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Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore and Ken Watanabe. New York Times Bestseller Ann Patchett's award winning, bestselling novel thatbalances themes of love and crisis as disparate characters learn that music is their only common language--now a major motion picture starring Julianne Moore ...Show more
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
$22.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE NO. 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A powerful story of two families brought together by beauty and torn apart by tragedy, the new novel by the Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder is her most astonishing yet It is 1964- Bert Cousins, the deputy district attorney, shows up at Fra ...Show more
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1964: Bert Cousins, the deputy District Attorney, shows up at Franny Keating's christening party uninvited, bottle of gin in hand. As the cops of Los Angeles drink, talk and dance into the June afternoon, he notices a heart-stoppingly beautiful woman. When Bert kisses Beverly Keating, his host's w ...Show more
Patron Saint of Liars by Ann Patchett
$24.99 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
It is the 1960s. Rose Clinton arrives at St Elizabeth's, a Roman Catholic home for unwed mothers in Habit, Kentucky. Rose is a young woman who has decided, to be 'a liar for the rest of my life'. She is pregnant but also married (athough at St Elizabeth's she claims to be unwed), fleeing her dull but ...Show more
Run by Ann Patchett
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is just a few weeks after Christmas, and the unforgiving New England weather has taken a turn for the worse. Doyle has dragged his reluctant young sons - adopted sons, as his pale Irish colouring contrasted with their black skin makes obvious - to a speech by Jesse Jackson. Though his own political c ...Show more
Run by Ann Patchett
$29.00 NZD
Category: Historical fiction
Tip and Teddy are becoming men under the very eyes of their adoptive father, Bernard Doyle. A student at Harvard, Tip is happiest in a lab, whilst Teddy thinks he has found his calling in the Church, and both are increasingly strained by their father's protective plans for them. But when they are involv ...Show more
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
“Expect miracles when you read Ann Patchett’s fiction.”—New York Times Book Review Award-winning, New York Times bestselling author Ann Patchett returns with a provocative and assured novel of morality and miracles, science and sacrifice set in the Amazon rainforest. Infusing the narrative with the sam ...Show more
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
There were people on the banks of the river. Among the tangled waterways and giant anacondas of the Brazilian Rio Negro, an enigmatic scientist is developing a drug that could alter the lives of women for ever. Dr Annick Swenson's work is shrouded in mystery; she refuses to report on her progress, espec ...Show more
The Bookshop Strikes Back by Ann Patchett
$4.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A beautifully written essay... a celebration of local bookshops.
The Dutch House by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
New York Times Bestseller - A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick - A New York Times Book Review Notable Book - TIME Magazine's 100 Must-Read Books of 2019. Named one of the Best Books of the Year by NPR, The Washington Post, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Good Housekeeping, Vogue, Refinery29 ...Show more
The Magician's Assistant by Ann Patchett
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
Third -- and breakthrough -- novel by an acclaimed American writer with an enchanting, quirky voice. 'The Magician's Assistant' is at once a love story and a brilliant portrayal of reinvention about a magician who dies leaving his assistant/wife to discover he has lied about his past. A magician (with o ...Show more
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
$24.99 NZD
Category: World fiction
'A heartfelt and witty collection of essays on everything from marriage and knitting to the inevitability of death' Guardian 'A pitch-perfect collection ... She can turn a sentence like no one else: her writing is clear, honest, witty, and just full of unsentimental humanity' Nigella Lawson 'Profound ...Show more