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By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
31.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist," comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar i ...Show more
Infinite Reality: Revealing the Mysteries of the Virtual Mind by Jim Blascovich
25.00 NZD
Category: Crime/Thriller | Series: P. S. Ser.
Explores what emerging computer technologies and their radical applications mean for the future of human life and society. This title examines the philosophical questions of the self and reality that arise through the digital experience. It shows the many practical applications of virtual reality, from ...Show more
Labor Day Tie-In by Joyce Maynard
20.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. | Reading Level: very good
As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brol ...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: 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
Radical by Michelle Rhee
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: P.S.
Our country's status as a world leader in education is at grave risk. In Radical, Michelle Rhee, a driving force behind American education reform, delivers her plan for better American schools. Informing her critique are her years of teaching in inner-city Baltimore; her turbulent tenure as chancellor o ...Show more
The Good Daughters by Joyce Maynard
25.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The bestselling author of Labor Day returns with a spellbinding novel about friendship, family secrets, and the strange twists of fate that shape our lives. They were born on the same day, in the same small New Hampshire hospital, into families that could hardly have been less alike. Ruth Plank is an ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
25.00 NZD
Category: Cooking | 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 Story Hour by Thrity N Umrigar
27.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
From the critically beloved, bestselling author of The World We Found and The Space Between Us, whom the New York Times Book Review calls a "perceptive and . . . piercing writer," comes a profound, heartbreakingly honest novel about friendship, family, secrets, forgiveness, and second chances.An experie ...Show more
Three Souls by Janie Chang
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S.
An absorbing novel of romance and revolution, loyalty and family, sacrifice and undying love We have three souls, or so I'd been told. But only in death could I confirm this.... So begins the haunting and captivating tale, set in 1935 China, of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin, who watches her ow ...Show more
Wonderful World by Javier Calvo
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
When Lucas Giraut inherits the family company from a father who never really cared enough to get to know him, it comes with a lot of unanswered questions...and an archenemy: Lucas's mother, Fanny. An ambitious and ruthless entrepreneur, Fanny believes her son is as useless as his father, whose recent, m ...Show more
Zelda: A Biography by Nancy Milford
29.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Series: P.S.
Acclaimedbiographer Nancy Milford brings to life the tormented, elusive personality ofZelda Sayre and clarifies as never before her relationship with F. ScottFitzgerald, tracing the inner disintegration of a gifted, despairing womanundone by the clash between her husband's career and her own talent. Zel ...Show more
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