The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Thrown in prison for a crime he has not committed, Edmond Dantes is confined to the grim fortress of If. There he learns of a great hoard of treasure hidden on the Isle of Monte Cristo and becomes determined not only to escape but to unearth the treasure and use it to plot the destruction of the three m ...Show more
Zanoni by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
100.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Zanoni , first published in 1842, was inspired by a dream. Sir Edward, a Rosicrucian, wrote this engaging, well-researched, novel about the eternal conflict between head and heart, between wisdom and love, played out by the Rosicrucians before the dramatic background of the French Revolution. He describ ...Show more
Where There Was Fire by John Manuel Arias
48.00 NZD
Category: Modern Fiction
Where there was fire, ashes remain . . .Costa Rica, 1968.A deadly fire rips through the American Fruit Company's most lucrative banana plantation, destroying all evidence of a massive cover-up.That same night, Teresa Cepeda Valverde's mother is murdered, and her husband vanishes into the darkness.Decade ...Show more
My American Visit by Sir Fredrick Smith Bart
40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Sir Fredrick Smith recounts his travels through USA and describes World War 1 and World War 2 from both the Canadian and American perspective.
Kath by Keith Henshaw
20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Kath is a girl's name, and also prison slang for an indeterminate sentence. Both kinds of "Kath" threaten the central figure of Keith Henshaw's novel Kath, 1964.
The Ascent of F6 by W. H. Auden and Christopher Isherwood
20.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The play tells the story of Michael Ransom, a climber, who, against his better judgement, accepts the offer of the British press and government to sponsor an expedition to the peak of F6, a mountain on the border of a British colony and a colony of the fictional country of Ostnia. Ransom is destroyed by ...Show more
The Apes of God by Wyndham Lewis
120.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
Lewis was an artist, novelist and essayist and co-founder, with Ezra Pound, of 'Blast'. His works have been describes as 'part novel, part essay, but all satire.'
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
A serial murderer known only by a grotesquely apt nickname—Buffalo Bill—is stalking women. He has a purpose, but no one can fathom it, for the bodies are discovered in different states. Clarice Starling, a young trainee at the FBI Academy, is surprised to be summoned by Jack Crawford, chief of the Burea ...Show more
Trouble in the Glen by Maurice Walsh
25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
An enjoyable telling of the story of a WWII hero who returns to the glen where he grew up. He finds himself caught up in the tensions generated by a new laird and his agent. He sides with the community as he works to resolve the issues and return the glen to peace.
The Uncommon Reader by Alan Bennett
100.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The Uncommon Reader is none other than HM the Queen who drifts accidentally into reading when her corgis stray into a mobile library parked at Buckingham Palace. She reads widely (J. R. Ackerley, Jean Genet, Ivy Compton Burnett, and the classics) and intelligently. Her reading naturally changes her worl ...Show more
Readers Digest Condensed Books by Various
15.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
The Cradle Will Fall by Mary Higgins Clark Horowitz and Mrs Washington by Henry Denker Control Tower by Robert P. Davis Baker's Hawk by Jack Bickham
Mr. Crewe's Career by Winston Churchill
45.00 NZD
Category: Literature
The novel follows the life of a fictional character, Mr. Crewe, who is a wealthy and ambitious American. The story chronicles his various career endeavors and personal experiences across different professions and social settings.