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Ahab's Wife: Or, the Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund; Chris Wormell (Illustrator)
$29.00 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
This is destined to be remembered as one of the most-recognized first sentences in literature -- along with "Call me Ishmael." And Una Spenser, the transcendent hero at the center of Ahab's Wife may well become every bit as memorable as Ahab. Inspired by a brief passage, in Moby, Dick, Sena Jeter N ...Show more
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
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
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
$41.99 AUD
Category: Spiritual/Religion | Series: P. S. Ser.
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean En ...Show more
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
$32.99 AUD
Category: Cooking/Entertaining | 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
Category: World History/Politics | 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
Profiles in Courage by KENNEDY JOHN F
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: P. S. Ser.
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy. Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every American. I ...Show more
Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose
$29.99 AUD
Category: Writing | 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
The Bride Stripped Bare by Nikki Gemmell
$29.99 AUD
Category: Australian Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
A woman disappears, leaving behind an incendiary diary chronicling a journey of sexual awakening. To all who knew her, she was the good wife: happy, devoted, content. But the diary reveals a secret self, one who's discovered that her new marriage contains mysteries of its own. She has discovered a forgo ...Show more
The Madonnas of Leningrad by Debra Dean
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P. S. Ser.
Bit by bit, the ravages of age are eroding Marina's grip on the everyday. An elderly Russian woman now living in America, she cannot hold on to fresh memories-the details of her grown children's lives, the approaching wedding of her grandchild-yet her distant past is miraculously preserved in her mind's ...Show more
The Man in the White Sharkskin Suit by Lucette Matalon Lagnado
$29.99 AUD
Category: Judaica | 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 Perfect Meal: In Search of the Lost Tastes of France by John Baxter
$24.99 AUD
Category: Travel | 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 Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fashion | 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