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Acid Song by Bernard Beckett
$29.99 NZD
Category: Art | Reading Level: very good
2009 Montana Book Awards FICTION Category Runner-up It's election day in New Zealand. A young father confronts a teenage burglar. A psychologist's political stand threatens to see him driven from the university community. A staffroom argument flares up - does a playground fight warrant a student's expul ...Show more
August by Bernard Beckett
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Trapped in a car wreck, upside down, bleeding, broken and in pain, Tristan and Grace are staring at death. As they await their fate, with only a glimmer of hope they might be seen and rescued, we discover the stories of their lives, the sequences of events that brought them together and the shocking tru ...Show more
Deep Fried by Bernard Beckett
$12.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Pete doesn't mean to start anything, but one small act of defiance is all it takes to get him entangled into a web of intrigue, involving a vengeful corporation, the internet and a stalker... b>Deep Fried is a fascinating mixture of intrigue, psychological thriller and rebel-of-the-moment youth cul ...Show more
Falling for Science - Asking the Big Questions by Bernard Beckett
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Reading Level: very good
'What is it all for? Why are we here?' Bernard Beckett , was awarded a Royal Society Fellowship for Teachers of Maths, Science and Technology in 2005, during which he worked at the Allan Wilson Centre for Molecular Evolution. During that year he found himself asking why some cultural myths and stories w ...Show more
Genesis: A Novel by Bernard Beckett
$18.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult
Young Adult Fiction Winner in the 2007 NZ Book Awards Young Adult Science Fiction Go forward in time: itÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs nearing the end of the century. Do you see a dramatically altered New Zealand/ In Genesis, Bernard ...Show more
Home Boys by Bernard Beckett
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Reading Level: From 13 To 99
Imagine you live in London immediately following the Second World War. Imagine you've been told to pack your bag, but not told where you're going. Or for how long. Imagine you are sent halfway across the world because someone thinks it will be better for you. This is what happened to Colin. This is his ...Show more
Jolt by Bernard Beckett
$18.99 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult
A new edition of Bernard Beckett's unconventional thriller for teenagers. Marko surfaces from a drug induced haze to find himself hidden from the world in a psychiatric ward. He is certain the 'Doctor' means to kill him, but he in turn has vengeful plans of his own. Who are these people and what happene ...Show more
Jolt by Bernard Beckett
$26.00 NZD
Category: Teen
Marko surfaces from a drug-induced haze to find himself hidden from the world in a psychiatric ward. He is certain the 'Doctor' means to kill him, and he in turn has vengeful plans of his own. But how is it he came to stop taking his medication? Who can Marko trust and how much time does he have? Time e ...Show more
Lester by Bernard Beckett
$14.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
"Sure, he looked old and he was dirty and there was no denying he was a tramp, but he wasn't a dirty old tramp." Michael Patts has moved to Langton to get away from trouble. It's a fesh start. Unfortunately it coincides with the arrival of Lester - and a mysterious explosion of hatred in the town. Micha ...Show more
Lullaby by Bernard Beckett
$26.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
I remember the machine by his bed. It made a sound like sighing. Numbers twitched, unable to settle. A jagged line sawed across the screen. At least it was something to look at. Something that wasn’t him. They’d brushed his hair, as if he were already dead. A song came into my head, I couldn’t chase it ...Show more
Malcolm and Juliet by Bernard Beckett
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
Winner of the New Zealand Post Book Awards Young Adult category 2005. Winner of the Esther Glenn Medal in the LIANZA Children's Book Awards 2005 (Best children's book written and produced in New Zealand) Here is the novel equivalent to a modern TV sit-com. Providing moments of farce and slapstick it tak ...Show more
No Alarms by Bernard Beckett
$16.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
The story revolves around Sharon, who lives with her mother, Kaz, and brother Zinny. Sharon's in trouble at school, hates her home life and blames the system for her failures. She is in a classic downward spiral and desperate to find a way out. Her escape route is through Justin, who is running a clever ...Show more