Second-hand Books

Anna Newton is just another 20-something, trying to balance work, her friends, her husband Mark, a growing handbag habit and a penchant for reformer Pilates. Over the last 5 years,...

The presumption of innocence is the keystone of liberty. Yet it is constantly under attack and is liable to be whittled away, particularly in times of crisis. It is for...

Dare to Look! is the 10th book ? and best yet ? in the phenomenal bestselling Ripley's Believe It or Not! annual series. It offers up the world of weird...

Lynne was just an ordinary Southern mom when the overnight success of her daughter Britney shoved the Spears family into the blinding limelight glare.Through the Storm takes readers beyond the...

What makes a product successful?How it looks? The way it functions? Its ease of use? Or do factors like price and marketing dominate?In a quest to find answers to these...

Former United States Marine Brian Steidle served for six months in Darfur as an unarmed military observer for the African Union. There he witnessed first-hand the ongoing genocide, and documented...

From the fun to the fearsome, discover the best Outfits in the ONLY official collector's guide from Epic Games, including exclusive concept art and insights from legendary gamers and featuring...

For mothers, daughters, sisters, wives, partners, and friends, here are 30 stirring poems about the experience of being a woman. Rousing and empowering, There Are Girls like Lions is a...

Gorgeous nature photography introduces readers to endangered species in this picture book from Tim Flach Who is that peeking through the page? Is it a giant panda munching on bamboo?...

A picture-book biography of celebrated poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the first Black person to win the Pulitzer Prize Gwendolyn Brooks (1917-2000) is known for her poems about "real life." She wrote...

The impressionistic memoir of an artist who was blinded in a sudden act of violence, leading to a profound meditation on what it means to see and be seen 'You...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON NATIONAL PUBLIC TELEVISION We've been led to believe that when we get sick, it's our genetics. Or it's just bad luck--and doctors...

In Australia today we have more weight-loss and body enhancement options than ever before, and yet Australian men, women and children are getting fatter. While the media hysteria continues to...

Ask most women whether they have the right to equality at work and the answer will be a resounding yes, but ask the same women whether they'd feel confident asking...

With its wealth of historic buildings where wars were fought and history made, Britain has been the scene of political undoing, bloody beheadings and cruel torture for centuries. Little wonder,...

In a surreal and unprecedented year in which even the most seasoned commentators have struggled to keep pace with the news cycle, letter writers to The Daily Telegraph have once...

Provides strategies to eliminate negativity, double efficiency, control emotions, and create one's own future.

More than eighty million Americans are regular dieters and eight million of them suffer from some sort of eating disorder. Just as many eat normally but still gain weight. Finally,...

This book reveals the complexity and near unparalleled ingenuity of the code makers' craft. From the simplest beginnings to the remarkable, recent advances in quantum cryptography, codes and ciphers have...

A work of local history chronicling the life and death of the rural township of Lyonville, a sawmilling settlement in the Wombat Forest region of Victoria's Central Highlands, Charlie's Book...

By the time of the Calvinist Reformation, the cities of Holland had established a very long tradition of social provision for the poor in the civic community. Calvinists however intended...

Years after a violent war destroyed much of the world, Kaspar has grown up in a society based on peace and harmony. But beyond the city walls, a vicious band...

Hailed as "astonishingly powerful" by "The New York Times," and "written perfectly" by "The Washington Post," Primary Colors, with over one million hardcover copies in print, was the most- talked-about...

WINNER OF THE 2018 JG-WINGATE PRIZE A psychologically acute memoir about an unusual Hollywood family by Michael Frank, who brings Proustian acuity and razor-sharp prose to family dramas as primal,...

Compiled with the needs of the students in mind, includes 259 new entries, 330 updated entries, and updated and expanded encyclopedic content, featuring colour headwords and usage notes providing clarification...

Eudora Welty's works are treasures of American literature. When her first short-story collection was published in 1941, it heralded the arrival of a genuinely original writer who over the decades...

The girl everybody loves to hate has returned to the town she'd sworn to leave behind forever. As the rich, spoiled princess of Parrish, Mississippi, Sugar Beth Carey had broken...

Don't let the size of the books fool you. They many be small but they are packed full of information along with beautiful color photographs. The indispensable reference is a...

Country life is a well-established trope of luxury the world over. Ambitious types move to the city to make their fortunes before repairing to a private, well-appointed property away from...

You can follow the beaten path and call yourself an entrepreneur or you can blaze your own trail and really be one. When Derek Sivers started CD Baby, he wasn't...

Imagination can make ordinary things magical. Your imagination allows you to create something out of nothing. It helps you to come up with new ideas, to solve problems and to...

Abbey Hendrickson writes a blog called Aesthetic Outburst documenting her life in an old farmhouse in rural New York. In between DIY disasters, childcare catastrophes and cultural consumption, Abbey makes...

Most pre-cooked and pre-prepared food cannot be eaten by food allergy sufferers so preparing meals can become a time-consuming struggle, especially for people without specialist cooking skills and knowledge of...

New Zealand: Eye on the Landscape is a new book of high-quality landscape photography aimed at the top end of the New Zealand pictorial book market. The distinguishing feature of...