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1421 - The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ non-fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born.Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the f ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
$35.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." B ...Show more
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: good
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of ...Show more
Pain, Parties, Work - Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar. In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issu ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
$30.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
$25.00 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The most eloquent translation of Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan WarThis is Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' triumph over Troy and arduous journey home: Odysseus survives a storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$28.00 NZD
Category: World Cookbooks | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ...Show more
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