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Screening Room Special

• The Ten Essential Penguin Classics
  The editors at Penguin Classics have compiled a list of the ten works of must-read classic literature.
• Type Matters
  Penguin Designers and Authors Talk about Fonts.

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Penguin Storytime

• Jon Scieszka
  A day in the life of the National Ambassador of Young People's Literature
• Judy Schachner
  The inspiration behind Skippyjon Jones
• Officer Buckle and Gloria
  Liz Shanks reads Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann.
• Ginger and Petunia
  Liz Shanks reads Ginger and Petunia by Patricia Polacco.
• Three Little Pigs
  Liz Shanks reads the classic and a zany retelling.
• Author/Illustrator Spotlight: Tomie dePaola
  Creator of the beloved Strega Nona.
• Strega Nona
  Liz Shanks reads Strega Nona, Her Story and Brava, Strega Nona! By Tomie dePaola.
• The Moon Over Star
  Liz Shanks reads The Moon Over Star By Dianna Hutts Aston.
• Winnie-the-Pooh and Return to the Hundred Acre Wood
  We celebrate the publication with Jim Dale at the NYPL.
• The Night Before Christmas
  Liz Shanks reads a holiday favorite.
• Miss Rumphius
  Liz Shanks reads the classic award-winning picture book Miss Rumphius.
• Jan Brett
  Peek inside the author/illustrator's studio.
• Listen to the Wind
  Liz Shanks reads The Story of Dr. Greg and Three Cups of Tea.
• The Story of Ferdinand
  Gentle bull Ferdinand is sent to the bullfights.
• The Easter Egg
  Hoppi works to make the best Easter egg in order to assist the Easter Rabbit on Easter morning.
• Otis
  A very special tractor makes friends on the farm.
• Conquering fear with Ladybug Girl at the Beach!
  Join Lulu a.k.a. Ladybug Girl on her first trip to the beach.
• Find Your Place in the World with Elsie's Bird
  What happens when city girl Elsie moves to the prairies of Nebraska.
• The Duchess of Whimsy
  Meet the fancy and fussy Duchess of Whimsy.

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Project Paranormal

• JR Ward: Behind the Black Dagger Brotherhood
  The author of Lover Avenged takes you behind the bestselling series.
• Laurell K. Hamilton: The Start of a Phenomenon
  The New York Times bestselling author takes you into the world of vampire hunter Anita Blake.
• Spotlight on Romance Writers of America
  This special installment of Project Paranormal takes readers behind the scenes of the 2009 RWA.
• Behind the Scenes with Christine Feehan
  Christine Feehan discusses her most popular series.
• A Backstage Pass to the Worlds of Charlaine Harris
  An exclusive look at the woman behind the blockbuster Sookie Stackhouse novels.
• A Glimpse into the World of Marjorie M. Liu
  The inspiration behind demon hunter Maxine Kiss and predictions from Sarah Wendell on what's hot in 2010.
• Holiday Greetings from Project Paranormal
  Bestselling authors give recommendations for holiday gift giving.
• Spotlight on J.D. Robb
  In celebration of the 30^th book in the In Death series, J.D. Robb takes us inside the iconic world.
• Psychic Visions
  A look inside psychically charged worlds
• Fallen Angels
  Explore the fallen angels phenomenon with J. R. Ward, Skyler White, and Danielle Trussoni.
• Great Paranormal Summer Reads
  The hottest paranormal reads of the summer featuring Charlaine Harris and Roger Ma.
• Christina Dodd: Inside the Chosen Ones
  Christina Dodd discusses her Chosen Ones series, and Sherrilyn Kenyon discusses her latest book, In Other Worlds.
• The Pacific Northwest
  Explore tales from the Pacific Northwest with authors Kat Richardson, Devon Monk, and Meljean Brook.
• J.R. Ward's Lover Unleashed
  J.R. Ward reveals secrets from Lover Unleashed and what's to come in the Black Dagger Brotherhood series.
• Behind the Scenes with Lora Leigh
  Lora Leigh gives the inside scoop on her paranormal Breeds novel, Navarro's Promise.
• Laura Wright's Mark of the Vampire series
  An interview with paranormal romance author Laura Wright.
• Virna DePaul's Chosen By Blood
  Virna DePaul shares inside details on her new Para Ops series.
• Spotlight on Laurell K. Hamilton
  Laurell talks about Hit List, the 20th novel in her Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter series.
• Spotlight on Jason Starr
  Interview with the author of The Pack, a truly unique werewolf tale.
• Spotlight on Isle of Night
  Veronica Wolff shares the first book in her Watchers vampire series.

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Tarcher Talks

• Living a Tarcher Life
  An introduction to the imprint.
• Meaning
  The Little Book on Meaning by Laura Berman Fortgang.
• Think Yourself Thin
  Hypnotherapist Ursula James visits.
• Happiness
  A Course on Happiness by Mardi Horowitz, M.D.
• Freemasonry
  The History, Mystery and Truth.
• Julia Cameron
  On The Artist's Way, Creativity & Faith.
• 2012: The Truth Behind the Mayan Calendar End Date
  John Major Jenkins and Daniel Pinchbeck on the true meaning of 2012.
• How to Think & Grow Rich and Start Your Own Mastermind Group
  Joel explains how to apply the principles to your own life.
• Talk to Me Like I'm Someone You Love
  Author Nancy Dreyfus on a new way to resolve relationship conflict.
• Every Dog Has a Gift: Ordinary Dogs Making an Extraordinary Difference
  Meet Rachel McPherson, founder of The Good Dog Foundation
• Thin Thighs in 30 Days
  Quick Tips & Advice from the author of Thin Thighs in 30 Days
• The Power of Energy Medicine
  Explore the power of energy medicine with author Donna Eden and Dr. David Feinstein.
• Fishers of Men
  Adam Elenbaas and Jonathan Talat Phillips discuss the spiritual properties of ayahuasca, a psychedelic vine.
• Holy Ghosts
  An Extraordinary Real-Life Ghost Story.
• Overcome Procrastination Now
  Renowned psychologist Dr. Neil Fiore discusses his bestselling program to combat procrastination.
• Reflections With Sophy Burnham
  Sophy Burnham discusses the impact of both intuition and angels on our lives.
• Writing in a Shark Cage
  The Internet is a Playground author David Thorne describes some of his wildest online pranks.
• The Key: A True Encounter
  Whitley Strieber discusses a mysterious encounter with a stranger.

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YA Central

• Teens "Speak" Up by Laurie Halse Anderson
  Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
• John Green
  John Green talks mysteries, maps, and Margo.
• Lauren Myracle
  Peace, Love, and Baby Ducks with Lauren Myracle
• T.A. Barron
  T.A. Barron on Writing the World of Merlin
• Jacqueline Woodson
  Jacqueline Woodson talks about how living in Brooklyn has inspired her writing
• Richelle Mead Dishes about Vampire Academy
  Exclusive secrets about her new book and next series
• Heather Brewer Parties with her Minions
  The Vlad Tod author celebrates the new book at the Snow Ball.

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Get Creative

• Get Creative with Crafts, Cooking, and Compost
  Learn how to make softies, sandwiches, and compost.
• Get Creative with Work, Crafts, and Travel
  Be creative at work, craft a cute doll, and make travel fun.
• Crafts for Parents and Kids
  Creative ideas to do together.
• Get Creative with Extreme Pumpkins
  Learn how to carve pumpkins and create a massive multi-pumpkin millipede.
• Creative Makeovers
  Tips for makeup and money makeovers.
• Get Creative in your Kitchen!
  Start your own kitchen garden, and make a pizza from scratch.
• How to Open a Champagne Bottle with a Sword
  Tom Cutler shares attention grabbing lessons from The Gentleman's Bedside Companion.
• Matt Paxton reveals The Secret Lives of Hoarders
  Organizing expert Matt Paxton takes you inside a hoarder's home.
• Evil Cat
  A Fluffy Kitty Gets Mean!
• A Day of Doodling Monsters
  Join Travis Nichols on a monster doodling odyssey.

Radio Room

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Radio Room Special

• Mike Huckabee's A Simple Christmas
  The governor talks about what inspired his holiday book.

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The Business Beat

• The Dark Side of American Business
  Well timed advice on how to avoid crossing over to the dark side.
• The "Why" of Business Instead of the "What"
  Finding success by defining the purpose.
• Generosity in a Time of Stinginess
  Learn how it pays to remain generous.
• Getting from Vision to Reality
  Tips on how to effectively get from the idea stage to a finished product.
• Back to B(ee) School
  Our hosts learn how important an MBA is in the current business climate
• Starting from Scratch
  How to build your business from scratch
• Friendly Competition
  Pete Carroll applies his coaching philosophy to business
• Rebooting
  Get Your Business Back on Track
• Under Pressure
  Mario Bartiromo and Paul Sullivan give tips on succeeding when the stakes are high
• We Have the Technology
  How to use technology for business gain rather than feeling like a slave to it
• Teaming Up
  How to work with a team and how to lead one.
• Who's in Charge Here?
  Find out what it takes to be an effective manager.
• The "WOW" Factor
  Business Beat looks at how to "wow".

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Penguin Business Thought Leaders

• Secrets Of Great Small Businesses
  Editor David Moldawer talks to authors George Whalin and Tom Szaky on what makes a business great.
• Career Advice From Unique Perspectives
  Pamela Slim and Hugh MacLeod discuss different roads to success.
• Leading In Hard Times
  Management experts Geoff Colvin and Howard Behar on how to get through the recession and keep morale high.

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Penguin Classics On Air

• Why We Love Jane Austen
  Austen's place in contemporary culture.
• The Noli
  José Rizal and the Novel That Sparked the Philippine Revolution.
• Lermontov's A Hero of Our Time
  The First Major Russian Novel?
• Sholem Aleichem
  Yiddish Classics by the Creator of Tevye from Fiddler on the Roof.
• The Birth of a Knickerbocker
  Washington Irving's A History of New York.
• Who Would Have Thought It?
  The First Novel by a Mexican American Woman
• Vampires on Paper
  The Enduring Appeal of Vampires in Literature
• Philosophy is Easy
  The Philosophers Everyone Should (and Can) Read
• The Swedish Gone with the Wind
  The Saga of Gösta Berling
• Tolstoy's Final Year
  Jay Parini and The Last Steps
• Becoming Brontë
  The remarkable Brontë sisters and their contribution to modern literature
• Jane Austen vs. Elizabeth Gaskell
  Why are These Authors Often Adapted for TV and Film?
• From Graffiti Art to Galleries, From Hip Hop to "Hope"
  Keith Haring, a Radiant Classic
• What Makes an African American Classic?
  Preeminent scholars discuss the place of the Classic in African American history.
• More than Half the World Has Read Lu Xun. Have you?
  The most important Penguin Classic ever published
• Backlands
  Da Cunha's Bible of the Brazilian Nation
• Banned Classics
  There is Something in Penguin Classics To Offend Everyone
• From Paths of Glory to The Wire
  David Simon on Cobb, Kubrick and the Chain of Command
• The Bhagavad Gita
  The Classic Decision to Go to War and Three Paths to Living Well
• A Jane Austen Education
  Seeing life through the lens of Jane Austen

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The Literary Life

• The Short Story Renaissance
  Maile Meloy and Doug Dorst discuss their love of the format
• Literary Inspiration
  Authors talk about where they find inspiration
• Fright
  Hear what authors find frightening both on and off the page
• Surprise
  Lewis Black and Julie Klam are full of surprises.

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Penguin Audio Book Break

• English
  Twelve-year-old boy Love Liu wonders what life is like beyond the region of Xinjiang in China's remote northwest in English.
• The Wish Maker
  Set in modern Pakistan, The Wish Maker is a coming of age tale about the unbreakable bonds of family.
• Everything Matters!
  Ron Currie, Jr.'s first full length novel, Everything Matters! asks if the everyday things in life matter when the world is about to end.
• Shooting Stars
  A poignant, thrilling tale of the power of teamwork to transform young lives, including LeBron James's own.
• Juliet, Naked
  The latest book by Nick Hornby is a tale of music, superfandom, and the truths and lies we tell ourselves about life and love.
• A Christmas Carol
  Get into the holiday spirit with the Dickens classic.
• Remarkable Creatures
  By Tracy Chevalier
• Known to Evil
  By Walter Mosley
• Celebrate Mother's Day 2010
  Selections from The Help, Girl in Translation, My Name is Mary Sutter, and Not Becoming My Mother
• Happy Father's Day
  Selections from The Pacific, Storm Prey, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, and It
• Summertime Listens
  Selections from How Did You Get This Number, The Left Hand of God, The Pillars of the Earth, and Eat, Pray, Love
• Be Your Best Self
  Selections from How to be Rich, The How of Happiness, The Art of Conversation, and The Artist's Way
• Spooky Halloween
  Listen to selections from Dust, Dark Prophecy, Servant: The Awakening, and Dracula
• All About Family
  Listen to selections from In The Company of Others, Getting to Happy, The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, and Changing My Mind
• The Path to Greatness
  Listen to selections from Russell Simmons's Super Rich, Doug Hirschhorn's 8 Ways to Great, and Amy Chua's Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother.
• Murder Mysteries
  It's a crime not to listen.
• Mother's Day Listens
  An homage to mothering
• Steinbeck on Audio
  Listen to classics from a great literary icon, John Steinbeck
• Not to be Missed!
  Check out this summer's great audio book must haves.
• Audio Books for Kids
  Celebrate the end of summer with audio books

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A Cup of Poetry

• The Aztec Empire
  From Frances Richey's The Warrior: A Mother's Story of a Son at War.
• The Duck and the Kangaroo
  From Edward Lear's The Complete Verse and Other Nonsense.
• Little Bird
  From Lawrence Raab's The History of Forgetting.
• Elegy for Sol LeWitt
  From Ann Lauterbach's Or to Begin Again.
• Cheer Up, Cheer Up
  From The Annotated Archy and Mehitabel by Don Marquis.
• The Mahabharata
  An excerpt from The Mahabharata from Penguin Classics.
• Language Mixology
  From the collection Mixology, introduced and read by the poet Adrian Matejka.
• Mannahatta
  From The Portable Walt Whitman.
• This Living Hand
  From Selected Poems by John Keats.
• "First Fig", "Second Fig", and "Travel"
  This week we feature From Early Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay.
• Preludes
  From The Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. Eliot.
• I Know I Have Been Happiest
  From The Portable Dorothy Parker, a Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition.
• Rope
  Alison Deming reads from her poetry collection Rope.
• Teddy Bear
  From A.A. Milne's When We Were Very Young.
• Manatee/Humanity
  Anne Waldman reads the title verse and other poems from her newest collection.
• Dearest Creature
  Amy Gerstler reading from her poetry collection Dearest Creature
• The Raven
  We feature a Halloween favorite from Edgar Allan Poe
• Bright Star
  Love poems from Bright Star by John Keats
• "The Clod and the Pebble"
  We celebrate romantic poetry with this poem from Selected Poems by William Blake.
• "The World Is Too Much With Us" & "The Solitary Reaper"
  William Wordsworth finishes our celebration of romantic poetry.
• "The Morning is Full/Es La Mañana Llena"
  From Pablo Neruda's Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
• "Lies"
  From Selected Poems by Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
  By Robert Frost
• Reflections on Childhood
  Childhood examined through the eyes of four poets.
• Love Poems from Around the World
  The tradition of love poetry across cultures
• Greatest Hits
  The most popular poems featured on A Cup of Poetry
• The Luck of the Irish
  Celebrate the best of Irish verse
• Music and Poetry
  The power of music and poetry to touch our souls
• New York Poets
  Poets and poetry inspired by the city of New York
• Jabberwocky
  O frabjous day! Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky
• Terrance Hayes
  Terrance Hayes discusses and reads from his new work, Lighthead.
• Barbara Ras
  The poet reads from The Last Skin.
• Everything You Wanted to Know about Emily Dickinson
  But Were Afraid to Ask.
• Carrie Fountain
  Carrie Fountain discusses Burn Lake, her debut collection, and its central themes.
• "Sea Fever"
  The poem by John Mansfield is a send off to summer
• Three Fall Days, Three Ways
  A meditation on the beginning of autumn
• I See England, I See France
  We feature the work of early Renaissance poets.

Reading Room

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• This is Where I Leave You
  by Jonathan Tropper
• The Healing of America
  by T.R. Reid
• Hospital
  by Julie Salamon
• Why Our Health Matters
  by Andrew Weil, M.D.
• Imperial
  William T. Vollman.
• Impossible
  by Nancy Werlin
• The Magicians
  by Lev Grossman
• Spent
  by Geoffrey Miller
• The Art of Making Money
  by Jason Kersten
• Create Your Own Economy
  by Tyler Cowen.
• Dune Road
  by Jane Green
• Farm City
  by Novella Carpenter
• The Food of a Younger Land
  by Mark Kurlansky
• In Defense of Food
  by Michael Pollan.
• Down Around Midnight
  by Robert Sabbag
• The Ten-Year Nap
  by Meg Wolitzer
• City of Thieves
  by David Benioff
• "Stairway to Heaven"
  Aleksandar Hemon
• The Divorce Party
  by Laura Dave
• The Little Stranger
  by Sarah Waters
• The World in Half
  by Cristina Henriquez
• The Gamble
  by Thomas E. Ricks
• D-Day
  by Antony Beevor
• The War That Killed Achilles
  by Caroline Alexander
• The Wrong Mother
  by Sophie Hannah
• ¡Obamanos!
  by Hendrik Hertzberg
• Inside the Kingdom
  by Robert Lacey
• The Audacity to Win
  by David Plouffe
• Churchill
  by Paul Johnson
• Knit the Season
  by Kate Jacobs
• Stones into Schools
  by Greg Mortenson
• Vampire Academy
  by Richelle Mead
• The Autobiography of Santa Claus
  by Jeff Guinn
• Frostbite
  by Richelle Mead
• Shadow Kiss
  by Richelle Mead
• Blood Promise
  by Richelle Mead
• Drive
  by Daniel Pink
• Outstanding!
  by John G. Miller
• Marry Him
  by Lori Gottlieb
• Linchpin
  by Seth Godin
• The Art of Eating In
  by Cathy Erway
• Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
  by Beth Hoffman
• Keeping the Feast
  by Paula Butturini
• We've Got Issues
  by Judith Wagner
• Growing Up on the Spectrum
  by Lynn Kern Koegel, Ph.D.
• Healing and Preventing Autism
  by Jenny McCarthy
• Three Times the Love
  by Lynn and Randy Gaston
• The Girls from Ames
  by Jeffrey Zaslow
• Secrets of a Jewish Mother
  by Jill Zarin, Lisa Wexler, and Gloria Kamen
• Mom
  by Dave Isay
• For You Mom, Finally
  by Ruth Reichl
• Silver Borne
  by Patricia Briggs
• Promises to Keep
  by Jane Green
• Faithful Place
  by Tana French
• Changing Shoes
  Tina Sloan
• Rat Girl
  Kristin Hersh
• Texas Blue
  Jodi Thomas
• Shadow Raiders
  Margaret Weis and Robert Krammes
• Kiss of Snow
  Nalini Singh
• A Rather Remarkable Homecoming
  C.A. Belmond