Red Room Where the Writers Are

An evocative, gritty memoir by the leading woman writer of the Beat Generation.

Twelve-year-old CeeCee is in trouble.

Why is it that in the aftermath of a disaster- whether manmade or natural-people suddenly become altruistic, resourceful, and brave?

Gwyn Huntington knows how to throw a party. And Hunt Hall, her postcard-perfect Victorian home in Montauk at the easternmost...

Dead girl walking," the boys say in the halls. "Tell us your secret," the girls whisper, one toilet to another. I...

In Africa, a man recounts his days within the grinding machine of the slave trade.

An encounter with a nineteenth century psychiatrist and a girl from the Jewish ghetto in Frankfurt who refuses to speak,...

A fictionalised autobiography of the scientist Alfred Wegener - the man behind the idea of continental drift.

This is Viking/Penguin's (Signet Classics) new edition of Candide.

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