Hooking Up - Essays and Fiction by Tom Wolfe
$16.00 NZD
Category: Essays | Reading Level: very good
A perfect introduction to Tom Wolfe's brilliant and masterful journalism.In Hooking Up Tom Wolfe ranges from coast to coast, observing the 'lurid carnival actually taking place in the mightiest country on earth in the year 2000' - everything from teenage sexual manners to how genetics and neuroscience a ...Show more
The Virtues of War - A Novel of Alexander the Great by Steven Pressfield
$12.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life.So begins Alexander’s extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior’s unflinching eye for detail the blood, the ter ...Show more
Los Gusanos by John Sayles
$14.00 NZD
Category: Hardback fiction | Reading Level: very good
Award-winning writer John Sayles's critically acclaimed novel explores fifty years of Cuban-American relations. Set in Miami in 1981, Los Gusanos is the vivid and moving account of one extended family's life in Cuba and the United States. With pathos and understanding, Sayles introduces us to a memorabl ...Show more
Another Woman's Husband by Gill Paul
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good456
Circling the Sun by Paula McLain
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
As a young girl, Beryl Markham was brought to Kenya from Britain by parents dreaming of a new life. For her mother, the dream quickly turned sour, and she returned home; Beryl was brought up by her father, who switched between indulgence and heavy-handed authority, allowing her first to run wild on thei ...Show more
Covent Garden In The Snow by Wake Jules
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Seven Ancient Wonders by Matthew Reilly
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Series: Jack West Jr | Reading Level: very good
The thrilling bestseller from Australia's favourite novelist, author of the Scarecrow series and the upcoming Jack West Jr novel The Three Secret Cities. "Exciting and entertaining." Chicago Sun Times "A nonstop rollercoaster ride." Library JournalBOOK 1 IN THE JACK WEST JR SERIES Two thousand years ago ...Show more
The Second Marriage by Gill Paul
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the internationally bestselling author of The Secret Wife comes a tale of love, sacrifice and betrayal, available now. Published in the US as Jackie and Maria. JACKIE When her first marriage ends in tragedy, Jackie Kennedy fears she'll never love again. But all that changes when she encounters... ...Show more
A Wedding in December by Sarah Morgan
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
"Morgan's gently humorous aesthetic will leave readers feeling optimistic and satisfied." --Publishers Weekly on A Wedding in DecemberIn the snowy perfection of Aspen, the White family gathers for youngest daughter Rosie's whirlwind Christmas wedding. First to arrive are the bride's parents, Maggie and ...Show more
A Kiss from Mr Fitzgerald by Natasha Lester
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It's the roaring twenties in the Manhattan of gin, jazz and prosperity. Women wear makeup and hitched hemlines and enjoy a new freedom to vote and work. Not so for Evelyn Lockhart, who is forbidden from pursuing her passion to become one of the first female doctors. Chasing her dream will mean turning h ...Show more
Beauchamp Hall by Danielle Steel
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Winona Farmington once dreamed of graduating from college, moving to New York City, and pursuing a career in publishing. Then real life got in the way - she left college and returned to her small Michigan hometown to care for her sick mother.Years later, stuck in a dead-end job and an unsatisfying relat ...Show more
Transit of Venus by Rowan Metcalf
$12.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The story of the Bounty mutiny is well known. Fletcher Christian