Category: Hardback fiction | Series: Wordsworth Hardback Library | Reading Level: very good
Part of a special set of 10 hardcover classics, designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith, that innovatively use foil and a special new binding material to create a highly collectible set. In a house haunted by memories, the past is everywhere . . . As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to ...Show more
Category: Classic fiction | Series: Penguin Classics S. | Reading Level: very good
Orphaned into the household of her Aunt Reed at Gateshead, subject to the cruel regime at Lowood charity school, Jane Eyre none the less emerges unbroken in spirit and integrity. How she takes up the post of governess at Thornfield Hall, meets and loves Mr Rochester and discovers the impediment to their ...Show more
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Tu is proud of his name - the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there's a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in Italy. Three young men from the one family went to war, but only one returned - Tu is the sole survivor. Now, when his young niece and nephew come to him ...Show more
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: good
Now a Major Motion Picture from Director Luca Guadagnino, Starring Armie Hammer and Timothée Chalamet, and Written by James Ivory WINNER BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY ACADEMY AWARD Nominated for Four Oscars A New York Times Bestseller A USA Today Bestseller A Los Angeles Times Bestseller A Vulture Book Club P ...Show more
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Pillars of the Earth tells the story of Philip, prior of Kingsbridge, a devout and resourceful monk driven to build the greatest Gothic cathedral the world has known ...of Tom, the mason who becomes his architect - a man divided in his soul ...of the beautiful, elusive Lady Aliena, haunted by a secr ...Show more
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An F-18 Navy fighter careens out of the blue sky above the Mojave Desert. A TV cameraman, who grew up in small town just miles away, can see what is going to happen next. Frantically, Wes Stewart races to the downed jet and tries to save the pilot's life. When the plane explodes, Wes escapes without har ...Show more
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
2016. The world is on the brink of crisis.In Britain, the British Prime Minister is fighting a referendum he thought couldn't be lost.In the USA, brash showman, Ronald Craig is fighting a Presidential Election nobody thought he could win.In the USSR, Igor Popov, the Russian President, is using both even ...Show more
Category: Popular Fiction
MUNICH, SEPTEMBER 1938Hitler is determined to start a war. Chamberlain is desperate to preserve the peace.They will meet in a city which forever afterwards will be notorious for what is about to take place.As Chamberlain?s plane judders over the channel and the Fuhrer?s train steams south, two young men ...Show more
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Set in the fictional town of Castle Rock, Maine The #1 national bestseller for Stephen King's rabid fans, Cujo "hits the jugular" (The New York Times) with the story of a friendly Saint Bernard that is bitten by a sick bat. Get ready to meet the most hideous menace ever to savage the flesh and devour th ...Show more
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Repackaged to tie-in with hardback publication of 'The Reavers' and to appeal to a new generation of George MacDonald Fraser fans, 'The Pyrates' is a swashbuckling romp of a novel. The Pyrates is all the swashbucklers that ever were, rolled into one great Technicoloured pantomime - tall ships and desert ...Show more
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: good
The thrilling new blockbuster from the international bestselling author Mason Mace Perry was a maverick cop on the DC police force until she was kidnapped and framed for a crime. She lost everything – her career, her liberty – and spent two years in prison. Now b ...Show more
Category: New Zealand Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A CLASSIC NZ NOVEL ABOUT A BOY GROWING UP IN A SMALL TOWN.