Collision of Power - Trump, Bezos, and the Washington Post by Martin Baron
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
"A closely observed, gripping chronicle of politics and journalism during a decade of turmoil." --The New York Times Book ReviewPolitics. Money. Media. Tech. ...It's all here in Collision of Power."All the President's Men for a new generation." --Town & CountryMarty Baron took charge of The Washingt ...Show more
Desk 88 - Eight Progressive Senators who changed America by Sherrod Brown
$18.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
Since his election to the U.S. Senate in 2006, Ohio's Sherrod Brown has sat on the Senate floor at a mahogany desk with a proud history. In Desk 88, he tells the story of eight of the Senators who were there before him. Despite their flaws and frequent setbacks, each made a decisive contribution to the ...Show more
Liberty! The American Revolution by Thomas Fleming
$16.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: good-very good
Liberty! brings to life one of the most important and compelling stories in America's history: the struggle for independence and the birth of the nation. New York Times bestselling historian Thomas Fleming's gripping narrative captures the high drama of the revolutionary years and the unyielding courage ...Show more
Henry VIII - A European Court in England by David Starkey (ed.)
$18.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
Offering a reconstruction of Henry's Palace at Greenwich, this book also provides an evocation of the splendour and richness of incident of his reign. It was at Greenwich that Henry was born in 1491, spent two-thirds of his life and married the first of his six wives, Catherine of Aragon. Elizabeth, the ...Show more
Muir's Historical Atlas - Ancient, Medieval and Modern by Ramsey Muir; R. E. Treharne (Editor); Harold Fullard (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
America's War of Independence 1763-1783 - A Concise Illustrated History of the American Revolution by David Rubel
$8.00 NZD
Category: Children Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
Each book in the Family Ties series explores a particular aspect of how families stay together, play together, learn together, grow together, and resolve conflicts together.The series celebrates the differences among various cultures, both here and abroad, while emphasizing the similarities among them a ...Show more
New Orleans - Elegance and Decadence by Randolph Delehanty (Text by); Richard Sexton (Photography)
$14.00 NZD
Category: Photography | Reading Level: good
The lush, seductive, Old World elegance of New Orleans is gloriously revealed in this photographic tribute to the Venice of North America. Richard Sexton's photographs capture balcony-lined streets, French-style parks, Caribbean-inspired gardens, and ornate public buildings, and take us inside some of t ...Show more
Clans and Families of Ireland - The heritage and heraldry of Irish clans and families by John Grenham
$20.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good
Discusses immigration and emigration in Irish history and their effects on family names, introduces Irish heraldry, and recounts the origins and history of more than two hundred Irish surnames.
Abraham Lincon - The War Years in four volumes by Carl Sandburg
$150.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
A Monarchy Transformed - Britain 1603-1714 by Mark Kishlansky
$12.00 NZD
Category: United Kingdom | Reading Level: very good
This sixth volume of the nine-volume work narrates the tempestuous political events of the Stuart dynasty. It charts the reigns of the six monarchs, and the course of two revolutions as well as religious upheavals that shook the beliefs of the 17th-century Britons to the core.
The Storm - What Went Wrong and Why During Hurricane Katrina--The Inside Story from One Louisiana Scientist by Ivor Van Heerden; Mike Bryan
$14.00 NZD
Category: America | Reading Level: very good
The ultimate inside story: how bureaucracy, politics, and a disregard of science combined to cripple -- perhaps forever -- a great American city As deputy director of the Louisiana State University Hurricane Center, Ivor van Heerden had for years been warning state and local officials about New Orlean ...Show more
The Times Guide to the Peoples of Europe by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto (ed.)
$16.00 NZD
Category: Europe | Reading Level: very good