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A Common Pornography: A memoir by Kevin Sampsell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A Common Pornography explores the fragmented world of youthful memories in a style at once spare, haunting, and uncomfortably nostalgic. Kevin Sampsell's daring and creative style of memoir is peppered with insightful (perhaps distracting) footnotes by Mike Daily and ethereal photo-colleges by Melody Ow ...Show more
A Gentleman Of Leisure by P.G. Wodehouse
$33.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: Everyman's Library P G WODEHOUSE Ser.
When Jimmy Pitt bets an actor friend that any fool could burgle a house, offering to demonstrate the feat that very night, he puts his reputation on the line. He hires the services of a professional burglar, but his difficulties are increased when he has the misfortune to select police captain McEachern ...Show more
A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war ...Show more
A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century by Cristina Nehring
$35.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In the twenty-first century, political correctness, cynicism, pragmatism, and the commodification of sex have reduced romantic love to a discredited myth or a recreational sport--"a cause for embarrassment," says Cristina Nehring. In A Vindication of Love, Nehring wrests romantic love from the clutch ...Show more
Animal Liberation by Peter Singer
$25.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
First published in 1975, Animal Liberation created a sensation upon its release, shaking the world's philosophical and animal-protection circles to their cores. Now, forty years later, Peter Singer's landmark work still looms large as a foundational and canonical text of animal advocacy. Arguing that al ...Show more
As Nature Made Him - The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl by John Colapinto
$32.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P. S. Ser.
In 1967, after a twin baby boy suffered a botched circumcision, his family agreed to a radical treatment that would alter his gender. The case would become one of the most famous in modern medicine--and a total failure. As Nature Made Him tells the extraordinary story of David Reimer, who, when finally ...Show more
Bad Blood by Lorna Sage (University of East Anglia)
$29.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P.S.
"The bad blood had missed a generation. You're just like your grandfather, my mother said."Blood trickles down through every generation, seeps into every marriage. An international bestseller and winner of the Whitbread Biography Award, Bad Blood is a tragicomic memoir of one woman's escape from a claus ...Show more
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker--the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that ...Show more
Bright Shiny Morning by James Frey
$35.00 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P.S. | Reading Level: very good
One of the most celebrated and controversial authors in America delivers an extraordinary novel a sweeping chronicle of contemporary Los Angeles that is bold, exhilarating, and utterly original. Dozens of characters pass through the reader's sight lines some never to be seen again but James Frey lingers ...Show more
Chocolates for Breakfast by Pamela Moore
$27.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P.S.
The 1956 bestselling novel telling the candid story of a young girl's sudden awakening to love and desire. Precocious Courtney sets out to know everything fast - but she is still just a child in an adult's world.
Come Back: A Mother and Daughter's Journey Through Hell and Back by Claire Fontaine
$24.99 NZD
Category: Relationships | Series: P.S.
In powerful parallel stories, mother and daughter give mesmerizing first-person accounts of the nightmare that shattered their family and the amazing journey they took to find their way back to each other. Claire Fontaine's relentless cross-country search for her missing child and ultimate decision to f ...Show more
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P.S.
Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution-the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God ...Show more