High Fidelity: Popular Penguins

Nick Hornby

From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserabl...

Treasure Island: Popular Penguins

Robert Louis Stevenson

Originally designed as a story for boys, Stevenson's novel is narrated by the teenage Jim Hawkins, who outwits a gang of murderous pirates led by that unforgettable avatar of amorality, Long John Silver. But Treasure Islandhas also had great appeal for adult readers and was admired by Mark Twain, Rudyar...

Scoop: Popular Penguins

Evelyn Waugh

Lord Copper, newspaper magnate and proprietor of the Daily Beast, has always prided himself on his intuitive flair for spotting ace reporters. That is not to say he has not made the odd blunder, however, and may in a moment of weakness make another. Acting on a dinner-party tip from Mrs Algernon Stitch ...

Zoobiquity: What Animals Can Teach Us About Being Human

Barbara Natterson Horowitz

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Redwall (Vintage Classics) (#1)

Brian Jacques

Welcome to Redwall Abbey. Inside its enormous doors, mice live in peace, helping those in need and throwing epic feasts for the great and the good of Mossflower Woods. But outside a grave threat is gathering. An army of evil rats led by a vicious, one-eyed warlord, is on its way. Matthias is just one li...

The Paw House

Megan Rix

Hamish's summer isn't going as planned. First, his parents left him to go on a business trip to Japan, and now he's found himself stuck in the Scottish highlands with an aunt he's never met, a grumpy girl called Izzy, and a lot of animals. He's never even stroked a dog - what on earth is he supposed to ...

RED BADGE OF COURAGE AND FOUR STORIES

Waitzkin Josh

'THE OPEN BOAT,' 'THE BLUE HOTEL,' 'THE UPTURNED FACE,' AND 'THE BRIDE COMES TO YELLOW SKY' The Red Badge of Courage takes us to a Civil War battlefield and into the mind of a soldier in a way that no author ever had before. A pioneer in the realistic school of American fiction and the true forerunner o...