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On Being: A Scientist's Exploration of the Great Questions of Existence by Peter Atkins
23.99 NZD
Category: Science
In this scientific 'Credo', Peter Atkins considers the universal questions of origins, endings, birth, and death to which religions have claimed answers. With his usual economy, wit, and elegance, unswerving before awkward realities, Atkins presents what science has to say. While acknowledging the comfo ...Show more
Reactions: The Private Life of Atoms by Peter Atkins
33.99 NZD
Category: Science
Through an innovative, closely integrated design of images and text, and his characteristically clear, precise, and economical exposition, Peter Atkins explains the processes involved in chemical reactions. He begins by introducing a 'tool kit' of basic reactions, such as precipitation, corrosion, and c ...Show more
Robert B. Parker's Lullaby: A Spenser Novel by Ace Atkins
37.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
Fourteen-year-old Mattie Sullivan has approached Spenser for help, asking him to find her mother's killer. But her mother, Julie Sullivan, was killed some four years back; and a local man, Mickey Green, was convicted of her murder that very same year. Mattie is, by all appearances, an emotionally damage ...Show more
Sophie's Secret War (My Story) by Jill Atkins
18.00 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: My Story | Reading Level: From 8 To 12
In 1939, the start of the Second World War, Sophie becomes a messenger for a Resistance group in Northern France. But as the German invaders overwhelm the British forces on the French coast, Sophie finds herself more deeply involved with the Resistance - in a dangerous plan to save a young Scottish sold ...Show more
The Broken Places by Ace Atkins
36.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
A year after becoming sheriff, Quinn Colson is faced with the release of an infamous murderer from prison. Jamey Dixon comes back to Jericho preaching redemption, and some believe him; but for the victim's family, the only thought is revenge. Another group who doesn't believe him - the men in prison fro ...Show more
The Dark End of the Street by Ace Atkins
17.99 NZD
18.99 (5% off)
Category: Fiction
The plan was simple. All Nick Travers had to do was drive up Highway 61 from New Orleans to Memphis and track down the lost brother of one of his best friends. But as Travers knows, these simple jobs seldom turn out smoothly.
The Forsaken by Ace Atkins
36.99 NZD
Category: Thriller
Thirty-six years ago, a nameless black man wandered into Jericho, Mississippi, with nothing but the clothes on his back and a pair of paratrooper boots. Less than two days later, he was accused of rape and murder, hunted down by a self-appointed posse, and lynched. Now evidence has surfaced of his innoc ...Show more
The Immeasurable World: A Desert Journey by William Atkins
27.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Winner of the Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year (UK) "William Atkins is an erudite writer with a wonderful wit and gaze and this is a new and exciting beast of a travel book."--Joy Williams In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written accoun ...Show more
The Immeasurable World - Journeys in Desert Places by William Atkins
36.99 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in eight deserts on five continents that evokes the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-third of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy ...Show more
The Lost Ones by Ace Atkins
36.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
When Army Ranger Quinn Colson, the new sheriff of Tebbehah County, is called out to investigate a child abuse case, what he finds is a horrifying scene of neglect, thirteen empty cribs, and a shoe box full of money. Janet and Ramon Torres seem to have skipped town - but Colson's sure they'll come back f ...Show more
The Ranger by Ace Atkins
28.99 NZD
Category: Crime Fiction
Northeast Mississippi is hill country, rugged and notorious for outlaws since the Civil War, where killings are as commonplace as they were in the Old West. To Quinn Colson, just back from a tour of Afghanistan, it's home. But home has changed. Quinn returns to a place overrun by corruption. His uncle, ...Show more