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The Anger Toolbox by Tricia Irving Hendry, John Taylor Smith and Jenny McIntosh
48.99 NZD
Category: Parenting
A resource for New Zealand parents and caregivers offering practical ideas to help manage and support children and teens through angry times. Includes information on why people get angry, what happens when they do, and ways to effectively manage anger. This new 2011 edition has updated with new informat ...Show more
The Cider House Rules by John Irving
27.99 NZD
35.00 (20% off)
Category: General Fiction | Series: Black Swan S. | Reading Level: very good
Set among the apple orchards of rural Maine, it is a peverse world in which Homer Wells' odyssey begins. As the oldest unadopted offspring at St Cloud's orphanage, he learns about the skills which, one way or another, help young and not-so-young women, from Wilbur Larch, the orphanage's founder -- a man ...Show more
The Fourth Hand by John Irving
27.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Imagine a young man on his way to a less-than-thirty-second event - the loss of his left hand, long before he reached middle age.' While reporting a story from India, a New York television journalist has his left hand eaten by a lion; millions of TV viewers witness the accident. In Boston, a renowned h ...Show more
The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving
27.95 NZD
39.00 (28% off)
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Swan S. | Reading Level: very good
'The first of my father's illusions was that bears could survive the life lived by human beings, and the second was that human beings could survive a life led in hotels'. So says John Berry, son of a hapless dreamer, brother to a cadre of eccentric siblings, and chronicler of the lives lived, the loves ...Show more
The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving
18.95 NZD
26.99 (29% off)
Category: Non-Fiction
From a novelist known for the complexity of his novels - they are also long - comes an autobiography of compelling simplicity; it is also short. Dedicated to the memory of two wrestling coaches and two writer friends, "The Imaginary Girlfriend" is a lucid portrait of the writers and wrestlers who played ...Show more
The Last Chairlift by John Irving
55.00 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
John Irving, one of the world's greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years -- a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics. In Aspen, Colorado, in 1941, Rachel Brewster is a slalom skier at the National Downhill and Slalom Championships. Little Ray, as she is call ...Show more
The World According to Garp by John Irving
27.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A masterpiece from one of the great contemporary American writers. 'A wonderful novel, full of energy and art, at once funny and heartbreaking...terrific' WASHINGTON POST Anniversary edition with a new afterword from the author. A worldwide bestseller since its publication, Irving's classic is filled ...Show more
The World According to Garp by John Irving
26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Black Swan S. | Reading Level: very good
This is the life and times of T. S. Garp, the bastard son of Jenny Fields - a feminist leader ahead of her times. It is also the life and death of a famous mother and her almost-famous son; theirs is a world of sexual extremes - even of sexual assassinations. It is a novel rich with 'lunacy and sorrow'; ...Show more
Until I Find You by John Irving
39.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
John Irving's eleventh novel: set in Canada and New England, as well as Hollywood and the North Sea ports of Europe, it is epic in scope, and Irving's most ambitious and moving work to date.Full of surprises and dead sexy, this is vintage Irving!Until I Find You is the story of the actor Jack Burns. His ...Show more
Until I Find You by John Irving
29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'According to his mother, Jack Burns was an actor before he was an actor, but Jack's most vivid memories of childhood were those moments when he felt compelled to hold his mother's hand. He wasn't acting then.' Jack Burns' mother, Alice, is a tattoo artist in search of the boy's father, a virtuoso organ ...Show more