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Intellectuals: From Marx and Tolstoy to Sartre and Chomsky by Professor Paul M Johnson
27.95 AUD
32.99 (15% off)
Category: Culture Ideas Politics | Series: P.S.
A fascinating portrait of the minds that have shaped the modern world. In an intriguing series of case studies, Rousseau, Shelley, Marx, Ibsen, Tolstoy, Hemingway, Bertrand Russell, Brecht, Sartre, Edmund Wilson, Victor Gollancz, Lillian Hellman, Cyril Connolly, Norman Mailer, James Baldwin, Kenneth Tyn ...Show more
Jungleland: A Mysterious Lost City and a True Story of Deadly Adventure by Christopher S Stewart
19.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: P.S.
Armed with the personal notebooks of the mysterious World War II spy Theodore Morde, an adventurer who attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler, journalist Christopher S. Stewart sets out in search of the lost White City, buried somewhere deep in the Mosquito Coast of Honduras. Stewart pieces together the ...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
Kingdom of the Golden Dragon by Isabel Allende
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Reunited once more, young Alexander Cold and his best friend, Nadia, embark upon a new adventure, following Alex's frighteningly fearless journalist grandmother Kate to a forbidden kingdom hidden away in the frosty peaks of the Himalayas. They seek the fabled Golden Dragon--a sacred statue and priceless ...Show more
Labor Day Tie-In by Joyce Maynard
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Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. | Reading Level: very good
As the end of summer approaches and a long, hot Labor Day weekend looms, the life of lonely thirteen-year-old Henry Wheeler is irrevocably changed when he and his emotionally fragile mother show kindness to a stranger with a terrible secret. Now a major motion picture starring Kate Winslet and Josh Brol ...Show more
Lovers at the Chameleon Club, Paris 1932 by Francine Prose
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Category: Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: good
A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a place of ...Show more
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
24.95 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A Best Book Of The Year "Time - St. Louis Post-Dispatch - Kansas City Star San Francisco Chronicle - NPR - Seattle Times" A shy manifesto, an impractical handbook, the true story of a fabulist, an entire life in parts and pieces, "Manhood for Amateurs" is the first sustained work of personal writing f ...Show more
Migratory Animals by Mary Helen Specht
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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
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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: 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