New Classics

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of Heidi by Johanna Spyri, read by Gemma Whelan. Little Heidi goes to live with her grandfather in his lonely hut high in the Alps, and she quickly learns to love her new life. But her strict aunt decides to send her away again to live in the town. Heidi cannot bear being away from the mountains and is determined to return to the happiness of life with her grandfather.

A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. The familiar elements of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history - Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment, powerful men seeking to become more powerful, and one woman seeking justice for her child, but this version brings new context to an old story.

The Bhagavad Gita has been called India's greatest contribution to the world. In this audio version of his classic book The Bhagavad Gita: A Walkthrough for Westerners, Jack Hawley makes its wisdom clear to Western seekers.

Lively, absorbing, often outrageously funny, Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales is a work of genius, an undisputed classic that has held a special appeal for each generation of readers. The Tales gathers 29 of literature's most enduring (and endearing) characters in a vivid group portrait that captures the full spectrum of medieval society, from the exalted Knight to the humble Plowman. This unabridged work is based on the new translation.

Carved close to the original Greek, acclaimed classicist Caroline Alexander's new translation is swift and lean, with the driving cadence of its source - a translation epic in scale yet devastating in its precision and power.

Franz Kafka's 1915 novella of unexplained horror and nightmarish transformation became a worldwide classic and remains a century later one of the most widely read works of fiction in the world. It is the story of traveling salesman Gregor Samsa, who wakes one morning to find himself transformed into a monstrous insect. This hugely influential work inspired George Orwell, Albert Camus, Jorge Louis Borges, and Ray Bradbury, while continuing to unsettle millions of readers.

A mysterious knight all in green arrives at King Arthur's court and issues a bizarre challenge. Gawain answers the knight - but at what cost? This new translation keeps all the poetic power of the original's extraordinary alliteration. One of the greatest stories of English literature from any period, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a magical, medieval combination of the epic and the uncanny.

Zoey Daniels has been tossed from foster home to foster home, where she grows up fast and tough. When she is placed in her "last chance" home, she finds a reason to stay and turn her life around: her foster sister, Lexie, who is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. After high school, Zoey is hired by a special government agency, the Department of Molecular Genetics (DMG), where she meets the other reason to remain: Daniel, her coworker. The man she loves. But there is something unique about Zoey.

Ryder’s been to hell before—this time, he might not come back. A chain gang. A desert. No law. No mercy. Another gritty, standalone Western from bestselling author Wyatt Steele. Wrongfully imprisoned, Ryder was just passing through. Then the prison convoy was ambushed in the middle of the desert. Now he’s shackled to killers—and the only way out is through hell. They chained him to murderers. They marched him across the desert like a dog. They thought that would be the end of Ryder. They were wrong. After being falsely accused and thrown onto a prison wagon convoy bound east, Ryder ...

He just wants to run space cargo. Alien warlords want him dead - with a billion credit price on his head. Now, everyone with a gun and a spaceship wants to cash in. But, humans are not easy to kill, especially a battle hardened Marine warrior from Earth. He is angry, frustrated and uncertain about where his life is going, but knows one thing - he absolutely hates the arrogance of the wealthy elite who paid the billion credit bounty. And, he’ll make them pay with their precious, jewelry studded lives if it is the last thing he does. They thought it should be easy. After all, he is just a ...

A town on the brink. A ruthless enemy with nothing to lose. A gunfighter fueled by vengeance. After months on the trail, Nash stumbles upon the quiet town of Clearwater, a place under siege by the brutal McAllister gang. Their leader, Jericho McAllister, rules with an iron fist, extorting the townsfolk, burning their homes, and silencing anyone who dares to stand against him. For Nash, Clearwater is just another town in trouble—until he sees the toll it’s taken on the people who refuse to leave. When Nash rescues a widow and her young son from a gang attack, he finds himself drawn into ...

Emily Starr is sent to New Moon Farm on Prince Edward Island following the death of her dear father. She lives with her two aunts and her cousin Jimmy. Emily has a hard time getting along with Aunt Elizabeth but has great plans to become a writer.

Un mundo feliz es la novela más famosa del escritor británico Aldous Huxley, publicada por primera vez en 1932. La novela es una distopía que anticipa el desarrollo en tecnología reproductiva, cultivos humanos e hipnopedia, manejo de las emociones por medio de drogas que, combinadas, cambian radicalmente la sociedad.

For more than 40 years, The Boston Consulting Group has been shaping strategic thinking in business. The Boston Consulting Group on Strategy offers a broad and up-to-date selection of the firm's best ideas on strategy with fresh ideas, insights, and practical lessons for managers, executives, and entrepreneurs in every industry. Here's a sampling of the provocative thinking you'll find inside.

A Stagecoach Ride Into Hell. A Deed Worth Killing For. A Gunslinger With Nothing to Lose. Nash never planned on staying long in Road Town. A few months riding shotgun for the Overland Stage Company, a little money in his pocket, and then he’d be gone. But when the stage is ambushed, the passengers slaughtered, and a land deed stolen, Nash finds himself caught in the crosshairs of a ruthless man who doesn’t leave loose ends. Jessop Hill owns everything that matters in this country—land, men, law. But the deed in question isn’t just ink on paper. It’s a fortune in silver, buried ...

Updated with a new introduction by expert John Bogle, this comprehensive audiobook provides investors with the wisdom of the pioneer of mutual funds to help you identify and execute the ideal mutual fund investment choices for your portfolio. Bogle has long been mutual funds' most outspoken critic; in this classic book, he provides guidance on what you should and shouldn't believe when it comes to mutual funds, along with the story of persistence and perseverance that led to this seminal work.

No romance. Just action, bullets, and a man on the run. Wesley McCoy has always been a drifter—good with a gun, handy with a deck of cards, and smart enough to stay out of trouble when the odds ain’t in his favor. But after a card game gone wrong lands him in jail, he finds himself faced with a choice: swing from a noose or ride with former Texas Ranger William McKinnrick, a man who claims he still upholds the law. McKinnrick and his men bring justice to the lawless frontier—or so it seems at first. Hunting outlaws, collecting bounties, and settling scores, McCoy starts to believe ...

New Thought visionary Charles Fillmore demonstrates how the thoughts on your mind at this very instant possess greater power then other force ever known. Early in the atomic age, Fillmore intuited that the awesome energy unleashed by the splitting of the atom is synonymous with the mental power inherent in the lives of every individual. Using Biblical analysis, personal experiences, mystical insight, and practical reasoning, Fillmore unlocks the master key to existence to show that there is only one great power in the universe, and one great source: the Infinite Mind.

Twenty-plus sci-fi stories from the lighter side, many of them illustrated. More from the lighter, laughing side than the dark-dungeoned depths; but they’re all here somewhere, from a satisfied smile; or shed a tear. Maybe a “Yes! Get in there”. Or catch your breath at the trials that some have to face. From crackling two-pagers where someone hasn’t quite read the situation right, to sixty-plus sides chronicling what you really have to do if you want to survive on this planet. Tales of here and now, wondering what’s among us; or what awaits us amid the distant futures and far-...

In The Master Key System, presented as a series of 24 lessons, Charles Haanel discusses everything from how to feel healthy to how to become wealthy. Using precise logic and a consistent, common-sense framework, Haanel shows us how to achieve that what we most desire.