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1421 - The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
$11.32 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born.Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the f ...Show more
Big Bang - The Origin of the Universe by Simon Singh
$11.32 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
We've all heard of the Big Bang, and yet few of us truly know what it is.Renowned for making difficult ideas much less difficult than they might first appear, Simon Singh is our perfect guide to explaining why cosmologists believe that the Big Bang is an accurate description of the origin and evolution ...Show more
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
$27.99 AUD
Category: Mind Body Spirit | Series: P. S. Ser.
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
Green Girl: A Novel by Kate Zambreno
$22.99 AUD
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Category: Accessories | Series: P. S. Ser.
With the fierce emotional and intellectual power of such classics as Jean Rhys's Good Morning, Midnight, Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar, and Clarice Lispector's The Hour of the Star, Kate Zambreno's novel Green Girl is a provocative, sharply etched portrait of a young woman navigating the spectrum between ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
$30.00 AUD
Category: Accessories | Series: P. S. Ser.
The New York Times bestselling memoir from Anthony Bourdain, the host of Parts Unknown. Kitchen Confidential reveals what Bourdain calls "twenty-five years of sex, drugs, bad behavior and haute cuisine." Last summer, The New Yorker published Chef Bourdain's shocking, "Don't Eat Before Reading This." B ...Show more
Paris at the End of the World: The City of Light During the Great War, 1914-1918 by John Baxter
$24.99 AUD
$29.99 (16% off)
Category: Travel | Series: P. S. Ser.
A preeminent writer on Paris, John Baxter brilliantly brings to life one of the most dramatic and fascinating periods in the city's history. From 1914 through 1918 the terrifying sounds of World War I could be heard from inside the French capital. For four years, Paris lived under constant threat of de ...Show more
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
$25.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: P. S. Ser.
This book presents an inside look at how the professionals read and write. Long before there were creative writing workshops and degrees, how did aspiring writers learn to write? By reading the work of their predecessors and contemporaries, says the author. In "Reading Like a Writer", Prose invites you ...Show more
Strange but True - A Novel by John Searles
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Soon to be a Major Motion Picture starring Amy Ryan, Greg Kinnear, and Blythe Danner. "Sinister and complex.... You'll race right through it."--New York TimesAfter a mysterious fall from his New York City apartment, Philip Chase has moved back home with his mother, Charlene, a bitter woman who has never ...Show more
The Gulag Archipelago Volume 1 - An Experiment in Literary Investigation by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn; Thomas P. Whitney (Translator)
$44.00 AUD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
"BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE 20TH CENTURY" --TimeVolume 1 of the gripping epic masterpiece, Solzhenitsyn's chilling report of his arrest and interrogation, which exposed to the world the vast bureaucracy of secret police that haunted Soviet society. Features a new foreword by Anne Applebaum."The greates ...Show more
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
$35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
When high school teacher Caelum Quirk and his wife, Maureen, a school nurse, move to Littleton, Colorado, they both get jobs at Columbine High School. In April 1999, while Caelum is away, Maureen finds herself in the library at Columbine, cowering in a cabinet and expecting to be killed. Miraculously, s ...Show more
The Last Season by Eric Blehm
$30.00 AUD
$35.00 (14% off)
Category: Accessories | 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 Painted Drum by Louise Erdrich
$9.88 AUD
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