Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts
$40.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
""It took me a long time and most of the world to learn what I know about love and fate and the choices we make, but the heart of it came to me in an instant, while I was chained to a wall and being tortured."" So begins this epic, mesmerizing first novel set in the underworld of contemporary Bombay. "S ...Show more
Paris Hangover by Kirsten Lobe
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A glamorous fish-out-of-water first novel, "Paris Hangover" stars Klein, a just-escaped New Yorker with trunks full of fabulous footwear but without the significant relationship she'd really expected and longed to have by now, in her mid-thirties. Fleeing a live-in lover and their sleek TriBeCa triplex ...Show more
French Trysts by Kirsten Lobe
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Somewhere between dating and eternal bliss lies a secret world of glamour, opulence, decadence and the "real" amorous adventures of the "haut monde." Paris is a sexy, sinful romantic playground— and what could be more thrilling than to be an American girl let loose in the City of Lights? Alexandra War ...Show more
Sarah's Key by Tatiana De Rosnay
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A "New York Times" bestseller. Paris, July 1942: Sarah, a ten year-old girl, is brutally arrested with her family by the French police in the Velâ dâHivâ roundup, but not before she locks her younger brother in a cupboard in the family's apartment, thinking that she will be back within a few hour ...Show more
The Street of a Thousand Blossoms by Gail Tsukiyama
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Japan, 1939: Two orphaned brothers are growing up with loving grandparents who inspire them to dream of a future firmly rooted in tradition. The older boy, Hiroshi, shows signs of promise at sumo wrestling, while Kenji is fascinated by the art of Noh Theatre masks. But as the ripples of war spread, t ...Show more
One Good Dog by Susan Wilson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
The very definition of a hard-nosed businessman, Adam March has no room in his life for anything but the cold drive to succeed. Not for his social-climbing wife or for his rebellious teenage daughter. Then, in an instant, he loses everything. Due to an untimely collision of arrogance, stress, circumstan ...Show more
Liberation by Joanna Scott
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Adriana Nardi is only ten years old when Allied forces occupy her lush island home during World War II, plaguing the quiet Italian village with violence and uncertainty. Amdu is a Senegalese soldier who abandons his comrades and befriends Adriana after witnessing an unspeakable act that has far-reaching ...Show more
Into the Beautiful North by Luis Alberto Urrea
$36.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Nineteen-year-old Nayeli works at a taco shop in her Mexican village and dreams about her father, who journeyed to the US when she was young. Recently, it has dawned on her that he isn't the only man who has left town. In fact, there are almost no men in the village - they've all gone north. While watch ...Show more