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Amelia Earhart: Legendary Aviator (Signature Lives) by Brenda Haugen
24.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Signature Lives
- World Events Timeline - Personal Timeline - Source Notes - Select Bibliography - Table of Contents, Glossary, and Index - Further Reading - Relevant Web sites at www.FactHound.com - National Center for History in the Schools. National Standards for History. Los Angeles, CA: National Center for ...Show more
Amy Tan: Author and Storyteller by Natalie M Rosinsky
24.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Signature Lives (Paperback)
Amy Tan's very first novel, The Joy Luck Club, made her name known around the world. Her successful novels, picture books and essays captivate readers of all ages. Tan's success has not come easily, however. She first had to learn to embrace her Chinese heritage. And she had to deal with her stormy and ...Show more
Bad Alice by Jean Ure
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Signature | Reading Level: From 9 To 11
Duffy is staying with his nan for the summer, and it looks like it's going to be a long boring summer - until he meets Alice, the girl next door. Everyone thinks she's mad, but reading her stories about "Alice in Wonderland", Duffy discovers that her adoptive father is abusing her and tries to help.
C.S. Lewis Signature Classic: Mere Christianity by C S Lewis
22.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: C.S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
Mere Christianity is C. S. Lewis' forceful and accessible doctrine on Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books-The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality-Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the funda ...Show more
Compelling Reason - Essays on Ethics & Theology - C. S. Lewis Signature Classic by C. S. Lewis
19.99 NZD
Category: Religion | Series: C. S. Lewis Signature Classics Ser.
'You can only find out the rights and wrongs by Reasoning - never by being rude about your opponent's psychology.' For C. S. Lewis, reason and logic are the sensible way to approach faith and ethics. Much of the 20th century's ills are caused by ill-founded beliefs and opinions. Lewis's original approa ...Show more
Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
19.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
For the 150th anniversary of Willa Cather's birth, and for the first time in Penguin Classics, her quietly beautiful novel of one man's life as he encounters the harsh landscape of the New Mexico desert and the people who inhabit it, with an introduction by National Book Award finalist Kali Fajardo-Anst ...Show more
Emma by Jane Austen
39.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences tha ...Show more
Emma by Jane. Austen
39.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
Emma es una novela cómica escrita por Jane Austen, en inglés, publicada por vez primera en 1815 por el editor John Murray, sobre los peligros de malinterpretar el romance. El personaje principal, Emma Woodhouse, se describe como "hermosa, lista y rica" pero también es bastante mimada. Antes de comenzar ...Show more
Eva Peron by Darlene R. Stille
24.99 NZD
Category: Children Non Fiction | Series: Signature Lives (Paperback)
This outlines the life of Eva Peron, who was the First Lady of Argentina, when her husband Juan Peron became president in 1946.She used her power to improve conditions for her country's poor, but her actions were no selfless.It includes a time line and a list of additional resources.
Fleshmarket by Nicola Morgan
19.99 NZD
Category: Children Fiction | Series: Signature | Reading Level: From 11 To 99
Set in the 1820s in Edinburgh, a city of cruel contrasts between the lives of the rich and poor, and home to the infamous Burke and Hare, who sold their murder victims to brilliant anatomist Dr Robert Knox. This is the evocative, often harrowing story of a boy who must survive the pain of his mother's d ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
39.99 NZD
Category: Classic Books | Series: Signature Gilded Classics Ser.
In Shelley's Gothic story, Victor Frankenstein builds the creature in his laboratory through an ambiguous method consisting of chemistry and alchemy. Shelley describes the monster as 8-foot-tall (2.4 m) and hideously ugly, but sensitive and emotional. The monster attempts to fit into human society but i ...Show more
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
27.99 NZD
Category: Classic | Series: Signature Classics Ser.
For years Victor Frankenstein labors to create a new race of intelligent beings. He spends his nights scrounging human and animal body parts from graveyards, slaughterhouses, and hospital dissection rooms. By day he experiments in his secret laboratory, perfecting the creature whom, he believes, will wo ...Show more