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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy - the swaggering, fun-lovi ...Show more
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: Popular Penguins by Mark Twain
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Category: Classics | 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 Bodysurfers: Popular Penguins by Robert Drewe
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
A short-story collection which has become a bestseller and been adapted for film, television, radio and the theatre, The Bodysurfers on its first publication marked a major change in Australian literature.
The Consolations of Philosophy: Popular Penguins by Alain de Botton
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Category: Philosophy / Psychology | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: 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 Great Railway Bazaar by Paul Theroux
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Category: Aged | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good
The Orient Express, the Golden Arrow of Kuala and the Trans-Siberian Express are just some of the trains steaming through Paul Theroux's epic rail journey from London across Europe through India and Asia. This was a journey of discovery made in the mid-seventies, a time before the West had embraced the ...Show more
The Merry-Go-Round in the Sea: Popular Penguins by Randolph Stow
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
In 1941, Rob Coram is six. The war feels far removed from Geraldton in Western Australia. But when his favourite older cousin Rick leaves to join the army, the war takes a step closer. When Rick returns several years later, he has changed and the old merry-go-round that represents Rob's dream of utopia ...Show more
The Plague by Albert Camus
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
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 Prophet: Popular Penguins by Kahlil Gibran
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Category: Spirituality | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
"The Prophet, a bestseller around the world and translated into over twenty languages, is the best-known and best-loved of Kahlil Gibran's many writings. Inspired largely by the beauty and timelessness of nature, The Prophet speaks of love and marriage, joy and sorrow, reason and passion, beauty and dea ...Show more
The Psychology of Love: Popular Penguins by Sigmund Freud
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Category: Philosophy / Psychology | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Freud's landmark writings on love and sexuality, including the famous case study of Dora newly translated and in one volume for the first time This original collection brings together the most important writings on the psychology of love by one of the great thinkers of the twentieth century. Sigmund F ...Show more
The Secret History: Popular Penguins by Donna Tartt
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's cult bestseller The Secret Historyis a remarkable achievement - incredibly compelling, dramatic and playful.Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college disc ...Show more
The Well: Winner of the Miles Franklin Literary Award 1986 (Popular Penguins) by Elizabeth Jolley
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
Driving one night along the deserted track that leads to the farm, Miss Hester Harper and Katherine run into a mysterious creature. They dump the body into the farm's deep well but the voice of the injured intruder will not be stilled and the closer Katherine is drawn to the edge of the well, the farthe ...Show more