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Bad Kid - A Memoir by David Crabb
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback) | Reading Level: General Adult
Filled with the music and popular culture of the late-eighties and early-nineties, this refreshingly honest and hilarious coming-of-age memoir from comedian, storyteller, and The Moth host David Crabb tells a universally resonant story about growing up gay and Goth in San Antonio, Texas. In the summer o ...Show more
Dessa Rose: A Novel by Sherley A Williams
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Sherley A. Williams' highly acclaimed historical novel details two women's fierce strength of will and an unlikely bond despite racial barriers in the pre-civil war south"Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative."-Toni MorrisonIn 182 ...Show more
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
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Category: World History/Politics | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost h ...Show more
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Stephen J Dubner
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Category: Business/Economics | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Cult bestseller, new buzz word... Freakonomics is at the heart of everything we see and do and the subjects that bedevil us daily- from parenting to crime, sport to politics, fat to cheating, fear to traffic jams. Asking provocative and profound questions about human motivation and contemporary living a ...Show more
GENTELMEN AND PLAYERS by HARRIS JOANNE
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley ...Show more
Holy Fools by Joanne Harris
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Joanne Harris, bestselling author of "Chocolat," presents her most accomplished novel yet -- an intoxicating concoction that blends theology and reason, deception and masquerade, with a dash of whimsical humor and a soupcon of sensuality. Britanny, 1610. Juliette, a one-time actress and rope dancer, is ...Show more
Island Beneath the Sea by Isabel Allende
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Born a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue--the daughter of an African mother she never knew and a white sailor who brought her into bondage--ZaritE, known as TEtE, survives a childhood of brutality and fear, finding solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and in her exhilarating initiatio ...Show more
Manhood for Amateurs: The Pleasures and Regrets of a Husband, Father, and Son by Michael Chabon
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Category: Parenting | 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
Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
One May evening in London, Adam Kindred, a young climatologist in town for a job interview, is feeling good about the future as he sits down for a meal at a little Italian bistro. He strikes up a conversation with a solitary diner at the next table, who leaves soon afterward. With horrifying speed, thi ...Show more
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
This internationally beloved modern classic, first published in 1978, will be reissued with a tie-in cover to coincide with the groundbreaking three-part PBS miniseries scheduled to air January 10, 11, and 12, 1994--a joint presentation of the prestigious American Playhouse and KQED San Francisco.
Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Satre by Hazel Rowley
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Category: Biography / Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Passionate, freethinking existentialist philosopher-writers Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre are one of the world's legendary couples. Their committed but notoriously open union generated no end of controversy in their day. Biographer Hazel Rowley offers the first dual portrait of these two colos ...Show more
The Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
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Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and eleven gold bars. He comes searching for the answer to a question that torments him: Are human beings, in essence, good or evil? In welcoming the mysterious foreigner, the whole village becomes an ...Show more