The number of e-readers given as presents during the holiday season reached an all-time high in December 2011. Now the new owners of these devices are eagerly seeking e-books with which to fill them. Penguin Group (USA) has designed its own e-book, The Penguin Holiday eSampler, to meet their needs.
The Penguin Holiday eSampler, which was released Dec. 13, 2011, contains 42 excerpts from the works of Penguin authors. The link to this free publication, available for Kindle, Nook, iPad, Kobo and Sony e-readers, can be found on the Penguin website.
Penguin organizes the eSampler into "Past," "Present" and "Future" categories. The "Past" section lists classic titles; the "Present," major publications from 2011; and the "Future," upcoming works.
Readers of Nora Roberts' romances will find an excerpt from her latest work available here. The Penguin Holiday eSampler contains "Chapter One" of The Next Always. This first book in Roberts’ Inn BoonsBoro trilogy was just released Nov. 1, 2011.
Listed below is The Penguin Holiday eSampler's full table of contents.
Past
- City of Thieves by David Benioff
- Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing by Judy Blume
- Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier
- Ranger’s Apprentice by John Flanagan
- Fall of Giants by Ken Follett
- Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
- The Magicians by Lev Grossman
- At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon
- The Reason for God by Tim Keller
- On the Road by Jack Kerouac
- The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
- Girl in Translation by Jean Kwok
- Drive by Daniel Pink
- The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
- The Help by Kathryn Stockett
- This is Where I Leave You by Jonathan Tropper
Present
- The Weird Sisters by Eleanor Brown
- Washington by Ron Chernow
- The Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother by Amy Chua
- Locked On by Tom Clancy
- Shelter by Harlan Coben
- Matched by Ally Condie
- Red Mist by Patricia Cornwell
- Prince of Ravenscar by Catherine Coulter
- Devil’s Gate by Clive Cussler
- The Ideal Man by Julie Garwood
- V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton
- Theodore Boone #1 by John Grisham
- A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
- The New New Rules by Bill Maher
- Bloodlines by Richelle Mead
- The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
- The Next Always by Nora Roberts
- Shock Wave by John Sandford
- Rules of Civility by Amor Towles
- The Quest by Daniel Yergin
Future
- Lunatics by Dave Barry and Alan Zweibel
- More Room in a Broken Heart by Stephen Davis
- Believing the Lie by Elizabeth George
- The Fault in Our Stars by John Green
- Down the Darkest Road by Tami Hoag
- Breakdown by Sara Paretsky
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