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Anna Sewell's moving story is one of the best-loved animal adventures ever written, this Penguin Threads edition of Black Beauty includes a new foreword by Pulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley, cover art by Jillian Tamaki and deluxe French flaps. Commissioned by award-winning Penguin art director Paul Buckley, the Penguin Threads series debuts with cover art by Jillian Tamaki for three gift-worthy Penguin Classics. Sketched out in a traditional illustrative manner, then hand stitched using needle and thread, the final covers are sculpt embossed for a tactile, textured, and beautiful book design that will appeal to the Etsy(tm)-loving world of handmade crafts

A biting science fiction satire of American racism, and one of the first works of Afrofuturism • It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just heard the news: a mysterious doctor has discovered a strange process that can turn black skin white - a new way to 'solve the American race problem'. Max, who is tired of being rejected and abused because of his dark skin, leaps at the opportunity. After receiving the 'Black-No-More' procedure, he becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man who is able to attain everything he has ever wanted: money, power and a beautiful wife. But it soon becomes apparent that America, whiter than ever, is becoming more and more dangerous • An extraordinary, cutting satire, Black No More is an utterly unique work of science fiction, and one of the first works of Black speculative fiction

The hours pass differently at Black Rabbit Hall • For the four Alton children, it's the perfect summer escape where not much ever happens - until one stormy evening, something does • And their idyllic world is shattered • Decades later, Lorna is drawn to a beautiful yet crumbling old house she hazily remembers from childhood - feels a bond she does not understand • But a disturbing message left by one of the Alton children tells her that Black Rabbit Hall's history is as dark and tangled as its woods • And much like her own past, it must be brought into the light • A spellbinding story of two women, separated by decades, but inextricably linked by their connection to the beautiful and mysterious Black Rabbit Hall

It's New Years Day in 1933 in New York City and Max Disher, a young black man, has just found out that a certain Dr Junius Crookman has discovered a mysterious process that allows people to bleach their skin white - a new way to 'solve the American race problem'. Max, who is tired of being rejected by women because of his dark skin, leaps at the opportunity. After a brief stay at the Crookman Sanitarium, where he receives the Black-No-More procedure, he becomes Matthew Fisher, a white man who is able to attain everything he has ever wanted: money, power, a beautiful wife and good liquor. But as America becomes whiter and whiter, it gets more and more dangerous

An extraordinary tale of family feuds, forbidden love, civil unrest and the downfall of a mining dynasty • Wentworth is in Yorkshire and was surrounded by 70 collieries employing tens of thousands of men. It is the finest and largest Georgian house in Britain andbelonged to the Fitzwilliam family • It is England's forgotten palace which belonged to Britain's richest aristocrats. Black Diamonds tells the story of its demise: family feuds, forbidden love, class war, and a tragic and violent death played their part. But coal, one of the most emotive issues in twentieth century British politics, lies at its heart • This is the extraordinary story of how the fabric of English society shifted beyond recognition in fifty turbulent years in the twentieth century

Eleanor Bennett won't let her secrets die with her • When Eleanor's estranged children Benny and Byron reunite for her funeral, they receive an unexpected inheritance. First, a traditional Caribbean black cake, to remind them of their roots. Second, the story of a decades-old murder that shatters everything they thought they knew about their mother • But as Benny and Byron unravel their family's troubled past, will the truth push them further apart? • Or will it reunite them and fulfil Eleanor's final wish?

Frantz Fanon's urgent, dynamic critique of the effects of racism on the psyche is a landmark study of the black experience in a white world. Drawing on his own life and his work as a psychoanalyst to explore how colonialism's subjects internalize its prejudices, eventually emulating the 'white masks' of their oppressors, it established Fanon as a revolutionary anti-colonialist thinker

A New York Times Bestseller, the real story of Damian Lewis's character in BILLIONS: The rise and fall of Steven Cohen and the largest insider trading investigation in the history of Wall Street • Nominated for the FT/McKinsey Business Book of the Year • Nominated for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • Amazon Top 5 Business Books of 2017 • 'A prodigious feat of reporting' - Malcolm Gladwell • 'Black Edge has the grip of a thriller . Everyone should read this book' - David Grann, New York Times bestselling author of THE LOST CITY OF Z • How do super-rich bankers get away with it? • There is a powerful new class of billionaire financiers in the world, who use their phenomenal wealth to write their own rules and laws. Chief among them is Steven Cohen, a Wall Street legend, and the basis for Damian Lewis's character in BILLIONS, who built his hedge fund into a $15 billion empire on the basis of wizard-like stock trading, and who flies to work by helicopter and owns one of the largest private art collections in the world

In the dark, final days of World War Two, two submarines set out from Japan bearing a deadly virus destined for US cities. But neither boat was heard of again • Present day: NUMA Special Projects Director Dirk Pitt rescues a team of scientists from a deadly cloud of poison gas in the North West Pacific • Discovering that this was no natural phenomenon, Pitt is quickly on the hunt for a pair of lost WWII submarines and their deadly cargo • But he soon learns that he's not the only one searching for the virus: a sinister group of very able terrorists are aiming to relaunch the attack on the US some sixty years later. With time running out, only Dirk Pitt and the NUMA team stand between evil forces and a terrifying assault on America's west coast

"Черная напасть" - самый жестокий и остроумный из "африканских" романов Ивлина Во. Роман, в котором сатира нравов, политический памфлет и безжалостный, холодный и насмешливый психологизм смешаны в крепкий литературный коктейль, действующий даже на самого подготовленного читателя. Итак, император некой африканской страны, получивший европейское образование, мечтает превратить свое государство в весьма прогрессивную державу. Но мечты разбиваются о суровую действительность... Коррупция, дикость, жестокость, тотальное воровство и казнокрадство, - что еще таится за благопристойным фасадом развивающейся страны? • Книга на английском языке • 'We are Progress and the New Age. Nothing can stand in our way.' • When Oxford-educated Emperor Seth succeeds to the throne of the African state of Azania, he has a tough job on his hands