Surfside Girls - The Secret Of Danger Point by Kim Dwinell
$8.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Surfside Girls | Reading Level: very good
Things are getting weird in Surfside. Lately, Samantha's best friend Jade explodes into fits of giggles whenever she sees a boy, and it's throwing a wrench into the kick-back summer of surfing and hanging out that Sam had planned. But after swimming through a secret underwater cave, Sam starts toa see t ...Show more
The Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck
$8.00 NZD
Category: Drama | Reading Level: very good
Translated by Alexander Teixeira De Mattos
Always Coming Home by Úrsula K Le Guin
$14.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Reading Level: very good
Presents the story of a woman named Stone Telling and her people in a region called Kesh, a place on the Northern Pacific Coastline of California, in a tale that mixes fable, poetry, artwork, and music.
Blackout by Simon Scarrow
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Taut and chilling - I was completely gripped' Anthony Horowitz 'A wonderfully compelling thriller, reeking of authenticity, and a terrific depiction of the human world within the chilling world of the Third Reich' Peter James'Pivotal moments in history; utterly authentic characters; a gripping plot. Th ...Show more
Operative 66 by Andy McDermott
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
EVERY OPERATIVE KNOWS THE RULES. The mission comes first. You are a deniable asset. Betrayal is punished by death. Alex Reeve is Operative 66. A former special ops soldier and one of the UK's deadliest weapons, he is part of the secretive SC9 - an elite security service with a remit to neutralise the c ...Show more
The Black Eyed Blonde - A Philip Marlowe Novel by Benjamin Black
$10.00 NZD
Category: Popular Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is the new Philip Marlowe mystery from the Booker Prize winning John Banville, writing as Benjamin Black. Maybe it was time I forgot about Nico Peterson, and his sister, and the Cahuilla Club, and Clare Cavendish. Clare? The rest would be easy to put out of my mind, but not the black-eyed blonde... ...Show more
Prairie Fires - The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser
$20.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDWINNER OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE HEARTLAND PRIZE FOR NON-FICTIONONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW'S 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the YearThe first comprehensive historical b ...Show more
So Much Life Left Over by Louis de Bernières
$14.00 NZD
Category: Literary Fiction | Reading Level: very good
They were an inseparable tribe of childhood friends. Some were lost to the battles of the First World War, and those who survived have had their lives unimaginably upended. Now, at the dawn of the 1920s, they've scattered: to Ceylon and India, France and Germany, and, inevitably, back to Britain, each o ...Show more
Torment by Lauren Kate
$10.00 NZD
Category: Science Fiction & Fantasy | Series: Fallen 2 | Reading Level: very good
In Torment, fallen angel Daniel and his mortal love Lucinda think they are safe, but evil forces are massing against them. As Luce learns more about her past, and discovers that the lives she's already lived hold the key to her future happiness; she starts to wonder if Daniel has told her the whole trut ...Show more
Maximum City - Bombay lost and found by Suketu Mehta
$12.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
Winner Of The 2005 Kiriyama Prize For Non-FictionSuketu Mehta Left Bombay At The Age Of 14. Twenty-One Years Later He Returned To Rediscover The City. The Result Is This Stunning, Brilliantly Illuminating Portrait Of The Megalopolis And Its People-A Book, Seven Years In The Making, That Is As Vast, As D ...Show more
Life in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford - The Biography by Laura Thompson
$12.00 NZD
Category: Literary biography | Reading Level: very good
Drawing on Mitford's highly autobiographical early novels - as well as the biographies and novels of her more mature French period, her journalism and the vast body of letters to her sisters, lovers and friends such as Evelyn Waugh and Cyril Connolly - Thompson has put together a portrait of a courageou ...Show more
Bridge on the River Kwai by Pierre Boulle
$8.00 NZD
Category: Classic fiction | Reading Level: very good
One of the finest war novels ever written, Bridge on the River Kwai tells the story of three POWs who endure the hell of the Japanese camps on the Burma-Siam railway - Colonel Nicholson, a man prepared to sacrifice his life but not his dignity; Major Warden, a modest hero, saboteur and deadly killer; Co ...Show more