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The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey
$24.99 NZD
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A bewitching tale of heartbreak and hope set in 1920s Alaska, Eowyn Ivey's THE SNOW CHILD was a top ten bestseller in hardback and paperback, and went on to be a Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Alaska, the 1920s. Jack and Mabel have staked everything on a fresh start in a remote homestead, but the wild ...Show more
The Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
$27.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: Vintage Magic Ser. | Reading Level: good
"The circus arrives without warning. No announcements precede it. It is simply there, when yesterday it was not. The black sign, painted in white letters that hangs upon the gates, reads- 'Opens at Nightfall, Closes at Dawn' the sun disappears beyond the horizon, all over the tents small lights begin to ...Show more
Jessica by Bryce Courtenay
$30.00 NZD
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Jessica is based on the inspiring true story of a young girl's fight for justice against tremendous odds.A tomboy, Jessica is the pride of her father, as they work together on the struggling family farm. One quiet day, the peace of the bush is devastated by a terrible murder. Only Jessica is able to sav ...Show more
The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting
$27.99 NZD
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"Love, suspense, nature and superstition are woven together in this powerful novel" MAJA LUNDE, author of The History of Bees "An exquisitely atmospheric novel . . . The Bell in the Lake does what fiction promises: to steal you away to another world and ask you, if unfairly, to leave a little of your h ...Show more
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: near fine
A stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians in which a young girl discovers stark truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life. A girl comes of age against the knife.' So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a Cherokee father and white m ...Show more
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See
$22.99 NZD
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THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A mesmerizing new historical novel" (O, The Oprah Magazine) from Lisa See, the bestselling author of The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane, about female friendship and devastating family secrets on a small Korean island. Mi-ja and Young-sook, two girls living on the Kor ...Show more
A Burning by Megha Majumdar
$35.00 NZD
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Jivan is a Muslim girl from the slums, determined to move up in life, who is accused of executing a terrorist attack on a train because of a careless comment on Facebook. PT Sir is an opportunistic gym teacher who hitches his aspirations to a right-wing political party, and finds that his own ascent be ...Show more
Heaven and Earth by Paolo Giordano
$37.99 NZD
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'HEAVEN AND EARTH is the perfect novel. Paolo Giordano is one of the handful of great writers working anywhere today' Edmund White Every summer Teresa follows her father to his childhood home in Puglia, down in the heel of Italy, a land of relentless, shimmering heat and centuries-old olive groves. Ther ...Show more
Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson
$29.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: very good
An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made international headlines. She was in her thirties and was beginning to burn out - her hectic London life of work and social activity and striving to do more and do b ...Show more
The Bell in the Lake by Lars Mytting
$37.99 NZD
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'Norway, 1880. In the secluded village of Butangen at the end of the valley, headstrong Astrid dreams of a life beyond marriage, hard work and children. And then Pastor Kai Schweigaard comes into her life, taking over the 700-year-old stave church with its carvings of pagan deities. The two church bells ...Show more
The Nakano Thrift Shop by Hiromi Kawakami
$22.99 NZD
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Among the jumble of paperweights, plates, typewriters and general bric-a-brac in Mr Nakano's thrift store, there are treasures to be found. Each piece carries its own story of love and loss - or so it seems to Hitomi, when she takes a job there working behind the till. Nor are her fellow employees any l ...Show more
Brigantia (#3 Vindolanda) by Adrian Goldsworthy
$32.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: Vindolanda Ser.
From bestselling historian Adrian Goldsworthy, a profoundly authentic, action-packed adventure set in Roman Britain. AD 100: BRITANNIA. THE EDGE OF THE ROMAN WORLD. Flavius Ferox is the hardbitten centurion charged with keeping the peace on Britannia's frontier with the barbarian tribes of the north. ...Show more
