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Tete-a-Tete: The Tumultuous Lives and Loves of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Satre by Hazel Rowley
$32.99 AUD
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 Beastly Beastitudes of Balthazar B. by J. P. Donleavy
$32.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Donleavy, J. P. Ser.
The sexual odyssey of a hopeless romantic from the author of the legendary bestseller The Ginger Man--"a comic writer rivaling Waugh and Wodehouse" (Life). In the years before and after World War II, Balthazar B is the world's last shy, elegant young man. Born to riches in Paris, and raised by his gov ...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 Devil and Miss Prym by Paulo Coelho
$24.99 AUD
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
The Fifth Mountain by Paulo Coelho
$24.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Immerse yourself in an electrifying reading experience like no other -- international bestselling author Paulo Coelho's "The Fifth Mountain." A stunning novel in the tradition of the highly acclaimed "The Alchemist, " this is Coelho's daring retelling of the prophet Elijah. During the chaos of the ninth ...Show more
The Girl with No Shadow by Joanne Harris
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The wind has always dictated Vianne Rocher's every move, buffeting her from the French village of Lansquenet-sous-Tannes to the crowded streets of Paris. Cloaked in a new identity, that of widow Yanne Charbonneau, she opens a chocolaterie on a small Montmartre street, determined to still the wind at la ...Show more
The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of a Donner Party Bride by Daniel James Brown
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: P.S.
A chronicle of the mid-nineteenth-century wagon train tragedy draws on the perspectives of one of its survivors, Sarah Graves, recounting how her new husband and she joined the Donner party on their California-bound journey and encountered violent perils. In an account that also offers insight into the ...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 Who Loved China : Joseph Needham : The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In sumptuous and illuminating detail, Simon Winchester, bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman, brings to life the extraordinary story of Joseph Needham--the brilliant Cambridge scientist, freethinking intellectual, and practicing nudist who unlocked the most closely held secrets of China, o ...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 Map That Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology by Simon Winchester
$29.99 AUD
Category: World History/Politics | Series: P.S. (Paperback) | Reading Level: very good
In 1793, a canal digger named William Smith made a startling discovery. He found that by tracing the placement of fossils, which he uncovered in his excavations, one could follow layers of rocks as they dipped and rose and fell clear across England and, indeed, clear across the world making it possible, ...Show more
The Pale Blue Eye by Louis Bayard
$29.99 AUD
Category: General Fiction | Series: P.S.
At West Point Academy in 1830, the calm of an October evening is shattered by the discovery of a young cadet's body swinging from a rope. The next morning, an even greater horror comes to light. Someone has removed the dead man's heart. Augustus Landor--who acquired some renown in his years as a New Yor ...Show more