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.
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
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
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 Expats by Chris Pavone
$37.00 NZD
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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
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
The White Queen by Philippa Gregory
$29.00 NZD
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Category: Fiction - general | Series: Cousins' War Ser.
The White Queen tells the story of a common woman who ascends to royalty by virtue of her beauty, a woman who rises to the demands of her position and fights tenaciously for the success of her family, a woman whose two sons become the central figures in a mystery that has confounded historians for centu ...Show more
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
$12.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the the inaugural £25,000 Walter Scott Prize for historical fiction. A magisterial new novel that takes us behind the scenes during one of the most formative periods in English history: the reign of Henry VIII.Wolf Hall is told mainly through the eyes of Th ...Show more
The Lost Wife by Alyson Richman
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
There on her forearm, next to a small brown birthmark, were six tattooed numbers. 'Do you remember me now?' he asked, trembling. She looked at him again, as if giving weight and bone to a ghost. 'Lenka, it's me,' he said. 'Josef. Your husband.' During the last moments of calm in prewar Prague, Lenka, a ...Show more
Nineteen Eighty-Four 1984 by George Orwell
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Category: Fiction - general | Series: Penguin Modern Classics | Reading Level: very good
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don?t let it happen,? he concluded. 'It depends on you.?In an age of inescapable sur ...Show more
Snow by Orhan Pamuk
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
Pre-read / Used. Fair condition. "Returning to Turkey from exile in the West, the secular poet Ka is driven by curiosity to investigate a surprising wave of suicides among religious girls forbidden by the government to wear their head scarves in school. But the epicentre of the suicides, the bleak, imp ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey's new look for Orwell's classic dystopian tale. 'It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.' Winston Smith works for the Ministry of Truth in London, chief city of Airstrip One. Big Brother stares out from every poster, the Thought Poli ...Show more