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Chopin's Funeral by Benita Eisler
$32.95 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: good
At twenty-one, Frederic Chopin fled Russian-occupied Poland for exile in France. He would never see his native country again. With only two public concerts in as many years, he became a star of Parisian society, revered by his great contemporaries Schumann, Liszt, and the painter Eugene Delacroix. Bless ...Show more
Geek Love by Katherine Dunn
$28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Abacus Bks.
Geek Loveis the story of the Binewskis, a carny family whose mater- and paterfamilias set out–with the help of amphetamine, arsenic, and radioisotopes–to breed their own exhibit of human oddities. There’s Arturo the Aquaboy, who has flippers for limbs and a megalomaniac ambition worthy of Genghis Khan . ...Show more
If This is a Man: The Truce by Primo Levi; Stuart Woolf (Translator)
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Abacus Bks. | Reading Level: very good
With the moral stamina and intellectual pose of a twentieth-century Titan, this slightly built, duitful, unassuming chemist set out systematically to remember the German hell on earth, steadfastly to think it through, and then to render it comprehensible in lucid, unpretentious prose. He was profoundly ...Show more
New Primal Scream, The by Arthur Janov
$39.95 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: Abacus Bks.
Taking the primal therapy theory further, this book claims that repressed pain is bad not only for mental but also for physical health. Quoting case histories, the author explains the benefits of applying his therapy, for example in making people better able to cope with their sexuality.
Wonderland Avenue: Tales of Glamour and Excess by Danny Sugerman
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Abacus Bks.
At the age of thirteen, Danny Sugerman- the already wayward product of Beverley Hills wealth and privilege- went to his first Doors concert. He never looked back. He became Jim Morrison's prot g and- still in his teens- manager of the Doors and then Iggy Pop. He also plunged gleefully into the glamorous ...Show more
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