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I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. | Reading Level: very good
Being released soon as a TV series starring Mark Ruffalo. On the afternoon of October 12, 1990, my twin brother, Thomas, entered the Three Rivers, Connecticut, public library, retreated to one of the rear study carrels, and prayed to God the sacrifice he was about to commit would be deemed acceptable. ...Show more
In His Sights: One Woman's Stalking Nightmare by Kate Brennan (University of Hawaii at Manoa USA)
13.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S.
What if the man you'd loved for years transformed into a ruthless and relentless tormentor, stealing your freedom, threatening your sanity and your safety? This is not a fictional scenario. It is Kate Brennan's life. A well-respected writer and scholar, Kate was wary of getting involved when she met Pau ...Show more
Just Say Nu: Yiddish for Every Occasion (When English Just Won't Do) by Michael Wex
27.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In his "New York Times" bestseller, "Born to Kvetch," author Michael Wex led readers on a hilariously edifying excursion through Yiddish culture and history. With "Just Say Nu," he shows us how to use this remarkable language to spice up conversations, stories, presentations, arguments, and more, when p ...Show more
Kengo Kuma - Inspiration and Process in Architecture by Moleskine
27.99 AUD
Category: Architecture | Series: I. P. A. Ser.
The objective of Kengo Kuma is to erase architecture: finding harmony between natural and artificial and mediate the encounter between man and the environment. The drawings collected in this book tell the fading of architecture through textures drawn in graphite that overlap different layers of land, bu ...Show more
Migratory Animals by Mary Helen Specht
19.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A powerful debut novel about a group of 30-somethings struggling for connection and belonging, Migratory Animals centers on a protagonist who finds herself torn between love and duty.When Flannery, a young scientist, is forced to return to Austin from five years of research in Nigeria, she becomes split ...Show more
Money for Nothing by P. G. Wodehouse
29.99 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
The action is mostly set at Rudge Hall, home to the obese miser Lester Carmody, and at Healthward Ho, a health farm run by 'Chimp Twist, along with his cohorts 'Soapy' and 'Dolly' Molloy. who were all previously encountered in Sam The Sudden (1925) and would return in Money in the Bank (1946). Hugo Camo ...Show more
Pain, Parties, Work - Sylvia Plath in New York, Summer 1953 by Elizabeth Winder
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
Pain, Parties, Work by Elizabeth Winder is a compelling look at a young Sylvia Plath and the life-changing month that would lay the groundwork for her seminal novel, The Bell Jar. In May of 1953, a twenty-one-year-old Plath arrived in New York City, the guest editor of Mademoiselle's annual College Issu ...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
Category: European | 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
Paula by Isabel Allende
14.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S.
When Isabel Allende's daughter, Paula, became gravely ill and fell into a coma, the author began to write the story of her family for her unconscious child. In the telling, bizarre ancestors appear before our eyes; we hear both delightful and bitter childhood memories, amazing anecdotes of youthful year ...Show more
People's History Of The United States 1492 - Present by Howard Zinn
49.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
“It’s a wonderful, splendid book—a book that should be read by every American, student or otherwise, who wants to understand his country, its true history, and its hope for the future.” —Howard Fast, author of Spartacus and The Immigrants “[It] should be required reading.” —Eric Foner, New York Times B ...Show more
Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley
16.99 AUD
Category: Culture & Ideas | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
An inspired gathering of religious writings that reveals the "divine reality" common to all faiths, collected by Aldous Huxley "The Perennial Philosophy," Aldous Huxley writes, "may be found among the traditional lore of peoples in every region of the world, and in its fully developed forms it has a pla ...Show more
Rome and a Villa by Eleanor Clark
39.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
"These essays gather up Rome and hold it before us, bristling and dense and dreamlike, with every scene drenched in the sound of fountains, of leaping and falling water." -- The New Yorker"Perhaps the finest book ever to be written about a city." -- New York TimesBringing to life the legendary city's be ...Show more