A Room Made of Leaves by Kate Grenville
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The first new novel in almost ten years from award-winning, bestselling author Kate Grenville.What if Elizabeth Macarthur-wife of the notorious John Macarthur, wool baron in the earliest days of Sydney-had written a shockingly frank secret memoir? And what if novelist Kate Grenville had miraculously fou ...Show more
Eddy, Eddy by Kate De Goldi
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Eddy Smallbone (orphan) is grappling with identity, love, loss, and religion. It's two years since he blew up his school life and the earthquakes felled his city. Home life is maddening. His pet-minding job is expanding in peculiar directions. And now the past and the future have come calling - in unexp ...Show more
The Collections by Patricia Donovan
$15.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The population bomb has exploded. Only extreme measures will save our species. Your Gift is our Future. Claris Millar accepts this ideology because she's a law-abiding citizen and because she understands completely the urgent, global need for sacrifice. And yet ... at the same time, having worked in one ...Show more
Time's Eye by Arthur C. Clarke; Stephen Baxter
$6.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: A Time Odyssey | Reading Level: very good
Ambassador of Progress by Walter Jon Williams
$6.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: very good
An interstellar catastrophe has left humanity scattered on dozens of primitive worlds. Fiona is an emissary to one such world, charged with helping the inhabitants of Echidne rise from barbarism. But once she’s arrived on the planet, she finds herself in the middle of a war... the Brodaini, the world’s ...Show more
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
$4.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
Set in the Gulf Stream off the coast of Havana, Hemingway's magnificent fable is the story of an old man, a young boy and a giant fish. It was The Old Man and the Sea that won for Hemingway the Nobel Prize for Literature. Here, in a perfectly crafted story, is a unique and timeless vision of the beauty ...Show more
Moth Girls by Anne Cassidy
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Five years have passed since Petra and Tina were determined to explore the dilapidated house on Princess Street. But what started off as a dare ended with the two girls vanishing. As Mandy's memories of the disappearance of her two friends are ignited once again, disturbing details will resurface in her ...Show more
Over Sea, Under Stone (#1 The Dark is Rising Sequence) by Susan Cooper
$10.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: The Dark Is Rising Sequence | Reading Level: near fine
On holiday in Cornwall, Simon, Jane and Barney Drew discover an ancient map in the attic of the Grey House, where they are staying with their mysterious Great-Uncle Merry. They know immediately that it is special. But it is much more than just a map. It is the start of a quest to find a grail, a source ...Show more
Fall From Grace by Danielle Steel
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
When her life is turned upside down, one woman finds the strength to start again in Fall from Grace, an inspiring novel from the world's favourite storyteller. Sydney Wells' charmed life vanishes when her devoted husband dies suddenly. Widowed at forty-nine, she discovers that he has failed to include ...Show more
All That's Left Unsaid by Tracey Lien
$12.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
1996 - Cabramatta, Sydney. 'Just let him go.' Those are words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her parents called to ask if they should let her younger brother Denny out to celebrate his high school graduation with friends, in a neighbourhood growing more unpredictable by the day. T ...Show more
The Winter Agent by Gareth Rubin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
January, 1944. A bitter winter grips occupied France, where Marc Reece leads an SOE circuit facing deadly risks, operating in secret to sabotage the German war effort. But Marc has a second mission, secret from even his fellow agents - including Charlotte, the woman with whom he has ill-advisedly fallen ...Show more
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
5 January 1800. At the beginning of a new century, Alma Whittaker is born into a perfect Philadelphia winter. Her father, Henry Whittaker, is a bold and charismatic botanical explorer whose vast fortune belies his lowly beginnings as a vagrant in Sir Joseph Banks's Kew Gardens and as a deck hand on Capt ...Show more