Brought to you by Penguin.Economics is sold as pure and apolitical: scientific, neutral, exact. This urgent book exposes its true role: to convince us there’s no alternative to capitalism. We live in a world dominated by the dogma that austerity is necessary, unemployment natural, endless wars inevitable and central banks all-powerful. It doesn’t have to be this way.In her bold, groundbreaking manifesto, economist Clara E. Mattei tears the mask off our econ...

A groundbreaking study of the connections between homoeroticism, cannibalism, and cultures of consumption in American literature and US slave culture.Scholars of US and transatlantic slavery have largely ignored or dismissed accusations that Black Americans were cannibalized. Vincent Woodard takes the enslaved person's claims of human consumption seriously, focusing on both the literal starvation of the slave and the tropes of cannibalism on the part of the slaveho...

"A Little Too Familiar is a knock-it-out-of-the-park, magic on every page delight." -Christina Lauren, NYT Bestselling authors of the Unhoneymooners"Wildly inventive, thoroughly romantic, and cozily delightful, Lish McBride will leave you head over heels for this world and her characters." Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author of The Date from Hell"Intricate world building, sexy and smart leads who can't live without each ot...

From the legendary Famous Trials series of real-life courtroom dramas, two classic murder trials abridged and refreshed as Penguin Specials for modern readers, selected and introduced by Alex McBride, author of Defending the GuiltyNineteen year-old Madeleine Smith may have been charged in 1857 with poisoning her lover, Emile L'Angelier, but her real sin was having sex - a lot of sex - out of wedlock. Her mistake was to write him frank and passiona...

In the second installment of Susan McBride’s Debutante Dropout mystery series, Dallas heiress Andrea Kendricks must expose a high-society assassin … before she becomes the killer’s next target.Website designer and high-society rebel Andrea Kendricks would never have gotten involved with ego-in-pumps lifestyle hostess Marilee Mabry if it weren’t for the underhanded machinations of Andy’s upper-crust mama. But thanks to Mother Cissy, Andy’s donning designer duds to attend a launch pa...

Destiny is not a thread-it is a web.Marrula Tamara, once Empress of Worlds, has been exiled to a planet called Strand. Centuries have passed, and her fellow exiles and their mortal children have spread across the land. Humanity has grown and prospered on this new world, but Marrula desires only revenge. In the city of Bralle, she clings with an iron fist to her immortality, her rule, and her formidable psychic powers.In remote Tarlannat Hold, deadl...

In this fun and sassy new mystery, USA Today bestselling author Susan McBride introduces us to Helen Evans, a modern-day Miss Marple who must expose a murderer in a town full of suspects!When Milton Grone turns up dead in tiny River Bend, Illinois, nearly all the would-be suspects have the perfect alibi: attending Thursday night's town meeting. And as Milton was hardly beloved, plenty of folks had a reason to do him in . . .Grone's next-door neighbor was furious ab...

"Breathtaking fun!" A cozy but unpredictable riot of mystery and mayhem during an art show on a trio of remote Florida islands. Ghost Mound Key Arts Festival offers exciting rewards for fabric artist Maeve and her one-of-a-kind products. Then the body of a show official she'd talked with is discovered. Is she a suspect? Is she in the killer's crosshairs? When she and sidekick Chiquita are once again sidelined by potter Peter Berrien, she vows to investigate the bizarre murder on her own. D...

If you're looking for a fun and delightfully rewarding activity to delve into-literally!-now is the time to take on the pleasant task of cultivating your veggies at home, organically, and healthfully.This book will walk you through the whole process, from the fundamentals of why and how to the rewarding activities of harvesting and preserving...Organic Vegetable Gardening takes you on a trip through the seasons, teaching y...

Calvin Taylor had learned the tricks of his trade scouting against the Apaches. Now the Indian Wars were almost over, he was using those same deadly skills to hunt down lawbreakers of all races. Taylor believed there was an organisation behind the stock-thieving sweeping Arizona. In the grim Canyon of the Dead he located the robbers' roost and the outlaw leader. But trapped as he was in a web of treachery, violence and intrigue, pursued by a crazed Apache renegade, his next problem was how...

Will Murphy spends his down time doing subversive cross-stitch, crafting saucy baked goods for the romance book club he attends with his Nana, and desperately trying to hide the fact that he's been in love with Vanessa Woodbridge for, well, ever. For years, he's been content to wear the best friend label. But suddenly it's starting to chafe, right when Vanessa needs a trusted friend more than ever.Vanessa Woodbridge wants to be a hedge wit...

"A Little Too Familiar is a knock-it-out-of-the-park, magic on every page delight." -Christina Lauren, NYT Bestselling authors of the Unhoneymooners"Wildly inventive, thoroughly romantic, and cozily delightful, Lish McBride will leave you head over heels for this world and her characters." Gwenda Bond, New York Times bestselling author of The Date from Hell"Intricate world building, sexy and smart leads who can't live without each other, a diabolical villain you will delight ...