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Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund; Chris Wormell (Illustrator)
$29.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature -- along with "Call me Ishmael." And Una Spenser, the transcendent hero at the center of Ahab's Wife may well become every bit as memorable as Ahab. Inspired by a brief passage, in Moby, Dick, Sena Jeter N ...Show more
Bad Kid - A Memoir by David Crabb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback) | Reading Level: General Adult
Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas. In the summer o ...Show more
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist," comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar i ...Show more
Caribou Island by David Vann
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S.
On a small island in a glacier-fed lake on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula, Gary and Irene's marriage is unraveling. Following the outline of Gary's old dream and trying to rebuild their life together, they are finally constructing the kind of cabin that drew them to Alaska in the first place. But the onset of ...Show more
Dessa Rose: A Novel by Sherley A Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Sherley A. Williams' highly acclaimed historical novel details two women's fierce strength of will and an unlikely bond despite racial barriers in the pre-civil war south"Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative."-Toni MorrisonIn 182 ...Show more
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
$39.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost h ...Show more
Eleven Minutes by Paulo Coelho
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S.
Eleven Minutes is the story of Maria, a young girl from a Brazilian village, whose first innocent brushes with love leave her heartbroken. At a tender age, she becomes convinced that she will never find true love, instead believing that "love is a terrible thing that will make you suffer. . . ." A chanc ...Show more
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Stephen J Dubner
$29.99 AUD
Category: Business/Economics | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily- from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living a ...Show more
GENTELMEN AND PLAYERS by HARRIS JOANNE
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley ...Show more
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
$41.99 AUD
Category: Spiritual/Religion | Series: P. S. Ser.
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean En ...Show more
History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving by Deborah E. Lipstadt
$29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: P.S.
This is the only book from the perspective of the defendant who emerged victorious. It features reviews on book pages of national newspapers, and in history magazines. Deborah Lipstadt chronicles her five-year legal battle with David Irving that culminated in a sensational trial in 2000. In her acclaime ...Show more
Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Joanne Harris, bestselling author of "Chocolat," presents her most accomplished novel yet -- an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupcon of sensuality. Britanny, 1610. Juliette, a one-time actress and rope dancer, is ...Show more