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Sir Edmund Hillary: An Extraordinary Life

Alexa Johnston · 2006

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Penguin Books 2006 Paperback 419 Born and raised in a quiet country town in New Zealand, Edmund Hillary was a shy, unassuming schoolboy with a seemingly unremarkable career ahead of him. As a young man he discovered a love of mountaineering; it was a hobby that turned him into...

Two Sides Of The Moon: Our Story Of The Cold War Space Race

Alexei Leonov and David Scott · 2005

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Pocket Books 2005 Paperback 415 Growing up on either side of the Iron Curtain, Alexei Leonov and David Scott shared the same dream -- to become a pilot. Excelling at flying, they were chosen by their countries' burgeoning space programmes to be part of the greatest technologic...

My Dream Of You

Nuala O'Faolain · 2001

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Michael Joseph 2001 Paperback 447 Kathleen is a travel writer based in London and the office is the nearest thing she has to a family. Then, on the brink of middle age, the props of her life fall away and she is faced with the frightening prospect of change. In her crisis she ...

Innocent In Death

J. D. Robb · 2007

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Piatkus 2007 Paperback 385 When history teacher Craig Foster is found dead in his classroom, his young wife is devastated, and his family, friends and colleagues all shocked. The two ten-year old students who discovered his body may be traumatised for life. Magdalena Percell, ...

Till We Meet Again

Lesley Pearse · 2010

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Penguin Books Limited 2010 Paperback 512 She killed two people in cold blood... But why? Susan is the woman who walked in a doctor's surgery one day and committed murder. Beth is the lawyer assigned to defend Susan. But her client is uncooperative. Until both women realise tha...

A Short History Of London: The Creation Of A World Capital

Simon Jenkins · 2020

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Penguin 2020 Paperback 432 LONDON: a settlement founded by the Romans, occupied by the Saxons, conquered by the Danes and ruled by the Normans. This changeful place became a medieval maze of alleys and courtyards, later to be chequered with grand estates of Georgian splendour....

1939: A People's History

Frederick Taylor · 2020

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Picador 2020 Paperback 368 In the autumn of 1938, Europe believed in the promise of peace. Still reeling from the ravages of the Great War, its people were desperate to rebuild their lives in a newly safe and stable era. But only a year later, the fateful decisions of just a f...

By The Lapels

Wes Lee · 2019

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Steele Roberts 2019 Paperback 76 These poems are raw, frank, yet exquisitely crafted. Some of the themes covered are violence ¿ domestic and sexual ¿ and mental health. Very Good

Tongue Burglar

Jane Blaikie · 2018

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Steele Roberts 2018 Paperback 69 "This first collection of poems from Jane Blaikie starts with the story of Wellington designer Dave Kent and his experience with motor neuron disease, and moves in the second section to an exploration of romance, death, iniquity, family breakdo...

The Evening Colonnade

Cyril Connolly · 1973

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David Bruce & Watson 1973 Hardback 519 Critical and autobiographical essays by a noted British reviewer and literary journalist. "[Connolly] has the wonderful capacity for enthusiasm, for exciting in us his own unflagging joy in the presence of genius"(New Yorker). Index. Heav...

All Of Us

Carina Gallegos and Adrienne Jansen · 2018

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Landing Press 2018 Paperback 76 In All of Us, established New Zealand author Adrienne Jansen and exciting new writer Carina Gallegos use poems and short prose to weave together the vibrant, expansive, and sometimes heart-wrenching stories of immigrants and people from refugee ...

The Vampire's Assistant And Other Tales From The Cirque Du Freak

Darren Shan · 2009

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Little, Brown 2009 Paperback 720 Darren Shan is just an ordinary schoolboy who loves to ride bikes and hang out with his three best friends. Then one day Darren and his friends stumble across an invitation to visit the Cirque Du Freak, a strange and mysterious freak show. Almo...

Paint It Black: A Novel

Janet Fitch · 2006

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Virago 2006 Paperback 387 Josie came to Los Angeles to escape her run-down family with its sad history of trouble and abuse; when she met Michael - brilliant, musical, handsome - she thought she'd found her first chance for real love and a new life. But Michael, despite a yout...

All That's Dead

Stuart MacBride · 2020

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HarperCollins 2020 Paperback 448 There's a darkness in the heart of Scotland... The stunning new Logan McRae thriller from No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller Stuart MacBride. Scream all you want, no one can hear... Inspector Logan McRae is looking forward to a nice simple case. But...

Allegiant

Veronica Roth · 2013

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Harper Collins 2013 Paperback 544 What if your whole world was a lie? The thrillingly dark conclusion to the No. 1 New York Times bestselling DIVERGENT trilogy, now available in paperback. DIVERGENT - a major motion picture series, INSURGENT movie release in 2015. Shop sticker...

The Illuminated Book Of Days

Eugene Grasset and Kate Greenaway and Kay Lee and Marshall Lee · 1979

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Putnam 1979 Hardback 213 DJ; Heavy. DJ faded towards spine and slightly bumped at edges. Good

Never Too Late

Cathy Kelly · 2000

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Headline 2000 Paperback 567 A lot can happen in a year - and Evie, Cara and Olivia are about to find out just how much... Evie is a hopeless romantic who's never had a chance to do her own thing, and deep down she knows that marrying Simon isn't going to help. Her sister Cara'...

Sophia's Secret

Susanna Kearsley · 2010

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Allison & Busby 2010 Paperback 528 Carolyn McClelland, a writer of historical novels, finds herself with a familiar enemy: writer's block. A change of scenery leads her, and her book, in a whole new direction. Writing about the attempted Jacobite invasion of 1708, Carolyn take...

Survivor In Death

J. D. Robb and Nora Roberts · 2005

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Piatkus 2005 Paperback 376 On the surface Keelie and Grant Swisher seem unlikely targets for an assassin; an average couple living in a nice neighbourhood and working hard to raise their two kids. But when Eve Dallas is called to a multiple homicide at the Swisher family home,...

Endpeace: A Scobie Malone Mystery

Jon Cleary · 1996

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BCA 1996 Hardback 432 A dinner party at the Sydney estate of Sir Harry and Phillipa Huxwood, wealthy heads of a publishing empire, is a scene charged with tension between the Huxwoods, their children and grandchildren over whether or not the family empire should be put up for ...