Recreation

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The Museum of Curiosity. Gallery three.
Prepare to have your synapses twisted into a string theorist's nightmare, as Professor Lloyd and his new curator, the startlingly insightful comedian Jon Richardson, hurriedly throw the dust covers off the Museum's clump of empty plinths for a brand new series of the BBC's most improving comedy panel show. This complete third BBC Radio 4 series features Neil Gaiman, Sarah Millican and fantasy novelist Sir Terry Pratchett, who offers us a Secret and Personal Extra Day of the Week …
The Museum of Curiosity. Series 4.
The Museum of Curiosity is, as ever, hosted by the Professor of Ignorance from the University of Buckingham John Lloyd. For this fourth series, he is joined by the intensely curious comedian Dave Gorman as his curator. The Museum of Curiosity has a unique method for collecting exhibits. Once a week it welcomes three luminaries from widely different specialist fields and asks them to bring with them their most treasured items to donate.
The prodigal daughter. Jeffrey Archer
Driven by ambition, Florentyna Rosnovski, daughter to a hotel baron and daughter-in-law to his bitterest rival, relinquishes her inheritance to marry the man she loves, builds her own business empire, and ultimately pursues the United States presidency.
Shall we tell the President? Jeffrey Archer
After years of great sacrifice and deep personal tragedy, Florentyna Kane has finally become the first woman president in America. But on the very day that she is sworn into office, powerful forces are already in motion to take her life.
Alias Grace Margaret Atwood
A decade and a half has passed since Grace was locked up, at the age of 16, for the cold-blooded murders of her employer Thomas Kinnear and his housekeeper/lover Nancy Montgomery. Her alleged accomplice, James McDermot, was hanged in 1843. Dr Simon Jordan attempts to uncover the truth.
Bodily harm. Margaret Atwood
Rennie Wilford, a young journalist, takes an assignment on a Caribbean island and tumbles into a world where no one is what they seem. When the burnt-out Yankee Paul offers her a no-hooks, no-strings affair, she is caught up in a lethal web of corruption.
Cat's eye Margaret Atwood
Margaret Atwood explores the ambiguous roots of women's relationships in her latest novel, which tells the story of a woman obsessed with memories of the past. Elaine Risley returns to Toronto to seek her elusive friend Cordelia, who was the cause of childhood cruelty and terror many years earlier.
Dancing girls and other stories Margaret Atwood
Fourteen stories explore the dark labyrinths of the mind, the complexities of human relationships, and the conflicts among today's clashing values and cultures.
The edible woman Margaret Atwood
A humorous, ironic, disturbing, and parabolic novel features a woman who, after her engagement to be wed, first loses her appetite and then becomes obsessed with the idea that she herself is being eaten.
Lady oracle Margaret Atwood
Faced with exposure, a young woman, who has been leading conflicting lives separately and secretly, begins to plan her own death.
Moral disorder Margaret Atwood
A collection of ten stories that is almost a novel or a novel broken up into ten stories. This work resembles a photograph album - a series of observed moments that trace the course of a life, and the lives intertwined with it - those of parents, siblings, children, friends, enemies, teachers and even animals.
Surfacing Margaret Atwood
A young divorcee returns to the remote island of her childhood in Northern Canada to investigate the mysterious disappearance of her father. Flooded with memories, she is gradually drawn back into her past as the wild island exerts its elemental hold.
The year of the flood Margaret Atwood
The times and species have been changing at a rapid rate, and the social compact is wearing as thin as environmental stability. Adam One, the kindly leader of the God's Gardeners - a religion devoted to the melding of science and religion, as well as the preservation of all plant and animal life - has long predicted a natural disaster that will alter Earth as we know it. Now it has occurred, obliterating most human life. Two women have survived: Ren, a young trapeze dancer locked inside the high-end sex club Scales and Tails, and Toby, a God's Gardener barricaded inside a luxurious spa where many of the treatments are edible. Have others survived?
The bride wore size 12 Meg Cabot
Heather Wells is used to having her cake and eating it too, but this time her cake just might be cooked. Her wedding cake, that is. With her upcoming nuptials to PI Cooper Cartwright only weeks away, Heather's already stressed. And when a pretty junior turns up dead, Heather's sure things can't get worse--until every student in the dorm where she works is a possible suspect, and Heather's long-lost mother shows up. Heather has no time for a tearful mother and bride reunion. She has a wedding to pull off and a murder to solve. Instead of wedding bells, she might be hearing wedding bullets, but she's determined to bring the bad guys to justice if it's the last thing she does … and this time, it just might be.
Queen of babble gets hitched Meg Cabot
Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Life's become a dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings - not necessarily her own - as Lizzie prepares for her dream wedding at her fiancé’s chateau in the south of France. But is Lizzie really ready to embrace her new role as wife and mistress of Chateau Mirac? Or is she destined to fall into another man's arms … and into the trap of becoming a Bad Girl instead?
The making of the fittest : DNA and the ultimate forensic record of evolution. Sean B. Carroll
DNA evidence not only solves crimes-in Sean Carroll's hands it will now end the Evolution Wars. In the pages of this highly readable narrative, Sean Carroll guides the general reader on a tour of the massive DNA record of three billion years of evolution to see how the fittest are made. And what a eye-opening tour it is - one featuring immortal genes, fossil genes, and genes that bear the scars of past battles with horrible diseases. This book clinches the case for evolution, beyond any reasonable doubt.
Hard time. Maureen Carter
An abandoned baby, a kidnapped five-year old, a dead police officer and Detective Sergeant Bev Moriss thinks she's having a hard time! Bev doesn't do fragile and vulnerable, and struggling to cope with the aftermath of a vicious attack, she is desperate not to reveal the lurking self-doubt. But her lover has decided its time to move on and the guv is losing patience.
Working girls. Maureen Carter
Investigating the murder of a young prostitute, Bev Morris knows she must win the trust of the "working girls" before time runs out.
Dark horizons J. T. Colgan
"Now, you may or may not have noticed, but we appear to be on fire." On a windswept northern shore, at the very tip of what will one day become Scotland, the islanders believe the worst they have to fear is a Viking attack. Then the burning comes. They cannot run from it. Water will not stop it. It consumes everything in its path yet the burned still speak. The Doctor is just looking for a game on the famous Lewis chess set. Instead he encounters a people under attack from a power they cannot possibly understand.
Generation A Douglas Coupland
In the near future bees are extinct - until five unconnected individuals, in different parts of the world, are stung. Immediately snatched up by ominous figures in hazmat suits, interrogated separately in neutral Idea-like chambers, and then released as 15-minute-celebrities into a world driven almost entirely by the internet, these five unforgettable people endure a barrage of unusual and highly 21st-century circumstances. A charismatic scientist with dubious motives eventually brings the quintet together, and their shared experience unites them in a way they could never have imagined. "Generation A" mirrors the structure of 1991's 'Generation X' as it champions the act of reading and storytelling as one of the few defenses we still have against the constant bombardment of the senses in a digital world.
Hey Nostradamus Douglas Coupland
In 1988, a catastrophic episode of teen violence shatters a suburban community. Hey Nostradamus! follows the aftermath in various voices across two decades: the teenage victims whose ordinary preoccupations with sex and spirituality will never evolve past that moment; the parents whose exposure to their children's underground world threatens their deepest convictions; and those who come to know the survivors only later in life, unable to fully realize what really transpired. Hey Nostradamus! wrestles with religion and nihilism, sorrow and acceptance. It will take you to a place you didn't know existed.
Worst. Person. Ever. Douglas Coupland
Worst. Person. Ever. is a deeply unworthy book about a dreadful human being with absolutely no redeeming social value. Raymond Gunt, in the words of the author, is a living, walking, talking, hot steaming pile of pure id.
Doctor Who at the BBC. Volume 8, Lost treasures David. Darlington
a time travelling journey behind the scenes of Doctor Who. Do you remember when the Fourth Doctor called in on Pete Murray's Open House? Or when Louise Jameson was menaced by a Dalek? Do you remember June Whitfield auditioning a Dalek? If not, now's your chance to catch up! Featuring rare recordings, this collection is full of gems.
The book of Daniel E. L. Doctorow
The central figure of this novel is a young man whose parents were executed for conspiring to steal atomic secrets for Russia. His name is Daniel Isaacson, and as the story opens, his parents have been dead for many years. He has had a long time to adjust to their deaths. He has not adjusted. Out of the shambles of his childhood, he has constructed a new life, marriage to an adoring girl who gives him a son of his own, and a career in scholarship. It is a life that enrages him. In the silence of the library at Columbia University, where he is supposedly writing a Ph.D. dissertation, Daniel composes something quite different. He ponders his life, his sister's radicalism, his appreciation for his wife and son, and the hypocrisy of the moralistic ideals upon which this country was based.
Homer and Langley E. L. Doctorow
A free imaginative rendering of the lives of New York's fabled Collyer brothers depicts Homer and Langley as recluses in their once grand Fifth Avenue mansion, facing odyssean perils as they struggle to survive the wars, political movements, and technological advances of the last century.
Sweet land stories E. L. Doctorow
An assortment of short fiction ranges across America, from Alaska to the District of Columbia, as it explores the complexities of modern life in such stories as "Jolene: a Life," "A House on the Plains," "Baby Wilson," and "Walter John Harmon".
The waterworks E. L. Doctorow
The industrialisation of the northeastern United States is one of the most important processes in the development of the modern country, but lacking the romance of the Wild West and the South it is not so frequently a subject for fiction. Doctorow's novel, which is set in New York in the early 1870s, is an exception, and it is a gothic tale strongly influenced by writers of the period. The narrator is a newspaper editor, who is in a good position to understand New York in this period of rapid change, as the city expands at an incredible rate after the North's victory in the Civil War while remaining under the corrupt government of the Ring led by Bill Tweed.
World's fair E. L. Doctorow
The astonishing novel of a young boy's life in the New York City of the 1930s, a stunning recreation of the sights, sounds, aromas and emotions of a time when the streets were safe, families stuck together through thick and thin, and all the promises of a generation culminate in a single great World's Fair …
Billy Bathgate E. L. Doctorow
To open this book is to enter the perilous, thrilling world of Billy Bathgate, the brazen boy who is accepted into the inner circle of the notorious Dutch Schultz gang. Like an urban Tom Sawyer, Billy takes us along on his fateful adventures as he becomes good-luck charm, apprentice, and finally protege to one of the great murdering gangsters of the Depression-era underworld in New York City.
Crazy salad : some things about women; and, Scribble scribble : notes on media. Nora Ephron
Wallflower at the orgy Nora Ephron
In this classic collection of magazine articles, Ephron does what she does best: embrace American culture with love, cynicism, and unmatched wit. From tracking down the beginnings of the self-help movement to dressing down the fashion world's most powerful publication to capturing a glimpse of a legendary movie in the making, these timeless pieces tap into our enduring obsessions with celebrity, food, romance, clothes, entertainment, and sex.
Plum lovin' Janet Evanovich
It's a new year for Stephanie, Lula and the gang - and Connie Rosolli has a secret admirer. Or does she? Connie is getting two kinds of anonymous mail: love letters and hate mail - could they be from the same person? Or does Connie have two stalkers?
Plum lucky Janet Evanovich
Bounty hunter Stephanie Plum finds herself in over her head with a caper involving stolen money, a racehorse, a car chase, and a bad case of hives - not to mention her grandmother playing the slots in Atlantic City unknowingly using the stolen money! Meanwhile, the mysterious Diesel returns to once again turn Stephanie's world upside down.
Pros and cons Janet Evanovich
FBI special agent Kate O'Hare has made it her mission to nail international con artist Nicolas Fox. When she discovers his plot to plunder a venture capitalist's twentieth-story Chicago penthouse of all its cash and treasures while the self-proclaimed "King of Hostile Takeovers" is getting married, Kate is 85 percent - okay maybe 92 percent - sure that she's finally going to bag Nick Fox.
The Odessa file Frederick Forsyth
A package of documents, containing a list of names, arrives anonymously at the Ministry of Justice in Bonn in 1964. Frederick Forsyth's bestselling thriller features the consequent life-and-death hunt for a notorious Nazi criminal, against a background of international arms deals.
The foreign correspondent Alan Furst
By 1938, hundreds of Italian intellectuals, lawyers and journalists, university professors and scientists had escaped Mussolini's fascist government and taken refuge in Paris. There, amid the struggles of emigre life, they founded an Italian resistance, with an underground press that smuggled news and encouragement back to Italy. Fighting fascism with typewriters, they produced 512 clandestine newspapers. The Foreign Correspondent is their story.
Dad is fat Jim Gaffigan
In Dad is Fat, stand-up comedian Jim Gaffigan, who's best known for his legendary riffs on Hot Pockets, bacon, manatees, and McDonald's, expresses all the joys and horrors of life with five young children. Reminiscent of Bill Cosby's Fatherhood, Dad is Fat is sharply observed, explosively funny, and a cry for help from a man who has realized he and his wife are outnumbered in their own home.
Breakfast with Lucian: a portrait of the artist Geordie Greig
For ten years Geordie Greig was among a very small group of friends who regularly met Lucian Freud for breakfast at Clarke's restaurant on Kensington Church Street. Over tea and the morning papers, Freud would recount stories of his past and discuss art. It was, in effect, Freud's private salon. It is revelatory about his art, his lovers, his children, his enemies and his love of gambling. Freud dared never to do dull, speaking candidly of dancing with Garbo as well as painting Kate Moss naked.
Pompeii. Robert Harris
Engineer Marcus Attilius Primus has taken charge of the Aqua Augusta, the aqueduct which brings water to a quarter of a million people. His predecessor has disappeared. When a crisis strikes the Augusta's main line, Attilus discovers that there are forces which even the Roman Empire can't control.
Whispers of love. Rosie Harris
It is 1914 and Christabel Blakemore is happily preparing for her wedding when she receives the shattering news that her fiancé has been drowned at sea. Heartbroken, she tries to piece her life together. But she soon discovers she is pregnant, and fearing her parents would throw her out if they knew, she decides to help the war effort by leaving home to become a nurse.
Destiny of the Doctor. Death's deal Darren. Jones
Continuing the series celebrating 50 years of Doctor Who, this is a brand new adventure for the Tenth Doctor. It is written by Darren Jones and performed by Catherine Tate (who played the Doctor's companion Donna in the original TV series) and Duncan Wisbey. The 'Destiny of the Doctor' series features all eleven Doctors in 11 thrilling original stories.
Doctor Who. Sleepers in the dust Darren. Jones
The TARDIS touches down on Nadurniss, a planet under quarantine. A joint Nadurni/human mission has recently landed on the planet to survey it for possible re-colonization. Two millennia have passed since the Nadurni Empire fell at the end of the Prokarian War, and Nadurniss seems to be a lifeless, barren world--but a mysterious illness is infecting the Nadurni, and now the whole team is in danger.
Kira Kira Cynthia Kadohata
Chronicles the close friendship between two Japanese-American sisters growing up in rural Georgia during the late 1950s and early 1960s, and the despair when one sister becomes terminally ill.
Waiting to be heard. Amanda Knox
This is the author's account of her hard-fought battle to overcome injustice and win the freedom she deserved after spending four years in prison for the murder of Meredith Kercher in Perugia, Italy. She spent four years in a foreign prison for a crime she did not commit. Separated from her family, she was demonized by the international press and treated harshly by the Italian justice system, including disdainful police. She endured humiliation, injustice, and loneliness thousands of miles from her home. Now the young American exchange student tells the full story of her harrowing ordeal in Italy.
Backlash Lynda La Plante
Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in Hackney and a white van is being driven erratically. The driver is pulled over by the police and questioned. A woman on the street after a long evening's drinking. She never makes it home. A suspect, an arrest, a confession. A case done and dusted?
Blind fury Lynda La Plante
Close to a motorway service station, the body of a young woman is discovered. She appears to have no family, no friends, no one to identify her. DI Anna Travis is brought onto the team of investigators by DCS James Langton, who already suspects that this recent case could be linked to two unsolved murders. As more evidence is discovered the team realise that they are contending with a triple murder investigation - and no suspect.
Clean cut Lynda La Plante
When her boss DCI James Langton is horrifically injured, DI Anna Travis plays a major part in his rehabilitation. Langton was working to solve the murder of a young prostitute, the suspect an illegal immigrant. Anna is working on another murder case and gains enough evidence to send the killer down for twelve years. Two separate cases which become unexpectedly linked.
Deadly intent Lynda La Plante
Alexander Fitzpatrick is one of the most wanted men in the Western world. A Howard Marks character, but far more dangerous, his wealth, accrued through drug-trafficking, runs into millions. For the past ten years there has been no sighting of him. Has he gone to ground using an alias, or is he dead? When an ex-police officer from the murder squad is found shot in a dank squat, Ann Travis is pulled onto the case.
Prime suspect Lynda La Plante
When a prostitute is found murdered in her bedsit, the Metropolitan police set to work finding the perpetrator of this brutal attack. DNA samples lead them straight to George Marlow, a man previously convicted of attempted rape. Everything appears to add up and the police think they've found their man, but things aren't quite what they seem …
Prime suspect. 2, A face in the crowd Lynda La Plante
The coroner's report identifies the body as young, black, female, and impossibly anonymous. Yet one thing is clear to Detective Chief Inspector Jane Tennison about the latest victim discovered in one of London's poorest districts - that news of her murder will tear apart a city already crackling with racial tensions, hurling Scotland Yard and Tennison herself into a maelstrom of shocking accusations and sudden, wrenching violence.
Wrongful death. Lynda La Plante
Six months after the body of Josh Reynolds, a London nightclub owner, was found and determined by police and coroner to be a suicide, DCS James Langton tasks DCI Anna Travis to review the case. Reynolds died from a single gunshot wound to the head, the gun held in his right hand. But details are emerging that suggest someone else may have fired the gun.
Blue rondo John Lawton
London, 1959: a city only just free of rationing, still littered with the ruins of war but straining at the modern age like a dog too long on the leash. Frederick Troy, Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard, is celebrating the arrest and conviction of "King" Alf Marx, East London's "Mr. Big," the toughest gangster in town, when a car bomb goes off, killing fellow detective John Brocklehurst. No one knows who is responsible - the boys from Marx's mob certainly aren't talking.
A little white death. John Lawton
Scotland Yard lawman Frederick Troy in London in the swinging sixties is partially sidelined by illness. However, he must rally as politicians, medicos and Russian spies feature in an outburst of scandals, which include a vice ring centred on the Ffitch twins and an underaged Clover Browne.
Bogeys! ; &, Crackers! Alan MacDonald & [illustrated by] David Roberts.
Meet Dirty Bertie - boy with nose- picking disgusting habits! He's full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy ideas and if it's trouble you're after, look no further - Bertie's sure to be up to his neck in it! Two more outrageous collections - Bogeys! & Crackers! - featuring the world's grubbiest trouble magnet.
Fleas! ; & Worms! Alan MacDonald & [illustrated by] David Roberts.
Meet Dirtie Bertie - a boy with nose-pickingly disgusting habits! He's full to bursting with madcap plans and crazy ideas, and if it's trouble you're after, look no further - Bertie's sure to be up to his neck in it! Six wickedly funny stories featuring the world's grubbiest trouble magnet!
Mudwoman. Joyce Carol Oates
Mudgirl is a child abandoned by her mother in the silty flats of the Black Snake River. Cast aside, Mudgirl survives by an accident of fate or destiny. After her rescue, she will slowly forget her own origin, her past erased, her future uncertain. The well-meaning couple who adopt Mudgirl quarantine her poisonous history behind the barrier of their Quaker values: compassion, modesty, and hard work seemingly sealing it off forever. But the bulwark of the present proves surprisingly vulnerable to the agents of the past.
Daleks. The mutation of time John Peel
The Daleks' Masterplan is well underway. With the Time Destroyer, the most deadly machine ever devised, they will conquer the Universe. Only one person stands in their way - the Doctor. For he has stolen the precious Taranium core which is vital to activate the machine.
Past reason hated. Peter Robinson
It should have been a cosy scene log fire, sheepskin rug, Vivaldi on the stereo, Christmas lights and tree. But appearances can be deceptive. For Caroline Hartley, lying quietly on the couch, has been brutally murdered. Inspector Alan Banks is called to the grim scene. And he soon has more suspects than he ever imagined. As he delves into her past, he realizes that for Caroline, secrecy was a way of life, and her death is no different. His ensuing investigation is full of hidden passions and desperate violence.
The law of second chances. James Sheehan
Representing people on death row is what trial lawyer Jack Tobin does best. Before he'll help an impoverished New York inmate, he must tackle one of the most explosive cases of his career. The clock is ticking, and two innocent men are facing the death penalty in this harrowing legal thriller.
The mayor of Lexington Avenue. James Sheehan
Jack Tobin is a trial lawyer with a searing-hot reputation in Miami, far removed from his scrappy youth on the streets of New York. But when a poor, slow-witted young man, Rudy, is railroaded into a murder conviction in the tiny Florida backwater of Bass Creek, Tobin resolves to pay back a debt to his best friend, the boy who once dubbed him 'The Mayor of Lexington Avenue'. Heartbreak, tragedy, courtroom drama and the hope of redemption play out in this utterly gripping, thought-provoking legal thriller. A terrifying miscarriage of justice in small-town America: a courtroom drama in the bestselling tradition of John Grisham.
Hunted. Maggie Stiefvater
Four children have discovered that they have spirit animals, a rare bond between human and animal that has launched them on a quest to save their world. The team heads to the forests of Eura, where another Great Beast is hidden.
The book of kings James Thackara
A novel on World War II through the eyes of four men who before the war shared living quarters as students in Paris. Two are German, one is an American and one is French.
Hunting shadows. Charles Todd
A man is murdered at a society wedding held at Ely Cathedral, and the local police are mystified. In the end, they send for Scotland Yard, but not before another man is killed. This time, there's a witness, but her description of the killer is so strange that no one believes her. So it's Scotland Yard Inspector Ian Rutledge's task to find out who the murderer is and why he has set out on this killing spree, because there is another death, and the three victims are so different that there is no rhyme or reason to their deaths. Nothing logically can connect them. Even as Rutledge begins to close in on the perpetrator, he finds himself doubting his own judgment because the facts are contradictory. It isn't until the fourth murder that something Rutledge witnessed in the war gives him the key and brings back an episode he has tried to forget. But that leaves him with a moral dilemma with only one solution. Will he follow the letter - or the spirit - of the law?
The fire dance. Helene Tursten
In this sixth instalment in the critically acclaimed Swedish crime series, the murder of a young ballerina named Sophie, apparently an arson victim, sets off shrill alarm bells for Detective Inspector Irene Huss, who remembers the matching details of an unsolved case from fifteen years earlier, when Irene had only just started in the police force. The stepfather of the then eight-year-old Sophie has been murdered in a very similar way, and at the time the girl herself had been under suspicions. The circumstances force Irene and her colleagues to confront an uncomfortable question: can a child be responsible for the cold-blooded murder of an adult? The case awakens vivid memories that take the reader back to Irene's days as a young police officer.
Paperboy. Vince Vawter
When an eleven-year-old boy takes over a friend's newspaper route in July, 1959, in Memphis, his debilitating stutter makes for a memorable month.

Downloadable e-books

100 Ways to Be Happy
101 designer one-skein wonders edited by Judith Durant.
101 Designer One-Skein Wonders is a delightful collection of knitting patterns that each use just a single skein of yarn – perfect for all those leftover skeins you have tucked away!
AARP's 5 Secrets to Brain Health
The best American mystery stories. 2011 edited by Harlan Coben.
Blaze duo
Ambushed: All Morgan O'Connell wants is to create a real home in small town Wyoming. So she hangs up her real estate agent shingle, then borrows a horse from the hottest cowboy in town.
Simon says: Sophie Maplethorpe breaks into the wrong room in her own hotel. Security expert Simon Lassiter is on the verge of finding a stolen gem when majorly hot Sophie creeps into his room. Much to their mutual pleasure.
Charmers and rogues : extraordinary pet tales from ordinary homes edited by Anne Cuthbertson.
This first collection of Pet Tales, compiled by Life editor Anne Cuthbertson, features a talking dog and a surfboarding cat, a chicken that thinks it's human, a foul-tempered duck called Mussolini, a bear called Tina, and an escaped cornsnake who may still be at large under the floorboards.
Hell or high water : New Zealand merchant seafarers remember the war edited by Neill Atkinson.
During WW2 thousands of New Zealanders served in New Zealand, British and other Allied merchant marines. The book includes firsthand accounts from men who survived air and submarine attacks, sometimes enduring days adrift in open lifeboats, a seaman awarded the George Cross during the 1942 pedestal convoy to relieve Malta and another who spent three years in Changi prison, amongst many other stirring and poignant accounts of life at war.
Loveability : an empowered girl's guide to dating and relationships Dannielle Miller and Nina Funnell.
Not into you? Too into you? What happens when feelings aren't mutual? In this guide, Dannielle Miller and Nina Funnell will help you navigate your way through the often complex world of relationships.
The marijuana chronicles edited by Jonathan Santlofer.
The pleasures, pains, and complexities of marijuana are more than hinted at in works by William S. Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Henry Miller, Hunter S. Thompson, and Thomas Pynchon, to name just a few, and I hope this anthology will add to that legacy and keep the flame of pot literature burning bright … sit back, relax, and enjoy these wide-ranging tales of the most debated and discussed drug of our time.
New Jersey noir edited by Joyce Carol Oates.
Jonathan Safran Foer and Robert Pinsky join Joyce Carol Oates and other illustrious writers to explore Jersey noir.
One Direction
The quotable book lover edited by Ben Jacobs and Helena Hjalmarsson ; foreword by Nicholas A. Basbanes.
A classic collection celebrating the printed and bound word.
Smitten Book Club
Not only was The Gentlewoman's Guide to Love and Courtship an appealing curiosity by virtue of its title; it was also written by ‘Smitten’, Vermont native Pearl Chambers, a local gentlewoman from three generations back. When Heather and her fellow book club members begin passing the book around, their respective interpretations are unleashed on their respective love lives… for better or for worse.
Songs of a kaumatua sung by Kino Hughes ; compiled by Margaret Orbell and Mervyn McLean.
This is a unique historical document uncovering the richness of Tuhoe music and poetry. Includes 60 traditional songs from outstanding singer Kino Hughes with the text of each song in both English and Maori; musical transcriptions; information on Kino Hughes, the people of Tuhoe, the song categories used and the music; photographs; a glossary; notes on the texts and the transcriptions; and an index of song types.
Traditional songs of the Maori compiled by Mervyn McLean and Margaret Orbell.
Traditional Songs of the Maori is the classic collection of Maori waiata. These songs in many different styles embody the fundamental values of traditional Maori culture and form a vital part of marae ceremonial. Most common song types are represented: laments, love songs, war chants, songs of welcome, face-saving songs and witty occasional songs.
The Treaty of Waitangi companion : Maori and Pakeha from Tasman to today edited by Vincent O'Malley, Bruce Stirling and Wally Penetito.
Since the Treaty of Waitangi was signed by Maori chiefs and Governor Hobson in 1840 it has become the defining document in New Zealand history. The Treaty of Waitangi Companion tells the story of the Treaty and Maori and Pakeha relations through the many voices of those who made this country's history.
Valentine's day collection : 5 stories of passion & desire.
Five passionate love stories from five popular romance authors.
The vegetarian's complete quinoa cookbook edited by Mairlyn Smith.
Presents 120 recipes using quinoa, one of the few plant foods that is a complete protein, with an introduction to cooking with quinoa and a full nutritional profile for each recipe.
Whetu moana : contemporary Polynesian poems in English edited by Albert Wendt, Reina Whaitiri & Robert Sullivan.
Whetu Moana is the first anthology of contemporary Polynesian poetry in English edited by Polynesians. It collects poems written over the last twenty years from more than 60 poets in Aotearoa, Hawaii, Tonga, Samoa, the Cook Islands, Niue and Rotuma.
He whiriwhiringa : selected readings in Maori [edited by] Bruce Biggs.
Prague winter : a personal story of remembrance and war, 1937-1948 Madeleine Albright with Bill Woodward.
From former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright comes a moving and thoughtful memoir of her formative years in Czechoslovakia during the tumult of Nazi occupation, World War II, fascism, and the onset of the Cold War.
Islam quintet Tariq Ali
The five novels of the acclaimed Islam Quintet, together in one volume. At once a meditation on the millennia-spanning clash of Islam with the West and a series of riveting fictions, these five works are a compelling portrait of worlds in conflict and the lives lived between them.
Ripper. Isabel Allende
A fast-paced mystery involving a brilliant teenage sleuth who must unmask a serial killer in San Francisco through Ripper, the online mystery game she plays with her beloved grandfather and friends around the world.
The moon field. Judith Allnatt
A poignant story of love and redemption, The Moon Field explores the loss of innocence through a war that destroys everything except the bonds of human hearts. No man's land is a place in the heart: pitted, cratered and empty as the moon. Hidden in a soldier's tin box are a painting, a pocket watch, and a dance card keepsakes of three lives.
Hissy fit. Mary Kay Andrews
Calling off her high-society wedding after discovering her fiancé’s infidelity, Keely Murdock faces financial ruin before receiving assistance – and an opportunity for revenge – from the new owner of a local bra company.
Arctic chill. Arnaldur Indriason
On an icy January day the Reykjavik police are called out to a block of flats where a body has been found in the garden: a young, dark-skinned boy, frozen to the ground in a pool of his own blood. The discovery of a stab wound in his stomach puts paid to any hope that this was a tragic accident.
The draining lake. Arnaldur Indriason
Following an earthquake, the water level of an Icelandic lake suddenly falls to reveal a skeleton half-buried in its sandy bed. It has clearly been there many years. There is a large hole in the skull. Yet more mysteriously, it is weighted down by a heavy radio transmitter bearing inscriptions in Russian.
Silence of the grave. Arnaldur Indriason
When a skeleton is discovered half-buried in a construction site outside of Reykjavik, Inspector Erlendur finds himself knee-deep in both a crime scene and an archaeological dig. Bone by bone, the body is unearthed, and the brutalizing history of a family who lived near the building site comes to light along with it. As Erlendur tries to crack this cold case, he must also save his drug-addicted daughter from self destruction and somehow glue his hopelessly fractured family back together.
Trick of the light David Ashton
A Trick of the Light sees McLevy team up with Arthur Conan Doyle to pursue a ruthless killer. It is 1860 and a Confederate officer, Jonathen Sinclair, arrives in Edinburgh with a sheaf of money to purchase a blockade-runner from Clydeside shipbuilders. He is betrayed to the Union forces and is shot dead by their secret agents. Who are they and where is Sinclair's money?
The music school. Asphyxia (Puppeteer)
Hello, I'm Martha Grimstone, and at last I'm here in the big city attending the Queen's Music Academy … and I'm excited beyond words, for soon I'll learn how to use my music to turn back the storms that threaten my valley. Music School is a gothic fairytale about a new friend with the wrong name, a family of uncooperative bats, and what happens when a school of very great tradition encounters all the four seasons in one day.
Puzzled : secrets and clues from a life lost in words. David Astle
From teenage word-nerd to Australia's pre-eminent (and most fiendish) puzzle-maker, Puzzled is a memoir of a life lost in words as well as a revealing guide to the deepest mysteries of crossword and other word puzzles.
I dream of Zenia with the bright red teeth. Margaret Atwood
Long ago, when they were all a lot younger, Zenia stole a man from each of them. Then she died. Now she's come back. Or has she? There's a lot more than one kind of ghost. Margaret Atwood revisits her classic characters from The Robber Bride.
Payback : debt and the shadow side of wealth. Margaret Atwood
"Debt" is like air - something we take for granted and never think about until things go wrong. This is not a book about debt management or high finance, but about debt as a very old, central motif in religion and literature and also in the structuring of human societies. Topical, enlightening and probing, this is the work of one of the most gifted writers of our generation.
The Penelopiad. Margaret Atwood
An ideal Christmas gift for book lovers. In this book, Penelope is portrayed as the quintessential faithful wife. Atwood's retelling of the old myth is as haunting as it is wise and compassionate, as disturbing as it is entertaining. With incomparable style and humour, she gives the story of Penelope new life and reality
The market bowl. Jim Averbeck
As Mama Cecile and Yoyo set off to market, Mama reminds Yoyo what will happen if she refuses a fair price for the stew - Brother Coin, the Great Spirit of the Market, will put a curse on their market bowl. When Yoyo refuses to heed Mama's advice, she is faced with the task of trying to regain a blessing from the god himself. An original folktale set in modern-day Cameroon, The market bowl teaches readers a lesson about patience, humility, and the value of a fair price.
The company we keep : a husband-and-wife true-life spy story Robert and Dayna Baer
A CIA operative and his CIA sharpshooter wife describe how they unexpectedly fell in love during a mission and the complicated challenges they faced in their shared effort to return to civilian life.
iPad 2 for dummies Edward C. Baig and Bob LeVitus
The up-to-date guide to getting the most out of your iPad or iPad 2!
iPad mini for dummies Edward C. Baig and Bob LeVitus
A guide to getting the most of all the iPad mini has to offer, including steps for setting up the iPad mini, tips for shooting and sharing photos and videos, and troubleshooting help.
iPhone 5 for dummies Edward C. Baig and Bob LeVitus
The guide to getting the most out of your iPhone, is presented in the straightforward-but-fun style that defines the series. It's just the book you need to get acquainted with your brand-new iPhone.
iPhone for dummies Edward C. Baig and Bob LeVitus
Veteran Dummies authors and Mac gurus Edward C. Baig and Bob "Dr. Mac" LeVitus share their iPhone insights to help you make the most of your device.
How to do everything iPad 2 Joli Ballew
In How to Do Everything iPad 2, popular author Joli Ballew shows technology enthusiasts from high school kids to enterprise employees to grandmothers how to quickly master the basics of the iPad.
The little book of good energy : a pocket guide to always having good energy. Robin Barratt
Find out about the different kinds of energy, including lust, love, disrepair and empathic energy. Learn new ways to generate and maintain good energy, about how the Universe balances itself and why this can help you remain positive at all times.
Ivy + Bean take the case Annie Barrows ; illustrated by Sophie Blackall.
After watching a movie about a detective on the television, Bean decides to set up shop as a private investigator and she and Ivy start looking for mysteries to solve.
Sir Joseph Ward : a political biography. Michael Bassett
Selected poems of James K. Baxter James K. Baxter edited by Paul Millar
By 1972, when James K Baxter died aged just 46, his colourful life and distinctive poetry had captured the imagination of New Zealanders as no literary figure before him. Selected Poems of James K Baxter, is a new generous and authoritative selection of Baxter's verse for general readers and students by New Zealand's leading Baxter scholar.
The ABC of style Emile Bayard
Ever wondered why your ceiling is shaped like the arches in a gothic cathedral? Or why your office building looks so different from its neighbouring counterparts? The ABC of Style invites you to explore the many different architectural and decorative interior styles from their ancient origins to the 1940s.
The black tower Louis Bayard
Having used his mastery of disguise and surveillance to nab some of France's most notorious criminals, early nineteenth-century detective Vidocq teams up with obscure medical student Hector to track down the most challenging adversary of his career, a case with ties to the missing son of Marie Antoinette.
Mr. Timothy Louis Bayard
His father freshly buried, Mr. Timothy Cratchit embarks on the next phase of his life intent on two things: to rid himself of his image as a pitied cripple and to escape the financial shackles of his benevolent "Uncle" Ebenezer by vanishing into the thick of London's teeming underbelly.
The pale blue eye. Louis Bayard
When the body of a suicide victim disappears at West Point Military Academy in 1831, only to be discovered hours later missing its heart, the Academy calls on retired detective Gus Landor to investigate. When Edgar Allan Poe, a new cadet, comes forth with his own cryptic conclusion - that the man Landor is looking for is a poet - Landor is intrigued and enlists Poe as his assistant.
Man belong Mrs Queen : adventures with the Philip worshippers. Matthew Baylis
As a bookish child growing up on Merseyside in the 1980s, Matthew Baylis identified with the much-mocked Prince Philip as a fellow outsider. Years later, his Philip-worship long behind him, Baylis heard about the existence of a Philip cult on the South Sea island of Tanna. Why was it there? Self-deprecating, hilarious and - almost incredibly - true, this is travel writing at its horizon-expanding best.
The secret ingredient : delicious and easy, heart-healthy recipes which might just save your life. Sally Bee
Sally Bee's story of survival and recovery from a heart condition at 36 that left her fighting for life after suffering three heart attacks in one week is nothing short of a miracle. We all know the principles of eating a healthy diet, but actually translating that knowledge into an easy and affordable meal can be a challenge in a busy world. The Secret Ingredient meets that challenge head on with gorgeous, tasty recipes that will feed the whole family, and tempt even the most novice cook.
Blessed isle. Alex Beecroft
For Captain Harry Thompson, the command of the prison transport ship HMS Banshee is his opportunity to prove his worth, working-class origins be damned. But his criminal attraction to his upper-crust First Lieutenant, Garnet Littleton, threatens to overturn all he's ever worked for.
Bomber's moon. Alex Beecroft
When Ben Chaudhry is attacked in his own home by elves, they disappear as quickly as they came. He reaches for the phone book, but what kind of exterminator gets rid of the Fae? Maybe the Paranormal Defense Agency will ride to his rescue.
By honor betrayed Alex Beecroft
Lieutenant Conrad Herriot and Seaman Tom Cotton have been master and servant for over a decade, and friends for almost as long. When Tom is injured during a skirmish, Conrad forgets himself and rushes to Tom's side, arousing suspicion about the true nature of their relationship.
Captain's surrender. Alex Beecroft
Despite his looks and ambition, Midshipman Joshua Andrews hides urges that, in his world, make him an abomination. Soon to be promoted to captain, Peter is the darling of the Bermuda garrison, with a string of successes behind him and a suitable bride lined up to share his future. He seems completely out of Joshua's reach. Warriors both, they think nothing of risking their lives for their country. In the end they must decide whether love, too, is worth dying for.
Dogfighters. Alex Beecroft
Kidnapped by the faerie queen, Ben is confronted with his own supernatural heritage, a royal family and a lover he doesn't remember. His first instinct is to turn his back on them all and get back to Earth. Compared to this, Chris and his wacky cohorts seem almost normal.
His heart's obsession. Alex Beecroft
Robert Hughes, a lieutenant, and rogue, in the British Royal Navy, is in love with his gorgeous fellow officer, Hal Morgan. Hal only has eyes for their captain, a man who'll never share their inclinations. Yet Robert's move to claim Hal's love leads to the threat of exposure, and mortal danger from the French.
Amazing Android apps for dummies. Daniel A. Begun
Find the Android apps that are right for you so you can have fun and get more done!
Historical frictions : Maori claims and reinvented histories. Michael Belgrave
Colonial constructs : European images of Maori 1840-1914. Leonard Bell
Marti Friedlander Leonard Bell
From Maori moko to Dame Whina Cooper (Te Rarawa) and the 1975 Maori land march, from Rita Angus to Norman Kirk, from Israel to Fiji, Marti Friedlander's photographs have captured the transformation of our lives over the last 50 years. This landmark book is the first sustained examination of Friedlander's life and work.
Hit list : an in-depth investigation into the mysterious deaths of witnesses to the JFK assassination Richard Belzer and David Wayne.
Belzer and Wayne set out to uncover the truth about the many witness deaths tied to the JFK assassination. The findings were absolutely staggering: some cases were clearly linked to a "clean-up operation" after the murder of President Kennedy, while others were the result of 'other forces'.
Till the sun shines through. Anne Bennett
A family is divided when its favourite daughter is forced to flee rural Ireland and to seek her living in war-torn Birmingham.
Secondhand charm Julie Berry
A young girl named Evie possesses unusually strong powers as a healer. But Evie wants more than a quiet village and the boy next-door. When the young king's carriage arrives one day, and his footman has fallen ill, Evie might just get her chance after all.
The novel cure : an A-Z of literary remedies Ella Berthoud & Susan Elderkin
Sick? Tired? Lost your job? Take one dose of literature and repeat until better. The Novel Cure is an A-Z of literary remedies that offers a cure in the form of a novel for all kinds of ailments of the mind and body, and life's general ups and downs.
iPod. J. D. Biersdorfer
Explains how to use the portable music player with a Windows PC or a Macintosh computer to perform functions including play music, store personal contact and calendar information, and use as a video player.
The complete English-Maori dictionary. Bruce Biggs
English Maori, Maori English dictionary. Bruce Biggs
Shelved under romance. Kristin Billerbeck
Abby likes nothing better than losing herself in a Jane Austen novel. But her friendship with the adventurous Wyatt may be blossoming into a modern romance! Abby is the sassy but introverted librarian member of The Smitten Book Club.
Three days in Nepal. JeanDavid Blanc
In January 2011 JeanDavid Blanc left Paris for Nepal for an expedition across the Himalayas. During the course of a paragliding flight in Nepal, the weather suddenly turned, and amid a thick cloud cover, he crashed into the face of a mountain. As he waited for help and tried to adjust to his perilous situation, he began to receive text messages on his cellphone from oblivious friends back in Paris. What gives you the strength to keep going when you have nothing left? What do you say in your last text message to your daughter?
Drinking closer to home. Jessica Anya Blau
Following their mother's heart attack, three adult children return home and try to sort out their lives, including Anna's obsession with having sex with strangers, Portia's unfaithful husband, and Emery's desire for his own family.
Steve Jobs : the man who thought different. Karen Blumenthal
Traces the inspiring life and career of the late founder of Apple, covering topics ranging from his struggles as an adopted child and a college dropout to his Buddhist faith and friendship with Steve Wozniak, in a portrait framed around his inspirational Stanford University commencement speech.
The last testament. Sam Bourne
At a peace rally in Jerusalem, the Israeli prime minister is about to sign a historic deal with the Palestinians. A man approaches from the crowd and seems to reach for a gun - bodyguards shoot him dead - sparking a round of tit-for-tat killings. But in his hand was a note, one he wanted to hand to the prime minister. Washington trouble-shooter and peace negotiator Maggie Costello discovers the latest deaths are not random but have a distinct pattern. All the dead men are archaeologists and historians - those who know the buried secrets of the ancient past. Menaced by fanatics and violent extremists on all sides, Costello is soon plunged into high-stakes international politics, the worldwide underground trade in stolen antiquities and a last, unsolved riddle of the Bible.
20 x 3 : eliminate your belly fat in an hour a week. Stephen H. Boutcher
Too much belly fat increases your risk of developing type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease. Just 20 minutes, 3 times a week, will burn away belly fat and get your health back on track but it has to be the right kind of exercise.
Back of beyond. C. J. Box
Cody Hoyt, while a brilliant cop, is an alcoholic struggling with two months of sobriety when his mentor and AA sponsor Hank Winters is found burned to death in a remote mountain cabin. When Cody takes a closer look at the scene of his friend's death, it becomes apparent that foul play is at hand.
Below zero. C. J. Box
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett's teenage daughter, Sheridan, receives a text message with a staggering implication: that April, the foster daughter thought to have died 6 years ago in a massacre, is still alive. Pickett must negotiate FBI politics, recruit his fugitive friend Nate Romanowski, and take a crash course in cell-phone-tracking technology to find her.
Blood trail. C. J. Box
In the wake of an elk hunter's grisly murder, Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett is directed by the governor to investigate the relevance of a mysterious poker chip found at the crime scene.
Blue heaven. C. J. Box
A twelve-year-old girl and her younger brother go on the run in the woods of North Idaho, pursued by four men they have just watched commit murder. Retired cops from Los Angeles, the killers easily persuade the inexperienced sheriff to let them lead the search for the missing children. William and Annie's unexpected saviour comes in the form of an old-school rancher teetering on the brink of foreclosure.
Breaking point. C. J. Box
Joe Pickett investigates the disappearance of a local businessman, who recently had his intended retirement property declared wetlands and is suspected in the murder of two EPA employees.
Cold wind. C. J. Box
When Earl Alden is found dead, dangling from a wind turbine, it's his wife, Missy, who is arrested. Unfortunately for Joe Pickett, Missy is his mother-in-law, a woman he dislikes heartily, and now he doesn't know what to do –especially when the early signs point to her being guilty as sin. But then things happen to make Joe wonder: is Earl's death what it appears to be? Is Missy being set up?
Force of nature. C. J. Box
Having hidden the truth about a past colleague's violation, former Special Forces agent Nate Romanowski is targeted by a determined killer who threatens Joe Pickett's life as part of a violent plot.
Free fire. C. J. Box
Joe Pickett, having recently been fired from his job as a Wyoming game warden, is working on his father-in-law's ranch when he receives a call from the governor's office. For weeks, the headlines have been abuzz with the story of Clay McCann, a lawyer who slaughtered four campers in cold blood in a far-off corner of Yellowstone National Park. The governor will reinstate Joe as a game warden if he'll go to Yellowstone to investigate. Joe, happy to get his badge back, even under these circumstances, agrees. However, it quickly becomes clear to Joe that McCann is deeply involved with some illegal activity taking place in the park - something tremendously lucrative and unusually dangerous.
The highway. C. J. Box
When two girls disappear on a remote stretch of Montana road, former police investigator Cody Hoyt and his former rookie partner Cassie Dewell begin an investigation that will lead them into the hunting ground for a killer whose viciousness is outmatched only by his intelligence.
In plain sight. C. J. Box
J.W. Keeley is a man with a score to settle. He's tracked down the one person he blames for his brother's death: Joe Pickett. And now J.W. is going to make him suffer.
The master falconer. C. J. Box
The West is not the way it's portrayed in the movies. But when a man from the East brings trouble for Nate Romanowski and his friend Joe Pickett, a little frontier-style justice may be just what's called for.
Nowhere to run. C. J. Box
Joe Pickett's in his last week as the temporary game warden in the town of Baggs, Wyoming, but there have been strange things going on in the mountains, and his conscience won't let him leave without checking them out: reports of camps looted, tents slashed, elk butchered. And then there's the runner who simply vanished one day.
Open season. C. J. Box
There's nothing unusual about the sound of a gunshot in Twelve Sleep. But when Joe Pickett hears two sharp cracks ring out months before hunting season, it's his job to investigate. Charged with investigating the first murder he's ever encountered, Joe soon finds himself swamped with questions. Battling grudge-holding neighbours, corrupt officials and out-of-town activists, Joe begins to unravel a mystery that threatens the life and the family he loves.
Out of range. C. J. Box
Joe Pickett is attempting to enjoy his mother-in-law's wedding to a local big-shot rancher when he receives some disturbing news: Will Jensen, a fellow Wyoming game warden and good friend, has killed himself. As Joe closes in on the truth about Will's death, he begins experiencing blackouts, unpredictable mood swings, and memory loss - the same things that afflicted Jensen before his death. With his life spiralling out of control, Joe realizes that if he's not careful, he may end up as Jackson's next fatality.
Savage run. C. J. Box
Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett heads for the forests of Twelve Sleep County to investigate a massive explosion that may have killed an environmental activist and uncovers evidence of a deadly conspiracy.
Three weeks to say goodbye. C. J. Box
Nine months after bringing their adopted daughter Angelina home, Jack and Melissa McGuane receive a devastating phone call from the adoption agency: the birth father, a teenager and son of a powerful Denver judge, never signed away his parental rights, and he wants Angelina back.
Trophy hunt. C. J. Box
Shaken by the brutal killing of a wild moose, game warden Joe Pickett becomes increasingly alarmed when a herd of cattle, and then two people, are murdered by the same perpetrator.
Winterkill. C. J. Box
It's an hour away from darkness, a bitter winter storm is raging, and Joe Pickett is deep in the forest edging Battle Mountain, shotgun in his left hand, his truck's steering wheel handcuffed to his right - and Lamar Gardiner's arrow-riddled corpse splayed against the tree in front of him. Joe's pursuit of the killer through the rugged mountains that surround the snow-packed town of Saddlestring takes a horrifying turn when April, his beloved foster daughter, is kidnapped. Now it's personal - and Joe will stop at nothing to get her back.
No marriage of convenience. Elizabeth Boyle
Mason St. Clair, the new Earl of Ashlin, has inherited a title for which there is no longer a fortune, thanks to his elder brother. Steeped in debt, with three ungainly nieces to marry off, Mason is desperate for relief. Only he doesn't expect it in the form of Madame Fontaine, a woman of questionable reputation. It's wacky Cousin Felicity who suggests that this woman, whom men cannot resist, can work off the rest of her debt by teaching the three wards how to attract worthy husbands.
Golden apples of the sun. Ray Bradbury
One of Bradbury's best-known collections of science fiction and fantasy stories. The captain who takes a rocket to the sun to bring back a cup of sunlight, and the loveless girl who travels at night into bodies not her own, are just two of the characters to be encountered in this selection.
I sing the body electric! Ray Bradbury
Science fiction, fantasy, small town life, and small town people are the materials from which Ray Bradbury weaves his unique and magical stories of the natural and supernatural, the past, the present and the future.
Cavendon Hall Barbara Taylor Bradford
Cavendon Hall is home to two families, the aristocratic Inghams and the Swanns who serve them, just as their ancestors did over the centuries. But now, with World War I looming, these two families will find themselves tested in ways they never thought possible.
Blitzing Emily : a love and football novel. Julie Brannagh
Emily Hamilton doesn't trust men. She's much more comfortable playing the romantic lead in front of a packed house onstage than in her own life. So when NFL star and alluring ladies' man Brandon McKenna acts as her personal white knight, she has no illusions that he'll stick around. However, a misunderstanding with the press throws them together in a fake engagement that yields unexpected (and breathtaking) benefits.
East End angel. Kay Brellend
Katherine and Jennifer Finch are like chalk and cheese: Katherine is a midwife, dedicating her life to helping others – and Jennifer is a prostitute. Leaving home age 15, Jennifer must learn to live on her wits in London's notorious East End. Soon, however, she is battling drink and drugs, and is pregnant with a child. Her labour is nearly fatal, but her sister steps in to save the day.
A great day at the office : simple strategies to maximize your energy and get more done more easily. John Briffa
Just a few small changes to your daily routine could boost your productivity and performance, making for a healthier and happier you.
Dale Brown's Dreamland. Armageddon Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice
Whilst relaxing on the beach in Brunei as guest of the Sultan, Dreamland's Breanna and Zen are shot at by unknown assailants. Then suddenly Brunei is under attack from terrorists.
Dale Brown's Dreamland. End game Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice
Tensions escalate dangerously between India and Pakistan when India becomes the target of radical Islamic jihadists, and the conflict draws ever closer to a nuclear showdown, unless the Dreamland masterminds can find and destroy the terrorist cabal, using an untried instrument of ultimate power code-named End Game.
Dale Brown's Dreamland. Razor's edge Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice
The weapon is codenamed "Razor" – the brainchild of the brilliant minds at Dreamland – a mobile chemical laser system with a range of 600 kilometres capable of downing anything that flies. The destruction of an American aircraft over northern Iraq suggests the inexplicable and unthinkable: a vengeful foe now possesses the lethal technology.
Dale Brown's Dreamland. Satan's tail Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice
As extremist Islamic pirates, armed and supported by a powerful Saudi terrorist, prey on civilian vessels in the Gulf of Aden, America aggressively answers with serious muscle: a next-generation littoral warship with a full range of automated weapons systems that the enemy has dubbed "Satan's Tail." However support is needed from above, and a pair of Dreamland's awesome Megafortresses and their Flighthawk escorts are dispatched to the war zone.
Dale Brown's Dreamland. Strike zone Dale Brown and Jim DeFelice
An Asian war that would have escalated into a nuclear nightmare has been halted, thanks to the raw courage, unparalleled skill, and total commitment of the Dreamland force. But an analysis of radar data has revealed the presence of an unknown super-weapon in the area: a robot warplane with terrifying capabilities, dubbed the "ghost clone."
Bury my heart at Wounded Knee : an Indian history of the American West. Dee Brown
Chronicles the American West from 1860-1890. The book tells the stories of such famous Red Indian warriors and tribal chieftains as Sitting Bull, Cochise, Crazy Horse and Geronimo.
Cross. Ken Bruen
Jack Taylor's only hope of redemption - his surrogate son, Cody - is lying in hospital in a coma. His old friend from the Guards, tells him that a boy has been crucified in Galway city, and he agrees to help her search for the killer.
Her last call to Louis MacNeice. Ken Bruen
She's hot, well read, and absolutely mad, and she won't let him go. Bank robber Cooper picks her up at the supermarket, where he spies her shoplifting and warns her that the store detective is watching her. She puts the stolen food back, and he buys her lunch. It's the worst mistake he's ever made.
The McDead. Ken Bruen
Chief Inspector Roberts combs London for the bloodthirsty psychopath who killed his brother.
Rilke on black. Ken Bruen
In south London, an unlikely gang of kidnappers hatch a plot: Nick, a Clapham nightclub bouncer, Dex, a charismatic psychopath, and Lisa, a motor-mouth junkie femme fatale. Their prey is a powerful local businessman obsessed with the poet Rilke. The thing is, each kidnapper has a very different agenda. Which means it's only a matter of time before the joking stops and the ever-threatening violence takes over
Taming the alien. Ken Bruen
Under assault by the criminal underworld, two cops strike back. They call him the Alien. A petty hood with a habit of battering his enemies with a baseball bat, he earned his name for carrying out a hit while watching Ridley Scott's sci-fi classic-and sticking around to finish the film afterwards.
Tower Ken Bruen and Reed Farrel Coleman
From opposite perspectives, two master authors spin a chilling tale. Nick's father is a stand-up Irishman - once a cop, now a security guard in the World Trade Center's North Tower - but Nick does not take after his old man. He's "got the bad drop," meaning he only cares about booze, violence, and getting into trouble with his best friend, Todd, a low-level hood connected to the Boston mob. Todd inducts Nick into the world of petty crime.
A white arrest. Ken Bruen
A pair of rough London cops looks for the high-profile arrest that will erase their sins. At sixty-two, Chief Inspector Roberts is nearly too old to be a cop, but he makes up for his age with a ferocity that the younger detectives cannot match. With his partner, the gleefully brutal Detective Sergeant Brant, Roberts looks for every policeman's dream: the White Arrest, a high-profile success that makes up for all their past failures. And when a bat-wielding lunatic starts lynching drug dealers, Roberts and Brant find the publicity they were looking for.
The good earth. Pearl S. Buck
Wang Lung, rising from humble Chinese farmer to wealthy landowner, gloried in the soil he worked. He held it above his family, even above his gods. But soon, between Wang Lung and the kindly soil that sustained him, came flood and drought, pestilence and revolution.
Now, discover your strengths Marcus Buckingham, Donald O. Clifton
Outlines a programme based on a study of more than two million people to help people discover their talents and strengths and how they can be translated into personal and career successes.
Sacred causes. Michael Burleigh
Beginning with the chaotic post-World War I landscape in which religious belief was one way of reordering a world knocked off its axis, this book is a critique of how religion has often been camouflaged by politics.
Nowhere to run. Nancy Bush
When Liv Dugan ducks out of work for lunch, it's just an ordinary day. When she returns, she stumbles onto a massacre. Liv suspects the shootings are tied to her past - and to the package she recently received from her long-dead adoptive mother. Because somewhere in Liv's past is a secret worth killing for, and a nightmare she can never outrun.
Big boned. Meg Cabot
In the third hilarious Heather Wells mystery, life finally seems to be settling down for the pop-star-turned-amateur sleuth – until she finds her third boss in one year facedown in his morning latte.
Boy meets girl. Meg Cabot
Meet Kate Mackenzie. She works for the T.O.D. (short for Tyrannical Office Despot, also known as Amy Jenkins, Director of the Human Resources Division at the New York Journal) and just when she thinks things can't get any worse, they can!
Nicola and the viscount. Meg Cabot
Sixteen-year-old Nicola Sparks is infuriated when Nathaniel Sheridan casts aspersions on the character of Lord Sebastian Bartholomew, the man she hopes to marry, and is sure that nothing Nathaniel can say will change her opinion.
Queen of babble gets hitched. Meg Cabot
Things are looking up at last for Lizzie Nichols. She has a career she loves in the field of her choice (wedding gown restoration), and the love of her life, Jean-Luc, has finally proposed. Life's become a dizzying whirl of wedding gown fittings – not necessarily her own – as Lizzie prepares for her dream wedding at her fiancé’s chateau in the south of France.
The settler's plot : how stories take place in New Zealand. Alex Calder
The Settler's Plot is a fresh and engaging study of the relationship between literature and place in New Zealand. Drawing on an engrossing selection of documentary and literary sources, from F. E. Maning and Herbert Guthrie-Smith to Mansfield, Sargeson, Curnow and Frame, Alex Calder explores the places our writers have turned to most often: the beach, the farm, the bush, the suburb and 'overseas'.
Wool to Weta : transforming New Zealand's culture and economy. Paul T. Callaghan
Victoria University physicist Paul Callaghan has given a series of public lectures around New Zealand on the subject of sustainable wealth generation and culture change. Callaghan argues that if New Zealand keeps relying on tourism and farming we will fall all the way to the bottom of OECD rankings pretty quickly. What's the alternative? He argues that New Zealand's future lies in emerging industries based on science, technology, and intellectual property exemplified by companies like WETA, Fisher and Paykel Healthcare etc.
The face of war : New Zealand's Great War photography. Sandy Callister
One hundred thousand New Zealanders went overseas to the First World War - many, for the first time, bearing Kodak cameras. The Face of War is the first book to examine the vernacular photos of World War I taken by its New Zealand participants.
Tape. Steven Camden
In 1993, Ryan records a diary on an old tape. He talks about his mother's death, about his dreams, about his love for a new girl at school who doesn't even know he exists. In 2013, Ameliah moves in with her grandmother after her parents die. There, she finds a tape in the spare room. A tape with a boy's voice on it – a voice she can't quite hear, but which seems to be speaking to her.
Something wicked. Angela Campbell
A serial killer is stalking the streets of Charleston, SC – a killer who calls himself The Grim Reaper. When the woman he'd just spent the night with turns up and offers her services as a psychic consultant on the case, homicide detective Dylan Collins’ ardour quickly cools. But it doesn't take long for Dylan to realize Alexandra King is the real deal – and the killer's next target.
World famous in New Zealand : how New Zealand's leading firms became world-class competitors Colin Campbell-Hunt
World Famous in New Zealand is the story of how ten of New Zealand's finest companies became world-class competitors. In exploring the behaviour of ten carefully chosen firms the book shows how they overcame the disadvantages of size and distance to make an impact in world markets and to sustain it.
Changing times : New Zealand since 1945 Jenny Carlyon & Diana Morrow
A history of New Zealand since 1945. From a post-war society famous for dull conformity, this country has become one of the most ethnically, economically and socially diverse countries on Earth.
Brave genius : a scientist, a philosopher, and their daring adventures from the French resistance to the Nobel Prize. Sean B. Carroll
In the spring of 1940, the aspiring but unknown writer Albert Camus and budding scientist Jacques Monod were quietly pursuing ordinary, separate lives in Paris. After the German invasion and occupation of France, each joined the Resistance to help liberate the country from the Nazis, ascended to prominent, dangerous roles, and were very lucky to survive. After the war and through their passionate determination and rare talent they emerged as leading voices of modern literature and biology, each receiving the Nobel Prize in their respective fields.
The particle at the end of the universe : the hunt for the Higgs and the discovery of a new world. Sean M. Carroll
Scientists have just announced an historic discovery on a par with the splitting of the atom: the Higgs boson, the key to understanding why mass exists has been found. Carroll takes readers behind the scenes of the Large Hadron Collider at CERN to meet the scientists and explain this landmark event.
Baby love. Maureen. Carter
Taken off a high-profile rape investigation to lead the hunt for a missing baby, Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is torn professionally and personally. When the baby-snatching turns into something more sinister it forces Bev to face uncomfortable feelings of her own and when she takes her eye off the ball for a split second she finds herself in serious trouble.
Bad press. Maureen Carter
A killer's targeting Birmingham's paedophiles: a big story, and ace crime reporter Matt Snow's always there first - ahead of the pack and the police. Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss has crossed words with Snow countless times. Though his hang-'em-and-flog-'em views are notorious, Bev still sees him as journo, not psycho. But a case against the newsman builds.
Blood money. Maureen Carter
Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss is in a very dark place. Personal tragedy has pushed her close to self-destruct mode; both colleagues and friends have started to give her a wide berth. But Bev is still a cop - and there are villains to battle, as well as demons.
Dead old. Maureen Carter
West Midlands Police think Sophie Carrington's murder is the latest attack by teen yobs beating up the old, but Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss won't accept it. No one desecrates a body like that unless it's personal.
Death line. Maureen Carter
When ten-year-old Josh Banks's body is discovered dumped on waste ground, Detective Sergeant Bev Morriss wants justice. She's not alone. Everyone hates child killers – even hardened criminals. Tip-offs trickle in, and the new press liaison officer has his work cut out when the squad springs a leak. Trial by redtop is the least of the cops' worries.
Hard time. Maureen Carter
An abandoned baby, a kidnapped five-year old, a dead police officer and Detective Sergeant Bev Moriss thinks she's having a hard time! Bev doesn't do fragile and vulnerable, and struggling to cope with the aftermath of a vicious attack, she is desperate not to reveal the lurking self-doubt. But her lover has decided its time to move on and the guv is losing patience.
Working girls. Maureen Carter
Investigating the murder of a young prostitute, Bev Morris knows she must win the trust of the "working girls" before time runs out.
Payback. Kimberley Chambers
The Butler brothers are the Kings of the East End, and their motto is 'what goes around, comes around'. In their world, family counts; so when the truth about Vinny's nephew's death comes to light, it rocks the Butlers to the core. Then, the unimaginable happens - Vinny's little daughter Molly goes missing. She's the one chink of light in all their lives, and the one they'd commit murders to bring back. But is it already too late for that? Is this PAYBACK?
Confidence : the surprising truth about how much you need - and how to get it. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic
Successful people are confident because of their success, and not the other way around. Whether you want to improve your social skills, get a promotion or that all-important first job, this game-changing exploration of how to build success, in the mould of Robert Cialdini's Influence, Susan Cain's Quiet and Steven Covey's The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, will change the way you think about achievement.
100 ways to motivate yourself. Steve Chandler
With the third, refreshed edition of 100 ways to motivate yourself, Steve Chandler helps you create an action plan for living your vision, in business and in life.
Vincent van Gogh Victoria Charles
Beyond the sunflowers, irises and portrait of Doctor Gachet, there is the man Van Gogh, signified by his fragility and talent. Come explore Post-Impressionism with a beautiful collection of paintings from this creative genius.
The complete Tommy and Tuppence 5-book collection. Agatha Christie
Tommy and Tuppence, two young people short of money and restless for excitement, embark on a daring business scheme – Young Adventurers Ltd. Their advertisement says they are 'willing to do anything, go anywhere', and their first assignment plunges them into more danger than they ever imagined.
Hercule Poirot and the Greenshore folly. Agatha Christie
As a favour to an old friend, Hercule Poirot finds himself at a summer fete in Devon, taking part not in a Treasure Hunt, but a Murder Hunt, in this never-before-published novella version of Dead Man's Folly.
William Morris A. Clutton-Brock
Considered one of the most prominent artists of the Victorian era, William Morris (1843-1896) was a poet, artist, designer, and editor, and did not hesitate to express his socialist political views, which at the time were frowned upon by the establishment.
Whisper at dawn. Frank Coates
At the dawn of the 20th century, sixteen-year-old Dan Sullivan signs on to fight the Boers, but discovers war has horrors beyond the battle fields. Old Bill Freeman sees his chance to make his fortune at last as a white hunter. Bill's young granddaughter, Liz, falls in love with Dan and with Africa - but tragedy forces her to return to Australia. Years later, as the shadow of war once again falls across the continent, Liz returns to Africa and the man she has dreamed of since childhood. But Dan has secrets that threaten to shatter their love, and he must decide at last what courage truly means.
Anathema Colleen Coble
Hannah Schwartz slipped away from her Amish family to meet with her beau, Reece Ericson. When she returned, she discovered her parents murdered and their handmade quilts stolen. Years later, a shunned Hannah returns to the scene of the crime in hopes of restoring her family and her faith. But while much has changed in Hannah's life, the danger at home now threatens with a vengeance.
Love by the book. Colleen Coble
Heather is the Smitten Book Club's most devoted mystery-genre reader, a single mom, and the resident organic gardener. When she discovers a decades-old tome at a library sale, she thinks it might hold clues leading to buried gold - exactly what one of the members needs to keep her home.
The incredible life of Jonathan Doe Carol Coffey
Following a second DUI, Brendan's peaceful and predictable life ends abruptly and he is forced to go to live in the town of Dover, New Jersey, with his overbearing uncle. Forced into completing his community service, he meets Jonathan Doe, an intriguing man living in a local homeless shelter whose amazing stories of a happy childhood in the Appalachian Mountains captivate him. Fascinated by the fact that Jonathan Doe can no longer remember exactly where he is from, Brendan becomes obsessed with helping his new friend find his way back to the kind of home he himself has always dreamed of. But is Jonathan's past real or are his memories the product of a deeply troubled mind?
Gaddafi's harem. Annick Cojean
The shocking true story of a schoolgirl's abduction into Colonel Gaddafi's secret harem of sex slaves. Award-winning French journalist Annick Cojean has given a voice to the horrific and moving story of Soraya, a 15-year-old girl who was summoned to Gaddafi's palatial compound near Tripoli in Libya after the dictator 'chose' her on one of his school visits. Cojean describes a terrifying system where young women were forced to satisfy the perverse desires of the "Guide", under threat of terrible reprisals.
Inside these walls. Rebecca Coleman
For Clara Mattingly, routine is the key to enduring the endless weeks, months and years of a life sentence in a women's prison. But when a surprise visitor shows up one day, Clara finds that in an instant everything has changed. Now she must account for the life she has led – its beauty as well as its brutality – and face the truth behind the terrible secret she has kept to herself all these years.
Switchblade. Michael Connelly
An anonymous tip puts Bosch on a case that has remained unsolved for decades: the vicious stabbing of a teenage boy whose body was found in an abandoned Old Hollywood restaurant.
The promise of amazing. Robin Constantine
When the passive strategy she has always adopted proves injurious to her heart's goals, ordinary girl Wren inadvertently saves the life of expelled lacrosse player Grayson and embarks on an awkward romance that compels both to start over.
Alan Partridge, alpha papa Steve Coogan
The official script for the box-office smash movie, featuring every ruddy word (and stage direction) of Alan's seamless transformation from natural-born broadcaster into fully fledged and occasionally fully dressed hostage negotiator. Contains deleted scenes.
Clever digital photography ideas. Peter Cope
A practical, accessible guide to the ingenious and creative things that can be done with a digital compact or camera phone.
The last kingdom. Bernard Cornwell
This story is seen through the eyes of Uhtred, a dispossessed English nobleman. Captured as a child and raised by the Danes, he now finds his allegiances divided. But the one thing he knows is that he wants to recover his father's land, the fort by the wild northern sea that we now know as Bamburgh.
The pagan lord. Bernard Cornwell
At the onset of the tenth century, England is in turmoil. Alfred the Great is dead and Edward his son reigns as king. Wessex survives but peace cannot hold: the Danes in the north, led by Viking Cnut Longsword, stand ready to invade and will never rest until the emerald crown is theirs. Uhtred, once Alfred's great warrior but now out of favour with the new king, must lead a band of outcasts north to recapture his old family home, that great Northumbrian fortress, Bebbanburg.
Silent kill. Peter Corris
When Cliff Hardy signs on as a bodyguard for charismatic populist Rory O'Hara, who is about to embark on a campaign of social and political renewal, it looks like a tricky job - O'Hara has enemies. A murder and a kidnapping cause the campaign to fall apart.
The constant heart. Dilly Court
Rosina sighed and a shiver ran up her spine. She had chosen to put it out of her mind, but she knew only too well that poverty marched alongside wealth in the great city of London. Misfortune, disease and death could strike anyone at any time. She walked on; she would not think about that now, and she would not be unhappy today.
A mother's courage. Dilly Court
When Eloise Cribb receives the news that her husband's ship has been lost at sea she wonders how she is ever going to manage. With two young children, the rent overdue and almost nothing to live on, she has no alternative but to turn to his estranged family for help.
A mother's promise. Dilly Court
When Hetty Huggins made a promise to her dying mother that she would look after her younger sister and brothers, little did she know how difficult this would be. But despite the daily threat of being turned out on the streets by the unscrupulous tallyman and the never-ending struggle just to exist, Hetty is determined her family will never starve or want for a roof over their heads.
Don't know what you've got till it's gone. Gemma Crisp
After surviving a less-than-ideal start as a hot-shot editor in the competitive magazine industry, Nina Morey has picked herself up, shaken herself off and is back, ready to do deals with the devil in her job as editor of Juice, one of Australia's hottest weekly celebrity gossip magazines.
The Frame function : an inside-out guide to the novels of Janet Frame. Jan S. Cronin
From Owls do Cry to The Carpathians, the novels of Janet Frame have challenged our understanding of what fiction does. In The Frame Function, author Jan Cronin traces the operation of a prescriptive authorial presence within Frame's novels to give readers an engaging "inside-out" guide to a great writer's work.
Common phrases …and the amazing stories behind them. Max Cryer
In day-to-day speech we use words and phrases without a passing thought as to why we use them or where they come from. Max Cryer changes all that by showing how fascinating the English language really is.
14 ways to overcome burnout : a portion from The well-balanced world changer. Sarah Cunningham
When Sarah Cunningham was in her twenties, she was ready to change the world, full of energy, passionate about her work, and really, unstoppable. Or so she thought. And so do we. Sarah, still trying to change the world in her thirties, has encountered the burnout that comes with great dreams. But she also knows that burnout can be overcome.
Black lightning. Dymphna Cusack
For Tempe Caxton, glamorous television star, life has lost its lustre. While recovering from a failed suicide attempt, she discovers a surprising secret in the pages of her dead son's diary - she has a granddaughter. Gradually Tempe is pulled into an alien world, with a new purpose; she is forced to rethink her long-held prejudices, fight for principles she has never before thought about, and find a new reason for living.
A bough in hell. Dymphna Cusack
Imagining slights where perhaps none exist, and feeling herself cold-shouldered by the other naval wives and shunned by the tenants in her Sydney block of flats, Roslyn starts drinking to console herself on her lonely evenings at home, unaware that what is at first only a harmless temporary escape from barren reality will grow into a need, and then into an overpowering obsession …
The half-burnt tree. Dymphna Cusack
Paul, a Vietnam vet disfigured by a napalm attack, has recently been deserted by his horrified wife. Day after day he camps at Devil's Head and takes his surfboard over the outer reef, hoping the sharp rocks will claim him and save him from his nightmares. From the shop on the beach, Brenda, scarred by her brief marriage to an air-force pilot, watches his crazy dance of death. A starving and homeless Aboriginal boy trying to find enough food to survive after his parents' death becomes an intermediary between the two misfits consumed by their own demons.
Jungfrau. Dymphna Cusack
'Women are cursed, all right. If you wither on the virgin stem you go all pathological; if you go off the deep end you get some foul disease; and if you marry and have dozens of young you die of exhaustion.' These seem to be the options for women in 1936, but Eve, Marc and Thea are determined - in their very different ways - to cut a place for themselves in the world.
Picnic races. Dymphna Cusack
Gubba is preparing to celebrate its centenary and its history as a goldrush town. But there are two factions in Gubba - the wealthy 'woolocracy' with their social pretensions and the ordinary townsfolk who are just after the peaceful life. And then a surprise discovery brings a change when it was least expected and upsets all the townspeople's plans.
Say no to death. Dymphna Cusack
A powerful story of young love in the aftermath of war, and quiet heroism in the face of death.
Southern steel. Dymphna Cusack
As the horror of the Second World War comes home to Australia with the attack on Darwin, an up-and-coming steel executive returns to Newcastle. His ambitious wife seeks a way to distance him from his unsuitable family and advance her social standing. An unusual and fascinating portrait of urban Australians living with the peril of war, and the passion and heartbreak that can result.
The sun in exile. Dymphna Cusack
Alexandra, an acerbic writer of popular travel books, is leaving Australia on the Boudicea. To her dismay, she finds that the cabin she has booked is to be shared by the young, vibrant Vicky - an all too potent reminder of her dead sister. She and Alexandra are soon the centre of a pleasant shipboard group. But things change when a crowd of West Indians board in Jamaica and prejudice rears its ugly head.
Our house is not in Paris. Susan Cutsforth
Susan Cutsforth and her husband, Stuart, are 'ordinary' people living an extraordinary life. They both work full-time: one is a teacher librarian of thirty years, and the other, a middle-level clerk in the public service. But, as Susan recounts in Our House is Not in Paris, they own a holiday house in France - the other side of the world.
Bannon brothers. Triumph Janet Dailey
Federal criminal investigator Deke Bannon risks his life every day, but that doesn't mean he'll let Kelly Johns do the same. A deadly international gang has targeted the news anchor for knowing too much and trying to find out more. To protect Kelly, Deke will have to keep her close - no matter how hard she fights him.
Girls & women, men & boys : gender in Taradale, 1886-1930 Caroline Daley
New Zealand is now rich in studies of women's separate lives, and histories of men are growing apace. However, Girls and Women, Men and Boys aims to investigate the interactions and interconnectedness of women's and men's history by focusing on one community, Taradale, over the half-century between its achieving town district status in 1886 and the devastating 1931 earthquake.
Leisure & pleasure : reshaping & revealing the New Zealand body 1900-1960. Caroline Daley
Explores an unexpected aspect of New Zealand social history: the modern body at leisure. It begins by tracing the only New Zealand tour of Eugen Sandow, the most famous strongman of his age.
Julius Vogel : business politician. Raewyn Dalziel
Julius Vogel (1835-99) dominated New Zealand politics in a way that no man had done before him and few have done since. He was behind the policy that transformed New Zealand from a collection of sparsely settled and isolated provinces into a unified nation, he cultivated trade connections and was an advocate of greater colonial autonomy and equal rights between men and women; he was an optimistic visionary.
True things about me. Deborah Kay Davies
From their first encounter, late one night in an underground car park, the narrator of True Things About Me is intoxicated by a stranger who seems to overwhelm her quiet life. But beneath the surface something takes hold that will drive her to extremes of pleasure - and finally, on a cold and eerie night, to face up to her fate.
A week at the airport : a Heathrow diary. Alain De Botton
In the summer of 2009, Alain de Botton was invited by the owners of Heathrow airport to become their first ever Writer in Residence. Like all airports, Heathrow is a 'non-place' that we by definition want to leave, but it also provides a window into many worlds - through the thousands of people it dispatches every day. "A Week at the Airport" is sure to delight de Botton's large following, and anyone interested in the stories behind the way we live.
The complete Game trilogy. Anders De la Motte
When Henrik "HP" Pettersson picks up a mobile phone on a Stockholm train one morning, he has no idea that his life is about to change forever. The phone's invitation to play "The Game" is too tempting to resist and he soon finds himself embarking on a series of dangerous missions. The more daring the task, the greater his thrill and reward.
The monkey's voyage : how improbable journeys shaped the history of life Alan De Queiroz
How did species wind up where they are today? Scientists have long conjectured that plants and animals dispersed throughout the world by drifting on large landmasses as they broke up, but in The Monkey's Voyage, biologist Alan de Queiroz offers a radical new theory that displaces this passive view.
Alice close your eyes. Averil Dean
Ten years ago, someone ruined Alice Croft's life. Now she has a chance to right that wrong - and she thinks she's found the perfect man to carry out her plan.
Confessions of a falling woman. Debra Dean
A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention… A life-altering break-in triggers insomniac introspection in a desperate actor… Streetwise New York City neighbours let down their guard for a naive puppeteer and must suffer the consequences… In this collection of short stories author Debra Dean displays the depth and magnitude of her extraordinary literary talent.
The coming of Fabrizze. Raymond DeCapite
First published in 1960, The Coming of Fabrizze has been called by the New York Herald Tribune a "comic folklore festival about an Italian American colony in Cleveland, Ohio, back in the 1920s when all the land was a little slaphappy – and no one more so than these transplanted countrymen of the Medicis, Giuseppe Garibaldi, Christopher Columbus… and others whose hearts have belonged to Italia."
A lost king. Raymond DeCapite
Raymond DeCapite's second published novel, A Lost King, has been described by Kirkus Reviews as a "small masterpiece, so unique in spirit and style." If the mood of The Coming of Fabrizze is joyous, that of A Lost King is somber. Each of DeCapite's novels is original in its own way, perhaps inspired by different moods.
My point … and I do have one. Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen DeGeneres shares her hilarious take on everything from our most baffling human foibles to fashion trends, being a celebrity, and her secret recipe for Ellen's real Frenchy French toast.
War collection. Volume 1. Len Deighton
During the years 1939-45 Europe was in the midst of a titanic struggle for supremacy, involving man and machine. The drama, horror, romance and excitement of that time is captured in three acclaimed novels by Len Deighton.
Almost dead. Kaz Delaney
Macey's life has been turned upside down. Her mother has left, her father is absent and her two best friends are MIA. On top of that Macey is being visited by ghosts who need her help to 'move on'. But as wild as all that sounds, she has it all under control until a cheeky, good-looking spirit called Nick turns up…in her bedroom!
The keeper. Luke Delaney
DI Sean Corrigan is not like other detectives. His dark past has given him the ability to step into a crime scene and see it through the offender's eyes. He understands what drives a person to commit terrible acts - but sometimes his gift feels more like a curse. When women start disappearing from their homes in broad daylight and the first body turns up, and Corrigan knows he must quickly get into the mind of the murderer. Because this killer knows exactly who he wants. And he won't stop until he finds her.
The network. Luke Delaney
A chilling short story taking us back to DI Sean Corrigan's days as a detective. Early in his career as a Detective, Corrigan is approached for an undercover assignment. He must take on the identity of a prison inmate and befriend a suspected paedophile, then on release infiltrate an early internet child abuse ring. Can he tap into his dark side for long enough to uncover the identities of the abusers without serious harm to himself?
Redemption of the dead. Luke Delaney
A chilling short story taking us back to DI Sean Corrigan's days as a newly minted detective. 1993. The Parkside Rapist has been terrorising the women of South London, and Detective Chief Superintendent Charlie Bannan is in need of a secret weapon if he's going to catch this particular monster. When fresh-faced PC Sean Corrigan is transferred to join the team, Bannan immediately spots his potential. Soon Sean will find himself exploring the scars his own dark past has left him in the race to help his new mentor catch their quarry before he goes on to commit more, and worse crimes…
The toy taker. Luke Delaney
Your child has been taken… snatched in the dead of night from the safety of the family home. There's no sign of forced entry, no one heard or saw a thing. DI Sean Corrigan investigates. He needs to find four-year-old George Bridgeman before abduction becomes murder. But his ability to see into dark minds, to think like those he hunts, has deserted him – just when he needs it most.
A little too far. Lisa Desrochers
Raised Catholic, Lexie stumbles out of the confessional and right into Alessandro Moretti, a young and very easy-on-the-eyes deacon. Lexie and Alessandro grow closer, and when Alessandro's signals start changing despite his vow of celibacy, she doesn't know what to think. She's torn between falling in love with the man she shouldn't want and the man she can't have. And she isn't sure how she can live with herself either way.
A little too hot. Lisa Desrochers
Tossed out of college and cut off by her parents, Samantha West is in pretty dire straits. So when her rocker best friend hooks her up with a job dancing at a gentlemen's club, who is she to turn it down? Plus, there are rules to dancing at Benny's… unfortunately for Sam, her first private client makes her want to break every single one of them.
The happiness show. Catherine Deveny
At thirty-eight, Lizzie Quealy thinks she has things sorted: a happy relationship, a couple of gorgeous kids, a steadfast best friend and a job she loves. But when Lizzie bumps into Tom, an old flame from her globe-trotting twenties, her predictable life is turned on its head.
The body book : feed, move, understand and love your amazing body Cameron Diaz with Sandra Bark.
Cameron Diaz shares her formula for becoming happier, healthier, and stronger in this positive, essential guide that is grounded in science and inspired by personal experience. The Body Book does not set goals to reach in seven days or thirty days or a year. It offers a holistic, long term approach to making consistent choices and reaching the ultimate goal: a long, strong, happy, healthy life.
Bitter Wash Road. Garry Disher
When Hirsch heads up Bitter Wash Road to investigate the gunfire he finds himself cut off without back-up. But the shots on Bitter Wash Road don't tally with Hirsch's assumptions. The truth turns out to be a lot more mundane. And the events that unfold subsequently, a hell of a lot more sinister.
Whispering death. Garry Disher
Hal Challis is in trouble at home and abroad: carpeted by the boss for speaking out about police budget cuts; missing his lover, Ellen Destry, who is overseas on a study tour. But there's plenty to keep his mind off his problems. A rapist in a police uniform stalks Challis's Peninsula beat, there is a serial armed robber headed in his direction and a home invasion that's a little too close to home. Not to mention a very clever, very mysterious female cat burglar who may or may not be planning something on Challis's patch.
Sherlock Holmes : the collection. Arthur Conan Doyle
Who introduced Dr Watson to the world's greatest detective? What killed Sir Charles Baskerville? And how did Sherlock Holmes escape certain death at the Reichenbach Falls? This collection of original tales by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle reveals all!
The last great ape : a journey through Africa and a fight for the heart of the continent Ofir Drori and David McDannald.
Looks at Ofir Drori's organization, The Last Great Ape, which has been instrumental in stopping poaching, trafficking, and cruelty to animals in Cameroon.
Collected stories Maurice Duggan ; edited and introduced by C.K. Stead.
How now, brown frau Merridy Eastman
Merridy plunges headlong into a new life in Bavaria where she takes up residence four months pregnant and without a word of German under her belt. Here we meet her conventional Bavarian inlaws, climb excruciating language barriers (not to mention a few alps) and grapple with a culture that seems at times to be on a whole other planet.
Ridiculous expectations, or, How to find a prince Merridy Eastman
Merridy Eastman's been ditched by her builder boyfriend for a waitress named Nancy, but everyone seems to think she'll find Mr Right very soon. In England, to be specific, where she will be spending three months on her wacky sister's sofa bed. The age-old tale of Australians trying to make it in the UK gets a new twist as Merridy encounters the class, culinary, cultural and communication eccentricities of the English.
There's a bear in there (and he wants Swedish) Merridy Eastman
Former face of "Playschool", Merridy Eastman reveals how, as a "resting" actress, she took a job as a receptionist in a brothel. Over several months she became immersed in this forbidden world of high drama and unforgettable characters, learning how to handle nervous first-timers - and celebrities.
The nationbuilders. Brian Easton
The Nationbuilders is a collection of linked essays on individuals and companies in the years from 1931 to 1984 who contributed in major ways to building a New Zealand nation. An original, lively and provocative book, it is backed by powerful nationalistic emotions and by a deep distaste at the kind of country that has been fashioned since 1984.
1914. Jean Echenoz
Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multi-award-winning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiable - and still unthinkable - carnage of trench warfare.
Dark night : walking with McCahon. Martin Edmond
In 1984, in the palm grove in Sydney's Botanic Gardens, the artist Colin McCahon went missing. He was found by police early next morning in Centennial Park … Martin Edmond walks in Colin McCahon's footsteps, past pubs and monuments, art galleries and churches, barracks and parks: to accompany him some way into the darkness of his end.
Zone of the marvellous : in search of the Antipodes. Martin Edmond
In the tradition of Dava Sobel and Longitude, award-winning writer Martin Edmond uses his extraordinary intellectual breadth and imaginative reach to elegantly and lucidly execute his most ambitious project to date - the history of 4,000 years of the Western imagination and the Antipodes, Great Southern Land, Zone of the Marvellous.
Judy Garland : a biography. Anne Edwards
Edwards's biography presents a complete picture of the late actress - and not just the boozing, drug-addicted caricature of a woman central to lesser biographies. We learn, for example, that Garland saw it as her duty to provide for her family financially, a generosity that her mother Ethel exploited with disastrous results.
Last night at the Viper Room : River Phoenix and the Hollywood he left behind. Gavin Edwards
In Last Night at the Viper Room, acclaimed author and journalist Gavin Edwards vividly recounts the life and tragic death of acclaimed actor River Phoenix – a teen idol on the fast track to Hollywood royalty who died of a drug overdose in front of West Hollywood's storied club, the Viper Room, at the age of 23.
The freedom line : the brave men and women who rescued Allied airmen from the Nazis during World War II Peter Eisner
Traces the contributions of the Comet Line heroes of World War II, describing their establishment of safe houses, transportation links, and support services for which resistance fighters risked their lives to rescue stranded Allied forces, in a volume that focuses on the story of a particular group
Come undone. Madelynne Ellis
When red-hot, Goth-metal band, Black Halo, split live on stage, fate throws Daniella Fosbrook into the path of sexy vocalist Xane Geist. Initially, Xane's only looking for a ride home, but Dani tempts him in a way a thousand other women haven't. However, Xane isn't being entirely honest about the reason for the band's demise. When the truth comes out, can Dani accept the facts, or will everything come undone?
An Amish family reunion. Mary Ellis
During a rumschpringe visit to Niagara Falls, Phoebe Miller meets Eli Riehl, who charms her – and everyone else – with his exceptional storytelling ability.
Never far from home. Mary Ellis
Emma Miller is on the cusp of leaving childhood behind and entering the adult world. She has finished school and started her own wool business, and she longs for someone to court. When the object of her affection is a handsome English sheep farmer with a fast truck and modern methods, her deacon father, Simon, knows he has more than the farm alliance to worry about…
The Quaker and the rebel. Mary Ellis
Bestselling author Mary Ellis presents The Quaker and the Rebel, Book 1 of her brand-new Civil War historical romance series, which tells the stories of brave women in times of testing and the men who love them.
The way to a man's heart. Mary Ellis
Leah Miller is living her dream come true as she invests in a newly restored diner that caters to locals rather than tourists. Can Jonah Byler convince this shy, quiet young woman that she should leave her adoring fans and cook only for him?
A widow's hope. Mary Ellis
After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown is determined to make a new life with her sister's family. But when she sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moves with her sheep to Ohio, the wool unexpectedly starts to fly.
All the pretty girls. J. T. Ellison
Keeping her personal and professional lives separate isn't always easy for Taylor Jackson. She's a homicide detective and her lover, John Baldwin is an FBA profiler. But when a local girl fall prey to the sadistic serial killer, John has been tracking through several states, their worlds collide!
Come and find me. Hallie Ephron
After her lover and partner, Daniel dies during their climbing vacation in Switzerland, computer security expert and reformed hacker Diana Highsmith became a recluse, she could do all her work on her computer. But when her sister goes missing, she's forced to face her demons and the outside world again.
Never tell a lie. Hallie Ephron
Ivy and David Rose, happily married high school sweethearts and expecting their first child, are plunged into a growing web of suspicion when a young, pregnant high school classmate disappears and David's past is exposed in this tale of obsession.
I feel bad about my neck : and other thoughts on being a woman. Nora Ephron
In this book, Nora Ephron shares with us her ups and downs in I Feel Bad About My Neck, a candid, hilarious look at women who are getting older and dealing with the tribulations of maintenance, menopause, empty nests, and life itself.
Animal wizardry Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson.
Running to save his life, Aldwyn, a streetwise orphan cat, ducks into a very strange pet shop… Moments later Jack, a young wizard-in-training, comes in to pick out his familiar - the magical animal that will accompany him forever. Aldwyn has always been clever. But magical? Apparently Jack thinks so - and Aldwyn is happy to play along. Anything to get out of town…
Secrets of the crown Adam Jay Epstein & Andrew Jacobson.
When human magic is destroyed, familiars Aldwyn the cat, Skylar the blue jay, and Gilbert the tree frog set out without their wizards to seek the Crown of the Snow Leopard, the only object that can save the kingdom of Vastia from the evil hare Paksahara.
The Harvard Medical School guide to a good night's sleep Lawrence Epstein and Steven Mardon.
The author reveals his proven, six-step plan to improve your sleep and presents his tips for dealing with issues such as insomnia, disrupted sleep, daytime exhaustion, restlessness, sleepwalking, and other chronic sleep conditions.
The Crossroads Brotherhood. Robert Fabbri
This novella delves into Rome's criminal underworld Rome 25 AD. Marcus Salvius Magnus, Patron of the Crossroads Brotherhood, has a problem. In fact, he has two. One of the brothels under his protection has been raided by a rival Brotherhood but how can he retaliate without igniting a gang war? At the other end of the social spectrum the emperor's sister-in-law, has let Senator Gaius Vespasius Pollo know that she has a score that only blood will settle, and Magnus owes the Senator a favour. Perhaps the Patronus of the Crossroads Brotherhood can kill two birds with one stone?
False god of Rome. Robert Fabbri
Vespasian is serving as a military officer on the outskirts of the Roman Empire, suppressing local troubles and defending the Roman way. But political events in Rome - Tiberius's increasingly insane debauchery, the escalating grain crisis - draw him back to the city. When Caligula becomes Emperor, Vespasian believes that things will improve. Instead, he watches the young emperor deteriorate from Rome's shining star to a blood-crazed, incestuous, all-powerful madman.
The racing factions. Robert Fabbri
Marcus Salvius Magnus is a fanatical supporter of the Green Racing Faction and expects a wager to be honoured. Although he does not presume honesty from anyone, he does believe that a bookmaker at the Circus Maximus should record each bet scrupulously and pay the full amount due. But Ignatius, the bookmaker, is foolish enough to attempt to cheat Magnus out of his winnings, incurring not only his wrath but that also of the South Quirinal Crossroads Brotherhood of which Magnus is the leader. In the shady realm of Rome's underworld Magnus will use the full resources of his criminal fraternity to exact appropriate vengeance.
Rome's executioner Robert Fabbri
Thracia, AD 30: Even after four years military service at the edge of the Roman world, Vespasian can't escape the tumultuous politics of an Empire on the brink of disintegration. His patrons in Rome have charged him with the clandestine extraction of an old enemy from a fortress on the banks of the Danube before it falls to the Roman legion besieging it. Vespasian's mission is the key move in a deadly struggle for the right to rule the Roman Empire. Before he completes his mission, Vespasian will face ambush in snowbound mountains, pirates on the high seas, and Sejanus's spies all around him.
Rome's fallen eagle. Robert Fabbri
Rome, AD41. Caligula has been assassinated and the Praetorian Guard have proclaimed Claudius Emperor but his position is precarious. His three freedmen, Narcissus, Pallas and Callistus, must find a way to manufacture a quick victory for Claudius but how? Pallas has the answer: retrieve the Eagle of the Seventeenth, lost in Germania nearly 40 years before. Who but Vespasian could lead a dangerous mission into the gloomy forests of Germania?
Tribune of Rome Robert Fabbri
One man, one destiny. 26 AD: Sixteen-year-old Vespasian leaves his family farm for Rome, his sights set on finding a patron and following his brother into the army. But he discovers a city in turmoil and an Empire on the brink. Vespasian is totally out of his depth, making dangerous enemies (and even more dangerous friends - like the young Caligula) and soon finds himself ensnared in a conspiracy against Tiberius. Somehow, he must survive long enough to uncover the identity of the traitors behind the growing revolt.
Before I forget. Jacqueline Fahey
Jacqueline Fahey brought the curtain down at the end of her first memoir, Something for the Birds, after her marriage to Fraser McDonald. In Before I Forget she continues the story from this happy-ever-after moment, charting her life since 1960.
Something for the birds. Jacqueline Fahey
Fizzing with wit and style and featuring original illustrations by the author, Something for the Birds is a lively, humourous and tragic memoir that traces the roots of a distinguished painter and her crucial role in New Zealand's feminist movement.
I am God. Giorgio Faletti
A serial killer holds New York in his grip. He does not choose his victims. Nor does he watch them die. But then there are too many of them for that. The explosion of a twenty-two storey building, followed by the casual discovery of a letter, lead the police to face up to a dreadful reality: some of New York's buildings were mined at the time of their construction. But which ones? And how many?
Krondor : tear of the gods Raymond E. Feist
After a pirate raid, the Tear of the Gods is lost below the waves. Without it the temples cannot speak with the gods. Squire James, Willian and Jazhara must find a new one in the distant mountains, opposed by the minions of Sidi, servant of the Dark God.
Krondor : the assassins. Raymond E. Feist
With a wave of unsolved murders sweeping through his capital city, Prince Arutha sends Squire James - a former thief turned nobleman - to investigate the rash of mysterious assassinations.
Michael Morpurgo : war child to War horse. Maggie Fergusson
Michael's own story is as strange and surprising as any he has written, and is shot through with the same thread of sadness found in almost all his work. In a unique collaboration, Maggie Fergusson explores Michael Morpurgo's life through seven biographical chapters, to which he responds with seven stories. The portrait that emerges is one of light and shade: the light very bright, the shade complex and often painful.
The wisdom of the myths. Luc Ferry
Heroes, gods, and mortals. The Greek myths are the founding narratives of Western civilization: to understand them is to know the origins of philosophy, literature, art, science, law, and more. Indeed, as Luc Ferry shows in this masterful book, they remain a great store of wisdom, as relevant to our lives today as ever before.
Death by publication. Jean-Jacques Fiechter
Sir Edward Destry, head of a distinguished publishing house in London, has been friends with his most successful author, the dashing French war hero Nicolas Fabry, for thirty years. Over time, though, Sir Edward's admiration for his friend has soured into envy. When Fabry publishes a new novel in France that rockets to the top of the bestseller list and wins the country's most prestigious literary prize, Sir Edward plunges into grief and fury. Fabry's fiction is no fiction. Its heroine is modeled on the only woman Sir Edward ever loved–and for whose tragic suicide Destry took the blame. Now he discovers it was Fabry who was responsible for her death, and he abandons her. With precision and passion, Sir Edward plots his revenge. He translates Fabry's novel into English and devises a plan guaranteed to cause disgrace, ruin, and - death by publication.
Need to please : mindfulness skills to gain freedom from people pleasing and approval seeking. Micki Fine
In The Need to Please, a leading mindfulness expert and psychotherapist provides compassionate, mindfulness-based techniques that will help chronic people-pleasers like you address and overcome your fears of failure, inappropriate self-sacrificing, loss of personal identity, and voracious need of approval.
More to life than shoes : how to kick-start your career and changed your life Nadia Finer & Emily Nash.
Nadia Finer and Emily Nash wanted to love what they did, not loathe it so they set off on a mission to find the country's coolest women (from neuroscientists to novelists, biologists to builders, and entrepreneurs to engineers), corner them and pump them for advice to find out exactly how they made their dreams come true. They discovered that there are thousands of women out there right now doing amazing things, and that there's a way of living and tackling the world that produces results.
Charlotte Mew and her friends Penelope Fitzgerald
Thomas Hardy hailed her as 'far and away the best living woman poet'; the formidable Charlotte Mew (1869-1928) was the writer of some of the best English poems of the twentieth century. Despite literary success and a passionate, enchanting personality, eventually the conflicts within her drove her to despair, and she killed herself by swallowing household disinfectant. In this gripping portrait, Penelope Fitzgerald brings all her novelist's skills into play, giving us touching story, and an entire life's emotional history.
Innocence. Penelope Fitzgerald
Beautiful Chiara is the last of the Ridolfi, a Florentine family of long lineage and eccentric habits. She is smitten with Salvatore, a brilliant but penniless doctor, a rational man who wants nothing to do with romance. This is the story of how these two–with the best intentions, the kindest of instincts, and the most meddlesome of friends–make each other wonderfully miserable inside.
The means of escape : stories. Penelope Fitzgerald
This superb collection of stories, originally published in anthologies and newspapers, shows Penelope Fitzgerald at her very best. From the tale of a young boy in 17-century England who loses a precious keepsake and finds it frozen in a puddle of ice, to that of a group of buffoonish amateur Victorian painters on a trip to Brittany, these stories are characteristically wide ranging, enigmatic and very funny.
Sew your own. John-Paul Flintoff
John-Paul Flintoff embarks on a spiritual pilgrimage by outsourcing his life to Bangalore, then hooks up with Mormons and Buddhists (well, Richard Gere), on a quest for truth and fulfilment. His journey is like a twenty-first century Candide, learning that life's satisfactions, and some kind of response to the concerns of economic meltdown and climate change, lie in learning how to make things for oneself, and mending things that fall apart.
Fatal justice. Marie Force
Standing over the body of a Supreme Court nominee, Lieutenant Sam Holland is hip-deep in another high-profile murder case. The fact that she was one of the last people to see Julian Sinclair alive just complicates things even more. On the plus side, her relationship with Senator Nick Cappuano is heating up – but it's also attracting a lot of unwanted media attention and blinding flash bulbs.
The Afghan. Frederick Forsyth
When British and American intelligence catch wind of a major Al-Qaeda operation in the works, they are primed for action. But what can they do? They know nothing about the attack. In an attempt to stave off disaster, the intelligence agencies will try to do what no one has ever done before - pass off a Westerner as an Arab among Arabs.
Black seconds. Karin Fossum
Ida Joner gets on her brand-new bike and sets off to buy sweets. Thirty-five minutes after Ida should have come home, Helga Joner, her mother, starts to worry. As the relatives reach breaking point and the media frenzy begins, Inspector Sejer is calm and reassuring. But he finds the case puzzling. Usually missing children are found within forty-eight hours. Ida Joner seems to have vanished without a trace.
Broken Karin Fossum
A woman wakes one night to find that a strange man has walked into her bedroom. The woman is an author and the man one of her prospective characters. So desperate is he to have his story told that he has resorted to breaking in to her house to make her tell it. Interspersed with the chapters of Alvar's story are his encounters with its author - the frantic attempts of a fictional man trying to control his own destiny.
Calling out for you. Karin Fossum
Gunder Jomann, a quiet, middle-aged man from a peaceful Norwegian town, thinks that his life is made complete when he returns from a trip to India a married man. Then the town is shocked by the news of an Indian woman found bludgeoned to death in a nearby meadow. Inspector Sejer and his colleague Skarre head the murder inquiry, cross-examining the townsfolk and planting seeds of suspicion in a community which has always believed itself to be simple, safe and trusting. For what can only have been an unpremeditated and motiveless act of violence, everyone is guilty until proven innocent.
Don't look back. Karin Fossum
Beneath the imposing Kollen Mountain lies a small village where the children run in and out of one another's houses and play unafraid in the streets. But the sleepy village is like a pond through which not enough water runs - beneath the surface it is beginning to stagnate. When a naked body is found by the lake at the top of the mountain, its seeming tranquillity is disturbed forever.
He who fears the wolf. Karin Fossum
A young boy runs into his local police station claiming to have seen Halldis Horn's brutally murdered corpse. Furthermore, Errki Johrma, an escaped psychiatric patient, was sighted at the scene. The next morning, the bank is robbed at gunpoint, a hostage is taken and the suspect takes to the woods.
The water's edge. Karin Fossum
A married couple, Reinhardt and Kristine Ris, are out for a Sunday walk when they discover the body of a boy and see the figure of a man limping away. They alert the police, but not before Reinhardt, to Kristine's horror, kneels down and takes photographs of the dead child with his cell phone.
When the devil holds the candle. Karin Fossum
In this psychological thriller Karin Fossum once again takes a terrifyingly realistic look into the criminal mind. As in her previous works, the line between victim and killer is fine and easily crossed.
Bryant and May on the loose. Christopher Fowler
Long regarded an anachronism and a thorn in the side of its superiors, the Peculiar Crimes Unit is to be disbanded. But then a headless body is found in a freezer, and on the perimeter of a massive construction site near King's Cross, a gigantic figure has been spotted - dressed in deerskin and sporting antlers made of knives and suddenly, with limited resources and very little time, the PCU are back in business.
Man's search for meaning. Viktor E. Frankl
Psychiatrist Viktor Frankl's memoir has riveted generations of readers with its descriptions of life in Nazi death camps and its lessons for spiritual survival. Between 1942 and 1945 Frankl laboured in four different camps, including Auschwitz, while his parents, brother, and pregnant wife perished. Based on his own experience and the experiences of others he treated later in his practice, Frankl argues that we cannot avoid suffering but we can choose how to cope with it, find meaning in it, and move forward with renewed purpose.
My career goes bung Miles Franklin
In this sequel to Miles Franklin's famous novel My Brilliant Career, once again we encounter the enchanting Sybylla Melvyn. She's a little older now, catapulted from bush obscurity into sudden fame with the publication of her autobiography. Sybylla goes to fashionable Sydney to further her career in the literary world, but her patrons, her critics and her innumerable suitors meet more than they bargained for in the wilful Sybylla.
Every home needs a balcony. Rina Frank-Mitrani
Eight-year-old Rina, her older sister, and her parents inhabit a cramped apartment with a narrow balcony that becomes an intimate, shared stage on which the joys and dramas of the building's daily life are played out. It also a window through which Rina witnesses the emergence of a strange new country.
Get your family eating right : a 30-day plan for teaching your kids healthy eating habits for life. Lynn Fredericks
Parents today are concerned about the amount of sugar, processed meals, and low-nutrient foods that they and their children are consuming. You can cook a healthy dinner, but how do you ensure that healthy eating becomes a regular practice for you and your family, not something that ends when you get up from the dinner table?
Falling for a stranger. Barbara Freethy
Ria is as sexy and sultry as a warm tropical night and as beautifully dangerous as the island drinks she serves at the beachside bar on Isla de los Suenos - The Island of Dreams. But Ria is not as carefree as she appears, and the pretence is wearing her down. Drew Callaway is a former Navy pilot and rescue operative looking for his own escape from a life that has seen too much tragedy. Meeting Ria is like embracing the sun, and their single night together is life-changing.
Silent fall. Barbara Freethy
Dylan Sanders is attending a wedding in the mountains when a former lover appears out of nowhere, demands a private conversation, and lures him into the woods, then leaves him there, drugged and disoriented. The next morning, the woman has disappeared, and Dylan is accused of her murder. Catherine Hilliard, a beautiful psychic haunted by her own dark past, is reluctant to offer up her cryptic visions to help sceptical Dylan figure out what's going on, but she can't leave her best friend's brother-in-law on his own … or deny the powerful, inexplicable connection between them.
So this is love. Barbara Freethy
For Max Harrison, love seduces and then destroys. His brother went to prison for love. His father left his family for love. And Max is determined not to follow in their footsteps, until he meets Emma. Emma runs into burning buildings without an ounce of fear and embraces life as if every day is a new adventure. But while she's fearless on the job, Emma is a coward when it comes to love.
Down the road to Gundagai. Jackie French
Red gold. Alan Furst
Set in the back streets of Paris and deep in occupied France, Red Gold moves with quiet and pervasive menace as predators from the dark edge of the war emerge from the shadows of the Parisian underworld. In their midst is Jean Casson, once a producer of gangster films, now drawn into an ill-fated mission: running guns to combat units of the French Communist party. Their NKVD contact, a former Comintern operative named Weiss – his seventeenth name – begins to orchestrate a series of attacks against the Germans. Reprisals are brutal. Fear spreads through the city. At last the real resistance has begun.
Old man on a bike Simon Gandolfi
Simon Gandolfi has never been one to grow old gracefully and following two heart attacks he decides not to rest up, as many might, but to ride the length of Hispanic America on a 125cc motorbike. And why not? This expertly written travelogue reveals not only the stories of those he meets, and his own, but also that of Latin America, its attitudes to itself, to the USA and the UK in the aftermath of the Iraq war and the realities of the poverty and endemic corruption throughout much of this continent.
The fringe dwellers. Nene Gare
Set in a remote area of Western Australia, The Fringe Dwellers is the story of two part-Aboriginal sisters, Noonah and Trilby, who live in a family camp on the fringe of white society. Noonah accepts her position, but Trilby refuses to.
A measure of blood. Kathleen George
Nadal watches for weeks before he first approaches the boy. No matter what Maggie Brown says, he's sure Matt is his son, and a boy should know his father. With self-righteous determination, Nadal goes to her house. He demands to spend time with the boy. When she refuses, he reaches for a knife. By the time homicide detective Richard Christie arrives on the scene, all that remains of Maggie Brown is a bloodstain on the floor. The killer has vanished, and Matt is too scared to remember anything but his mother's fear.
Barbie and Ruth : the story of the world's most famous doll and the woman who created her. Robin Gerber
The tragic and redeeming story of how one visionary woman, Ruth Handler, built the biggest toy company in the world and created a global icon.
The sad truth about happiness. Anne Giardini
Taking a magazine questionnaire written by her roommate, Maggie learns that she is likely to die prematurely as a result of her own unhappiness and embarks on a three-month quest to change her circumstances.
Take Mum out. Fiona Gibson
'You need to get back in the saddle…' Alice despises that phrase. She's fine being single – with two slothful teenage boys and a meringue business to run, she has enough on her plate without negotiating the troublesome world of modern dating.
His border bride. Blythe Gifford
Gavin Fitzjohn is the bastard son of an English prince and a Scotswoman. A rebel without a country, he has darkness in his soul. Clare Carr, daughter of a Scottish border lord, can recite the laws of chivalry, and knows Gavin has broken every one.
About writing and how to publish : an invaluable guide for all aspiring writers. Cathy Glass
Drawing on years of experience, and thousands of readers comments and reviews of her writing, internationally bestselling author Cathy Glass provides a clear and concise, practical guide on writing and the best ways to get published.
Wizard's first rule Terry Goodkind
In Wizard's First Rule, Goodkind introduced the world to an ordinary forest guide, Richard Cypher, and the mysterious, powerful woman he comes to love, Kahlan Amnell. Hunted relentlessly, betrayed and alone, Kahlan calls upon Richard to reach beyond his sword and invoke something more noble within himself as the final confrontation with Darken Rahl looms.
One rogue too many. Samantha Grace
Lady Gabrielle is thrilled when Anthony Keaton, Earl of Ellis, asks for her hand in marriage. She's not so pleased when he then leaves the country and four months pass without a word. When Anthony returns to town and finds his ultimate rival has set sights on Gabby, his continual battle of one-upmanship with Sebastian Thorne ceases to be a game.
Ultimate booty workouts : exercises to build, lift and sculpt an amazing butt. Tamara Grand
The targeted programs in this book will have your booty toned and perky in no time.
Gone Michael Grant
In a small town on the coast of California, everyone over the age of fourteen suddenly disappears, setting up a battle between the remaining town residents and the students from a local private school, as well as those who have "The Power" and are able to perform supernatural feats and those who do not.
Hunger. Michael Grant
Conditions worsen for the remaining young residents of a small California coastal town isolated by supernatural events when their food supplies dwindle and the Darkness underground awakens.
Lies Michael Grant
As conditions worsen in the FAYZ, where supernatural forces have trapped children under the age of fifteen and resources are running out, it becomes tempting to heed the words of a prophet who says that only death will set them free.
Hourglass Claudia Gray
Star-crossed lovers Lucas and Bianca are on the run, pursued not only by Black Cross vampire hunters but also by the powerful vampires of Evernight, when Bianca learns that her destiny is tied to that of the wraiths.
Paper towns. John Green
One month before graduating from his Central Florida high school, Quentin "Q" Jacobsen basks in the predictable boringness of his life until the beautiful and exciting Margo Roth Spiegelman, Q's neighbour and classmate, takes him on a midnight adventure and then mysteriously disappears.
Women's suffrage in New Zealand. Patricia Grimshaw
The definitive account of the New Zealand suffrage movement, Women's Suffrage in New Zealand remains the only study of how New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the vote. It tells the fascinating story of the courage and the determination of the early New Zealand feminists led by the remarkable Kate Sheppard, whose ideas and attitudes still resonate today.
The aviators : Eddie Rickenbacker, Jimmy Doolittle, Charles Lindbergh, and the epic Age of Flight. Winston Groom
Explores "the saga of three extraordinary aviators Charles Lindbergh, Eddie Rickenbacker, and Jimmy Doolittle and how they redefine heroism through their genius, daring, and uncommon courage.
The hug. David Grossman
In The Hug, internationally renowned author David Grossman tells the moving story of the moment when Ben realises that no two living creatures are alike - not his mother and father, their beautiful dog Miracle or the ants who march side by side at his feet and appear identical - and the loneliness he feels knowing that there is no one else quite like him in the whole world.
Lion's honey : the myth of Samson David Grossman
“Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet.” With this riddle Samson poses the even greater puzzle of why a strong and powerful young man should choose to impress, or confound, his peers with a brainteaser they can't possibly answer, rather than a demonstration of his unique strength.
Someone to run with. David Grossman
Earnest, awkward and painfully shy, sixteen-year-old Assaf is having the worst summer of his life. One morning, Assaf's routine is interrupted by an absurd assignment: to find the owner of a stray yellow labrador.
New York cult recipes Marc Grossman
Discover 130 recipes that unlock the secrets of New York's cult food establishments. Learn the secret to creating the perfect BLT, make the ultimate cheeseburger or for something a little sweeter, indulge in a cinnamon roll, smoothie or famous New York cheesecake.
Kiwi Keith : a biography of Keith Holyoake Barry Gustafson
Sir Keith Jacka Holyoake profoundly shaped New Zealand politics in the twentieth century. In this biography, Barry Gustafson - the author of bestselling biographies of Robert Muldoon and Michael Joseph Savage - tells the story of Keith Holyoake's life for the first time. Derided by critics as pompous and unprincipled, a master of consensus and compromise, Holyoake is portrayed by Gustafson as a man with an astute understanding of people and political issues, skilled at defusing division and preserving order while encouraging gradual progress.
Mayor Hubble is in trouble! Dan Gutman
Election day is right around the corner, and guess who's running for class president? A.J. and Andrea! Mayor Hubble is going to teach the kids all the ins and outs of politics, and every vote counts. Who's going to win? Who's going to lose? And who's going to kiss a baby? Ew, gross!
Miss Kraft is daft! Dan Gutman
Oh no! Mr. Granite is sick. A.J. and the gang will have a substitute teacher all week. Yay! But Miss Kraft is weird. She wears a clown costume and uses hand puppets to talk. She likes to do magic tricks. And she's happy all the time. What is her problem?
Mr. Burke is berserk! Dan Gutman
Mr. Burke cuts the grass, trims the bushes, and does the landscaping around Ella Mentry School. He wants to have a corn maze on the baseball diamond and drag races with his riding mower. What's up with the crop circles in the soccer field? And what did he bury under the monkey bars?
Mr. Harrison is embarrassin! Dan Gutman
Mr. Harrison, the tech guy at Ella Mentry School, can fix anything: computers, phones, pencil sharpeners. He can also build anything, like a solar-powered umbrella. What a nerd! But when the power goes out in the school, everyone is yelling and screaming and freaking out in the dark. Can Mr. Harrison save the day?
Mrs. Lilly is silly! Dan Gutman
It's Career Day at Ella Mentry School! Mrs. Lilly is a reporter for the local paper. She's going to come help the kids make their own newspaper, all about the school. What will happen when A.J. and the gang become investigative reporters? Who's going to get fired? Who's going to end up in jail?
Ms. Beard is weird! Dan Gutman
A hot new reality show, The Real Teachers of Ella Mentry, is filming at school. Everybody wants to win the TV show's grand prize! The weird director, Ms. Beard, tells the teachers and students to act normal. Yeah, like that's gonna happen!
Ms. Sue has no clue! Dan Gutman
Ella Mentry is having a fund-raiser, and guess who's in charge? Alexia's mom, Ms. Sue! The school's selling everything from popcorn to goldfish to raise money for a new playground. But when happens when Ms. Sue crosses the line? Someone's going to end up in the big house!
Change one thing! : make one change and embrace a happier, more successful you . Sue Hadfield
A self-help manual on creating reasonable, achievable improvement in your life.
Confessions of a latter day virgin Nicole Hardy
Nicole Hardy, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, explores how she came, at the age of thirty-five, to a crossroads regarding her faith and her identity.
The life and times of the real Winnie-the-Pooh : the teddy bear who inspired A.A. Milne. Shirley Harrison
When Christopher Robin Milne was given a small Farnell teddy bear from Harrods 90 years ago no-one realised how much it would change so many lives. In 1947 Pooh was sent to live in New York, where he remains today with his friends from the nursery, Piglet, Eeyore, Kanga and Tigger. Still raising millions of pounds for charity he has become the richest, most valuable and best-loved teddy bear in the world.
Blood never dies. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
A boiling-hot August day and a handsome young man is found dead in his bath, exsanguinated. But as Slider and his team try to identify the man whose personal papers are missing, along with his wallet and keys it seems that the more they find out about him, the less they "really" know.
Body line. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
David Rogers was a doctor, handsome, charming and rich. He lived the lifestyle of a consultant - expensive clothes, top restaurants, exclusive clubs - until someone killed him in the hallway of his lovely million-plus-pound house. But when Bill Slider and his firm are thrown into the mystery, they soon discover that nothing is as it seems, for though David's girlfriends are plenty, none of them can tell Slider anything about where he worked or what exactly he did.
Fell purpose. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Bank Holiday Monday, and beautiful Zellah Wilding, straight-A student at St Margaret's, prefect, future Head Girl, lies dead near the famous Wormwood Scrubs prison in London. What was this good girl from a strict Christian family doing out there, dressed to kill, when she was supposed to be at a sleep-over with school friends?
Game over. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
The murder of any journalist is bound to whip the news media into a frenzy. So when ex-BBC correspondent Ed Stonax is found dead, the last thing Detective Inspector Slider needs to complicate his life is the reappearance of an old enemy issuing death threats.
Kill my darling. Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
When Melanie Hunter goes missing, the men in her life come under suspicion. And there's plenty to suspect: lies, half-truths, deceptions. When you pull one thread, the whole fabric of family life can come apart. There are secrets in Melanie's past, and pain she tried to hide from the world. Slider and his team need to answer two questions: who loved Melanie, and who loved her too much … Bill Slider investigates.
Lily of the tower. Elizabeth Hart
When Agnes Headey is washed up by a storm at the gates of Netherfield estate, her first impression of it is one of faded elegance. When she learns that the Master's sister is not dead, as all had presumed, she begins secretly visiting the gentle but troubled woman. With social convention pressuring Agnes to marry for the security of her own future, only unwanted journeys lie ahead, and none of the roads lead to where her heart has finally found a home.
Trinity Falls. Regina Hart
Ean Fever is burned out by the hectic pace of New York City and his cutthroat law career. Longing for a sense of community, he's returned to his hometown of Trinity Falls, Ohio. Maybe he can even help save the Town Centre from greedy developers looking to destroy its small businesses - like Books & Bakery, owned by Megan McCloud. Because when Ean finds himself falling for the woman who's adored him all along, he'll have to convince her that he's not leaving again. At least not without her.
How to do everything : iPod and iTunes. Guy Hart-Davis
Fully revised throughout, How to Do Everything: iPod and iTunes, Sixth Edition covers the iPod classic, iPod nano, and iPod shuffle as well as the latest version of iTunes.
Handbook for dragon slayers. Merrie Haskell
When a greedy cousin steals Tilda's lands, the young princess goes on the run with two would-be dragon slayers. Before long she is facing down the Wild Hunt, befriending magical horses, and battling flame-spouting dragons.
Over the mountains of the sea : life on the migrant ships, 1870-1885. David Hastings
Over the Mountains of the Sea is a lively, well-illustrated and very readable book that draws on shipboard diaries and archival sources to give a vivid picture of the voyage out to New Zealand during the crucial Vogel period.
A promise kept. Robin Lee Hatcher
Allison did everything she could do to rescue her marriage, but her husband left anyway. She retreats to the mountain home she inherited from her great-aunt Emma, a woman she thought she'd known well. But the trunks she discovers in the attic hold keepsakes, photographs, and journals that reveal secrets and the stories of a kindred spirit.
Modoc : the true story of the greatest elephant that ever lived. Ralph Helfer
Raised together in a small German circus town, a boy and an elephant formed a bond that would last their entire lives, and would be tested time and again; through a near-fatal shipwreck in the Indian Ocean, an apprenticeship with the legendary Mahout elephant trainers in the Indian teak forests, and their eventual rise to circus stardom in 1940s New York City.
A smile for my parents Heather Henderson
A delightful, surprising and warm collection of stories about Sir Robert and Dame Pattie Menzies, from their only daughter, Heather Henderson.
The death trade. Jack Higgins
When an eminent scientist makes a startling breakthrough in nuclear weapons research only to have the lives of his family threatened if he does not give his technology to the Iranian regime, Sean Dillon, Afghan war hero Sara Gideon and the rest of their team embark on a daring rescue mission that rapidly spins out of control.
Sean Dillon collection. 2. Jack Higgins
Angel of death: A mysterious terrorist group is killing other terrorists, IRA thugs and CIA and KGB agents, all in a bid to break the fragile peace process. Sean Dillon is the only man who can find them, if he can live long enough.
City on fire : a novel of Pompeii. T. L. Higley
In the coastal town of Pompeii, a new gladiator prepares to fight. But this gladiator hides a deadly secret: she's a runaway Jewish slave girl named Ariella, disguised as a young boy. Determined to bring about justice for the citizens of Pompeii, Cato searches for allies. But what he discovers instead is a confounding group of Christians … and a young female gladiator whose fame is growing daily. Political unrest reaches a boiling point as Christians are jailed and executed, and the mountain in the distance threatens to destroy the city with its river of fire. Cato and Ariella must act quickly and courageously to save their loved ones before all is lost.
An average Joe : my horribly abnormal life. Joe Hildebrand
Joe Hildebrand is the man you see on TV, the man you read in the Daily Telegraph, the man you might follow on Twitter, the man with an opinion on everything and anything. But who is he? In this, his first book, you can meet the man behind the man; his highly unconventional family and upbringing, his odd relatives, his less than stellar school career and then his arrival at University where he discovered a tribe of similar outcasts and freaks - student politicians.
A girl to come home to. Grace Livingston Hill
Rodney Graeme, a war hero wounded by love, returns home to face the aftermath of a broken engagement… only the past won't fade without a fight.
Beyond belief : my secret life inside scientology and my harrowing escape. Jenna Miscavige Hill
Jenna Miscavige Hill, niece of Church of Scientology leader David Miscavige, was raised as a Scientologist but left the controversial religion in 2005. In Beyond Belief, she shares her true story of life inside the upper ranks of the sect, details her experiences as a member Sea Org - the church's highest ministry, speaks of her disconnection from family outside of the organization, and tells the story of her ultimate escape.
Frankly, my dear. Sandra Hill
Selene has always had three great passions: men, food … and Gone With the Wind. Weary of the petty world of high fashion, she heads to New Orleans for one last shoot before she chucks it all and begins a whole new life. But she doesn't realize that, thanks to an errant voodoo spell, her new life will happen 150 years in the past … and in the company of a dark and brooding gentleman who could give Rhett Butler a run for his money!
The pirate bride. Sandra Hill
Medana Elsadottir, known as the Sea Scourge, never planned to become a pirate, but there's no denying her talent. Her female-only tribe has an island hideaway, food aplenty, goods to trade… everything except the means to breed. That's where the strapping Norsemen tied up in her ship's hold comes in handy.
The Viking's captive. Sandra Hill
Tyra, Warrior Princess. She is too tall, too loud, too fierce to be a good catch. But her ailing father has decreed that her four younger sisters cannot be wed 'til Tyra consents to take a husband. Alas, with no suitors begging for her hand, it looks as if the sisters will all remain virgins. Then a journey to save her father's life brings Tyra face to face with Adam the Healer.
The wilful princess and the piebald prince. Robin Hobb
One of the darkest legends in the Realm of the Elderlings recounts the tale of the so-called Piebald Prince, a Witted pretender to the throne unseated by the actions of brave nobles so that the Farseer line could continue untainted. Now the truth behind the story is revealed through the account of Felicity, a low-born companion of the Princess Caution at Buckkeep. With Felicity by her side, Caution grows into a headstrong Queen-in-Waiting. But when Caution gives birth to a bastard son who shares the piebald markings of his father’s horse, Felicity is the one who raises him. And as the prince comes to power, political intrigue sparks dangerous whispers about the Wit that will change the kingdom forever…
Watch the wall, my darling. Jane Aiken Hodge
Only a deathbed promise to her dying father could force Christina Tretton to travel to Tretteign Grange, the 'Dark House', and meet her estranged family for the first time. Taking the neglectful servants in hand, Christina is soon managing the house, proving herself invaluable in her grandfather's eyes. This backfires when he decides he wants her as his heir, and only on the condition that she marries Ross or Richard. Outraged, she swears she will marry neither, but her cousins have different ideas.
Whispering. Jane Aiken Hodge
When Caterina Gomez returns to her beloved home of Oporto, Portugal, her troubles have only just begun. The scandalous cloud she left under is still not forgotten, and her cruel and distant father insists on a hasty marriage or the convent. Half English and half Portuguese, she must walk a fine line between both societies, which is all made near impossible considering her troubled past.
The winding stair. Jane Aiken Hodge
Juana Brett's hapless father has dragged her to England from her beloved home in Portugal. When Gair Varlow fixed his political machinations on her, he never expected to fall in love with her too. Pulling strings to get her an invitation back to Portugal, he knows he is sending her into danger. But as the threat of invasion by France hangs over her return, she has no idea how completely the political intrigue has taken hold of her Castle home, and soon finds herself amidst terrorists and spies.
Letters of Frances Hodgkins Frances Hodgkins edited by Linda Gill.
Letters of Frances Hodgkins is a generous selection of letters written by New Zealand's most internationally well-known artist. It shows that Hodgkins deserves not only her considerable reputation as a painter, but also that of a brilliant and engaging writer. Linda Gill's careful scholarship and sensitive appreciation of Hodgkins' talents and personality make her introduction and notes the perfect framework for the artist's own words.
Sherlock's squadron : the incredible true story of the unsung RAF heroes of World War Two. Steve Holmes
With in-depth research, Steve Holmes' inspirational, harrowing and at times humorous book charts the wartime exploits of his father, John 'Sherlock' Holmes, and his flight crew. Through many hours of research and contact with living relatives of 'Sherlock's Squadron;' Steve has pulled together a unique and personal insight into the most brutal and devastating armed conflict in history.
A burnable book. Bruce W. Holsinger
London, 1385. Surrounded by ruthless courtiers – including his powerful uncle, John of Gaunt, and Gaunt's flamboyant mistress, Katherine Swynford – England's young, still untested king, Richard II, is in mortal peril, and the danger is only beginning. Songs are heard across London – said to originate from an ancient book that prophesies the end of England's kings – and among the book's predictions is Richard's assassination. As the intrigue deepens, it becomes clear that Gower, a man with secrets of his own, may be the last hope to save a king from a terrible fate.
The center of winter. Marya Hornbacher
At the centre of winter, in Motley, Minnesota, Arnold Schiller gives in to the oppressive season that reigns outside and also to his own inner demons - he commits suicide, leaving a devastated family in his wake. Narrated alternately by wife Claire, and children Katie and Esau, this novel explores the ways in which both children and adults experience tragic events, discover solace and hope in one another, and survive.
Len Lye : a biography. Roger Horrocks
Len Lye : a biography tells for the first time the story of a unique, charismatic artist who was an innovator in many areas - film, kinetic sculpture, painting, photography and poetry.
The urban walker : how to upgrade your mind, body and spirit in 30 days Maggie Humphreys & Les Snowdon
Urban walking is today's smart exercise. It's easy, it's safe, it's inexpensive - and it's fun. You can do it alone, with your partner, your children, your friends, your work colleagues, even your grandparents.
A new chapter. Diann Hunt
Lia is a kindergarten teacher who insists all the Smitten Book Club members read Anne of Green Gables. When her childhood friend Joey moves back to Smitten with his daughter Grace in tow, Lia reaches out to help with Grace as Joey settles in as partner in his brother's dental practice. With a little matchmaking from Grace, Lia and Joey soon discover their friendship has grown into a love that could last a lifetime.
Happily ever after. Denise Hunter
When Gage Turner offers to help Molly with her failing business, her book club talks her into accepting his help, even though Molly wonders if his motives are pure. After all, his business could easily absorb her customer base. But in truth Gage has admired Molly for years and has been hoping for a way to connect with her. Will his efforts prove fruitful or will Molly's pride get in the way of her own happily ever after?
Battles of the clans. Erin Hunter
Onestar, leader of WindClan, introduces two young kittypets to the warrior code, the history of each of the Clans, and legendary battles that have been fought.
Code of the clans. Erin Hunter
The warrior Clans have embraced the warrior code for as long as any living cat can remember. Now, for the first time, discover the origins of the code that govern the daily life of a warrior cat.
A dangerous path. Erin Hunter
Tigerclaw is back and more dangerous than ever as the new leader of ShadowClan, but he is not the most terrifying enemy Fireheart must face as a new force sweeps through the woods.
Dark river. Erin Hunter
As Hollypaw, Lionpaw and Jaypaw, grandchildren of the legendary Firestar, continue their training to be warrior cats, each is haunted by a different internal struggle that could lead to trouble for all Clans.
The darkest hour. Erin Hunter
ThunderClan's darkest hour is upon them and Fireheart, the warrior cat, must protect his clan from a threat unlike any the forest has ever seen, as the time comes for prophecies to unfold and heroes to rise.
Dawn. Erin Hunter
The questing cats return to a forest devastated by the Twolegs, where they must find a way to convince their Clans to leave in search of a new home, even though they have no idea where they are going.
Fading echoes. Erin Hunter
As Dovepaw, Jayfeather, and Lionblaze strive to understand and fulfill the prophecy that promises them great power, the cats of the Dark Forest begin to teach battle skills and techniques to different Clan cats through dreams.
Fire and ice. Erin Hunter
Fireheart, a full-fledged warrior cat, must confront questions of loyalty and identity as he faces the possibility of betrayal from within his own forest clan.
Forest of secrets. Erin Hunter
The warrior cat Fireheart's determination to uncover the truth about another warrior's death leads him deep into danger, and reveals secrets that test the strength of clan loyalties.
The fourth apprentice. Erin Hunter
Jayfeather and Lionblaze are prophesied to be two of the three cats who hold the power of the stars in their paws. Now they must wait for a sign from StarClan to tell them which of their Clanmates will complete the prophesy. Soon a StarClan warrior will visit a new ThunderClan apprentice, and the lives of the three chosen cats will be forever linked.
Into the wild. Erin Hunter
For generations, four Clans of wild cats have shared the forest according to the laws laid down by the powerful ancestors. But the warrior code is threatened, and the ThunderClan cats are in grave danger.
Midnight Erin Hunter
Called by StarClan to fulfill a new prophecy, a group of young cats sets out on a long and dangerous journey, knowing only that trouble threatens the forest, as the adventures of the warrior clans continue.
Moonrise. Erin Hunter
As they journey home to warn their clans of the coming destruction, the six cats, guided by StarClan's prophecy, meet an unfamiliar tribe of cats with their own set of beliefs–and their own mysterious prophecy.
Night whispers. Erin Hunter
As Jayfeather, Lionblaze, and Dovepaw continue to seek answers to the mysterious prophecy that binds them, they learn that another cat may play an essential role in defeating the Dark Forces.
Outcast. Erin Hunter
Firestar's grandchildren – Lionpaw, Hollypaw, and Jaypaw–progress in their training to become warrior cats and are drawn for different reasons to the mountains and the Tribe of Rushing Water.
Rising storm. Erin Hunter
Fireheart, the warrior cat, faces many challenges in his new role of ThunderClan deputy as his apprentice, Cloudpaw, resists following the warrior code, Bluestar weakens, and Tigerclaw continues to haunt the forest seeking revenge.
The sight. Erin Hunter
In a troubled time for the Clans, three young cats, grandchildren of the legendary Firestar, begin their training as warriors and, in the course of many adventures, discover their true destiny.
Starlight. Erin Hunter
The warrior cat Clans arrive at their new home and set about exploring and fighting over the unfamiliar territory.
Tigerclaw's fury. Erin Hunter
Cast out of ThunderClan as a traitor, Tigerclaw will not rest until he has his revenge on Bluestar, Fireheart, and the rest of his former Clanmates. But first he must become Tigerstar of ShadowClan.
Twilight. Erin Hunter
After the warrior cat Clans settle into their new homes, the harmony they once had disappears as the clans start fighting each other, until the day their common enemy – the badger – invades their territory.
Hidden kitchens of Sri Lanka Bree Hutchins
An evocative journey through Sri Lanka, with heartfelt stories of people who opened their kitchens and their hearts to intrepid photographer and writer, Bree Hutchins.
Passport to hell. Robin Hyde
A fictional reconstruction of the life of James Douglas Stark, bomber, Fifth Regiment, N.Z.E.F. It is Robin Hyde's strongest "personal protest" about injustice, suffering, and society's intolerance of deviation from mid-Victorian morality.
Mortal fear. Greg Iles
A sex-chat newsgroup on the Internet is disrupted by a killer who murders its participants. The police accuse the owner of the newsgroup, and to clear his name he goes online, posing as a sexy woman to lure the killer into a trap.
Sleep no more. Greg Iles
Mallory Gray Chandler was the quintessential Southern Belle who loved John Waters with a seething passion that threatened to destroy them both. He ended the affair. She was later found raped and murdered on a New Orleans pier. A decade later, a single word uttered by the stunning Eve Sumner turns John's world inside out. A mass of secrets, lies and murder is about to explode…
Being Maori-Chinese : mixed identities = He Maori-he Hainamana he tuakiri aha? = Mao li yi hua ren. Manying Ip
This book uses extensive interviews with seven different families to explore historical and contemporary relations between Māori and Chinese. It provides a unique and fascinating insight into cross-cultural alliances between Asian and indigenous peoples, revealing a resilience which has endured persecution, ridicule and neglect and offering a picture of NZ society which challenges the usual Pakeha-dominated perspective.
The bottom line diet : how I lost weight, kept it off and you can too! Jessica Irvine
In this straightforward but groundbreaking new book, Jessica Irvine documents her own dramatic weight loss and equips you with easy-to-use tools and practical information to help you lose weight.
Zombies, bananas and why there are no economists in heaven : the economics of real life. Jessica Irvine
Jessica Irvine's weekly Irvine Index column in The Sydney Morning Herald uses fun facts to get to the heart of our biggest political and economic debates. Part economics lesson, part quirky observation on modern life, this collection of easily digestible, bite-sized nuggets of factual goodness will help transform even the most economically illiterate person into an insightful commentator at their next work drinks or weekend barbeque.
Secrets and lies : surviving the truths that change our lives. Jane Isay
A journey into the realm of family secrets, offering lessons and insights for those who are hiding the truth and those who discover what has long been hidden.
Beyond the darkness. Alexandra Ivy
Salvatore Giuliani finds the pureblood werewolf female he needs to save his people from extinction in Harley, but she refuses to become his mate until she discovers that he is her key to saving the family she never knew she had.
Bound by darkness. Alexandra Ivy
Darkness avenged. Alexandra Ivy
As the demon world celebrates the defeat of the Dark Lord, the vampire Santiago's mood remains bleak. He still yearns for sensual, raven-haired Nefri, who has inexplicably disappeared. To her dismay, the all powerful Oracles have sent Nefri on her own mission to find Gaius, and failure is not an option. Nefri's search leads her to the vampire's abandoned lair – and straight into Santiago's path. It's clear Santiago intends to seduce her, but then an ancient, banished evil reappears, threatening to thrust the world into a madness it cannot survive.
Darkness everlasting. Alexandra Ivy
Trapped in the middle of a war between vampires and werewolves, Darcy Smith, possessing a secret that could destroy an entire race of demons, is torn between two men–Anasso, her vampire protector, and Salvatore, the ruthless leader of the weres.
Darkness revealed. Alexandra Ivy
A vampire must protect a bewitching woman from ancient enemies who have the power to destroy the world.
Devoured by darkness. Alexandra Ivy
Laylah, a half-human, half-demon jinn who is trying to protect a child who may be the catalyst in a war between good and evil, binds herself to Tane, a Charon sworn to hunt and kill rogue vampires, who has been hired to capture her.
Embrace the darkness. Alexandra Ivy
A hidden evil has been stalking Shay since she left the slave market with Viper. It is an evil that endangers the very existence of Viper's kind, and there's no reason he should court such danger just to protect a Shalott. But the love he feels for Shay is enough to make him willing to go to hell and back if it means spending an eternity with her in his arms.
Fear the darkness. Alexandra Ivy
Caine, a pure-blooded Were in need of redemption, struggles to keep Cassie, a Were prophet gifted with visions that portend the fate of the world, safe as her visions lead them to a deadly enemy bent on destroying the world.
Levet. Alexandra Ivy
Gargoyles do not admire difference - and Levet is undeniably different. Of miniscule stature, rather beastly looks, and with fragile, delicate wings, even his family has shunned him, banished him from his beloved Paris. But now Levet has come home, determined to be restored to the official Gargoyle Guild. To do so, he must confront the most feared gargoyle in all of Europe. The one who tried to kill him as a child: his own mother…
When darkness comes. Alexandra Ivy
It's been a hell of a day for Abby Barlow. In just a few hours, she's survived an explosion, watched her employer die, had a startling dream, and now she finds herself in a seedy Chicago hotel with the sexy, unearthly Dante, a man she both desires and fears. For 341 years, Dante has stood as guardian to The Chalice, a mortal woman chosen to hold back the darkness. A terrible twist of fate has now made Abby that woman.
Wicked lies Lisa Jackson, Nancy Bush.
Laura Adderley didn't plan to get pregnant by her soon-to-be ex-husband, though she'll do anything to protect her baby. But now reporter Harrison DeWitt is asking questions about the mysterious group of women who live at Siren Song lodge. Harrison hasn't figured out Laura's connection to the story yet. But psychopath Justice Turnbull knows. And he is coming.
Diary of an unsmug married. Polly James
Meet Molly Bennett. Bridget Jones would call Molly a "smug married". So why doesn't she feel it? Is it because everyone seems to be having a better time of it than her? Or is it that Max has started showing more interest in 'business trips' and less interest in their sex life? Molly begins to despair. And then an old school friend starts flirting with her through Facebook …
Gambler's woman Stephanie James
Dark, dangerous Jordan Kyle lived life on his own terms, setting his own rules and playing for high stakes. He'd moved through this world alone, and was satisfied to have it that way - until he encountered Alyssa Chandler.
The pawn. Steven James
FBI agent Patrick Bowers has been called to Asheville, North Carolina to help in the investigation of a serial killer who targets young women and leaves a chess piece behind, suspecting that the murderer has ties to the Jonestown cult and possibly to the current state governor.
Dangerous pumpkins Emily Jenkins
Halloween brings out the worst in fourth-grader Henry Wolowitz and his invisible, squash-eating friend Inkling, as Henry tries to go trick-or-treating while keeping Inkling from eating all the jack-o-lanterns.
Invisible Inkling Emily Jenkins
The thing about Hank's new friend Inkling is, he's invisible. No, not imaginary. Inkling is an invisible bandapat, a creature native to the Peruvian Woods of Mystery. But Hank has bigger problems than helping Inkling fend off maniac doggies and searching for pumpkins: Bruno Gillicut is a lunch-stealing, dirtbug caveperson and he's got to be stopped. And who better to help stand up to a bully than an invisible friend?
The wardrobe wakeup : your guide to looking fabulous at any age. Lois Johnson
Describes how women over forty can reinvent their wardrobes and re-imagine their personal style without breaking the bank, and offers solutions to specific fashion problems and body concerns faced by women in this age group.
The Parenti marriage. Penny Jordan
The reluctant surrender. Saul Parenti always demands the best. That's why he's hired Giselle Freeman to work for him. Nicknamed the Ice Queen, Giselle has a frosty demeanour and a cool beauty. Yet it's obvious to Saul that beneath the Arctic facade lies fiery passion.
Echoland Joe Joyce
June, 1940. Germany is winning the war. Its next target is Britain… and Ireland. In Dublin some want Germany to win, others favour Britain, most want to stay out of the war altogether. In this atmosphere of edgy uncertainty, young lieutenant Paul Duggan is drafted into G2, the army's intelligence division, and put on the German desk, however, he is soon diverted by a request from his politician uncle to try and find his daughter, who's gone missing, possibly kidnapped. An addictive thriller that will keep you glued to the page, right through to its heart-pounding finale.
Equilateral. Ken Kalfus
A British astronomer, Thayer, high on Darwin and other progressive scientists of [his] age, has come to believe that beings more highly evolved than us are alive on Mars (he has evidence) and that there will be a perfect moment in which we can signal to them that we are here, too. He gets the support to build the Equilateral in the desert of Egypt in time for that perfect window. But as work progresses it all becomes much more confusing and complex than Thayer ever imagined.
When they were boys : the true story of the Beatles' rise to the top. Larry Kane
Never before told stories of the Beatles seven-year rise from teenage dreamers to icons, both the heartbreaks and lucky breaks.
Tom Kerridge's proper pub food. Tom Kerridge
Tom Kerridge's idea of food heaven isn't fussy gastronomy; it's proper 'man food' with Michelin star magic, including breakfasts that keep you smiling for the whole day, indulgent long lunches, teatime temptations, seasonal snacks and heart-warming suppers.
London pride. Beryl Kingston
Growing up in the Tower of London under the loving protection of her soldier father, Peggy is proud and content. But when fate moves to rip her away from the security she has known, it is down to her to look after her mother and two sisters. For later, when War comes to London, it only seems natural for Peggy to join the ARP and do her bit to protect her beloved city.
Lost girls Robert Kolker
A literary account of the lives and presumed serial killings of five Craigslist prostitutes, whose bodies were found on the same Long Island beach in 2010. Based on the New York magazine cover story.
Wilderness. Dean R. Koontz
Addison Goodheart is a mystery even to himself. He was born in an isolated home surrounded by a deep forest, seeing no one but his mother, who barely accepts him. Only in the woods, among the wildlife, is Addison truly welcome. Until the day he first knows terror, the day when his life changes radically and forever…
Mountain of bones. Christopher Krovatin
During a class hiking trip, Ian, Kendra, and PJ get lost in the mountains and discover that they are being stalked by a pack of ravenous zombies. With the help of a witch doctor and some unusual folk magic, will they be able to defeat these monsters and escape the mountain with their lives?
Yoga sparks : 108 easy practices for stress relief in a minute or less. Carol Krucoff
The wonderbox : curious histories of how to live Roman Krznaric
Showing the lessons that can be learned from the cultural historian, this title explores twelve universal topics, from work and love to money and creativity, and reveals the wisdom that we've been missing. It focuses on the decisions we make every day, whether we think about the different uses of the senses or changing attitudes to time.
The ice princess ; &, The preacher. Camilla Lackberg
The ice princess: Returning to her hometown after the funeral of her parents, writer Erica Falck finds a community on the brink of tragedy. The death of her childhood friend, Alex, is just the beginning. Erica conceives a memoir about the beautiful but remote Alex, one that will help to overcome her writer's block. Local detective Patrik Hedstrom is following his own suspicions about the case.
The New Zealand economy : an introduction Ralph Lattimore and Shamubeel Eaqub ; with contributions by Gary Hawke and Phillip McCann.
What drives economic growth in New Zealand? How have we been impacted by globalisation and the financial crisis? And what will shape our future productivity and competitiveness? In this book leading economists Ralph Lattimore and Shamubeel Eaqub bring together key data to provide a readable and analytical introduction to the contemporary New Zealand economy.
The trouble with virtue Stephanie Laurend and Alison DeLaine.
Miss Antonia Mannering has made plans that include her long-ago friend Lord Philip Ruthven. She knows Philip is popular with the ladies, but he has never married. Might he now be ready for a wife? But when love enters the equation, Antonia might be getting more than she bargained for…
The road to reckoning. Robert Lautner
When his travelling salesman father is murdered in nineteenth-century Pennsylvania, spirited twelve-year-old Thomas Walker forges an unlikely partnership with surly ex-ranger Henry Stands, who embarks on a perilous quest for vengeance.
Black out. John Lawton
The Blitz, London 1944. As the Luftwaffe make their last desperate assault on the city, Londoners take to the shelters once again and eagerly await the signal for D-Day. In the East End children lead police to a charred, dismembered corpse buried in a bombsite. For Russian émigré Detective-Sergeant Troy it is the start of a manhunt which will lead him into a world of military intelligence and corruption in high places.
Blue rondo. John Lawton
London, 1959: a city only just free of rationing, still littered with the ruins of war but straining at the modern age like a dog too long on the leash. Frederick Troy, Chief Superintendent of Scotland Yard, is celebrating the arrest and conviction of "King" Alf Marx, East London's "Mr. Big," the toughest gangster in town, when a car bomb goes off, killing fellow detective John Brocklehurst.
A lily of the field. John Lawton
A novel set before, during, and after World War II follows the loosely parallel lives of an Austrian cellist, Meret Voytek, whose orchestra becomes part of the Hitler Youth, and Hungarian physicist Karel Szabo, who is recruited by the Americans to help build the atomic bomb.
A little white death. John Lawton
Set in London in the swinging 1960s, this latest novel from Lawton follows Inspector Troy, now Scotland Yard's chief detective, deep into a case reminiscent of the infamous Profumo scandal, where secret affairs stretch to double-crosses and backroom deals in the halls of Parliament – not to mention murder.
Old flames. John Lawton
At the height of the Cold War, Chief Inspector Troy of Scotland Yard, assigned to both protect and spy on Khrushchev, investigates the killing of a Royal Navy diver and begins to suspect that one of his own colleagues may be responsible
Second violin. John Lawton
November 1938. Kristallnacht. The Jews leave Vienna - Josef Hummel tied to the underside of a boxcar. June 1940. Sergeant Troy is seconded to Special Branch to help in the round-up of 'enemy' aliens, among whom are Hummel and Troy’s brother Rod. Meanwhile a lunatic is killing rabbis in the East End of London. Troy asks for time off from Special Branch to return to his true calling - murder. Is London any better than Vienna?
Then we take Berlin. John Lawton
In 1963, freelance private investigator Joe Wilderness, a former MI6 agent and black market con artist, agrees to one last Berlin scam, which involves smuggling people, and brings his World War II gang of accomplices together once again.
Wall of spears. Duncan Lay
It is time to decide who will rule the lands and control the magic. Will it be Forland, with its lust for bloody conquest? Will it be Dokuzen, with its dreams of a slave empire, or will it be Vales, armed only with Rhiannon and her magic - and the truth about why the rulers of Dokuzen claim to be elves? Into this mix comes Sendatsu. Rejected by his true love, hated by his father, hunted by his former best friend, he now burns with the desire to build a better world for his children.
The park bench test Sarah Lefebve
Debut author Sarah Lefebve asked her own friends and family how they knew they had found the elusive Mr Right and then turned their honest – and often surprising – answers into this charming, emotional and downright funny romance.
Call me Sasha : secret confessions of an Australian callgirl. Geena Leigh
After suffering sexual abuse at the hands of her father, Geena Leigh ran away from home at 15. Discovering that she could earn large amounts of money a few nights a week, and without any education or options, Geena fell into prostitution, first of all in Brisbane's Fortitude Valley and later in Sydney and overseas… Today she has a successful career and loving relationship…Geena's story is an honest and compelling account of her adventures, misadventures, and ultimate salvation.
Confessions of a so-called middle child Maria T. Lennon
Charlie C. Cooper, reformed bully, gifted hacker, and middle child wants to make "cool" friends at her new school in Los Angeles, but her psychologist tasks her with becoming friends with the school's "biggest loser".
Naw much of a talker. Pedro Lenz
Pearse Furlong and May-Belle Mulholland are two normal eleven year-olds meeting one summer in small town Antrim, Northern Ireland, in the early 1980s. They have little in common except a shared experience of violent, abusive parents. They form an unlikely alliance and as their games and shared fantasies spin out of control their friendship becomes something much darker.
Putting the questions differently : interviews with Doris Lessing 1964-1994. Doris Lessing
Doris Lessing is one of the greatest literary figures of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. These interviews give us her thoughts on her early years as a communist and fledgling writer in Southern Rhodesia, her views on marriage, the family and feminism, on other writers from Tolstoy to Lawrence, and on her later experiments in psychotherapy and mysticism.
The gamekeeper's lady. Ann Lethbridge
Frederica Bracewell grew up under a cloud of shame. As an illegitimate child, she was treated by her uncle like a servant. It wasn't until she encountered the new gamekeeper that shy, innocent Frederica started to feel like a true lady. Lord Robert Mountford had been banished by his family. After a debauched existence, he revelled in the simplicity of a gamekeeper's lifestyle. Until temptation struck!
The governess and the earl. Ann Lethbridge
Yorkshire, 1913. When Mrs Sarah Drake applies for the position of governess to the notorious dark Earl of Ralston's motherless son she thinks she's made the biggest mistake of her life. Merrivale Hall doesn't look the slightest bit merry and the brooding earl is anything but welcoming… But Sarah brings light into the darkest of places…
August : Osage County. Tracy Letts
A vanished father. A pill-popping mother. Three sisters harbouring shady little secrets. When the extended Weston family is reunited after dad disappears, the Oklahoma household explodes in a maelstrom of repressed truths and unsettling secrets.
Bingo's run. James A. Levine
Meet Bingo, the greatest drug runner in the slums of Kibera, Nairobi, and maybe the world. Bingo earns his keep by running "white” to a host of clients, including Thomas Hunsa, a reclusive artist whose paintings, rooted in African tradition, move him. But when Bingo witnesses a drug-related murder and Wolf sends him to an orphanage for "protection," Bingo learns that life itself is the "run."
Diet trap : feed your psychological needs and end the weight loss struggle using acceptance and commitment therapy Jason Lillis, Joanne Dahl, Sandra M. Weineland.
Have you tried everything, but still can't manage to lose weight and keep it off? The Diet Trap offers proven-effective weight-loss methods based in acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to help you change the way you think about food and develop mindful eating habits, so you can ditch the fad diets once and for all, and live a healthier, happier lifestyle.
Emotional confidence : simple steps to build your confidence. Gael Lindenfield
Knowing how our feelings work allows us to tame our temperament. Gael Lindenfield takes the latest research into the body/mind/behaviour cycle and explores how we can control our body, mind and behaviour to have healthy relationships, happy selves and successful working lives.
Hearts aflame. Johanna Lindsey
Beautiful and defiant, Kristen Haardrad meets the hot, longing gaze of Royce, Thane of Wyndhurst, with icy fury - vowing never to be enslaved by the powerful Saxon lord who holds her captive. But though maddened with desire for the golden-haired Viking temptress, noble Royce, in conscience, cannot force his exquisite prisoner to submit. For only Kristen's willing surrender can quench the blistering fires that sear his tormented soul - and heal a heart consumed by passion with a soothing balm of rapturous, unconditional love.
Dinosaurs never died. John A. Long
Dinosaurs are still with us today - in the shape of birds. Find out all about dinosaurs, from the latest discoveries to evidence of dinosaur battles and how to become a palaeontologist.
Winter fire. Elizabeth Lowell
Orphaned at thirteen, a mail-order bride at fourteen, widowed at sixteen, Sarah Kennedy has learned to depend upon no one but herself – reserving all her love for her younger brother Conner, and for the wounded hawks she heals and returns to the air. A hardened Civil War veteran, personal tragedy has taught Case Maxwell three things: to be a patient, deadly fighter, to love nothing that can die; and that justice is blind. But when a confrontation leaves him near death, Case finds himself, like many another damaged wild creature, under the tender, unwanted care of Sarah Kennedy.
Mullumbimby. Melissa Lucashenko
When Jo Breen uses her divorce settlement to buy a neglected property in the Byron Bay hinterland, she is hoping for a tree change, and a blossoming connection to the land of her Aboriginal ancestors. What she discovers instead is sharp dissent from her teenage daughter, trouble brewing from unimpressed white neighbours, and a looming Native Title war between the local Bundjalung families.
The lost children Mary MacCracken
When Mary MacCracken joined a school for emotionally disturbed children as a volunteer, she quickly found herself rocked to the core by the strong, loving people who taught there, the hard-pressed and bewildered parents, and the damaged children. There are no miracle-workers in this story, only a remarkable woman who refused to give up.
Word after word after word Patricia MacLachlan
A visiting author teaches five friends about the power of words and writing.
Arctic chillers. Alistair MacLean
Discover why Alistair MacLean was the most popular thriller writer of his generation in these four classic stories of the frozen north.
The warm winds of change : globalisation and contemporary Samoa Cluny and La'avasa Macpherson.
What makes a Samoan villager buy a Chinese polypropylene mat rather than weave their own pandanus mat? When do Pacific emigrants stop sending money back home? Do villagers stop giving away fish when they get a refrigerator? These are the sorts of everyday issues that Cluny and La'avasa Macpherson examine in this accessible sociological study of the influence of globalisation on Pacific societies.
The blonde of the joke Bennett Madison
A mousey brunette who goes unnoticed at her high school discovers that she has a sneaky, wild side when she teams up with a flashy blonde classmate to shoplift from upscale stores in the local mall.
After dark. Phillip M. Margolin
A law clerk for an Oregon Supreme Court Justice is found slain in the deserted courthouse, and no suspects are found. The next month the judge himself is killed by a car bomb. This time there is a suspect: the star prosecutor in the Multnomah County District Attorney's office and estranged wife of the judge. She hires Matthew Reynolds, a legendary attorney, whose assistant uncovers a bizarre plot.
Hand in glove ; Dead water ; Death at the Dolphin. Ngaio Marsh
Hand in glove. The April Fool's Day was a roaring success for all, it seemed - except for poor Mr Cartell who ended up in the ditch - for ever. Then there was the case of Mr Percival Pyke Period's letter of condolence, sent before the body was found - not to mention the family squabbles. It's all a puzzling crime for Superintendent Alleyn.
Margaret Fuller : a new American life. Megan Marshall
Tells the story of how Fuller, tired of Boston, accepted Horace Greeley's offer to be the New-York Tribune's front-page columnist. The move unleashed a crusading concern for the urban poor and the plight of prostitutes, and a late-in-life hunger for passionate experience.
Between a rake and a hard place Connie Mason and Mia Marlowe.
When Sir Jonah Sharp is sent to woo her on the behalf of the Duke of Kent, who is negotiating for a bride, wealthy heiress Serena Osborne falls for this dashing rake who is determined to thwart this royal betrothal by any means necessary.
One night with a rake /Connie Mason and Mia Marlowe. Connie Mason
Since the death of his fiancée, Nathaniel Colton's polished boots have rested beneath the beds of countless wayward wives and widows of the town. So seducing Lady Georgette should pose no problem. But the beautiful reformist is no easy conquest.
Waking up with a rake Connie Mason and Mia Marlowe.
After he's blamed for a botched assignment during war, former cavalry officer Rhys Warrick turns his back on "honour". But one last mission could restore the reputation he's so thoroughly sullied. All he has to do is seduce and ruin Miss Olivia Symon and his military record will be cleared.
The bride says no. Cathy Maxwell
Blake Stephens, the bastard son of a duke and one of London's most sought-after bachelors, pursues his fiancée to the wilds of Scotland to persuade her not to jilt him, only to find himself drawn to her scandal-ridden sister.
Pilate's wife : a novel of the Roman Empire. Antoinette May
A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who will ultimately be her one true passion. Yet it is the ambitious magistrate Pontius Pilate who intrigues the impressionable young woman she becomes, and Claudia finds her way into his arms by means of a mysterious ancient magic …
The widow Clicquot. Tilar J. Mazzeo
Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamour and style, but who was the young widow - the 'Veuve' - Clicquot, whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune? Newly widowed, she assumed the reins of the fledgling wine business she and her husband started, steering it through huge political and financial reversals to succeed as a single woman in a man's world. As much a fascinating journey through the process of making this temperamental wine as a biography of a uniquely tempered woman.
Rose by any other name. Maureen McCarthy
Rose is all packed up. She's got a van full of petrol and a stack of CDs. She's got a surfboard in the back and a secret that won't go away. But that's okay. She also has enough attitude to light up the night sky. Then her mother decides to come along … and Rose's road trip takes an unplanned U-turn, straight to the heart of last summer.
What happened to Hannah. Mary Kay McComas
As a teenager, Hannah Benson ran away from home in order to save herself. Twenty years later, this loner is called home by tragedy, finding herself the sole responsible party for a troubled teenage niece.
Caesar. Colleen McCullough
Rome's leaders are frightened: the brilliant, ruthless Gaius Julius Caesar must be crushed before he can overthrow the government and become dictator. This magnificent novel opens in Gaul, scene of Caesar's magnificent victory over fierce people. His conquest is in the name of Rome, but when the senate refuse to give Caesar his due he marches upon his own country, an army prepared to die for him at his back.
Caesar's women. Colleen McCullough
The fourth novel of the Masters of Rome series focuses on the women in the life of the Roman emperor Gaius Julius Caesar at the height of his power.
Fortune's favourites. Colleen McCullough
The third volume of a saga set in ancient Rome focuses on the political fortunes of Julius Caesar, a soldier destined for greatness; Sulla, the dictator; and the ambitious Pompey, as well as an account of Spartacus' slave revolt.
You had me at hello ; How we met. Mhairi McFarlane
You had me at hello: It was them against the world. Until it all fell apart. It's been a decade since they last spoke, but when Rachel bumps into Ben one rainy day, the years melt away.
How we met. There are some people you can't imagine life without. Liv and her friends can't imagine a life different from now: freedom, lifelong friendships, and dreams that are still within their reach. Then, Liv dies. For those left behind, everything stops.
iPad 2 : portable genius. Paul McFedries
The iPad, iPad Air, and iPad mini are taking the world by storm. This no-nonsense guide covers everything you want to know to take full advantage of all your iPad has to offer.
The quickening omnibus. Fiona McIntosh
Myrren's gift: With war looming in the north, Wyl must obey Celimus's treacherous dictates and undertake a suicidal journey to an enemy court.
Blood & memory: Wyl Thirsk, trapped in the body of a hired assassin by a sorcerous spell, embarks on a desperate search for the Manwitch.
Bridge of souls: Clinging to an ominous suggestion from his young friend Fynch, an increasingly powerful mage, Wyl must walk his most dangerous path yet - straight into the brutal clutches of Celimus in a desperate attempt to save his nation, his love, and himself.
Mail-order bride. Maureen McKade
Kate Murphy arrives in the Rocky Mountains mining town as a mail-order bride-just in time to discover she's a widow before she's a wife. Kate comes in contact with the tantalizing form of Trev Trevelyn who needs someone to take care of his two young motherless children.
Independence and foreign policy : New Zealand in the world since 1935 Malcolm McKinnon
The first interpretive study of New Zealand foreign policy to cover the period 1935 - 91. Based on years of detailed research, it draws extensively on relevant sources both inside and outside government. It is also an original and imaginative work which consistently takes a broad view, exploring the idea of independence in New Zealand's foreign policy, the kinds of independence most commonly pursued, and their implications in practice.
Maori music. Mervyn McLean
This book is the best introduction available to Maori music - the instruments played, the songs and dance styles and what they were used for, performance, composition, teaching, etc. Based on 30 years of fieldwork that yielded 1300 recorded songs and hundred of pages of interviews and eyewitness accounts, this is a classic book.
Nga moteatea : he kupu arataki = an introduction/ Jane McRae, Maori translation by Heni Jacob. Jane McRae
The songs of Maori tradition are a living art form and an abundant source of knowledge about tribal history and culture. From the 1920s, Sir Apirana Ngata began collecting and annotating these songs - a massive undertaking that, with the help of translators Pei Te Hurinui Jones and later Hirini Moko Mead, became the treasured four-volume Nga Moteatea.
Science on ice : discovering the secrets of Antarctica Veronika Meduna
In Science on Ice, award-winning science broadcaster and writer Veronika Meduna follows deep-south scientists who huddle in tents and dive under ice to study ancient mud, fat fish, migrating penguins and fossilised forests.
Weight loss strategies : the way to lose weight without dieting : the benefits of a healthier lifestyle Theresa Mendoza
This is a text that simplifies the process of weight loss. If you are seeking the best way to lose weight without opting for a fad diet then this text is the ideal choice for any reader.
Into the fire : a first-hand account of the most extraordinary battle in the Afghan War Dakota Meyer and Bing West.
A Medal of Honor-awarded Marine sniper shares the controversy-marked story of his heroic contributions during a 2009 Taliban ambush during which he saved a company of Afghan soldiers and Marine advisors, a victory that compelled him to disobey orders and assume command without reinforcements or artillery support.
Adventures with Ari : a puppy, a leash & our year outdoors Kathryn Miles
A dog sees the world quite differently from a person. For starters, he or she is much closer to the ground - to what we've been trying to preserve more and more of these days. A dog is the original environmental activist: the sights, sounds, and smells of nature are what make a dog a dog. And if you want to learn more about nature, try enjoying life like a dog. Kathryn Miles sets out to do just that when she becomes determined to let Ari live life on her own terms.
The pursuit of Mary Bennet: a Pride and prejudice novel Pamela Mingle
For most of her life Mary Bennet has been an object of ridicule. But lately, Mary has changed. She's matured and attained a respectable, if somewhat unpolished, decorum. But her peace and contentment are shattered when her sister Lydia turns up and they are both bustled off to stay with Jane where Mary meets Henry Walsh, whose attentions confound her.
Thirty girls. Susan Minot
Esther is a Ugandan teenager abducted by the Lord's Resistance Army and forced to witness and commit unspeakable atrocities, who is struggling to survive, to escape, and to find a way to live with what she has seen and done. Jane is an American journalist who has travelled to Africa, hoping to give a voice to children like Esther and to find her centre after a series of failed relationships. Minot interweaves their stories, giving us razor-sharp portraits of two extraordinary young women confronting displacement, heartbreak, and the struggle to wrest meaning from events that test them both in unimaginable ways.
The pavlova omnibus Austin Mitchell
An omnibus containing Austin Mitchell's classic books The half-gallon quarter-acre pavlova paradise and Pavlova paradise revisited. Austin Mitchell's witty, seminal books observe New Zealand, its people and politics with a fond eye.
Raw survival : food, energy, shelter, community : living the raw lifestyle on and off the grid Lisa Montgomery
Raw Survival presents an approach that embraces sustainable living as a solution to meet our daily needs, even if the worst case scenario never unfolds. This book is an invaluable reference featuring a wealth of important sustainability tips and simple raw food recipes specially geared towards living "on or off the grid" as a vegetarian or raw foodist.
The essential guide to eating paleo : the stone age diet revisited. Derrick Moore
This handy guide is very easy to read and should satisfy a lot of your curiosity about what is involved with eating Paleo.
Best lunch box ever : ideas and recipes for school lunches kids will love Katie Sullivan Morford
Offers seventy-five recipes for simple and healthy lunches, snacks, and after-school treats for kids.
The road from Gap Creek. Robert Morgan
The Road to Gap Creek takes us back into the lives of Julie and Hank as well as their children, seen through the eyes of their youngest daughter, Annie. Through Annie we watch the four Richards children create their own histories, lives that include both triumph and hardship in the face of the Great Depression and World War II.
Apologies to my censor : the high and low adventures of a foreigner in China Mitch Moxley
The author came to Beijing in the spring of 2007 to take a job as a writer and editor for China Daily. The Chinese economy was booming, the Olympics were on the horizon, and Beijing was being transformed into a world-class city overnight. This book spans the five years that the author has lived in China.
The boy who built the boat. Ross Mueller
Henry sets out to build a boat one day; he has a hammer and a saw; and a sister and a teddy; and a shed full of big ideas. Ages 3-8.
Michelangelo. Eugene Muntz
The work of Michelangelo has, indisputably, stood the test of time. How is it possible that in just a few years Michelangelo was able to uncover the secrets of a creative source worthy of his Greek predecessors? Often referred to as a creative genius and a superman, Michelangelo was an incomparable artist of the Italian Renaissance and is often ranked alongside Leonardo da Vinci in terms of influence and achievement.
All of me Anne Murray with Michael Posner
In this revealing autobiography, Canada's first lady of song, for the first time, tells the whole story of her astonishing 40-year career in show biz. It is a candid retrospective of the extraordinary success achieved, and the prices that had to be paid.
Opium nation : child brides, drug lords, and one woman's journey through Afghanistan Fariba Nawa
When Fariba Nawa was nine years old, her family fled Soviet-occupied Afghanistan to go to America. In 2000, she returned to her home country after nearly 20 years. Now a journalist, Nawa discovered a nation altered by the toxic effects of the Taliban and the multibillion-dollar opium business.
Foreign Gods, Inc. : a novel. Okey Ndibe
Tells the story of Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver who sets out to steal the statue of an ancient war deity from his home village and sell it to a New York gallery.
Na to hoa aroha = From your dear friend : the correspondence between Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1925-50. Volume three, 1932-50 Apirana Ngata edited by M. P. K. Sorrenson.
Na to hoa aroha = From your dear friend : the correspondence between Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1925-50. Volume one, 20 October 1925-9 November 1929 Apirana Ngata edited by M. P. K. Sorrenson.
Na to hoa aroha = From your dear friend : the correspondence between Sir Apirana Ngata and Sir Peter Buck, 1925-50. Volume two, 1930-1932 Apirana Ngata edited by M.P.K. Sorrenson.
Winter. Christopher Nicholson
A celebrated author, in the winter of his life, awaits a visit from a beautiful young actress – the leading lady in a staging of his most famous tragedy. But his wife is troubled. An anxious and sickly woman, she watches the growing intimacy between her husband and the young woman, and becomes tormented by the idea that they will betray her.
Tsunami and the single girl Krissy Nicholson
Krissy Nicholson's life as an international Aid Worker and her (seemingly) never-ending search for Mr Right in some of the world's most dangerous disaster zones.
Bittersweet Shauna Niequist
Shauna Niequist looks at the challenges and blessings of change. Drawing from her own experiences in a recent season of pain and chaos, she explores the bits of wisdom and growth we earn the hard way, through change, loss, and transition, and offers her own reflections on what brought her hope along the way, and how change can be an opportunity for growth and a function of God's graciousness.
Happy herbivore abroad : a travelogue & over 135 fat-free & low-fat vegan recipes from around the world Lindsay S. Nixon
In the last 10 years, Happy Herbivore chef Lindsay S. Nixon has lived in eight states, visited 46, spent a year as an expat on a Caribbean island, and travelled to more than 35 places abroad. This book combines traditional comfort foods from home with international inspiration and stories of her adventures.
Fuel : poems. Naomi Shihab Nye
A collection of poems that find meaning in a world where we are "so tired of meaning nothing", "Fuel" covers topics ranging from the border families of southern Texas to small ferns and forgotten books to Jews and Palestinians in the Middle East.
Red suitcase : poems. Naomi Shihab Nye
Poet, teacher, essayist, anthologist, songwriter and singer, Naomi Shihab Nye is one of the country's most acclaimed writers. Her voice is generous; her vision true; her subjects ordinary people, and ordinary situations which, when rendered through her language, become remarkable. In this, her fourth full collection of poetry, we see with new eyes: a grandmother's scarf, an alarm clock, a man carrying his son on his shoulders.
30-minute yoga : for better balance and strength in your life. Viveka Blom Nygren
Certified yoga instructor Viveka Blom Nygren demonstrates how to do a half-hour Ashtanga Vinyasa yoga session in your own home so that you can achieve focus and calm on a more regular basis.
Carthage. Joyce Carol Oates
A young girl's disappearance rocks a community and a family, in this stirring examination of grief, faith, justice and the atrocities of war, from literary legend Joyce Carol Oates. Dark and riveting, 'Carthage' is a powerful addition to the Joyce Carol Oates canon, one that explores the human capacity for violence, love and forgiveness, and asks if it's ever truly possible to come home again.
The meeting place : Maori and Pakeha encounters, 1642-1840 Vincent O'Malley
Here Vincent O'Malley examines the 'meeting place' negotiated by Maori and Pakeha from 1642 to 1840. Around such considerations about how the world would work, Maori and Pakeha in early New Zealand defined a way of being together. This is a book about that meeting time and place, about a process of mutual discovery, contact and encounter - meeting, greeting and seeing - between Maori and Pakeha from 1642 to about 1840.
The money class : how to stand in your truth and create the future you deserve Suze Orman
Suze Orman, the woman millions of Americans have turned to for financial advice, delivers a master class on personal finance and teaches her readers that the "New American Dream" is not the things they accumulate, but the confidence that comes from knowing that which they've worked so hard for cannot be taken away from them.
One boy missing. Stephen Orr
It was a butcher on smoko who reported the man stashing the kid in the car boot. He didn't really know whether he'd seen anything at all, though. Maybe an abduction? Maybe just a stressed-out father. Detective Bart Moy, newly returned to the country town where his ailing, cantankerous father still lives, finds nothing. A mystery, a meditation on fatherhood, a harrowing examination of love and loss: a new departure in literary crime from Stephen Orr.
The Icarus girl. Helen Oyeyemi
This is a first novel about spirits, twins and an extraordinary little girl.
The opposite house. Helen Oyeyemi
Maja Carmen Carrera, the daughter of a black Cuban couple, was only five years old when the family emigrated from the Caribbean to London. Now, almost twenty years later, Maja is a singer with a small band, in love with her boyfriend, pregnant and haunted by what she calls 'her Cuba.' Growing up in London, she struggles to negotiate her history and the sense that speaking the Spanish or the English of her people's conquistadors makes her less of a black girl.
Half hour hungries : 36 awesome dishes for kids to make when time is short. Sabrini Parrini
The book is designed to get kids cooking in the kitchen with a selection of easy-to-prepare and delicious recipes that will take no more than 30 minutes to get from the pages of the book to the plate or bowl.
Binocular vision : new & selected stories Edith Pearlman
Tenderly, observantly, incisively, Edith Pearlman captures life on the page like few other writers. She is a master of the short story, and this is a spectacular collection.
The ultimate Doctor Who quiz book : a celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who. Adam Pearson
Are you a big fan of Doctor Who? Have you watched all of the series from years gone by through to the present day? Can you name the various actors who have played the Doctor from William Hartnell to Matt Smith? If you can tell a Hath from the Heavenly Host and a Sontaran from a Slitheen, you are certain to enjoy this fun new quiz book?
Making sheep country : Mt. Peel Station and the transformation of the tussock lands Robert Peden
First the squatter, then the runholder, after that the farmer … Taking us inside the world of New Zealand's South Island sheepfarmers - the sheep they bred, the rabbits and droughts and floods they fought, the fires they lit, the grass they grew, the risks they took - Peden offers a sweeping portrait of the economic and ecological transformation of New Zealand.
Big Nate. Dibs on this chair. Lincoln Peirce
As a popular middle-grade book character, Nate is 11 years old, four-and-a-half feet tall, and the all-time record holder for detentions in school history. He's a self-described genius and sixth grade Renaissance Man. Nate, who lives with his dad and older sister, enjoys pestering his family and teachers with his sarcasm.
A bedtime kiss for Chester Raccoon Audrey Penn
When Chester the raccoon goes to bed at sunrise, the shadows cast in his room are frightening and keep him from falling asleep.
Chester Raccoon and the acorn full of memories Audrey Penn
After his mother explains why his classmate is not returning to school, she teaches Chester Raccoon how to make a memory.
A kiss goodbye Audrey Penn
Chester Raccoon is very unhappy about leaving his home in a tree that has been marked by tree cutters, but his mother tries to convince him that their new home might be even better.
The kissing hand Audrey Penn
When Chester the raccoon is reluctant to go to kindergarten for the first time, his mother teaches him a secret way to carry her love with him.
An enormous yes Wendy Perriam
Three generations of women, all with very different ideas as to what constitutes the good life. For Hanna, 95, it's always been based on duty, piety, and service to others, but for her granddaughter, Amy, it means wealth success and status. An Enormous Yes poses fundamental questions about what constitutes living well, and the choices we are forced to make between wants and needs, ideals and rights; exploring the conflicting claims of entitlement versus duty and responsibility.
Short stories Wendy Perriam
Away Day: A short trip to the seaside brings about a second lease of life for the elderly Miss Feltham.
The Eighth Wonder of the World: A nature walk takes a turn for the worse when daring Tilly attempts to steal a rare botanical treasure. Angelfish: A darkly humourous tale of a lodger's murderous plans for the tropical fish that seem to dominate the residence, along with his dislike for the new guest.
Moving: A trip down to the basement leads to a wife's difficult discovery of her husband's other life during a routine home removal.
Thin Skin: To compensate for her thin, flaking skin, Daisy builds a wall up around her own private world, which she, rather unusually, shares with a family of mice.
Horrie the war dog Roland Perry
He was a little stray pup the boys of First Australian Machine Gun Battalion saved from harsh Libyan Desert. He became their much-loved mascot and saviour. But what happened to Horrie on his return to Australia?
Alice Munro Brenda Pfaus
Brenda Pfaus provides a unique and intriguing look at one of Canada's greatest living writers.
The ghost house Helen Phifer
There's not much that scares Annie Graham. Not even the horrors she has witnessed during her years on the police force. When she agrees to look after her brother's farmhouse, she finds herself drawn to the crumbling old mansion in the woods nearby. But an innocent exploration of the empty ruin and the discovery of the diary of former resident Alice leaves her more than a little spooked.
The last whisper in the dark Tom Piccirilli
Youngest son Terry, a surviving member of the Rand family of cat burglars and con artists, becomes enmeshed in a heist gone wrong that pits him against an old nemesis and threatens to permanently estrange him from the woman he once loved.
Monkeys in my garden : unbelievable but true stories of my life in Mozambique. Valerie Pixley
Monkeys in My Garden is a true-life adventure story of Valerie and her husband life in the Nhamacoa Forest. From an idyllic life in the Algarve that was destroyed by an enormous fire, to a ruin of a house in Mozambique with grass for a roof and no doors or glass in the windows, this is a wild mix of hilarious and hair-raising experiences that involved witchcraft, corruption and even a life-saving miracle.
Hanging judge Michael A. Ponsor
Based on the experience of the author, a federal judge who in 2000 presided over the first capital case in Massachusetts in more than fifty years, this extraordinary debut thriller offers an unprecedented inside view of a federal death penalty trial. When a drive-by shooting in Holyoke, Massachusetts, claims the lives of a Puerto Rican drug dealer and a hockey mother volunteering at an inner-city clinic, the police arrest a rival gang member.
Seven flowers and how they changed the world Jennifer Potter
The lotus, lily, sunflower, opium poppy, rose, tulip and orchid. Seven flowers: seven stories full of surprise and secrets. Where and when did these flowers originate? What is the nature of their power and how was it acquired? What use has been made of them in gardens, literature and art? These are both histories and detective stories, full of incident, unexpected revelations, and irony.
A New Zealand book of beasts : animals in our culture, history and everyday life Annie Potts, Philip Armstrong, Deidre Brown.
A New Zealand Book of Beasts is a groundbreaking examination of the interactions between humans and 'nonhuman animals' - both real and imagined - in New Zealand's arts and literature, popular culture, historiography, media and everyday life.
Amina J. L. Powers
Amina lives on the edges of Mogadishu. Although her mother and grandmother are still with her, Amina feels vulnerable and abandoned. Secretly, she begins to create her own artwork in the streets and the derelict buildings to give herself a sense of hope and to let out the burden of her heart. Her artwork explodes into Mogadishu's underground world, providing a voice for people all over the city who hope for a better, more secure future
The piano man M. K. Preston
With the tragic death of her teenage son, Claire O'Neal lost more than Nathan - she lost her direction. Now, three years after his death, her life remains flat and hopeless. But with the unexpected discovery of a forgotten letter, written by the wife of the man who received Nathan's heart, Claire feels as if she has been given a chance to connect again with her son. And as two lost, lonely people learn to find hope once again, they grow to understand that life's most beautiful music still comes straight from the heart.
Her father's daughter Alice Pung
At twenty-something, Alice is eager for the milestones of adulthood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her parents, who want more than anything to keep her from harm. Her father fears for her safety to an extraordinary degree - but why?
Shadowed by grace : a story of Monuments Men Cara C. Putman
An American woman on assignment in Italy to photograph the frontlines during World War II finds love after becoming involved with a soldier dedicated to saving great monuments and works of art from the Third Reich.
Seduction ; Surrender : two novels in one volume. Amanda Quick
Seduction: Dark and enigmatic Julian, Earl of Ravenwood, was a man with a legendary temper and a first wife whose mysterious death would not be forgotten. Now country-bred Sophy Dorring is about to become Ravenwood's new bride.
Surrender: At four and twenty Victoria Huntington thought herself quite adept at fending off fortune hunters until she came under siege from Lucas Colebrook, the darkly disturbing new Earl of Stonevale.
New Zealand and the Vietnam war : politics and diplomacy Roberto Giorgio Rabel
Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of New Zealand combat troops leaving for Vietnam. The Vietnam War provoked a major crisis in New Zealand attitudes to foreign policy, breaking for the first time the almost universal consensus about how the country should handle political and military issues beyond its shores. This is the first major study of these events and is the fruit of many years of detailed research which draws on government archives, newspapers, records of the protest movement and a range of other sources.
The health benefits of coconut oil : how coconut oil helps rejuvenate the body. Ashley Rainford
Almost everyone has heard of the many benefits that coconut oil has but do they really know what all the benefits are?
Eat move sleep : why small choices make a big difference Tom Rath
Tom Rath delivers a book that will improve your health for years to come in three of interconnected areas: eating, moving, and sleeping.
Flip flop Dana Meachen Rau
Rhyming text explores the many options that summer presents to two best friends, from swimming in a pool versus swimming in the sea, to wearing flip flops versus going barefoot.
I am in charge of me Dana Meachen Rau
A boy recounts the many things in his life for which he is responsible.
Look! : a book about sight. Dana Meachen Rau
Discusses the sense of sight and how it affects the body.
Shhhh– : a book about hearing Dana Meachen Rau
Discusses the sense of hearing and how it affects the body.
Soft and smooth, rough and bumpy Dana Meachen Rau
Discusses the sense of touch and how it affects the body.
Tired of waiting Dana Meachen Rau
A child thinks of ways to have fun while waiting for the bus, at the doctor's office, and at other boring times during the day.
Yum : a book about taste. Dana Meachen. Rau
Discusses the sense of taste and how it affects the body.
Doctor Who. The Sontaran Games Jacqueline Rayner
Dear Mr. Knightley Katherine Reay
When an anonymous benefactor offers to put Samantha Moore through school, with the stipulation that she write frequent letters to him on her progress, Sam finds safety in the letters as her programme and her peers force her to confront her past.
Dark times Rob Reger and Jessica Gruner ; illustrated by Rob Reger and Buzz Parker
Travelling in her homemade Time-Out Machine, Emily journeys to the eighteenth century to uncover the truth behind a Strange family rumour.
Those wild Wyndhams : three sisters at the heart of power. Claudia Renton
Three sisters - beautiful, cultured and aristocratic, born into immense wealth during the reign of Queen Victoria. Their dramatic lives are here unfolded in a rich historical biography certain to appeal to fans of Downton Abbey, 'Georgiana' and Stella Tillyard's 'Aristocrats'. 'Those Wild Wyndhams' is their first ever biography, and is based on the many letters they have left behind - compelling, humorous and brilliantly illuminating.
Whaikorero : the world of Maori oratory Poia Rewi
Anyone who has been welcomed on to a marae in New Zealand, will understand that whaikorero - oratory - is at the heart of Maori culture. Whaikorero: The World of Maori Oratory is the first introduction to this fundamental Maori art to be widely published. It is based on broad research as well as oral histories from 30 of the leading exponents of whaikorero.
How to talk to absolutely anyone : confident communication in every situation Mark Rhodes
Be a people magnet! Improving your people skills and becoming a people-person is a sure-fire route to success, happiness, and confidence.
The wit and wisdom of Sir Alex Ferguson. Chris Riley
When Sir Alex Ferguson announced his retirement as manager of Manchester United in 2013 he called time on the most successful career in football history. Commentating on the game, its characters and its components, Sir Alex is the complete football philosopher.
Goodbye, fatty! hello, skinny : how I lost weight and still ate the foods I loved - without dieting Kim Rinehart
Do you go through an endless cycle of counting calories and watching everything you put into your mouth but nothing ever seems to work? This book will show how you to lose weight by simply rearranging your eating habits.
If it's clutter… : quick tips for decluttering the home. Kim Rinehart
This book shows you what to do when you have got too much junk. With its quick and easy advice on how to remove and let go of your unnecessary items, this guide can help you get on the path to having peace of mind as well as a tidy home.
Gulp : adventures on the alimentary canal Mary Roach
Few of us realize what strange wet miracles of science operate inside us after every meal. In her trademark style, Mary Roach investigates the beginning, and end, of our food, addressing such questions as why crunchy food is so appealing, how much we can eat before our stomachs burst.
Ghost moon Karen Robards
A young woman, with her eight-year-old daughter, returns to the family estate, only to have to deal with deadly family secrets.
Heartbreaker Karen Robards
When divorcee Lynn Nelson, a beautiful single mother, agrees to help chaperone her teenage daughter Rory's wilderness trip, she and Rory become separated from the rest of the group, surrounded by an unknown menace, with only outfitter Jess Feldman standing between them and the mysterious evil.
Hunter's moon Karen Robards
Molly Ballard has made mistakes before. Now, FBI agent Will Lyman is asking her to make just one more. Molly will do anything to protect her family, and to shield the secrets of her past. She will even spy for Will and let him pose as her lover.
Maggy's child Karen Robards
Maggy, having endured twelve years in an abusive marriage to the much older Lyle Forrest for the sake of her son David, finds her defences crumbling when Nick, her first love and the father of her child, returns to claim her.
Nobody's angel Karen Robards
Susan Redmon, the plain eldest daughter of a Carolina Colony preacher, comes to "own" indentured servant Ian Connelly, Marquis of Derne.
The senator's wife Karen Robards
When a senator from Mississippi dies mysteriously in the midst of a sticky scandal, his second wife must clear herself and the senator's campaign manager of suspicion.
This side of heaven Karen Robards
When Caroline Wetherby arrives in Connecticut Colony she finds out that her half-sister Elizabeth is dead and her healing skills make her suspect in the eyes of the Pilgrims.
Walking after midnight Karen Robards
Summer McAfee, a former New York model now back home in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, is taken hostage by a man left for dead at a funeral home. The man Summer calls Frankenstein is on the run from cops, killers, and his complicated past.
All's well that ends : an Amanda Pepper mystery Gillian Roberts
With her in-laws scattered in the wake of a devastating hurricane and her husband C. K. determined to help them rebuild, Amanda Pepper plans to resign from Philly Prep, but first she must investigate the supposed suicide of a local woman.
The boy detective : a New York childhood. Roger Rosenblatt
Resisting the deadening silence of his family home in the elegant yet stiflingly safe neighbourhood of Gramercy Park, nine-year-old Roger imagines himself a private eye in pursuit of criminals. Six decades later, Rosenblatt finds himself again patrolling the territory of his youth: a grown man now, he investigates his own life and the life of the city as he walks, exploring the New York of the 1950s.
iPhone millionaire : how to create and sell cutting edge video. Michael Rosenblum
Michael Rosenblum is the undisputed guru of short-form video. His simple approach and one-of-a-kind teaching style turn amateurs into extraordinary storytellers.
The Divergent series : 3 book collection. Veronica Roth
Divergent: In a divided society where everyone must conform, Tris does not fit. So she ventures out, alone, determined to find out where she truly belongs.
Insurgent: Tris has survived a brutal attack on her home, but she has paid a terrible price. Wracked by grief and guilt, she becomes reckless as she struggles to accept her new future.
Allegiant: The faction-based society that Tris once believed in is shattered so when offered a chance to explore the world past the limits she's known, Tris is ready. But Tris's new reality is even more alarming than the one she left behind.
Free Four : Tobias tells the Divergent story. Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth retells a pivotal Divergent scene (chapter 13) from Tobias's point of view. This thirteen-page scene reveals unknown facts and fascinating details about Four's character, his past, his own initiation, and his thoughts about new Dauntless initiate Tris Prior.
The transfer : a Divergent story. Veronica Roth
Four! fans of the Divergent series will be thrilled by The Transfer, the first of four new short stories told from Four's perspective. Each brief story explores the world of the Divergent series through the eyes of the mysterious but charismatic Tobias Eaton, revealing previously unknown facets of his personality, backstory, and relationships.
Lost girls. Caitlin Rother
17 year old Chelsea King was a popular high school senior, an outstanding achiever determined to make a difference. 14 year old Amber Dubois loved books and poured her heart into the animals she cared for. Treasured by their families and friends, both girls disappeared in San Diego County, just eight miles and one year apart. The community's desperate search led authorities to John Albert Gardner III, a brutal predator hiding in plain sight.
1,001 words you never knew you didn't know : hopperdozer, hoecake, ear trumpet, dort, and other nearly forgotten terms and expressions W. R. Runyan
As times change so do the things we use and what we call them. W.R. Runyan has compiled a fascinating collection of words and phrases that, once common everywhere in America, are little known today.
The perfect wife. Lynsay Sands
Paen Gerville longed for a lively, well-rounded woman, one whose plump breast would cushion his head after the lonely, harsh life of a knight. At first his wife-to-be, Avelyn, promised no such delights, but one split bridal gown later, her assets were eye-poppingly apparent and Paen could only grin as he anticipated the surprises yet to come on his wedding night with the perfect wife.
Quit smoking for life : a simple, proven 5-step plan Suzanne Schlosberg
Provides straight forward instructions for a five-step plan to quit smoking that is backed by the American Cancer Society.
Malarky Anakana Schofield
What happens when a woman loves her boy so intensely she destroys him?
Heist Robert Schofield
Soaring gold prices have led an old mine back into production financed by a WA mining entrepreneur. While senior personnel are ar the Kalgoolie Cup, there is a well-organised $8 million heist by what appears to be a bikie gang.
British English A to Zed : a definitive guide to the Queen's English. Norman W. Schur
For readers, travellers, and Anglophiles everywhere, this entertaining and authoritative resource is a cultural delight. Whether you are travelling to Great Britain or just want to understand British popular culture, this unique dictionary will answer your questions.
Nobody's child Michael Seed with Noel Botham.
Michael Seed should have received what every child deserves: love, care and attention. Instead, his childhood was nothing but a daily ordeal of unspeakable neglect, misery and abuse. This is the story of an individual who, against all the odds, managed to preserve his own dignity and finally escape the horrors of a stolen childhood.
The girl from Station X : my mother's unknown life. Elisa Segrave
When Elisa Segrave uncovered a cache of wartime diaries written by her mother, she had no idea that she would be brought face to face with a character utterly different from the troubled woman who had become so reliant on her. Now, on the pages before her, Segrave encountered Anne Hamilton-Grace, a young woman who had grown up in immense privilege and luxury but who leapt at the first opportunity to join the war effort. At once a vivid recreation of a dramatic era and a powerful portrait of a mother-daughter relationship, this is an original and affecting work about what it means to come to know someone through their writing; about how Anne unwittingly found a way to link her life with her daughter's decades after they had given up trying to communicate.
A history of the Dora Camp Andre Sellier
A former prisoner tells the untold story of the Nazi concentration camp that secretly manufactured V-2 rockets.
The final storm : a novel of the war in the Pacific Jeff Shaara
A fictional account of the struggle for Okinawa through the eyes of combatants on both sides: Private Clay Adams, Admiral Chester Nimitz, General Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr., and General Mitsura Ushijima, the Japanese general in charge of defending the island.
The blue mountain. Meir Shalev
The stories of four young Russian pioneers who immigrated to Israel in the years before WWI.
Freedom from anxiety : a holistic approach to emotional well-being Marcey Shapiro
Dr. Shapiro grappled with anxiety on her own path to greater health and wholeness and observed, through her personal experience and that of treating numerous patients who suffer from the heartache and despair that anxiety causes, that finding peace involves a spiritual journey of self-awareness and self-acceptance.
Heaphy. Iain Sharp
Born in England, Englishman Charles Heaphy - the first 'New Zealander' to win the Victoria Cross, the first European to explore the West Coast of New Zealand's South Island and a distinguished 19th-century landscape painter in that country - is a central figure in colonial history. This book reveals the story of Heaphy's life and art.
Coming of age on Zoloft : how antidepressants cheered us up, let us down, and changed who we are Katherine Sharpe
When Katherine Sharpe arrived at her college health centre with an age-old complaint, a bad case of homesickness, she received a thoroughly modern response: a twenty-minute appointment and a prescription for Zoloft - a drug she would take for the next ten years. In this book, Sharpe blends deeply personal writing, thoughtful interviews, and historical context to achieve an unprecedented portrait of the antidepressant generation.
Her dark curiosity. Megan Shepherd
Back in London after her trip to Dr. Moreau's horrific island, Juliet is rebuilding the life she once knew and trying to forget her father's legacy. But soon it's clear that someone – or something – hasn't forgotten her, as people close to Juliet start falling victim to a murderer who leaves a macabre calling card of three clawlike slashes. Has one of her father's creations also escaped the island?
The amateur science of love Craig Sherborne
Colin dreams of escaping his parents' New Zealand farm for a grand stage career. He makes it to London and a disastrous audition before meeting Tilda - beautiful Tilda, older, an artist - who brings his future with her.
Hoi polloi Craig Sherborne
In pubs and on the racetrack, a curious child learns about life. Growing up in his family's hotel in Heritage, New Zealand, he sees brawls, ponders snobbery and racism, and takes his first drink. In 1970s Sydney, his parents begin a love-affair with the horse-racing scene and try to climb the social ladder. Amid the everyday violence of school days, he has his first tastes of sex and religion.
Muck Craig Sherborne
The dynasty has started with my father as the founding father and me his only son, the founding son. He looks forward to the day when he can watch his grand children out there in the clover-covered paddocks frolicking among the cowpats. On it they plan to build a grand manor house, with staff to milk the cows and break in the race-horses, he is free to prepare himself for his illustrious future - principally by poncing about like Lord Muck. Muck is about what happens when things go wrong - hilariously, tragically - on the path to adulthood.
The post-birthday world Lionel Shriver
This is the new novel from the Orange Prize winning author of "We Need to Talk About Kevin". It all hinges on one kiss. Whether Irena McGovern does or does not lean in to a specific pair of lips in London will determine whether she stays with her disciplined, intellectual partner Lawrence or runs off with Ramsey, a hard-living snooker player. Both men in Irena's dual future are worthy of her affection but deeply flawed. The answer is that there is no perfect answer: one of the things that draws us to our mates is what is wrong with them.
Food allergies : a complete guide for eating when your life depends on it Scott H. Sicherer
Posing the questions that anyone with food allergies will think to ask, this book provides practical, emotional, and scientific guidance on the topics that affect your life.
Kinds of peace : Maori people after the wars 1870-85 Keith Sinclair
Admirably clear and concise in its account of the aftermath of the land wars, Kinds of Peace examines the political, religious and other reactions among Maori towards the coming of peace. It considers the effect of the wars on the Maori people of Waikato, Taranaki, and Hawkes Bay, and draws heavily on Maori sources.
The origins of the Maori wars. Keith Sinclair
Keith Sinclair's The Origins of the Maori Wars is a fascinating account of the Waitara purchase and the cause of war in Taranaki in 1860.
Walter Nash. Keith Sinclair
Walter Nash was among the most influential of the group of Labour Party leaders who created the welfare state. He was a member of parliament for almost 40 years and he was one of New Zealand political leaders known internationally. Keith Sinclair's engrossing biography traces Walter Nash's development from his youth through to his determination to build a more just society.
Helium. Jaspreet Singh
On November 1st 1984, a day after the assassination of Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi, a nineteen-year-old student travels back from a class trip with his mentor and chemistry teacher, Professor Singh. As the group disembark at Delhi station a mob surrounds the professor, throws a tire over him, douses him in gasoline and sets him alight. Years later the student, Raj, is compelled to find his professor's widow, the beautiful Nelly. As the two walk through the misty mountains of Shimla, Nelly comes up against a nation in denial, Raj faces the truth about his father's role in the Sikh massacre and they both find the path leads back to the train station. Jaspreet Singh crafts an affecting and important story of a largely untouched moment in Indian memory.
Mr Penumbra's 24 hour bookstore. Robin Sloan
After a layoff during the Great Recession sidelines his tech career, Clay Jannon takes a job at the titular bookstore in San Francisco, and soon realizes that the establishment is a facade for a strange secret.
West Country murders Nicola Sly
Hidden behind the picturesque facade of country lands and rugged coastlines, quaint villages and busy market towns, the South West counties have witnessed some of the most shocking murder cases in British history. West Country Murders brings together over 50 cases from the authors' previous collections, and some completely new ones, here in one volume.
Once is enough. Miles Smeeton
Miles Smeeton and his wife Beryl sailed their 46-ft Bermuda ketch, Tzu Hang, in the wild seas of Cape Horn, following the tracks of the old sailing clippers through the world's most notorious waters. This is an exciting true story of survival against all odds, but it is also a thoughtful book which provides hard-learned lessons for other intrepid sailors.
Wild awake Hilary T. Smith
The discovery of a family secret leads seventeen-year-old Kiri Byrd from a protected and naive life into a summer of mental illness, first love, and profound self-discovery.
Welcome to the jungle : everything you ever wanted to know about bipolar but were too freaked out to ask. Hilary Smith
Bipolar is one of the most commonly diagnosed psychiatric conditions among teens and twenty-somethings – yet there are very few books out there written specifically for young people experiencing mental illness for the first time. Upfront, empowering approach to the challenges of being diagnosed with bipolar.
The bad beginning. Lemony Snicket
After the sudden death of their parents, the three Baudelaire children must depend on each other and their wits when it turns out that the distant relative who is appointed their guardian is determined to use any means necessary to get their fortune.
The reptile room. Lemony Snicket
After narrowly escaping the menacing clutches of the dastardly Count Olaf, the three Baudelaire orphans are taken in by a kindly herpetologist with whom they live happily for an all-too-brief time.
High plains hearts : 3-in-1 contemporary romance collection Janet Spaeth
Angel's roost: Tess Mahoney is thrilled when she learns that Jake Cameron is considering moving his popular coffeehouse downtown. More than that, though, she finds she's falling for Jake. But Tess wonders what he really believes about angels – and faith in general.
In the cool of the evening: Although massive flooding nearly destroyed the town of Wildwood, youth minister Ric Jensen is determined to bring it back to life. When he meets Lily Chamberlain, she seems to be the answer to his prayers. But Lily and her five-year-old son have suffered their own losses.
Sunshine: Olivia Moore has a crazy dream, and Hayden Greenwood isn't quite sure what to think of the adorable city slicker who shows up in answer to his ad to sell his family's now-defunct resort. Shouldn't a realtor know the old adage "Location, location, location"?
Dearie : the remarkable life of Julia Child Bob Spitz
It is rare for someone to emerge in America who can change our attitudes, our beliefs, and our very culture. It is even rarer when that someone is a middle-aged, six-foot three-inch woman whose first exposure to an unsuspecting public is cooking an omelette on a hot plate on a local TV station. And yet, that is exactly what Julia Child did. On the centenary of her birth, Julia finally gets the biography she richly deserves.
Cold hearts Gunnar Staalesen
On a frosty January day in Bergen, Private Detective Varg Veum is visited by a prostitute. Her friend Margrethe has disappeared and hasn't been seen for days. Before her disappearance, something had unsettled her: she'd turned away a customer and returned to the neighbourhood in terror.
The consorts of death Gunnar Staalesen ; translated from the Norwegian by Don Bartlett.
It's September 1995, and Veum is in his office when a telephone conversation takes him back twenty-five years, to a case he was involved in while working as a child protection officer, during the summer of 1970. A small boy was separated from his mother under tragic circumstances. But that had not been the end of it.
The writing on the wall Gunnar Staalesen ; translated from the Norwegian by Hal Sutcliffe.
Varg Veum is lead into a dark world of privileged young girls who have been drawn into drugs and prostitution. When the body of a local judge is found in a luxury hotel clad only in women's lingerie, he looks for clues that lead him only deeper into Bergen's criminal underworld.
Yours until death Gunnar Staalesen ; translated by Margaret Amassian.
It was at their 'torture chamber', a hut in the pinewoods nearby, that Varg Veum, private investigator, first encountered the gang's pathetic but deadly ferocity. Eight-year-old Roar's bicycle had been stolen and not an adult in sight dared retrieve it. Yours Until Death is an unbearably tense novel of revenge and murder, about marriage, childhood, bereavement and the destructive force of passion.
Bringing Adam home : the abduction that changed America Les Standiford with Joe Matthews.
Before Adam Walsh there were no faces on milk cartons, no Amber Alerts, no National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, no federal databases of crimes against children, no paedophile registry. His 1981 abduction and murder – unsolved for over a quarter of a century – forever changed America. While our lives have been significantly altered by Adam Walsh's case, few of us know the whole story – how, after more than twenty-seven years of relentless investigation, decorated Miami Beach homicide detective Joe Matthews finally identified Adam's killer.
Kin of place : essays on 20 New Zealand writers C. K. Stead
In Kin of Place, C. K. Stead addresses most of the leading New Zealand literary figures of the last decades of the twentieth century including Allen Curnow, Lauris Edmond, Kendrick Smithyman, Frank Sargeson, Janet Frame, Ian Wedde, Maurice Gee and Elizabeth Knox. Kin of Place represents a collection of perceptive, readable, opinionated comment on a wide range of local writers and writing over a long period and shows in an interesting way the evolution of Stead's critical position.
Three lives Gertrude Stein
Three Lives definitely pushes the literary envelope, but the stories still manage to convey tender and engaging human portraits of three very different female protagonists.
Wars I have seen Gertrude Stein
Her experiences living in France during the German occupation. Stein began the book in late 1942 and continued recording her thoughts in it until the entry of the Allied armies into Paris in 1944. The book is a combination of diary, war journal, and war memoir.
Tender buttons : objects, food, rooms. Gertrude Stein
Fearless resumes : the proven method for getting a great job fast Marky Stein
The author of the career classic "Fearless Interviewing" shares her system that has helped 90 per cent of her clients attain a new job in 90 days or fewer. Readers will learn simple, straightforward tricks to writing a resume that hooks prospective employers' attention, turns boring past duties into dynamic personal statements, and transforms weaknesses into strengths.
The nearest exit Olen Steinhauer
Forced back into the CIA, spymaster Milo Weaver must prove his worth to his new handlers. But when his mission deeply conflicts with his morality, Milo suddenly finds himself in an unwinnable situation and with no one to trust.
Dinner with Churchill : policy-making at the dinner table Cita Stelzer
In this riveting, informative and entertaining book Cita Stelzer draws on previously untapped archival material, diaries of guests, and a wide variety of other sources to tell of some of the key dinners at which Churchill presided before, during and after World War II - including the important conferences at which he used his considerable skills to attempt to persuade his allies, Franklin Roosevelt and Joseph Stalin, to fight the war according to his strategic vision. With fascinating new insights into the food he ate, the champagnes he loved, as well as original menus, seating plans and unpublished photographs, Dinner with Churchill is a sumptuous treat.
Husband and wife : a novel Leah Stewart
A young mother discovers that her husband's novel about infidelity might be drawn from real life.
Hair loss no more : effective ways to treat hair loss Randolph Streete
Have you come to that point in your life where you realize that you are losing hair? If that is the case then you must read "Hair Loss No More."
Casanova's women : the great seducer and the women he loved. Judith Summers
Eighteenth-century Venetian adventurer Giacomo Casanova, history's most famous seducer, talked his way into the beds of more than 200 women. Who were these women who established Casanova's extraordinary reputation?
If it's not one thing, it's your mother Julia Sweeney
Julia Sweeney was nearing forty, and quite famous, when she got on a flight to China to turn her life upside down. Mulan was one-and-a-half years old when she met her new mother, and every bit as feisty as the Disney character (whom she was emphatically not named for). If It's Not One Thing, It's Your Mother is the story of this unexpected mother-daughter pair who eventually became - to Julia's astonishment and in a hilariously unconventional way - a mother-daughter-father trio.
Messy Miranda Jeff Szpirglas and Danielle Saint-Onge.
Miranda can't seem to get a handle on the mess in her desk, until she finds a magical solution to her problem.
The scent of death Andrew Taylor
Edward Savill, a London clerk from the American Department, is assigned to New York to investigate the claims of dispossessed loyalists caught on the wrong side of the American War of Independence. The discovery of a body in the notorious slums of Canvas Town thrusts Savill into a murder inquiry. But in the escalating violence of a desperate city, why does one death matter? Because the secret this killing hides could be the key to power for whoever uncovers it.
A sort of conscience : the Wakefields Philip Temple
The Wakefield family played a major role in the course of British overseas settlement in the 19th century - in Canada and Australia but most particularly in New Zealand.
I'm not eating any of that foreign muck : (travels with me dad) Brian Thacker
Brian Thacker is on the road again, only this time he has Harry, his 73 year old, meat and three veg’ loving Dad in tow. On a two month odyssey to such far flung, exotic locations as Gibraltar, Sri Lanka, Malta and Singapore, Brian finally gets to know what his father is all about.
Three houses Angela Mackail Thirkell
In this beautifully nostalgic memoir, eminent author Angela Thirkell recalls in rich detail the three houses in which she grew up. Focusing first on ‘The Grange’, where her grandfather, the celebrated painter Sir Edward Burne-Jones, set the cultivated tone, Thirkell also reminisces about her parents’ home in Kensington Square and the Burne-Jones seaside retreat, where Angela’s cousin, Rudyard Kipling, lived across the green.
Lies you wanted to hear James Whitfield Thomson
Alone in an empty house, Lucy tries to imagine the lives of her two young children. They have been gone for seven years, and she is tormented by the role she played in that heartbreaking loss. Back then, she was a magnet for men like Matt, who loved her beyond reason, and Griffin, who wouldn't let go but always left her wanting more. Now the lies they told and the choices they made have come to haunt all three of them.
Equilibrium Lorrie Thomson
In the year since her husband died, Laura Klein's world has shifted on its axis. It's not just that she's raising two children alone – fact is, Laura always did the parenting for both of them. Just when she's resigning herself to a life of worry and selfless support, her charismatic new tenant offers what Laura least expects: a second chance.
Confessions of a mediocre widow, or, How I lost my husband and my sanity Catherine Tidd
Widowed with three children under six years old, a rusty resume, no fix-it skills, and no clue how to live life as a widow, Catherine can't help but be a little exasperated with her dead husband for leaving her to deal with life on her own.
Asking for trouble : a novel Peter Timms
There are things in his past that Harry Bascombe definitely doesn't want to remember. But when a nosy journalist with a taste for scandal turns up out of the blue, he is forced to confront his memories. Darkly funny and brutally frank, Asking for Trouble is a surprisingly tender and moving novel about the corrosive power of secrets and the consequences of standing up to bullies.
Peas and queues : the minefield of modern manners Sandi Toksvig
How do you get rid of unwanted guests? What do you do if there's a racket in the quiet carriage? How should you eat peas, and behave in queues? How to behave, like how to punctuate, is an aspect of life that many are no longer taught - and getting it wrong is the stuff of comedy at best and humiliation at worst.
The Ambleside alibi Rebecca Tope
Simmy has been adjusting to life in Windermere, running her florist shop, integrating into the community and trying to put her tragic past behind her. Simmy is inexorably drawn into the centre of a murder investigation as the prime suspect names her as an alibi. Trying to rebuild her own life, Simmy must untangle the murky lives others and uncover the motive behind the murder before another one is committed.
The Windermere witness Rebecca Tope
'Simmy' Brown has moved to the Lake District and things are going well, with her latest flower arrangements praised. But the peace she has found is shattered when, at the wedding of a millionaire's daughter, the bride's brother is found murdered.
The intern Gabrielle Tozer
Josie Browning dreams of having it all. A stellar academic record, an amazing career in journalism - and for her current crush to realise she actually exists. Josie's luck changes though when she lands an internship at the glossy fashion magazine, Sash. A coveted columnist job is up for grabs, but Josie's got some tough competition in the form of two other interns.
Time management Brian Tracy
More than any other practice in your career, your ability to manage time will determine your success or failure. It's a simple equation. The better you use your time, the more you will accomplish, and the greater your rewards will be.
Agathe von Trapp : memories before and after The sound of music : an autobiography Agathe von Trapp ; with illustrations by the author.
In this charming, poignant, and unforgettable memoir, Agathe von Trapp, the eldest daughter, shares the true story of her family, the events that inspired the internationally beloved musical and film, and what happened to the von Trapps in the years after.
Don't fence me in : grassroots wisdom from a country gal Rachael Treasure
Take your life by the horns with this gorgeous collection of feel-good stories, sayings and life lessons.
Just between us J. H. Trumble
Luke Chesser is trying to forget his spectacular failure of a love life. He practises marching band moves for hours in the hot Texas sun, deals with his disapproving father, and slyly checks out the new band field tech, Curtis Cameron. Confronting a sensitive topic with candour and aplomb, acclaimed author J.H. Trumble renders a modern love story as sweet, sharp, and messy as the real thing,
Where you are J. H. Trumble
Robert Westfall's life is falling apart – everywhere but in math class. That's the one place where problems always have a solution. But in the world beyond high school, his father is terminally ill, his mother is squabbling with his interfering aunts, his boyfriend is unsupportive, and the career path that's been planned for him feels less appealing by the day.
Doctor Who. Snowglobe 7 Mike Tucker
Earth, 2099. Global warming is devastating the climate. The Doctor and Martha arrive in Snowglobe 7 in the Middle East, hoping for peace and relaxation. While Martha struggles to help with an infection sweeping through the Dome, the Doctor discovers an alien threat that has lain hidden since the last ice age. A threat that is starting to thaw.
1912 Chris Turney
1912 was an incredible year, marking the height of the Heroic Age of Exploration. Curiosity about Antarctica was at fever pitch, and between 1910 and 1914 five teams of intrepid explorers embarked on the greatest race of the era, to travel beyond the edges of the known world and conquer this last great frontier. But behind all the headlines, there was a much bigger story. Drawing on his own polar experiences, Chris Turney reveals why 1912 witnessed the dawn of a new age in our understanding of the natural world.
The fire dance Helene Tursten
In this sixth instalment in the critically acclaimed Swedish crime series, the murder of a young ballerina named Sophie, apparently an arson victim, sets off shrill alarm bells for Detective Inspector Irene Huss, who remembers the matching details of an unsolved case from fifteen years earlier, when Irene had only just started in the police force.
Gin and juice : a guide to parenting Alan Tyers and Beach
Presents a humourous guide to parenting from the Victorian era.
Tutenkhamen's tracksuit : the history of sport in 100ish objects Alan Tyers and Beach
Tutenkhamen's Tracksuit ransacks the dusty lockers and forgotten corners of the world's dressing-rooms to present a unique collection of subverted reality. Satirical, surreal and completely invented, fans of every sport will enjoy this knowing and mischievous hijacking of the defining moments of popular sporting culture.
The paler shade of autumn Jacquie Underdown
Autumn Leone travels to India to find answers about her unique ability to see into other's minds. But instead of answers she finds love. Will the truth about her gift and their unbelievable history be revealed in time before Autumn loses all she cares about? And will the truth be enough to mend old wounds?
Never look a polar bear in the eye : a family field trip to the Arctic's edge in search of adventure, truth, and mini-marshmallows Zac Unger
A captivating look at the battle between man and nature from the vantage point of Churchill, Manitoba – the Polar Bear Capital of the World – where natives, conservationists, hunters, scientists, and the most dangerous predators on the planet converge.
The kissing game. Jean Ure
Salvatore d'Amato is determined to get a kiss before his birthday - easier said than done.
O'Hara's choice : a novel Leon Uris
After the Civil War, stalwart warriors struggle to keep the Marine Corps alive. Their one hope may lie in Zachary O'Hara, the son of their hero, Paddy. But Zachary is haunted by a secret - one that may force him to choose between a career in the Corps or a life with a woman who fulfils his desires.
Redemption : a novel Leon Uris
From the magnificence of New Zealand's green mountains, to the bloody beaches and cliffs of Gallipoli, to the streets of Dublin and the shipyards of Belfast, Redemption follows three Irish Patriots on their odysseys of freedom and passion - in a monumental tale of the men and women who loved, fought, and died for the chance to be free.
Becoming a better you : who you are vs. who you think you are Peter Vajda
Becoming a better you is a conscious journey of self-development with practical and accessible tools, exercises and practices for uncovering and eliminating blocks and barriers to living a full, rich and productive life.
The bad birthday idea Madeline Valentine
Ben likes to play with robots. His little sister, Alice, would like to play with Ben. But when she and her doll try to join Ben's games, Ben says, "No dolls allowed. This is a robot game." That's why Alice asks for a robot for her birthday. Not just any robot. The exact robot Ben has been wanting forever!
Childhood at court, 1819-1914 John Van der Kiste
What was childhood like for the princes and princesses in the Victorian and Edwardian period? Here their education, recreation and general upbringing is discussed, from Queen Victoria's isolated and lonely childhood, to the children of King George V and Queen Mary.
Dearest Vicky, darling Fritz : the tragic love story of Queen Victoria's eldest daughter and the German Emperor. John Van der Kiste
This work tells the love story of the royal couple against the changing background of 19th-century Germany. It looks at the differing political sympathies of the couple, revealed through letters, and re-examines the prevailing view that the domineering Vicky never bothered to conceal her distaste for everything Prussian and flaunting her sense of British superiority.
The little book of Cornwall John Van der Kiste
A compendium of fascinating information about Cornwall past and present, this book contains a plethora of entertaining facts about the county's famous and occasionally infamous men and women, its towns and countryside, history, natural history, literary, artistic and sporting achievements, agriculture, transport, industry, and royal visits.
The Romanovs, 1818-1959 John Van der Kiste
This work examines Alexander II's life and reign, and the lives of his children, including his successor Tsar Alexander III, whose determination to purge the empire of all terrorism and protect the autocracy brought more violence in his wake. It also recounts the lives of the Tsar's children.
Sons, servants and statesmen : the men in Queen Victoria's life. John Van der Kiste
How was Queen Victoria influenced by her closest male ministers, relatives, advisers and servants? John Van der Kiste is the first to explore this aspect of Victoria's life; focusing on four roles mentors, family, ministers and servants.
Surrey murders John Van der Kiste
Surrey Murders is an examination of some of the county's most notorious and shocking cases.
Odd is on our side created by Dean Koontz ; written by Fred Van Lente and Dean Koontz ; illustrations by Queenie Chan.
It's Halloween in Pico Mundo, California, and there's a whiff of something wicked in the autumn air. While the town prepares for its annual festivities, young fry cook Odd Thomas can't shake the feeling that make-believe goblins and ghouls aren't the only things on the prowl. And he should know, since he can see what others cannot: the spirits of the restless dead.
Goat mountain : a novel David Vann
An eleven-year-old boy is eager to make his first kill at his family's annual deer hunt. But all is not as it should be. His father discovers a poacher on the land, a 640-acre ranch in Northern California, and shows him to the boy through the scope of his rifle.
The forgotten general : New Zealand's World War I commander, Major-General Sir Andrew Russell Jock Vennell
Major General Sir Andrew Russell commanded the NZ Mounted Rifles Brigade at Gallipoli then went on to serve as commander of the New Zealand Division on the Western Front. As such he was the New Zealand army's most senior officer during two key periods in this country's military history. The Forgotten General traces Russell's life from his early days on the family farm in the Hawke's Bay, his education at those most British of institutions, Harrow and Sandhurst, through to his years commanding New Zealand forces in World War One and his eventual return to the family farm at Tunanui. This is the story of a distinguished soldier, a gentleman farmer and an exceptional New Zealander.
Double negative Ivan Vladislavic
Dropout Neville Lister accompanies acclaimed photographer Saul Auerbach for a day, to learn a lesson for life. They play a game: from a hill above Johannesburg they pick three houses and decide to knock on their doors in search of a story. Auerbach's images of the first two will become classic portraits, but soon the light fades. Lister only reaches the third house decades later, returning to post-apartheid South Africa and a Johannesburg altered almost beyond recognition. How to live when estranged from your birthplace? What do you lose when you are no longer lost?
Life without limits : how to live a ridiculously good life. Nick Vujicic
Life Without Limits is the story of gutsy Nick Vujicic, an amazing 28-year-old Aussie born without arms or legs who is now an internationally successful inspirational speaker. Noting that 'perfection isn't always perfect' and that 'brokenness can be a good thing', Nick shows how he learned to accept what he could not control and focus instead on what he could.
The good enough' parent : how to provide for your child's social and emotional development Andrew Wake
Dr Wake demystifies children's behaviour by explaining how their brains and their early attachment experiences work together to influence their emotional development. He offers practical advice on responding to strong emotions, setting boundaries and communicating as a family.
House of Odd created by Dean Koontz ; written by Landry Q. Walker and Dean Koontz ; illustrations by Queenie Chan.
When producer Nedra Nolan's new fixer-upper in Pico Mundo sends contractors scurrying off the job, claiming the place is haunted, she calls Odd Thomas, but his style is cramped by the ghost hunters Nedra hires to flush out the phantoms.
Ashes to ashes Melissa Walker
When Callie's life is cut short by a tragic accident in her hometown of Charleston, South Carolina, her spirit travels to another dimension called the Prism. Here she meets a striking and mysterious ghost named Thatcher, who guides her as she learns how to bring peace to those she left behind. A timeless and romantic ghost story that will haunt readers long after the last page is turned.
Eat, play, and be healthy : the Harvard Medical School guide to healthy eating for kids W. Allan Walker with Courtney Humphries.
Shows you how to feed your children to ensure that their young bodies and minds enjoy full and healthy growth at every stage of development. Offers a scientifically proven alternative to the FDA food pyramid. Helps you shape your kids' eating habits from the start. Provides fun, delicious recipes for healthy foods kids will want to eat
Fast and simple diabetes menus. Betty Wedman-St. Louis
Fast and Simple Diabetes Menus provides more than 125delicious and easy diabetic-friendly recipes, plus guidelines for adapting menus and recipes to accommodate complicating factors that often accompany diabetes, including high blood pressure, high cholesterol, kidney disease, and celiacs.
Fall to pieces : a memoir of drugs, rock 'n' roll, and mental illness Mary Forsberg Weiland with Larkin Warren
In March 2007, twenty-four hours after Mary Weiland dragged her husband Scott's pricey rock-star wardrobe onto their driveway and torched it, she was locked up in a mental hospital. With refreshing candour, innate comic timing, and earned wisdom, Weiland chronicles her quest to come to grips with the addictions that could have killed her, and to understand and manage her bipolar disorder.
The great healthy slow cooker book : 32 delicious nutritious recipes for every meal and every size machine Bruce Weinstein and Mark Scarbrough.
Think your slow cooker is only good for hearty stews and soups? Think again, with this exclusive collection of healthful recipes that show a slow cooker is the healthy cook's secret weapon.
Photographs Albert Wendt
In Albert Wendt's first collection for over a decade, snapshots of the close and familiar contrast with strange and mythical sequences from a vast Pacific epic in progress and a vivid impressionistic montage of global travel in the late twentieth century.
Apartment in Athens Glenway Wescott
In this story about a Greek couple in Nazi-occupied Athens who must share their living quarters with a German officer, Wescott stages an intense and unsettling drama of accommodation and rejection, resistance and compulsion - an account of political oppression and spiritual struggle that is also a parable about the costs of closeted identity.
Girltalk : all the stuff your sister never told you Carol Weston
From bra shopping to babysitting, from making close friends to making great grades, Girltalk has all the answers.
The age of innocence. Edith Wharton
Countess Olenska, separated from her European husband, returns to old New York society. She bears with her an independence and an awareness of life which stirs the educated sensitivity of Newland Archer, engaged to be married to May Welland.
They found Atlantis Dennis Wheatley
Atlantis: for centuries the magic of that name has haunted man's imagination. Now, an incredible expedition is being prepared. Its destination: the final resting place of the ancient gold-encrusted city - one mile beneath the surface of the sea. Ahead lies the silence of the unknown Deeps - and a nightmare of terror and betrayal.
Rimbaud : the double life of a rebel Edmund White
The distinguished biographer, novelist, and memoirist White brings his literary mastery to a new biography of 19th-century poet and prodigy Arthur Rimbaud.
The complete 2-day fasting diet. Jacqueline Whitehart
The 2-Day Diet – otherwise known as 'intermittent fasting' or the '5:2 Diet' – has revolutionised the world's approach to losing weight. Not only do dieters shed fat with amazing speed, they experience incredible health and psychological benefits too, which include lower risks of diabetes, cardiovascular diseases, Alzheimer's and Parkinson's as well as higher energy levels and an increased ability to concentrate.
Before we met Lucie Whitehouse
Hannah has always avoided commitment but when she meets Mark one hot New York summer, her ideas change. Back in London, adored by her successful new husband, she knows she was right to let her guard down. When Mark fails to return from a business trip, however, her certainty starts to crack. Now she must decide whether the secrets Mark has been keeping are designed to protect him, or protect her…
Latinalicious : the South America diaries : a true story of glam-packing the world's sexiest continent Becky Wicks
In her latest laugh-out-loud travel memoir, intrepid traveller Becky Wicks sets her sights on both the natural and - ahem! - man-made attractions of South America, and discovers that while gauchos aren't always hot, strangely, birdwatchers are.
Snapshot Lis W. Wiehl
The Civil Rights Movement is less than a distant memory to Lisa Waldren - it is someone else's memory altogether, passed on to her through the pages of history. But the truth is, she was there. When a photograph surfaces showing a blond, four-year-old Lisa playing with an African-American girl at civil rights march in Fort Worth, Lisa is faced with a jarring revelation: the girls may have been the only witnesses who observed the real killer of civil rights leader Benjamin Gray … and therefore the only ones who can exonerate the death row inmate falsely accused of the murder.
The apple orchard Susan Wiggs
For Abby MacKenzie, a few months working in an apple orchard - far away from Los Angeles - may be just what the doctor ordered. So she drives across the country and arrives at Templeton Orchard. The large Templeton clan is warm and welcoming, except Dr. Jake Templeton, who doesn't want Abby anywhere near his unhappy young daughter. However, as the busy apple season progresses, the little girl reaches out to Abby and Jake finds himself falling for the sensitive, beautiful woman who's haunted by her past.
Candlelight Christmas Susan Wiggs
A single father who yearns to be a family man, Logan O'Donnell is determined to create the perfect Christmas for his son, Charlie. One of the guests is a newcomer to Willow Lake - Darcy Fitzgerald. Sharp-witted, independent and intent on guarding her heart, she's the last person Logan can see himself falling for. Yet between the snowy silence of the winter woods, and toasty moments by a crackling fire, their two lonely hearts collide.
The drifter Susan Wiggs
Jackson Underhill has said nothing of his wretched past to the lovely Dr. Leah Mundy out of fear that she will no longer love him, but his outlaw past will catch up with him if he stays, and there can be no future with a women who refuses to leave.
The strength of bone Lucie Wilk
The Strength of Bone is the story of a North American doctor, a Malawian nurse, and the crises that push both of them to the brink of collapse. With deftly interwoven narratives and a pathological eye for detail, novelist and medical doctor Lucie Wilk brings to life the ambition, the self-destructiveness, and the ultimate resiliency inherent in African relief workers – and shows, in a place where knowledge can frustrate as often as it heals, that true strength requires the flexibility to let go.
Yoga for beginners : all you need to know about yoga Darren Williams
If you are trying to find that inner peace within you and also want to do some form of low impact exercise then this is the perfect text for you. The text not only explains what yoga is but goes into the many ways that it can help heal the mind and soul.
Leaving the highway : six contemporary New Zealand novelists Mark Williams
A critical study of the works of Janet Frame, C. K. Stead, Keri Hulme, Witi Ihimaera, Ian Wedde, Maurice Gee.
Its true! Everest kills Kim Wilson ; pictures by Andrew Plant.
What's it like at the summit of Mount Everest? It's so cold that your skin sticks to metal, your breath comes out in crackling ice crystals and your eyes freeze shut. Reveals the challenges that confront the courageous climbers who venture up Mount Everest.
Unleashing Mr. Darcy Teri Wilson
The start of everything Emily Winslow
When a Cambridge murder is tied to the inadvertent reading of a private letter, Detective Inspector Chloe Frohmann is forced to consider a life-changing betrayal while investigating a hallowed university, a troubled young woman and a modest country manor overshadowed by a deadly secret.
The whole world Emily Winslow
Set in the richly evoked pathways and environs of Cambridge, England, The Whole World unearths the desperate secrets kept by its many complex characters - students, professors, detectives, husbands, mothers - secrets that lead to explosive consequences.
Countdown city Ben H. Winters
Having lost his job in the wake of an imminent asteroid collision, Detective Hank Palace agrees to help a woman from his past find her missing husband in a world that is rapidly descending into apocalyptic chaos.
What She Left Behind Ellen Marie Wiseman
One-woman farm Jenna Woginrich
Woginrich shares the joys, sorrows, trials, epiphanies, and blessings she discovers during a year spent farming on her own land, finding deep fulfilment in the practical tasks and timeless rituals of the agricultural life.
Jumping Fences Karen Wood
How the Beatles rocked the Kremlin : the untold story of a noisy revolution. Leslie Woodhead
Soviet leaders had suppressed most Western popular music since the days of jazz, but the Beatles and the bands they inspired-both in the West and in Russia-battered down the walls of state culture. Leslie Woodhead tells the unforgettable-and endearingly odd-story of Russians who discovered that all you need is Beatles. By stealth, by way of whispers, through the illicit late night broadcasts on Radio Luxembourg, the Soviet Beatles kids tuned in. "Bitles," they whispered, "Yeah, Yeah, Yeah."
A Dissection of Murder Felicity Young
The Scent of Murder Felicity Young
Science Ink Carl Zimmer