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Bewilderment by Richard Powers
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A magnificent new novel by Richard Powers, his first novel since the Booker Prize-shortlisted, Pulitzer Prize-winning The OverstoryPicked as one of the 'Best Books of 2021' in the Sunday Times and a finalist for the Booker Prize. Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to sear ...Show more
Bewilderment by Richard Powers
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The astrobiologist Theo Byrne searches for life throughout the cosmos while single-handedly raising his unusual nine-year-old, Robin, following the death of his wife. Robin is a warm, kind boy who spends hours painting elaborate pictures of endangered animals. He's also about to be expelled from third g ...Show more
Living Modern: The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors by Richard Powers
$86.00 NZD
Category: Design
"Living Modern" is the ultimate interiors sourcebook for stylish, design-conscious contemporary living. Understanding modern more as lifestyle than as style, it is all about clean lines, elegant colour combinations, artfully displaying design objects and open areas for lounging, cooking and dining. Feat ...Show more
Living Modern - The Sourcebook of Contemporary Interiors by Richard Powers
$50.00 NZD
Category: Design
Whether the living space is large or small, anyone can create a modern interior. This ambitious book is all about clean lines, elegant color combinations, maximizing indoor-outdoor relationships, artfully collecting and displaying objects, and utilizing open areas for lounging, cooking, and dining. Hun ...Show more
Orfeo by Richard Powers
$37.00 NZD
Category: Crime and thriller | Reading Level: good
Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear - has come to the attention of Homeland Security. Panicked ...Show more
Orfeo by Richard Powers
$29.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Seventy-year old avant-garde composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police outside. His DIY microbiology lab - the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to extract music from rich patterns beyond the ear's ability to hear - has come to the ...Show more
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter's truck turns over in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted ...Show more
The Echo Maker by Richard Powers
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
On a winter night on a remote road in Nebraska, twenty-seven-year-old Mark Schluter flips his truck in a near fatal accident. His older sister, Karin, his only close relative, returns reluctantly to their hometown to nurse Mark back from a traumatic head injury. But when he emerges from a protracted com ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are ...Show more
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