The Clever Guts Diet: How To Revolutionise Your Body From the Inside Out by Michael Mosley
$35.00 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Series: The\Clever Guts Diet Ser. | Reading Level: good
Your gut is astonishingly clever. It contains millions of neurons - as many as you would find in the brain of a cat - and is home to the microbiome, an army of microbes that influences your mood, weight and immune system. In this groundbreaking book, Dr Mosley takes us on a revelatory journey through th ...Show more
The Dry by Jane Harper
$19.99 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Series: Aaron Falk | Reading Level: very good
WHO REALLY KILLED THE HADLER FAMILY? It hasn't rained in Kiewarra for two years. Tensions in the farming community become unbearable when three members of the Hadler family are discovered shot to death on their property. Everyone assumes Luke Hadler committed suicide after slaughtering his wife and six- ...Show more
The Getaway: Diary of a Wimpy Kid (BK12) by Jeff Kinney
$17.99 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Series: Diary of a Wimpy Kid | Reading Level: very good
The new hilarious story from Jeff Kinney is the best yet in the brilliant, bestselling Diary of a Wimpy Kid series! Greg Heffley and his family are getting out of town. With the cold weather setting in and the stress of the Christmas holiday approaching, the Heffleys decide to escape to a tropical islan ...Show more
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
$29.99 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Series: The Handmaid's Tale
Lindsey Hilsum: (author of ‘In Extremis; the Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin’ & friend of Bookoccino) "While others watched the TV series I re-read the book. When The Handmaid’s Tale was published in 1985, reviewers compared Margaret Atwood unfavourably to male writers of science fiction. ...Show more
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate - Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
$37.00 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Reading Level: good
Are trees social beings? In this international bestseller, forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like human families: tree parents live together with their chi ...Show more
The Midnight Line by Lee Child
$38.00 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Series: Jack Reacher | Reading Level: good
THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER/A RICHARD & JUDY BOOKCLUB 2018 PICK Jack Reacher is having a bad day. It would be a dumb idea to make it worse. Reacher sees a West Point class ring in a pawn shop window. It's tiny. It's a woman cadet's graduation present to herself. Why would she give it up? Reacher was a ...Show more
The Ministry of Utmost Happiness by Arundhati Roy
$38.00 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Reading Level: very good
2017 Man Booker Prize Longlist 2018 Women's Prize for Fiction Longlist The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is a dazzling new novel by the internationally celebrated author of The God of Small Things. It takes us on an intimate journey of many years across the Indian subcontinent--from the cramped neighborh ...Show more
The Sellout by Paul Beatty
$27.99 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Reading Level: very good
Born in the 'agrarian ghetto' of Dickens - on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles - the narrator of The Sellout is raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, and spends his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. Led to believe his father's pioneering work will ...Show more
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
$34.99 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Reading Level: good
For the past few years, Mark Manson-via his wildly popular blog-has been working on correcting our delusional expectations for ourselves and for the world. He now brings his hard-fought wisdom to this groundbreaking book. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-tal ...Show more
The Traitor and the Thief (#1) by Gareth Ward
$19.99 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Series: The Traitor and the Thief
A thief, a spy and a steampunk showdown at Traitor's Gate! Discovered picking pockets at Coxford's Corn Market, fourteen year old Sin is hunted across the city. Caught by the enigmatic Eldritch Moons, Sin is offered a way out of his life of crime: join the Covert Operations Group (COG) and train to beco ...Show more
The Wish Child by Catherine Chidgey
$30.00 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Reading Level: Very Good
Winner of the New Zealand Book Award for Fiction Germany, 1939. Two children watch as their parents become immersed in the puzzling mechanisms of power. Siggi lives in the affluent ignorance of middle-class Berlin, her father a censor who excises prohibited words ('promise', 'love', 'mercy'). Erich is a ...Show more
The World's Worst Children by David Walliams
$24.99 NZD
Category: CCBS 2017 | Series: The World's Worst Children | Reading Level: very good
From the world's favourite author, David Walliams - ten cautionary tales and a delightfully dreadful cast of characters; all in a gorgeously gifty FULL COLOUR format! Are you ready to meet the World's Worst Children? Five beastly boys and five gruesome girls! * Like Sofia Sofa - a TV super-fan so stuck ...Show more