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The Forgetting Time - Sharon Guskin
Regular price $8.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / perJohn Laroche is a sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he has the posture of al dente spaghetti. He is also an orchid thief, arrested for stealing rare orchids from a wild swamp and nature reserve in southern Florida. Intrigued and fascinated by Laroche, Susan Orlean followed him through the swamps and into the eccentric world of the obsessive orchid collectors of Florida, a subculture of aristocrats, enthusiasts, and smugglers whose passion for plants is all-consuming. Along the way, Orlean explores the history of orchid-collecting, discovers the extent of plant crime in Florida, and spends time with Laroche's employers and partners in crime, a tribe of Seminole Indians who are still at war with the United States.
Condition: Pre-loved, Good
Format: B, 405 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2016 by Pan
ISBN: 9781509806812 (ISBN10: 1509806814)
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The Orchid Thief - Susan Orlean
Regular price $8.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / perJohn Laroche is a sharply handsome guy, in spite of the fact that he has the posture of al dente spaghetti. He is also an orchid thief, arrested for stealing rare orchids from a wild swamp and nature reserve in southern Florida. Intrigued and fascinated by Laroche, Susan Orlean followed him through the swamps and into the eccentric world of the obsessive orchid collectors of Florida, a subculture of aristocrats, enthusiasts, and smugglers whose passion for plants is all-consuming. Along the way, Orlean explores the history of orchid-collecting, discovers the extent of plant crime in Florida, and spends time with Laroche's employers and partners in crime, a tribe of Seminole Indians who are still at war with the United States.
Condition: Pre-loved, Good
Format: B, 348 pages, Hardcover
Published: January 1, 1998 by William Heinemann: London
ISBN: 9780434007837 (ISBN10: 0434007838)
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The Other Side of the Story - Marian Keyes
Regular price $6.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / perThere are three sides to every story -- your side, their side and the truth.
Focused and hardworking, literary agent Jojo Harvey combines the body of Jessica Rabbit with the mind of a steel trap. While watching her back on the corporate ladder and keeping an eye out for the low-flying ceilings, she falls for her boss. Her married boss.
Lily Wright, one of Jojo's clients, is enjoying overnight success of her debut novel. But nagging doubts are surfacing and she's all too aware of the fragile nature of her happiness. Her second novel doesn't want to be written -- but she must deliver it. She's already spent the advance -- Anton, the 'Love of her Life' persuaded her to buy their dream home. And then there's the guilt about Gemma.
Events Organizer extraordinaire Gemma Hogan was Lily's best friend -- until Lily stole Anton -- also the 'Love of her Life'. Coping with the demands of her recently deserted mother, Gemma's social life is flat-lining -- a mortifying situation which makes for hilarious emails to a friend. Tales so funny, they come to the attention of literary agent Jojho Harvey who takes Gemma on as a client.
All learning the hard way that the nature of real love can come in many forms...
Condition: Pre-loved, FairFormat: B, 648 pages, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2005 by Penguin
ISBN: 9780140295993 (ISBN10: 0140295992)
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Crossroads - Jonathan Franzen
Regular price $15.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / per$19.00 NZDSale price $15.00 NZDIt’s 23 December 1971, and the Hildebrandts are at a crossroads. Fifteen-year-old Perry has resolved to be a better person and quit dealing drugs to seventh graders. His sister Becky, the once straight-laced high school social queen, has veered into counterculture, while at college, Clem is wrestling with a decision that might tear his family apart. As their parents – Russ, a suburban pastor, and Marion, his restless wife – tug against the bonds of a joyless marriage, Crossroads finds a family, and a nation, struggling to do the right thing.
Series: A Key to all Mythologies, #1
Format: B, 592 pages, Paperback
Published: October 4, 2022 by 4th Estate
ISBN: 9780008308933 (ISBN10: 0008308934)
Language: EnglishPrice reduced due to light damage on front cover.
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Sparks like Stars - Nadia Hashimi
Regular price $12.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / perAn Afghan American woman returns to Kabul to learn the truth about her family and the tragedy that destroyed their lives in this brilliant and compelling novel from the bestselling author of The Pearl That Broke Its Shell, The House Without Windows, and When the Moon Is Low.
Kabul, 1978: The daughter of a prominent family, Sitara Zamani lives a privileged life in Afghanistan's thriving cosmopolitan capital. The 1970s are a time of remarkable promise under the leadership of people like Sardar Daoud, Afghanistan's progressive president, and Sitara's beloved father, his right-hand man. But the ten-year-old Sitara's world is shattered when communists stage a coup, assassinating the president and Sitara's entire family. Only she survives.
Smuggled out of the palace by a guard named Shair, Sitara finds her way to the home of a female American diplomat, who adopts her and raises her in America. In her new country, Sitara takes on a new name--Aryana Shepherd--and throws herself into her studies, eventually becoming a renowned surgeon. A survivor, Aryana has refused to look back, choosing instead to bury the trauma and devastating loss she endured.
New York, 2008: Thirty years after that fatal night in Kabul, Aryana's world is rocked again when an elderly patient appears in her examination room--a man she never expected to see again. It is Shair, the soldier who saved her, yet may have murdered her entire family. Seeing him awakens Aryana's fury and desire for answers--and, perhaps, revenge. Realizing that she cannot go on without finding the truth, Aryana embarks on a quest that takes her back to Kabul--a battleground between the corrupt government and the fundamentalist Taliban--and through shadowy memories of the world she loved and lost.
Bold, illuminating, heartbreaking, yet hopeful, Sparks Like Stars is a story of home--of America and Afghanistan, tragedy and survival, reinvention and remembrance, told in Nadia Hashimi's singular voice.
Condition: Pre-loved, Excellent
Format: C, 480 pages, Paperback
Published: February 8, 2022 by William Morrow Paperbacks
ISBN: 9780063008298 (ISBN10: 0063008297)
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Blood Sugar - Sascha Rothchild
Regular price $12.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / per“I could just kill you right now!” It’s something we’ve all thought at one time or another. But Ruby has actually acted on it. Three times, to be exact.
Though she may be a murderer, Ruby is not a sociopath. She is an animal-loving therapist with a thriving practice. She’s felt empathy and sympathy. She’s had long-lasting friendships and relationships, and has a husband, Jason, whom she adores. But the homicide detectives at Miami Beach PD are not convinced of her happy marriage. When we meet Ruby, she is in a police interrogation room, being accused of Jason’s murder. Which, ironically, is one murder that she did not commit, though her vicious mother-in-law and a scandal-obsessed public believe differently. As she undergoes questioning, Ruby’s mind races back to all the details of her life that led her to this exact moment, and to the three dead bodies in her wake. Because though she may not have killed her husband, Ruby certainly isn’t innocent.
Alternating between Ruby’s memories of her past crimes and her present-day fight to clear her name, Blood Sugar is a twisty, clever debut with an unforgettable protagonist who you can’t help but root for—an addicting mixture of sour and sweet.
Condition: Pre-loved, Excellent
Format: C, 417 pages, Paperback
Published: April 26, 2022
ISBN: 9781398705616 (ISBN10: 1398705616) -
The Pelican Brief - John Grisham
Regular price $19.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / perTwo Supreme Court Justices are dead. Their murders remain unsolved.
Darby Shaw, a brilliant and beautiful New Orleans legal student, draws up a speculative legal brief which links the deaths and uncovers an astonishing presidential conspiracy.
When her boyfriend is atomised in a car bomb, it becomes clear that somebody is intent on silencing Darby for good. Somebody who will stop at nothing to preserve the secrets of the Pelican Brief...Format: A, Paperback
Published: January 1, 2010 by Penguin Random House
ISBN: 9780099537168 (ISBN10: 0099537168)
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Breakfast at the Honey Creek Cafe - Jodi Thomas
Regular price $14.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / per$19.00 NZDSale price $14.00 NZDPiper Jane Mackenzie, mayor of Honey Creek, won’t let a major scandal rip her quirky hometown apart, or jeopardize her dream of one day running for higher office. So she’s willing to welcome undercover detective Colby McBride, hired to help solve the mystery behind her wannabe fiancé’s disappearance. Colby’s cover? That he is an old boyfriend now begging Piper for a second chance—always when there are plenty of townsfolk around to witness his shenanigans.
Piper hardly knows whether to laugh or cry, especially when she finds herself drawn to the handsome rascal. He's not the only newcomer she has to deal with. There’s a new interim preacher in town, Sam Cassidy. Drifting from one assignment to another since his one love died, Sam isn’t sure he’s the right fit for Honey Creek. But as Piper knows, this is a place chock-full of surprises. And if she can keep her town—and her heart—from going completely off the rails, there may be a sweet, unexpected future in store ...
Series: Honey Creek, #1
Condition: New, Minor scuff on top left corner, some pages have creased in transit.Format: A, Paperback
Published: May 26, 2020 by Zebra
ISBN: 9781420151282 (ISBN10: 1420151282)
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The Great Christmas Knit Off - Alexandra Brown
Regular price $10.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / perThe perfect seasonal tale of how laughter, friends and wacky Christmas jumpers can mend a broken heart. For fans of Trisha Ashley and Jenny Colgan.
Heartbroken after being jilted at the altar, Sybil has been saved from despair by her knitting obsession and now her home is filled to bursting with tea cosies, bobble hats, and jumpers. But, after discovering that she may have perpetrated the cock-up of the century at work, Sybil decides to make a hasty exit and, just weeks before Christmas, runs away to the picturesque village of Tindledale.
There, Sybil discovers Hettie’s House of Haberdashery, an emporium dedicated to the world of knitting and needle craft. But Hettie, the outspoken octogenarian owner, is struggling and now the shop is due for closure. And when Hettie decides that Sybil’s wonderfully wacky Christmas jumpers are just the thing to add a bit of excitement to her window display, something miraculous starts to happen…Condition: Pre-loved, Excellent
Format: B,378 pages, Paperback
Published: November 6, 2014 by Harper
ISBN: 9780007597369 (ISBN10: 0007597363)
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Witch by Finbar Hawkins
Regular price $8.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / perSet in the 17th century, a breathtaking debut, and a potential prize-winner, about the power of women, witchcraft, fury, revenge and the ties that bind us.
After witnessing the brutal murder of her mother by witch-hunters, Evey vows to avenge her and track down the killers. Fury burns in her bright and strong. But she has promised her mother that she will keep Dill, her little sister, safe.
As the lust for blood and retribution rises to fever pitch, will Evey keep true to the bonds of sisterhood and to the magick that is her destiny?
Condition: Pre-loved, Good
Format: B, 384 pages, PaperbackPublished: January 1, 2021 by Head of Zeus, Zephyr, LondonISBN: 9781800245907 (ISBN10: 1800245904)Language: English -
A Child's Garden of Imagination - Eleanor (Nell) Jean Norton
Regular price $15.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / perThe Collected Poems and Stories of Eleanor (Nell) Jean Norton née Milson
Born Tauranga, New Zealand May 3rd, 1927
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Eleanor (Nell) Jean Norton née Milson was born on 3rd of May 1927 in Tauranga, New Zealand. She showed early promise as a writer of both poetry and prose and won many competitions. Many of her poems and stories were published in local and national newspapers during the 1930s and 1940s.
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Plantovert - E-Reader Bag
Regular price $12.00 NZDRegular priceUnit price / perCarry your E-Reader in style with our E-Reader Drawstring Bag. Keep your device safe and secure while on the go. No e-reader? No problem! This quirky Bag is the ultimate accessory for your annotation kit. A must-have for all book enthusiasts!
Bag Measurements: 23cm x 16cm
Print Measurements: 11cm x 7cm