both men have to find when they test positive to HIV.The mid-seventies - at an all-boys Catholic school in Melbourne, Timothy Conigrave falls wildly and sweetly in love with the captain of ...Show more
I Can Jump Puddles: Popular Penguins by Alan Marshall
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Category: BIOGRAPHY | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
I Can Jump Puddles is Alan Marshall's story of his childhood--a happy world in which, despite his crippling poliomyelitis, he plays, climbs, fights, swims, rides, and laughs. His world was the Australian countryside early last century: rough-riders, bushmen, farmers, and tellers of tall stories--a worl ...Show more
Inferno: Popular Penguins by Dante Alighieri
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to hell.On Good Friday evening in the year 1300, Dante finds himself lost in a dark and menacing wood. The ghost of Virgil offers to lead him to safety but the path lies through the terrifying kingdom of Satan. On his journey deep into the underworld, Dante crosses paths with both old acquaintan ...Show more
Jane Eyre: Popular Penguins by Charlotte Brontë
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
Charlotte Bronte (21 April 1816 - 31 March 1855) was an English novelist and poet, the eldest of the three Bronte sisters who survived into adulthood and whose novels have become classics of English literature.The literary heritage of the Bronte sisters entered the treasury of national English culture g ...Show more
My Family and Other Animals by Gerald Durrell
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
My Family and Other Animalsis the bewitching account of a rare and magical childhood on the island of Corfu by treasured British conservationist Gerald Durrell. Escaping the ills of the British climate, the Durrell family - acne-ridden Margo, gun-toting Leslie, bookworm Lawrence and budding naturalist G ...Show more
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Series: Green Popular Penguins Ser.
Venture back in time to Victorian London to join literature's greatest detective team - the brilliant Sherlock Holmes and his devoted assistant, Dr. Watson - as they investigate a dozen of their best-known cases. Originally published in 1892, this is the first and best collection of stories about the le ...Show more
The Harp in the South: Popular Penguins by Ruth Park
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Category: Australian Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
An Australian classic, this is the story of the Darcy family who live in the Depression era tenements of Surry Hills, Sydney. Hugh and Margaret Darcy are raising their family in Sydney amid the brothels, grog shops, and run-down boarding houses of Surry Hills, where money is scarce and life is not easy ...Show more