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Honeybee by Craig Silvey
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
The highly anticipated new novel by the bestselling author of Jasper Jones. 'Find out who you are, and live that life.' Late in the night, fourteen-year-old Sam Watson steps onto a quiet overpass, climbs over the rail and looks down at the road far below. At the other end of the same bridge, an old man, ...Show more
The Tally Stick by Carl Nixon
$36.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
A compulsive and chilling novel about subjugation, survival and the meaning of family. The car containing the four sleeping children left the earth. From the top of the wooded bluff, where the rain-slick road had curved so treacherously, down to the swollen river at the base of the cliff, was easily six ...Show more
Jerningham by Cristina Sanders
$37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
"Edward Jerningham Wakefield was the wild-child of the Wakefield family that set up the New Zealand Company to bring the first settlers to this country. His story is told through the eyes of bookkeeper Arthur Lugg, who is tasked by Colonel William Wakefield to keep tabs on his brilliant but unstable nep ...Show more
Come Again by Robert Webb
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
If you could do it all over again, would you? A recently widowed women is about to find out when she wakes up and finds herself eighteen again in this "compelling" story of second chances (Mail On Sunday). You can't fall in love for the first time twice ... Kate's husband Luke -- the man she loved from ...Show more
Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Alix Chamberlain is a woman who gets what she wants and has made a living showing other women how to do the same. So she is shocked when her young black babysitter, Emira Tucker, is accused by a security guard of kidnapping the Chamberlains' toddler at the supermarket one night. A small crowd gathers, a ...Show more
The History Speech by Mark Sweet
$32.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors
It is 1960s provincial New Zealand, and a set of upper middle class families enjoy the good life together. But just under the surface of the conventionality, there are undercurrents. Adolescent Callum Gow's father is a bully, his mother is having an affair, and there are secrets about abuse, suicide and ...Show more
Ninth House (#1 Ninth House) by Leigh Bardugo
$34.99 NZD
Category: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a mesmerizing tale of power, privilege, and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy "Alex" Stern is the most unlikely member of Yale's freshman class. Raised in the Los Angeles hinterlands by a hippie mom, Alex dropped out of school ...Show more
Whatever It Takes by Paul Cleave
$37.99 NZD
Category: Crime | Reading Level: good
When seven-year-old Alyssa is kidnapped, Deputy Noah Harper decides he will do what it takes to find her - but that means crossing lines he can never come back from. Finding the girl safe, isn't enough to stop Noah from losing his job, his wife, and from being kicked out of Acacia Pines. He's told if he ...Show more
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
$34.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE PULITZER PRIZE-WINNING AUTHOR OF THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD THE NICKEL BOYS is Colson Whitehead's follow-up to the Pulitzer Prize- and National Book Award-winning bestseller THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD, in which he dramatizes another strand of United States history, this time through t ...Show more
Toffee by Sarah Crossan
$16.99 NZD
Category: Real World | Reading Level: 9 YA
I am not who I say I am, and Marla isn't who she thinks she is. I am a girl trying to forget. She is a woman trying to remember. Allison has run away from home and with nowhere to live finds herself hiding out in the shed of what she thinks is an abandoned house. But the house isn't empty. An elderly w ...Show more
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Let me tell you about our brother. The fourth Dunbar boy named Clay. Everything happened to him. We were all of us changed through him. The Dunbar boys bring each other up in a house run by their own rules. A family of ramshackle tragedy - their mother is dead, their father has fled - they love and figh ...Show more
Lanny by Max Porter
$29.99 NZD
Category: Literary/Classics | Reading Level: Adult
From the award-winning author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes a dark, playful, propulsive novel about an ethereal young boy who attracts the attention of a mythical, menacing force. There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, red-bric ...Show more