City of Ashes by Cassandra Clare
$23.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Series: Mortal Instruments Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Is love worth betraying everything? Plunge into the second adventure in the internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments series and "prepare to be hooked" (Entertainment Weekly). Clary Fray just wishes that her life would go back to normal. But what's normal when you're a demon-slaying Shadowhunter, ...Show more
The Help by Kathryn Stockett
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
"The Help" is the phenomenal international bestseller (that inspired the Oscar nominated film) by Kathryn Stockett. Enter a vanished and unjust world: Jackson, Mississippi, 1962. Where black maids raise white children, but aren't trusted not to steal the silver...There's Aibileen, raising her seventeent ...Show more
The Confession by John Grisham
$55.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
An innocent man is days from execution. Only a guilty man can save him. Travis Boyette is a murderer. In 1998, in the small East Texas city of Sloan, he abducted, raped, and strangled a popular high-school cheerleader. He buried her body so that it would never be found, then watched and waited as police ...Show more
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird' - Meet Scout, the narrator of this book. Her story is one of Deep South summers, fights at school and playing in the street. The spooky house of her mysterious neighbour, Boo Radley, sags dark and forbid ...Show more
Pearl in a Cage: A Woody Creek Novel 1 by Joy Dettman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
<b>The first book in the dark and addictive Woody Creek series from bestselling Australian author Joy Dettman</b> <b> "Dettman writes compulsively readable stories" <i>The Age</i></b> Spanning two momentous decades and capturing rural Australia's complex and mysteriou ...Show more
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good-very good
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
The Hobbit Companion by David Day
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
In the beginning was the word HOBBIT. It was to be the single most important word to ever inspire Professor Tolkien to write a story. And what a story it was! Most authors create characters and then find names for them, but for Tolkien it was words themselves that suggested characters, creatures, plots ...Show more
The Wild Rose by Jennifer Donnelly
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
It is 1914 and World War I looms over Europe. In London Seamus Finnegan - a famous polar explorer - considers settling down and taking up a prestigious position with the Royal Geographical Society. Unfortunately, despite many eager women around him, no one is able to soothe the pain left in his heart by ...Show more
The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JAKE GYLLENHAAL, JOHN C. REILLY AND JOAQUIN PHOENIX A BOOKER PRIZE FINALIST AND A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: Publishers Weekly - Amazon - Hudson Booksellers - Washington Post Hermann Kermit Warm is going to die. The enigmatic and powerful man known only as the Comm ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: very good
The epic new novel, set during WW2, from Sunday Times Short Story Prize-winner Anthony Doerr. Marie-Laure has been blind since the age of six. Her father builds a perfect miniature of their Paris neighbourhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. But when the Nazis invade, father a ...Show more
The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
$27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - general | Reading Level: good-very good
A New York Times Notable Book of 2011A Publisher's Weekly Top 10 Book of 2011 A Kirkus Reviews Top 25 Best Fiction of 2011 Title One of Library Journal's Best Books of 2011A Salon Best Fiction of 2011 titleOne of The Telegraph's Best Fiction Books of the Year 2011 It's the early 1980s--the country is in ...Show more
The Island of Doctor Moreau by H.G. Wells
$20.95 NZD
Category: Fiction - general
After the Lady Vain is shipwrecked, Edward Prendick is plucked from the waves by a passing ship and deposited on a remote island. Here he is the guest of Dr Moreau, whose notorious scientific methods had caused an uproar that left him with no choice but to flee London.Disquieted and appalled by the pain ...Show more