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On the Road

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2024 || Paperback || Jack Kerouac || Penguin

Sal Paradise, young and innocent, joins the slightly crazed Dean Moriarty on a breathless, exuberant ride back and forth across the United States. Their hedonistic search for release or fulfilment through drink, sex, drugs and jazz becomes an exploration of personal freedom, a test of the limits of the American Dream.A brilliant blend of fiction and autobiography, Jack Kerouac's exhilarating novel defined the new 'Beat' generation and became the bible of the counter culture.

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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

|| Paperback || Jonathan Safran Foer || Penguin

'UTTERLY ENGAGING. FROM THE VERY FIRST PAGE IT IS A HUGELY INVOLVING READ...A HEARTBREAKER: TRAGIC, FUNNY, INTENSELY MOVING' SPECTATORIn a vase in a closet, a couple of years after his father died in 9/11, nine-year-old Oskar discovers a key...The key belonged to his father, he's sure of that. But which of New York's 162 million locks does it open?So begins a quest that takes Oskar - inventor, letter-writer and amateur detective - across New York's five boroughs and into the jumbled lives of ...

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The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

2022 || Paperback || Muriel Spark || Penguin

One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World''A sublimely funny book ... it is a book to be read by all ... unforgettable and universal' Candia McWilliamRomantic, heroic, comic and tragic, unconventional schoolmistress Jean Brodie has become an iconic figure in post-war fiction.

Her glamour, unconventional ideas and manipulative charm hold dangerous sway over her girls at the Marcia Blaine Academy - 'the creme de la creme' - who become the Brodie 'set', introduced to a privileged world ...

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Weapons of Math Destruction

How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

2017 || Paperback || Cathy O'Neil || Penguin

New York Times Bestseller'Fascinating and deeply disturbing' - Yuval Noah Harari, Guardian Books of the Year 'A manual for the 21st-century citizen... accessible, refreshingly critical, relevant and urgent' - Federica Cocco, Financial Times A former Wall Street quant sounds an alarm on the mathematical models that pervade modern life - and threaten to rip apart our social fabricWe live in the age of the algorithm. Increasingly, the decisions that affect our lives - where we go to school, whet...

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Lessons in Chemistry

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller and BBC Between the Covers Book Club pick

2023 || Paperback || Bonnie Garmus || Penguin

THE #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Winner of the Goodreads Choice Best Debut Novel Award

Hay Festival Book of the Year

A Book of the Year in: Guardian, Times, Sunday Times, Good Housekeeping, Woman and Home, Stylist, TLS, Oprah Daily, Newsweek, Mail on Sunday, New York Times Notable, and many others

'Sparky, rip-roaring, funny, with big-hearted fully formed, loveable characters' SUNDAY TIMES

'The most charming, life-enhancing novel I've read in ages. Strongly recomme...

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Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

The dystopian classic reimagined with cover art by Shepard Fairey

2008 || Paperback || George Orwell || Penguin

Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Police uncover every act of betrayal. When Winston finds love with Julia, he discovers that life does not have to be dull and deadening, and awakens to new possibilities. Despite the police helicopters that hover and circle overhead, Winston and Julia begin to question the Party; they are drawn towards conspiracy. Yet Big Brother will not tolerate dissent ...

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Think Big

Take Small Steps and Build the Future You Want

2021 || Paperback || Grace Lordan || Penguin

What are you doing today to make your dream future come true? 'A rare self-help book that's actually informed by evidence. A host of perceptive, practical tips for getting out of your own way and making progress toward your career goals.' Adam Grant, bestselling author of Think Again and Originals'A practical and accessible guide to using behavioural science in your career.' Caroline Criado Perez, author of Invisible Women________________­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­ We all h...

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A Clockwork Orange

Penguin Essentials

2018 || Paperback || Anthony Burgess || Penguin

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 comedy? Study of freewill? A Clockwork Orange is all of these. It is also a dazzling experiment in language, as Burgess creates a new language - 'nadsat', the teenage slang of a not-too-distant future.

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How to be an Explorer of the World

2011 || Paperback || Keri Smith || Penguin

From the author of Wreck this Journal, Keri Smith's How to be an Explorer of the World is an invitation to rediscover the world around you. Artists and scientists analyze the world around them in surprisingly similar ways, by observing, collecting, documenting, analyzing, and comparing. In this captivating guided journal, readers are encouraged to explore their world as both artists and scientists.

The mission Smith proposes? "To document and observe the world around you. As if you've never s...

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Upstream (Heruitgave)

how to solve problems before they happen

2024 || Paperback || Dan Heath || Penguin

'Informs, engages and, above all, entertains' Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of HabitNew York Times bestselling author Dan Heath asks what happens when we take our thinking upstream and try to prevent problems before they happen. What happens when we take our thinking upstream and try to prevent problems before they happen?Most of us are pretty good at dealing with problems – we’re used to being resourceful and improvising solutions. But we also tend to focus on reacting ...