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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture - Abacus 40th edition by Douglas Coupland
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Andy, Dag and Claire have been handed a society priced beyond their means. Twentysomethings, brought up with divorce, Watergate and Three Mile Island, and scarred by the 80s fallout of yuppies, recession, crack and Ronald Reagan, they represent the new generation - Generation X. Fiercely suspicious of b ...Show more
Glass Room, The - Abacus 40th edition by Simon Mawer
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary Ser.
A New York Times Best-Seller Honeymooners Viktor and Liesel Landauer are filled with the optimism and cultural vibrancy of central Europe of the 1920s when they meet modernist architect Rainer von Abt. He builds for them a home to embody their exuberant faith in the future, and the Landauer House become ...Show more
Long Walk to Freedom (Abacus 40th Edition) by Nelson Mandela
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, A Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly re-creates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, A Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a st ...Show more
Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris
$20.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary | Reading Level: very good
Welcome to the wonderful world of America's foremost humorist David Sedaris, where learning French, like life, is littered with idiosyncratic delight ...'The Italian was attempting to answer the teacher's latest question when the Moroccan student interrupted, shouting, "Excuse me, but what's an Easter?" ...Show more
Old Filth - Abacus 40th edition by Jane Gardam
$20.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
Long ago, Old Filth was a Raj orphan - one of the many young children sent 'Home' from the East to be fostered and educated in England. Jane Gardam's novel tells his story, from his birth in what was then Malaya to the extremities of his old age. In so doing, she not only encapsulates a whole period fro ...Show more
Rubicon: The Triumph and Tragedy of the Roman Republic - Abacus 40th edition by Tom Holland
$20.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: Abacus 40th Anniversary
The Roman Republic was the most remarkable state in history. What began as a small community of peasants camped among marshes and hills ended up ruling the known world. Rubicon paints a vivid portrait of the Republic at the climax of its greatness - the same greatness which would herald the catastrophe ...Show more
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