Strange the Dreamer (#1) by Laini Taylor
19.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
'Prepare to be enchanted' Sun The magical Sunday Times bestseller by Laini Taylor, author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy ********* The dream chooses the dreamer. Since he was five years old, Lazlo Strange has been obsessed with the mythic lost city of Weep, but it would take someone bolder th ...Show more
Idaho by Emily Ruskovich
26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A stunning debut novel about love and forgiveness, about the violence of memory and the equal violence of its loss--from O. Henry Prize-winning author Emily Ruskovich Finalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award Ann and Wade have carved out a life for themselves from a rugged lan ...Show more
Vindolanda (#1) by Adrian Goldsworthy
22.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Series: Vindolanda 1 | Reading Level: near fine
Gripping, authentic novel set in Roman Britain from bestselling historian, Adrian Goldsworthy. AD 98: VINDOLANDA.A FORT ON THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. The bustling army base at Vindolanda lies on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world. In just over twenty years time, the Emperor ...Show more
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
24.99 NZD
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An epic story of family, love, and unavoidable tragedy from the two-time Man Booker Prize finalist. Now a major motion picture starring Rooney Mara. Sebastian Barry's latest novel, Days Without End, is now available. Sebastian Barry's novels have been hugely admired by readers and critics, and in 2 ...Show more
Days Without End by Sebastian Barry
24.99 NZD
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Two-time Man Booker Shortlisted Author Costa Award Winner Thomas McNulty, barely seventeen and having fled the Great Famine, signs up for the U.S. Army in the 1850s. With his brother in arms, John Cole, Thomas fights in the Indian Wars and, ultimately, the Civil War. Orphans of terrible hardships, the ...Show more
The Rules of Backyard Cricket by Jock Serong
26.00 NZD
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Darren Keefe is in the boot of a car. The gag, the cable ties, the bullet hole in his knee - everything points towards a shallow grave. His story, now unrolling beneath him, starts with a boy wrestling his brother in a suburban backyard - all the fury in his small body poured into the rules of a made-up ...Show more
The Secret Diary of Hendrik Groen, 83¼ Years Old by Hendrik Groen
26.00 NZD
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An international bestselling novel- a year in the life of an elderly man writing an expose from an old-people's home in Amsterdam Hendrik Groen may be old, but he is far from dead and isn't planning to be buried any time soon. So he sets out to write an expose- a year in the life of his care home in Ams ...Show more
To the Bright Edge of the World by Eowyn Ivey
24.99 NZD
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Set in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in THE SNOW CHILD (a Sunday Times bestseller, Richard and Judy pick and finalist for the Pulitzer Prize), Eowyn Ivey's TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth century, sur ...Show more
Gold Fame Citrus by Claire Vaye Watkins
27.99 NZD
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'A Mad Max world painted with a finer brush' Elle 'An unforgettable journey into a hauntingly imagined near-future' Ruth Ozeki 'Set in a drought-ravaged Southern California trolled by scavengers, Gold Fame Citrus burns with a dizzying, scorching genius' Vanity Fair Desert sands have laid waste to the so ...Show more
Sealskin by Su Bristow
24.99 NZD
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Donald is a young fisherman, eking out a lonely living on the west coast of Scotland. One night he witnesses something miraculous, and makes a terrible mistake. His action changes lives--not only his own, but those of his family and the entire tightly knit community in which they live. Can he ever atone ...Show more
The Shack by William P. Young
24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews | Reading Level: very good
Mackenzie Allen Phillips's youngest daughter, Missy, has been abducted during a family vacation. Evidence that she may have been brutally murdered is found in an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness. Four years later, in the midst of his great sadness, Mack receives a suspicious note--apparentl ...Show more
The Marriage of Opposites by Alice Hoffman
26.99 NZD
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Dovekeepers and The Museum of Extraordinary Things: a forbidden love story set on the tropical island of St. Thomas about the extraordinary woman who gave birth to painter Camille Pissarro--the Father of Impressionism.Growing up on idyllic St. Thomas in ...Show more