The Art of Death - Writing the Final Story by Edwidge Danticat
$34.29 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay | Series: Art Of... Ser.
A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea LightEdwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have app ...Show more
The Beekeeper: Rescuing the Stolen Women of Iraq by Dunya Mikhail; Max Weiss
$0.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Since 2014, Daesh (ISIS) has been brutalizing the Yazidi people of northern Iraq: sowing destruction, killing those who won't convert to Islam, and enslaving young girls and women. The Beekeeper, by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed ...Show more
The Beginning of Everything - The Year I Lost My Mind and Found Myself by Andrea J. Buchanan
$42.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
Longlisted for the PEN E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardA real-life neurological mystery and captivating story of reinvention by the New York Times bestselling author of The Daring Book for Girls.Andrea Buchanan lost her mind while crossing the street one blustery March morning. The cold winter ...Show more
The Big Fella: Babe Ruth and the World He Created by Jane Leavy
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Category: Literary Sports Writing
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - From Jane Leavy, the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Boy and Sandy Koufax, comes the definitive biography of Babe Ruth--the man Roger Angell dubbed "the model for modern celebrity."A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The Boston Globe - Publishers Weekly - Ki ...Show more
The Book of Emma Reyes - A Memoir by Emma Reyes; Daniel Alarcón (Translator, Introduction by)
$17.15 NZD
Category: Translation | Series: A\Penguin Classics Hardcover Ser.
"Startling and astringently poetic." --The New York Times A literary discovery: an extraordinary account, in the tradition of The House on Mango Street and Angela's Ashes, of a Colombian woman's harrowing childhood This astonishing memoir was hailed as an instant classic when first published in Colombi ...Show more
The Book of Whispers by Varujan Vosganian; Alistair Ian Blyth (Translator)
$54.99 NZD
Category: Translation | Series: The\Margellos World Republic of Letters Ser.
A harrowing account of the Armenian Genocide documented through the stories of those who managed to survive and descendants who refuse to forget The grandchild of Armenians who escaped widespread massacres during the Ottoman Empire a century ago, Varujan Vosganian grew up in Romania hearing firsthand ac ...Show more
The Butchering Art - Joseph Lister's Quest to Transform the Grisly World of Victorian Medicine by Lindsey Fitzharris
$51.02 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
Winner, 2018 PEN/E.O. Wilson Prize for Literary Science WritingShort-listed for the 2018 Wellcome Book PrizeA Top 10 Science Book of Fall 2017, Publishers WeeklyA Best History Book of 2017, The Guardian "Warning: She spares no detail " --Erik Larson, bestselling author of Dead Wake In The Butchering Art ...Show more
The Carrying by Ada Limón
$44.00 NZD
Category: Book Award
In the National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Bright Dead Things, Ada Limón showed us a heart "giant with power, heavy with blood." The Carrying continues further and deeper into the bloodstream, following the hard-won truth of what it means to live in an imperfect world. Bo ...Show more
The Circuit by Rowan Ricardo Phillips
$42.99 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
An energetic, lyrical, genre-defying account of the 2017 tennis season. In The Circuit: A Tennis Odyssey, the award-winning poet--and Paris Review sports columnist--Rowan Ricardo Phillips chronicles 2017 as seen through the unique prism of its pivotal, revelatory, and historic tennis season. The annual ...Show more
The Climate Swerve: Reflections on Mind, Hope, and Survival by Robert Jay Lifton
$42.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
Over his long career as witness to an extreme twentieth century, National Book Award-winning psychiatrist, historian, and public intellectual Robert Jay Lifton has grappled with the profound effects of nuclear war, terrorism, and genocide. Now he shifts to climate change, which, Lifton writes, "presents ...Show more
The Cubs Way - The Zen of Building the Best Team in Baseball and Breaking the Curse by Tom Verducci
$12.63 NZD
Category: Literary Sports Writing
The New York Times Bestseller With inside access and reporting, Sports Illustrated senior baseball writer and FOX Sports analyst Tom Verducci reveals how Theo Epstein and Joe Maddon built, led, and inspired the Chicago Cubs team that broke the longest championship drought in sports, chronicling their e ...Show more
The Driest Season by Meghan Kenny
$0.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
As her Wisconsin community endures a long season of drought and the shockwaves of World War II, fifteen-year-old Cielle faces a more personal calamity: the unexpected death of her father. One balmy summer afternoon, she finds him hanging in the barn ― the start of a dark secret that threatens her family ...Show more