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This searing memoir tells the story of a young doctor and activist who ran an underground hospital in Damascus, humanizing the enduring crisis in Syria.

The Children of Dynmouth - a classic prize-winning novel by William Trevor. Penguin Decades bring you the novels that helped shape modern Britain. The 1970s was a decade of anger and discontent.

Shiva Naipaul was the brother of V. S. Naipaul and author of Fireflies and The Chip-Chip Gatherers.

In the spring of 1820, on the Aegean island of Melos, an unsuspecting farmer was digging for marble building blocks when he unearthed the statue that would come to be known as the Venus de Milo.

The Circle moves the reader forward to the year 2029, just before the start of the world's greatest holocaust, called the Battle of Armageddon.

Set after the events of Everfair, espionage, betrayal, and political intrigue follow, when the estranged son of a founding member of Everfair visits his sister in Zanzibar.

"A skilled blend of insight...and emotion" (Publishers Weekly), this memoir resonates with anyone who has ever tried to lose weight.

The End of the World isn't the End of the Story. Sixty-three souls find themselves plucked from heaven and thrust into an experimental new universe.

When Herb Kent was a straight-A college student in the 1940s, his white professor told him, "You have the best voice in class, but you'll never make it in radio because you're a Negr

A former public defender testifies to the vivid human suffering at the heart of America's criminal justice system.

This novel tells the story of Alfred Cameron and his family, who enjoy a life of luxury.

A funny and incisive Korean family coming-of-age novel in stories about a 12-year-old boy who moves with his mother and sister from Korea to work at their father's Asian gift shop in a New Jer

A long-forgotten Beat poet brought back to life in utterly fantastical fashion.

Peer inside the mind of violent child molester Nathanael Bar-Jonah.

He lives deep in the forest in the time of King Wenceslas, in a village older than record.