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The Swimming-Pool Library: A novel (Lambda Literary Award)
$10.00 AUD
The dazzling first novel from the best-selling, Booker Prize-Winning author of The Line of Beauty and The Sparsholt Affair . An enthralling, darkly erotic novel of homosexuality before the scourge...
Pursuit of Love: AND Love in a Cold Climate
The snobbery and false values of the English country nobility are satirized in these two love stories involving the well-established Radlett and Hampton families.
Independence Day
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Frank Bascombe is no longer a sportswriter, yet he's still living in Haddam, New Jersey, where he now sells real estate. He's still divorced, though his ex-wife, to his dismay,...
A History of Private Life: v. 4: From the Fires of Revolution to the
The 19th century was the golden age of private life, a time when supreme individual and existential values emerged. The fourth book in this popular series, written for the cultivated...
Lysenko's Ghost: Epigenetics and Russia
The Soviet agronomist Trofim Lysenko became one of the most notorious figures in twentieth-century science after his genetic theories were discredited decades ago. Yet some scientists, even in the West,...
Are Women Human?: And Other International Dialogues
More than half a century after the "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" defined what a human being is and is entitled to, Catharine MacKinnon asks: are women human yet? If...
Their Right to Speak: Women's Activism in the Indian and Slave Debates
When Alisse Portnoy recovered petitions from the early 1830s that nearly 1,500 women sent to the U.S. Congress to protest the forced removal of Native Americans in the South, she...
Commander of All Lincoln's Armies: A Life of General Henry W. Halleck
In the summer of 1862, President Lincoln called General Henry W. Halleck to Washington, D.C., to take command of all Union armies in the death struggle against the Confederacy. For...
Shampoo Planet
Shampoo Planet is the rich and dazzling point where two worlds collide -- those of 1960s parents and their 1990s offspring, "Global Teens." Raised in a hippie commune, Tyler Johnson...
The Male Paradox--
$12.00 AUD
A noted pshychologist explores the paradoxes of masculinity. This book examines men's hopes and fears, dreams and reality, love lives and work lives, as Ross unfolds a new theory of...
Rogue Warrior
The author describes his career with the Navy's first anti-terrorist unit.
Changer of Worlds
WELCOME AGAIN TO THE MANY WORLDS OF HONOR Lady Dame Honor Harrington -- starship captain, admiral, Steadholder, and Duchess -- has spent decades defending the Star Kingdom of Manticore against...
Us
Since their days at Oxford, they've gone their separate ways - but none of them have come to terms with Maggie's acciendental death. She was always the headstrong one, the...
The Great Stink
William May returns to London after the horrors of the Crimean War. Scarred and fragile though he is, he lands a job at the heart of Bazalgette's transformation of the...
Maggie's Table
Maggie's Table contains recipes and stories which capture the rich flavours and colours of some of her favourite dishes. The book is divided into four sections covering the seasons of...
Flesh and Spirit: Private Life in Early Modern Germany: Private Life
As he did in his much praised and highly successful The Burgermeister's Daughter, Steven Ozment analyzes and weaves together primary sources to create a compelling account of German life in...
The Power to Harm: Mind, Medicine, and Murder on Trial
On 14th September 1989, Joe Wesbecker entered the Standard Gravure printing plant in downtown Louisville, Kentucky, armed with an AK-47 assault rifle and hundreds of rounds of ammunition. Half-an-hour later,...
The Ten Pound Fare
This is a study of the assisted passage scheme offered for journeys to Australia in 1947. The assisted passage scheme, also known as the "ten pound fare", was introduced in...
The Jewel Fish Of Karnak,
Far away in Ancient Egypt, Jackal and Ibis are brought before the Cat Pharaoh to be punished for stealing from the town market. In a merciful moment, the Pharaoh decides...
How to Make Money out of Thin Air
Ask yourself: what's the difference between a rich person and the average person on the street? And, more importantly, which one do you want to be?Successful people don't have mysterious...
Great Fortune
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Everything about the conception and creation of Rockefeller Center was outsized and wildly improbable. Launched in the teeth of the worst depression in American history, the most ambitious construction project...
Faith Versus Fact: Why Science and Religion are Incompatible
We are living today in a genuinely frightening scenario- religion and science are engaged in a kind of war- a war for understanding, a war about whether we should have...
Unexpected: Five Inspirational Short Stories of Encouragement
Improve the way you live and interact with others around you as you are inspired by this book using the ancient art of storytelling. Through intriguing parables, real-life examples and...
Let's Get Real
"If you want to begin or improve your wealth creation journey, then avoid all the expert 'noise' and sit quietly with this little gem [Let's Get Real]" - Greg Smith,...
Parenting Teenage Girls in the Age of a New Normal
If your daughter struggles with a sense of entitlement, a smart mouth, a premature discovery of her sexuality, a gravitational pull towards social media or difficultly regulating her emotions, be...
Chrissy and the Burroughs Boy
No girl forgets her first crush. The least he could do is remember it. Chrissy James has only been home in small-town Levenham a few weeks when her teenage crush...
Magic Wars: The Essence of Time
Have you ever wondered about the universe, just outside of our earth? Do you ever think that someone is watching or guiding us? Would we be safe from these beings...
