Shadow Show: An Anthology of Original Short Fiction by 26 Authors, Each of Whom Was Inspired by the Legendary Work of Ray Bradbury by Sam Weller
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Ray Bradbury is a storyteller without peer, a poet of the impossible, and, indisputably, one of America's most beloved authors. In a much-celebrated literary career that has spanned seven decades, he has produced an astonishing body of work, including "The Illustrated Man", "The Martian Chronicles", and ...Show more
The Flight of Gemma Hardy: A Novel by Margot Livesey
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'Margot Livesey’s THE FLIGHT OF GEMMA HARDY is the portrait of a delicate, iron-willed girl, an orphan and a heroine in the grand tradition. The writing is at once wholehearted and razor sharp, but here as in all of Livesey’s novels, the real treasure is her gift for exploring the unreduced human psyche ...Show more
Black Dahlia & White Rose: Stories by Joyce Carol Oates (Princeton University)
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
Unafraid to venture into no-man's-lands both real and surreal, Oates takes readers deep into dangerous territory in eleven stories that showcase the keen rewards of her relentless brio and invention. Whether charting the inner lives of two beautiful and mysteriously doomed women in 1940s Los Angeles--El ...Show more
The Secret of the Nightingale Palace by Dana Sachs
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Struggling to move on after her husband's death, thirty-five-year-old Anna receives an unexpected phone call from her estranged grandmother, Goldie, summoning her to New York. A demanding woman with a sharp tongue and a devotion to fashion and etiquette, Goldie has not softened in the five years since s ...Show more
The Mirrored World: A Novel by Debra Dean
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The bestselling author of "The Madonnas of Leningrad" returns with a breathtaking novel of love, madness, and devotion set against the extravagant royal court of eighteenth-century St. Petersburg. Born to a Russian family of lower nobility, Xenia, an eccentric dreamer who cares little for social conven ...Show more
Sea Creatures by Susanna Daniel
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: P.S.
In Sea Creatures, a riveting domestic drama by Susanna Daniel, a mother must make the unthinkable choice between her husband and her son. When Georgia Qullian returns to her hometown of Miami, her toddler and husband in tow, she is hoping for a fresh start. They have left Illinois trailing scandal and d ...Show more
The Roots of the Olive Tree by Courtney Miller Santo
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Courtney Miller Santo's compelling and evocative debut novel captures the joys and sorrows of family--the love, secrets, disappointments, jealousies, and forgiveness that tie generations to one anotherMeet the Keller family, five generations of firstborn women living together in the same house on a secl ...Show more
The Keeper of Secrets: A Novel Of Love, Loss, and Survival by Julie Thomas
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Berlin, 1939. 14-year-old Simon Horowitz is awash in a world of music. His family owns a superb collection of instruments and at its heart is his father's 1742 Guarneri de Gesu violin. But all is lost when the Nazis march across Europe and Simon and his father and brother are sent to Dachau. In the pres ...Show more
The Pearl That Broke Its Shell by Nadia Hashimi
$23.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
A luminous and unforgettable tale of two women, destiny, and identity in AfghanistanKabul, 2007: The Taliban rules the streets. With a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can rarely leave the house or attend school. Their only hope lies in the ancient Afghan custom of bacha posh ...Show more
The Story Hour by Thrity N Umrigar
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a "perceptive and . . . piercing writer," comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances.An experie ...Show more
After Her: A Novel by Joyce Maynard
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
It's the summer of 1979, and a dry, hot, northern California school vacation stretches ahead for Rachel and her younger sister Patty - the daughters a larger-than-life, irresistibly handsome and chronically unfaithful detective father who loves to make women happy, and the mother whose heart he broke. L ...Show more
The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic by Hazel Gaynor
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: A\Titanic Novel Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . .Ireland, 1912 . . .Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in a ...Show more