Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder
$28.00 NZD
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Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good-very good
A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. In order to answer two existential questions, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.
When You Walked Back Into My Life by Hilary Boyd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
For eight years Flora's love affair with Fin was a whirlwind of fun and spontaneity - but when Flora wanted to settle down and have children, Fin vanished. Life moved on and Flora's world filled with other people, other cares. There were benefits to being single - no socks under the bed, no mess in the ...Show more
The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
Lily has grown up believing she accidentally killed her mother when she was four. She not only has her own memory of holding the gun, but her father's account of the event. Now fourteen, she yearns for her mother, and for forgiveness. Living on a peach farm in South Carolina with her father, she has onl ...Show more
Disgrace by J M Coetzee
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good-very good
"INCLUDES A READING GUIDE After years teaching Romantic poetry at the Technical University of Cape Town, David Lurie, middle-aged and twice divorced, has an impulsive affair with a student. The affair sours; he is denounced and summoned before a committee of inquiry. Willing to admit his guilt, but refu ...Show more
True Pleasures: a Memoir of Women in Paris by Lucinda Holdforth
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good-very good
What better respite is there from down-under diplomacy and politics than to wander the Parisian haunts of some of the most influential women in recent western history? Australian Lucinda Holdforth abandoned her speech-writing job to do just that, exploring the intriguing Paris lives and locales of Nancy ...Show more
No Logo by Naomi Klein
$30.00 NZD
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Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good
The book that offers a cure for affluenza, 'No Logo' is one of those rare books that defines a generation, the most significant one since Douglas Coupland's 'Generation X'.
The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Bronze Horseman Trilogy | Reading Level: very good
Called "a Russian Thorn Birds," The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons is a sweeping saga of love and war that has been a monumental bestseller all over the world. The golden skies, the translucent twilight, and the white nights all hold the promise of youth, of love, and of eternal renewal. The war has ...Show more
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Stories (Leather Bound) by Lewis Carroll
$60.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Barnes and Noble Leatherbound Classic Collection
Scurry down the rabbit hole and step through the looking glass with this luxurious compilation of works from Lewis Carroll. Don't be late--it's a very important date Witty, whimsical, and often nonsensical, the fiction of Lewis Carroll has been popular with both children and adults for over 150 year ...Show more
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
A young boy in New York City, Theo Decker, miraculously survives an explosion that takes the life of his mother. Alone and determined to avoid being taken in by the city as an orphan, Theo scrambles between nights in friends' apartments and on the city streets. He becomes entranced by the one thing that ...Show more
Paris Wife by Paula McLain
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
"A beautiful portrait of being in Paris in the glittering 1920s--as a wife and as one's own woman."--Entertainment Weekly A deeply evocative story of ambition and betrayal, The Paris Wife captures the love affair between two unforgettable people: Ernest Hemingway and his wife Hadley. Chicago, 1920: ...Show more
On Canaan's Side by Sebastian Barry
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
From the two-time Man Booker short-listed author of The Secret Scripture comes a magnificent new novel that is the story of the twentieth century in America. Told in the first person, as a narrative of Lilly Bere's life over seventeen days, On Canaan's Side opens as Lilly mourns the loss of her grandson ...Show more
The Expats by Chris Pavone
$37.00 NZD
$38.00 (2% off)
Category: Fiction - general
When her husband accepts a new job in Luxembourg, Kate Moore thinks she is leaving her topsecret life in the CIA behind. It's the perfect opportunity for her family to start again as expatriates in a genteel, European city with a new home, new friends and a new life. But when Kate and her husband, Dexte ...Show more