Under The Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes
28.00 NZD
Category: Film & Television
Twenty years ago, Frances Mayes - widely published poet, gourmet cook and travel writer - introduced readers to a wondrous new world when she bought and restored an abandoned villa called Bramasole in the spectacular Tuscan countryside. With glorious descriptions of the vibrant local markets, food, wine ...Show more
Last Man on the Moon: Astronaut Eugene Cernan and America's Race in Space by Eugene A. Cernan
27.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
Eugene Cernan is a unique American who came of age as an astronaut during the most exciting and dangerous decade of spaceflight. His career spanned the entire Gemini and Apollo programs, from being the first person to spacewalk all the way around our world to commanding Apollo XVII, man's last mission t ...Show more
Wild - A Journey from Lost to Found by Cheryl Strayed
24.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Reading Level: very good
Selected to be read on Radio Four's Book of the Week. 'One of the best books I've read in the last five or ten years... Wild is angry, brave, sad, self-knowing, redemptive, raw, compelling, and brilliantly written, and I think it's destined to be loved by a lot of people, men and women, for a very long ...Show more
I Am Malala (Teen Edition) by Malala Yousafzai, Patricia McCormick
19.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Reading Level: Teen - Grade 7-9, Age 12-14
A MEMOIR BY THE YOUNGEST RECIPIENT OF THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE As seen on Netflix with David Letterman"I come from a country that was created at midnight. When I almost died it was just after midday." When the Taliban took control of the Swat Valley in Pakistan, one girl spoke out. Malala Yousafzai ref ...Show more
The Lady In The Van (film tie-in) by Alan Bennett
18.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Reading Level: very good
Adapted by the author from his autobiographical memoir, The Lady in the Van tells the story of Miss Mary Shepherd, whom Alan Bennett first came across when she was living in the street near his home in Camden Town. Taking refuge with her van in his garden originally for three months, she ended up stayin ...Show more
Into the Wild (FS) by Jon Krakauer
27.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
By examining the true story of Chris McCandless, a young man, who in 1992 walked deep into the Alaskan wilderness and whose SOS note and emaciated corpse were found four months later, internationally bestselling author Jon Krakauer explores the obsession which leads some people to explore the outer limi ...Show more
Last Song by Nicholas Sparks
24.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
#1 bestselling author Nicholas Sparks's novel is at once a compelling family drama and a heartrending tale of young love. Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years ...Show more
Life of Pi [Film Tie-in] by Yann Martel
24.99 NZD
28.00 (10% off)
Category: Film & Television
One boy, one boat, one tiger ... After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. ...Show more
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
27.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
A Stunning Novel of Hope and Redemption Taking us from Afghanistan in the final days of the monarchy to the present, The Kite Runner is the unforgettable and beautifully told story of the friendship between two boys growing up in Kabul. Raised in the same household and sharing the same wet nurse, Amir a ...Show more
Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything by Elizabeth Gilbert
21.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it. A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three thin ...Show more
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
24.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television | Series: Picador Classic Ser.
With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson. My name was Salmon, like the fish; first name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973. In heaven, Susie Salmon can have whatever she w ...Show more
Silence by Shusaku Endo
19.99 NZD
Category: Film & Television
With an introduction by Martin Scorsese: 'One of the finest historical novels written by anyone, anywhere . . . Flawless' - David Mitchell Father Rodrigues is an idealistic Portuguese Jesuit priest who, in the 1640s, sets sail for Japan on a determined mission to help the brutally oppressed Japanese Chr ...Show more