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Gratitude by Oliver Sacks
$24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: very good
Oliver Sacks died in August 2015 at his home in Greenwich Village, surrounded by his close friends and family. He was 82. He spent his final days doing what he loved: playing the piano, swimming, enjoying smoked salmon - and writing. As Dr Sacks looked back over his long, adventurous life his final thou ...Show more
Brooklyn (FTI) by Colm Toibin
$24.99 NZD
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It is Enniscorthy in the southeast of Ireland in the early 1950s. Eilis Lacey is one among many of her generation who cannot find work at home. Thus when a job is offered in America, it is clear to everyone that she must go. Leaving her family and country, Eilis heads for unfamiliar Brooklyn, and to a c ...Show more
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
$24.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: good
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, the beautiful, stunningly ambitious instant New York Times bestseller about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. Ma ...Show more
I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
$26.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Reading Level: good
Critics are calling I AM PILGRIM: "Unputdownable." --Booklist "The best book of 2014." --Suspense Magazine "The next Girl with the Dragon Tattoo." --The New York Post A breakneck race against time...and an implacable enemy. An anonymous young woman murdered in a run-down hotel, all identifying character ...Show more
The Dovekeepers by Alice Hoffman
$26.99 NZD
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Over five years in the writing, Alice Hoffman's most ambitious and mesmerizing work ever, a triumph of imagination and research set in ancient Israel. The author of such iconic bestsellers as Illumination Night, Practical Magic, Fortune's Daughter, and Oprah's Book Club selection Here on Earth, Alice H ...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 Secret History by Donna Tartt
$29.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: Penguin Celebrations | Reading Level: near fine
FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE GOLDFINCH Truly deserving of the accolade Modern Classic, Donna Tartt's bestseller The Secret History is a remarkable achievement - both compelling and elegant, dramatic and playful. ______________________________________ 'What we did was terrible, ...Show more
I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith; Valerie Grove (Introduction by)
$17.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: Vintage Classics Ser.
"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story, told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain's journal. Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle, with her father who suffers from crippling writer's block, her glamorous but ...Show more
The Overstory by Richard Powers
$26.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks- Read our reviews below | Series: Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2018 | Reading Level: very good
An artist inherits a hundred years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut.A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies, and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light.A hearing- and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are co ...Show more
The Light Between Oceans by M. L. Stedman
$26.00 NZD
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This mesmerizing Australian novel has been a bestselling book around the world, and Hollywood movie rights were recently snapped up by Dreamworks, with David Heyman (Harry Potter) set to produce. It is the winner of three prestigious ABIA awards, including their 'Book of the Year', and also won the Indi ...Show more
