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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
American Tapestry: The Story of the Black, White, and Multiracial Ancestors of Michelle Obama by Rachel L Swarns
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: P.S.
A remarkable history of First Lady Michelle Obama's mixed ancestry, American Tapestry by Rachel L. Swarns is nothing less than a breathtaking and expansive portrait of America itself.In this extraordinary feat of genealogical research--in the tradition of The Hemmingses of Monticello and Slaves in the F ...Show more
Blood Sports (Fletcher Smith #2) by Jonathan Harlen
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children's fiction | Series: Fletcher Smith, Sports P.I.
Kelvin Hunt, the ear-biting, eye-gouging, in-your-face coach of the Australian rugby team, has been abducted by six masked men in a helicopter. Who could have pulled such a brazen stunt? Diehard fans, furious about a recent draw with the Canary Islands? Professional paramilitaries for a large cash ranso ...Show more
Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention by Dr Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, PhD (University of Chicago. Illinois Univ. of Chicago, Illinois Claremont Graduate University Univ. of Chicago, Illinois Claremont Graduate University Claremont Graduate University Univ. of Chicago, Illinois)
$45.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Series: P.S.
The classic study of the creative process from the national bestselling author of Flow creativity is about capturing those moments that make life worth living. Legendary psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi reveals what leads to these moments--be it the excitement of the artist at the easel or the scie ...Show more
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
$25.00 NZD
Category: World History | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Sleeper Hit of the Summer... Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey -- dainty, immaculate -- is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complet ...Show more
Holidays in Hell by O ROURKE
$25.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: O'Rourke, P. J. Ser.
O'Rourke travels to hellholes around the globe--from war-torn Lebanon to Korea to Poland to El Salvador--looking for trouble, the truth, and good times. "A spin with P.J. O'Rourke is like a ride in the back of an old pickup over unpaved roads. You get where you're going fast, with exhilarating views--bu ...Show more
I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: P.S. | Reading Level: very good
Being released soon as a TV series starring Mark Ruffalo. On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. ...Show more
Island by Aldous Huxley
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In his final novel, which he considered his most important, Aldous Huxley transports us to the remote Pacific island of Pala, where an ideal society has flourished for 120 years. Inevitably, this island of bliss attracts the envy and enmity of the surrounding world. A conspiracy is underway to take ove ...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