The Abomination by Jonathan Holt
$10.00 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION | Series: The\Carnivia Trilogy Ser.
A propulsive tale of murder, corruption, and international intrigue at the crossroads of a physical and virtual Venice, where a female Italian police captain works to unravel a dark conspiracy linking the CIA and the Catholic ChurchWhen the clock strikes midnight on the feast day of La Befana, Venice is ...Show more
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
$40.99 NZD
Category: Martii15 | Reading Level: very good
This is an extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. 'You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' The Buried Giant begins as a coupl ...Show more
A Burnable Book by Bruce Holsinger
$13.00 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION
London, 1385. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers--including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's artful mistress, Katherine Swynford--England's young king, Richard II, is in mortal peril. Songs are heard across London, said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the ends of England's ...Show more
Killers of the Flower Moon The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
$25.00 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST A New York Times Notable Book SHELF AWARENESS'S BEST BOOK OF 2017Named a best book of the year by Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Time, Newsday, Entertainment Weekly, Time Magazine, NPR's Maureen Corriga ...Show more
Liar's Poker: From the author of the Big Short by Michael Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION | Series: Hodder Great Reads Ser.
From mere trainee to lowly geek, to triumphal Big Swinging Dick: that was Michael Lewis' pell-mell progress through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the heady mid-1980s when they were probably the world's most powerful and profitable merchant bank. A true-life Bonfir ...Show more
The Great Gatsby: Popular Penguins by F. Scott Fitzgerald
$12.99 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: good-very good
The world and his mistress are at Jay Gatsby's party. But Gatsby stands apart from the crowd, isolated by a secret longing. In between sips of champagne, his guests speculate about their mysterious host. Some say he's a bootlegger. Others swear he was a German spy during the war. They lean in and whispe ...Show more
Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis by R. Mark Nelms; J. David Irwin
$148.99 NZD
Category: James' Books
Basic Engineering Circuit Analysis, Ninth Edition maintains its student friendly, accessible approach to circuit analysis and now includes even more features to engage and motivate students. In addition to brand new exciting chapter openers, all new accompanying photos are included to help engage visua ...Show more
Cinema 1: The Movement Image by Gilles Deleuze
$37.99 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION | Series: Continuum Impacts S.
Deleuze identifies three distinct principal types of 'image movement' and draws upon diverse examples from the work of such major filmmakers as Griffith, Eisenstein, Cassavetes and Altman.
The Innocent Reader: Reflections on Reading and Writing by Debra Adelaide
$35.00 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
In a book whose charm and erudition recalls 84 Charing Cross Road or Margaret Atwood's Negotiating with the Dead, one of our most prolific and respected authors, Debra Adelaide, shares a joyous and plaintive glimpse into a reading and writing life.This mercurial work is much more than memoir, much more ...Show more
Say Nothing: A True Story Of Murder and Memory In Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe
$27.99 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION
From award-winning New Yorker staff writer Patrick Radden Keefe, a stunning, intricate narrative about a notorious killing in Northern Ireland and its devastating repercussions. In December 1972, Jean McConville, a thirty-eight-year-old mother of ten, was dragged from her Belfast home by masked intruder ...Show more
Kaleidoscope - Twentieth Century - U3A-UWA Looks Back by Sally Clarke (Editor)
$0.00 NZD
Category: GENERAL NON-FICTION