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In the Clearing by J. P. Pomare
$34.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: near fine
Amy has only ever known what life is like in the Clearing. She knows what's expected of her. She knows what to do to please her elders, and how to make sure life in the community remains happy and calm. That is, until a new young girl joins the group. She isn't fitting in; she doesn't want to stay. What ...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 Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
$30.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is a ...Show more
The Invention of Wings by Sue Monk Kidd
$24.99 NZD
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From the celebrated author of The Secret Life of Bees, a magnificent novel about two unforgettable American women Writing at the height of her narrative and imaginative gifts, Sue Monk Kidd presents a masterpiece of hope, daring, the quest for freedom, and the desire to have a voice in the world--an ...Show more
The Girl in the Mirror by Rose Carlyle
$32.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: very good
An edge-of-your-seat debut thriller with identical twins, a crazy inheritance and a boat full of secrets. Who can you trust? Absolutely nobody! Identical twins only look the same… Beautiful twin sisters Iris and Summer are startlingly alike, but beyond what the eye can see lies a darkness that sets them ...Show more
Tyll by Daniel Kehlmann
$37.99 NZD
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'A masterly achievement, a work of imaginative grandeur and complete artistic control' Ian McEwan 'Brilliant and unputdownable' Salman Rushdie He's a trickster, a player, a jester. His handshake's like a pact with the devil, his smile like a crack in the clouds; he's watching you now and he's gone whe ...Show more
Love in No Man's Land by Duo Ji Duo Ji Zhuo Ga
$22.99 NZD
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An epic saga from Tibet's bestselling author. Perfect for anyone who loved The Kite Runnerand Wild Swans. The Changthang Plateau lies in the centre of Tibet. A vast, rolling grassland stippled with azure-blue lakes and ringed by snow peaks, it is home to seven-year-old Gongzha and his familywho live, a ...Show more
The Encircling Sea (#2 Vindolanda) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$22.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: Vindolanda Ser.
AD 100: Flavius Ferox, Briton and Roman centurion, is finding it hard to keep the peace. Based at Vindolanda - an army fort on the northern frontier of Britannia and the entire Roman world - he feels the eyes of his enemies on him at all hours. Ambitious leaders sense a chance to carve out empires of t ...Show more
The Choice: Even in Hell Hope Can Flower by Edith Eger
$28.00 NZD
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THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair by Joël Dicker; Sam Taylor (Translator)
$24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: very good
August 30, 1975. The day of the disappearance. The day Somerset, New Hampshire, lost its innocence. That summer, struggling author Harry Quebert fell in love with fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan. Thirty-three years later, her body is dug up from his yard, along with a manuscript copy of the novel that ...Show more
Unbroken by Laura Hillenbrand
$26.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - The incredible true story of survival and salvation that is the basis for two major motion pictures: 2014's Unbroken and the upcoming Unbroken: Path to Redemption. In boyhood, Louis Zamperini was an incorrigible delinquent. As a teenager, he channeled his defiance into run ...Show more
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicles Book 1) by Patrick Rothfuss
$24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: Kingkiller Chronicles | Reading Level: very good
"No one writes about stories like Pat Rothfuss. How the right story at the right time can change the world, how the teller can shape a life." --Lin-Manuel Miranda This deluxe, illustrated edition celebrates the New York Times-bestselling series, The Kingkiller Chronicle--a masterful epic fantasy saga th ...Show more