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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, written and read by Ocean Vuong. Brilliant, heartbreaking, tender, and highly original – poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a sweeping and shattering portrait of a family, and a testament to the redemptive power of...

Head firmly in the clouds, Sara McKeon moves in the rarefied world of library work and poetry readings. She seems completely unsuited to investigating the sudden brutal murder of her lover. A haunting mystery, infused with humor, poetry, and urban grit.

A New York Times bestseller Nominated for the National Book Award for Fiction Ocean Vuong’s debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling New York Times Readers Pick: 100 Best Books of the 21st Century “A lyrical work of...

Brought to you by Penguin. How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being...

A ranchero’s daughter in 1845 California fights for her home in a sweeping historical romance of rebellious love, family loyalty, identity, and sacrifice. California, 1845. Mexican rancheros reign, and while American ambitions threaten their future, the Ávila family’s rancho, El Sueño, is...

Where justice ends, the hunt begins. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2026 English Pen Translates Award ”A stark, unsettling exploration of power, violence and institutional corruption that will linger long after the final page” — Booker Prize Judges ”Beautiful and gripping...

Kevin Wilson's characters inhabit a world that moves seamlessly between the real and the imagined, the mundane and the fantastic. "Grand Stand-In" is narrated by an employee of the Nuclear Family Supplemental Provider--a company that supplies "stand-ins" for families with deceased, ill, or just...

Bloomsbury presents We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lama, read by Asha Vijayasingham, Shridhar Solanki and Rishma Malik Scott. International Bestseller Longlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize For readers of...

It is hard to top the pleasure of a woodland walk in Spring unless of course you have a lyric poet as your guide. Now that is possible with Poets of Nature. Let Walt Whitman, John Keats, Emily Dickinson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Bronte, and Ralph Waldo Emerson take you into that realm of Nature "where we seldom wander".

A New York Times Book Review Summer Read Pick A Washington Post Noteworthy Book of the Month One of Booklist's Top 10 Historical Fiction Debuts One of Publishers Weekly's Writers to Watch Named a Most Anticipated Book by The Millions, Ms. Magazine, and Bustle Winner of the...

This program has been updated with a new epilogue written and read by the author. A sharp and provocative new essay collection from the award-winning author of Freedom and The Corrections The essayist, Jonathan Franzen writes, is like “a fire-fighter, whose job, while everyone else is fleeing...

Sometimes the truth is found in a folktale. An evening of revelry and storytelling goes horribly awry when temptations arise and passions flare. Those who survive are haunted by memories and regrets in this southern gothic tale told across dual timelines. 1932. Cumberland Island off the coast of...

In this book, you will learn how to be your soul, to be nothing, so you may penetrate the forests of ego. Your awareness will rise into consciousness. You will light up from within. Your life will not change. It will be transformed. You will be building Heaven on earth wherever you are - in peace and harmony with all. You will go far beyond your dreams and achieve joy and prosperity.

An uplifting prose poem stirring compassion for our Mother Earth and how humanity can restore her to abundant health by cherishing her. Like Gibran's The Prophet, this poetry inspires.

«Te diré que a Dios no podrían importarle menos los pobres. Dime, ¿por qué tenemos que vivir aquí de este modo? ¿Qué hemos hecho para merecer esto? Eres tan bueno y, sin embargo, sufres tanto», le dice un niño a su madre en este clásico en literatura migrante de Tomás Rivera. Fuera del gallinero en el que viven, su padre llora de dolor por los insoportables calambres que le provoca trabajar todo el día en el campo a merced del sol. El niño no es capaz de entender la fe de sus padres para con un dios capaz de imponer semejante sufrimiento, pobreza e injusticia a personas inocentes.

Atahualpa Yupanqui, (nacido Héctor Roberto Chavero) fue un cantautor, guitarrista, poeta y escritor argentino y el músico argentino más importante de la historia del folklore. Su nombre artístico proviene del idioma quechua: Ata, quiere decir "venir". Hu, significa “lejos”. Alpa es la “tierra” y Yupanqui es “haz de narrar”. Es decir que Atahualpa Yupanqui significa "Venir de lejos para narrar".Ha realizado más de 325 composiciones, entre las que sobresalen “Piedra y camino”, “El arriero”, Los ejes de mi carreta” y “Coplas del payador perseguido”.