Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: Vintage Heroines
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by working-class evangelists in the North of England to be one of God's elect. Passionate, headstrong and shielded by her mother's grand disapproval of a sinful world, she seems destined for life as a missionary. And then she meets Melanie. At sixtee ...Show more
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon; Lucia Graves (translator)
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: The\Cemetery of Forgotten Books #1 | Reading Level: good-very good
Barcelona, 1945--just after the war, a great world city lies in shadow, nursing its wounds, and a boy named Daniel awakes on his eleventh birthday to find that he can no longer remember his mother's face. To console his only child, Daniel's widowed father, an antiquarian book dealer, initiates him into ...Show more
The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins
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Category: Cultural, Ideas, Political & Issues
The God Delusioncaused a sensation when it was published in 2006. Within weeks it became the most hotly debated topic, with Dawkins himself branded as either saint or sinner for presenting his hard-hitting, impassioned rebuttal of religion of all types. His argument could hardly be more topical. While E ...Show more
Dirt Music by Tim Winton
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Georgie Jutland is a mess. At forty, with her career in ruins, she finds herself stranded in White Point with a fisherman she doesn't love and two kids whose dead mother she can never replace. Leached of all confidence, she spends her days in isolated tedium and her nights in a blur of vodka self-recrim ...Show more
The Shark Net by Robert Drewe
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction
"Robert Drew has written a moving and unpretentious memoir of a precocious youth, a bittersweet tribute to youth's optimism."--Joyce Carol Oates, The New York Review of Books A "spiced and savory memoir" (The New York Times) of the dark life hidden in a sunny seaside Australian community. Written with t ...Show more
Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit by Jeanette Winterson
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of Jeanette, adopted and brought up by her mother as one of God's elect. Zealous and passionate, she seems destined for life as a missionary, but then she falls for one of her converts. At sixteen, Jeanette decides to leave the church, her home and her family, for the young woman she l ...Show more
The Green Road by Anne Enright
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
By the Booker Award-winning bestselling author of The Gathering, The Green Road is Anne Enright's virtuoso new novel, her most compelling and powerful to date A darkly glinting novel set mainly in a small town on Ireland's Atlantic coast, The Green Road is a story of fracture and family, selfishnes ...Show more
The Dalai Lama's Cat by David Michie
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Series: The\Dalai Lama's Cat Ser.
"'Oh How adorable I didn't know you had a cat ' she exclaimed.I am always surprised how many people make this observation. Why should His Holiness not have a cat?'If only she could speak, ' continued the actress. 'I'm sure she'd have such wisdom to share.'And so the seed was planted . . .I began to thin ...Show more
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refu ...Show more
Outliers: The Story of Success0 by Malcolm Gladwell
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this stunning new book, Malcolm Gladwell takes us on an intellectual journey through the world of "outliers"--the best and the brightest, the most famous and the most successful. He asks the question: what makes high-achievers different? His answer is that we pay too much attention to what successful ...Show more
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden
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Category: Penguin Spinner Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"A seductive and evocative epic on an intimate scale, that tells the extraordinary story of a geisha girl. Summoning up more than twenty years of Japan's most dramatic history, it uncovers a hidden world of eroticism and enchantment, exploitation and degradation. From a small fishing village in 1929, th ...Show more
The Element - How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything by Ken Robinson; Lou Aronica
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Category: Penguin Spinner Non-fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times-bestselling breakthrough book about talent, passion, and achievement from the one of the world's leading thinkers on creativity and self-fulfillment. You, Your Child, and School is forthcoming from Viking. The Element is the point at which natural talent meets personal passion. When peo ...Show more