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The Last Season by Eric Blehm
$35.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P. S. Ser.
Destined to become a classic of adventure literature, The Last Season examines the extraordinary life of legendary backcountry ranger Randy Morgenson and his mysterious disappearance in California's unforgiving Sierra Nevada--mountains as perilous as they are beautiful. Eric Blehm's masterful work is a ...Show more
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
$40.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P. S. Ser.
In vivid and graceful prose, Lucette Lagnado re-creates the majesty and cosmopolitan glamour of Cairo in the years between World War II and Gamal Abdel Nasser's rise to power. Her father, Leon, was a boulevardier who conducted business on the elegant terrace of Shepheard's Hotel, and later, in the cozy, ...Show more
The Master Butcher's Singing Club by Louise Erdrich
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Having survived World War I, Fidelis Waldvogel returns to his quiet German village and marries the pregnant widow of his best friend, killed in action. With a suitcase full of sausages and a master butcher's precious knife set, Fidelis sets out for America. In Argus, North Dakota, he builds a business, ...Show more
The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
$34.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The most eloquent translation of Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan WarThis is Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' triumph over Troy and arduous journey home: Odysseus survives a storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and ...Show more
The Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
$9.88 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
When Faye Travers is called upon to appraise the estate of a family in her small New Hampshire town, she isn't surprised to discover a forgotten cache of valuable Native American artifacts. However, she stops dead in her tracks when she finds in the collection a rare drum, ornamented with symbols she do ...Show more
The Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$24.99 NZD
Category: Cooking & Wine | Series: P. S. Ser.
IACP Cookbook Award Winner (Culinary Travel) John Baxter's The Perfect Meal is part grand tour of France, part history of French cuisine, taking readers on a journey to discover and savor some of the world's great cultural achievements before they disappear completely. Some of the most revered and com ...Show more
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
$0.00 NZD
Category: Warwick's top 5 of all time books | Series: P. S. Ser.
In 1959, Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist, takes his four young daughters, his wife, and his mission to the Belgian Congo -- a place, he is sure, where he can save needy souls. But the seeds they plant bloom in tragic ways within this complex culture. Set against one of the most dramatic poli ...Show more
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$24.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ...Show more
The Yacoubian Building (US PB) by Alaa Al Aswany
$12.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The lives of the inhabitants of an apartment building in downtown Cairo intertwine as the destinies of a fading aristocrat, voluptuous siren, devout doorman, secretly-gay editor, roof-squatting tailor, and corrupt politician come together.
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obssession by Irvin D. Yalom
$45.00 NZD
Category: Psychology | Series: P. S. Ser.
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal des ...Show more