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After the Tampa by Abbas Nazari
$36.99 NZD
Category: Staff Picks - Louise
The heart-rending story of a seven-year-old 'Tampa' refugee who grew up to become a Fulbright scholar, highlighting the plight and potential of refugees everywhere. Escaping from Taliban persecution in Afghanistan, Abbas Nazari's parents fled the country in 2001 to find a safe place in which to bring u ...Show more
Rabbit, Soldier, Angel, Thief (HB) by Katrina Nannestad
$22.99 NZD
Category: Chapter Books
Award-winning writer Katrina Nannestad transports us to Russia and the Great Patriotic War and into the life of Sasha, a soldier at only six years old ... Wood splinters and Mama screams and the nearest soldier seizes her roughly by the arms. My sister pokes her bruised face out from beneath the table ...Show more
The Perfume Thief: A Novel by Timothy Schaffert
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical
This is a superb novel, enchanting and brutal in equal measure. This is historical fiction at its finest, vivid and beautifully rendered; and yet in their longing for a lost world, Schaffert's characters feel entirely contemporary to our present moment.--Emily St. John Mandel, author of The Glass Hotel ...Show more
The Tomo by Mary-Anne Scott
$24.00 NZD
Category: Chapter Books
Fifteen-year-old Phil is sent to work on a sheep station while his father undergoes cancer treatment over the Christmas period. Phil's only consolation is that he is entrusted with his father’s beloved heading dog, Blue. But a wayward ram leads Blue into danger and they both plummet into a deep tomo. Ph ...Show more
The Paper Palace by Miranda Cowley Heller
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Before anyone else is awake, on a perfect August morning, Elle Bishop heads out for a swim in the glorious fresh water pond below 'The Paper Palace' - the gently decaying summer camp in the back woods of Cape Cod where her family has spent every summer for generations. As she passes the house, Elle gla ...Show more
Pony (HB) by R J Palacio
$30.00 NZD
Category: Staff Picks - Louise
The highly anticipated, unforgettable new story from the internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning author of Wonder. When Silas Bird wakes in the dead of night, he watches powerlessly as three strangers take his father away. Silas is left shaken, scared and alone, except for the presence of his ...Show more
Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
$22.99 NZD
Category: Real World
Eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. She dreams of a fresh start at college, but when family tragedy strikes, Daunis puts her future on hold to look after her fragile mother. The only bright spot is meeting Jamie, the charmi ...Show more
Twitch (#1) by M. G. Leonard
$21.99 NZD
Category: Chapter Books
From the internationally bestselling author of Beetle Boy and the Adventures on Trains series, comes the first book in The Twitchers, a brand new mystery adventure series celebrating friendship, bravery and the incredible world of birds, starring a birdwatching detective called Twitch! Can a birdwatche ...Show more
Still Life by Sarah Winman
$35.00 NZD
Category: Historical
From the author of When God was a Rabbit and Tin Man, Still Life is a big-hearted story of people brought together by love, war, art and the ghost of E.M. Forster. 1944, in the ruined wine cellar of a Tuscan villa, as bombs fall around them, two strangers meet and share an extraordinary evening.Ulysses ...Show more
The Echo Chamber by John Boyne
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
From the author of The Heart's Invisible Furies and powered with the Boyne's characteristic humour and razor-sharp observation, The Echo Chamber is a satiric helter skelter, a dizzying downward spiral of action and consequence, poised somewhere between farce, absurdity and oblivion. What a thing of wond ...Show more
The Rose Code by Kate Quinn
$32.99 NZD
Category: Historical
The brand-new book from the internationally bestselling author of The Alice Network and The Huntress - available to pre-order now! 1940. Three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. Vivacious ...Show more
The Liminal Space by Jacquie McRae
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Authors | Reading Level: near fine
In a small village, there are whispers in the market square that William is not who he says he is. They say he skinny-dips and talks to trees. He was once a doctor, but now he only prescribes books – for Emily, Marco and James, whose lives have become entangled with his. Emily is in a troubled relations ...Show more