Second-hand Books

I pay strangers to sleep with me. I have my reasons...but they're not the ones you'd expect. For starters, I'm a funeral director taking over my dad's business. Not exactly...

He turned around and smiled at me and I was surprised enough to smile back. This was not a children's candy store, mind you- this was the kind of place...

After surviving a less-than-ideal start as a hot-shot editor in the competitive magazine industry, Nina Morey has picked herself up, shaken herself off and is back, ready to do deals...

Niko and his family are trapped in Sarajevo during the Bosnian War. The siege lasts for three years and Niko's family struggle to find enough food and avoid the snipers...

This beautifully presented book contains love letters from owners to their beloved dogs. Each letter is accompanied by a portrait of the dog taken by pet photographer Ken Drake. The...

'Think Slim is weight loss for the mind.' - Dr Neil Peace, Sydney Medical Weight Loss Centre Having trouble losing weight or keeping the pounds off permanently? The answer is...

Ideas are the lifeblood of any business. But have you ever been stuck for one? If you have, then The Idea Generator is for you. It outlines 60 effective and...

Description: Since its inception, the discussion surrounding Open Theism has been dominated by polemics. On crucial philosophical issues, Openness proponents have largely been devoted to explicating the underlying framework and...

In this gorgeously imagined novel, a journalist interviews those who knew-or thought they knew-Alejandro Bevilacqua, a brilliant, infuriatingly elusive South American writer and author of the masterpiece, In Praise of...

Successful Beverly Hills matchmaker Marla Martenson demonstrates how the Law of Attraction can help those on the prowl to find their soul mate. This is a fun, concrete, and practical...

In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New England of the popular imagination, transformed the publishing industry, topped the bestseller lists for more than...

A TEEN VOGUE BEST NEW BOOK OF 2016 My heart is a kaleidoscope, and when we kiss it makes my world unravel . . . Last summer, Gottie's life fell...

Did you know... there are enemies to your happiness, enemies waiting to trip you up and destroy your joy and meaning in life? Some of them are obvious, but many...

Working undercover is all about trust - getting the target to trust you and then betraying them in order to bring them to justice. But what do you do when...

Ragnarok was the End of Worlds. Asgard fell, centuries ago, and the old gods have been defeated. Some are dead, while others have been consigned to eternal torment in the...

What would happen if one of Christianity's most respected leaders shared everything he has learned about finding God in life's difficulties and living an extraordinary life? Brian Houston has done...

New from Richard Barrett, The New Leadership Paradigm is more than a leadership text book (530 pages), it is a state-of-the-art learning system for 21st century leaders. The book is...

'Action and excitement and deep emotion. Gorgeous.' Cecelia Ahern It starts with a plane crash. There are survivors: a teenage girl and her little brother. They are running from something....

From the author of the New York Times bestselling SUMMONER series, comes a brand new EPIC world. Cade, a misunderstood juvenile delinquent, and Harriet, a Victorian cat-burglar, live in two...

A New York Times Notable Book A San Francisco Chronicle , San Jose Mercury News , and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year "A gripping and resonant novel....

ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE IS SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE PRODUCED BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved cult classic...

"Richard Barrett offers us an exciting new direction for measuring consciousness. He has proven that the insights these measures bring can significantly improve our individual, organisational and societal performance. The...

Learn valuable programming skills while building your own Minecraft adventure! If you love playing Minecraft and want to learn how to code and create your own mods, this book was...

Build cool Raspberry Pi projects with no experience required! Adventures in Raspberry Pi, 3rd Edition is the fun guide to learning programming. Starting from the very basics and building skill...

No Need To Say Goodbye Dr Aldo van der Linden would make a marvelous husband - Louise was certain of that. Before he'd involved himself in her family's affairs, Louise...

Howard (Call me 'Walt') Johnson returns to New England after more than a decade in the Mideastern wilderness in one last almighty attempt to untangle his twisted family tree. He's...

First published in 1935, this guide to good behavior is actually a subversively witty satire of etiquette and dating handbooks, now in a gift format edition With advice as useful...

At the age of fourteen, Bill Wilson was abandoned. Now he leads a crusade to rescue children in Brooklyn's "war zone"--and beyond. His dramatic story is more than a life-and-death...

Intimate, hilarious conversations with the biggest names in comedy - including Mel Brooks, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Roseanne, Harold Ramis, Louis C.K., Chris Rock, and Lena Dunham. Intimate, hilarious conversations...

With the exquisite prose and poetry that has always graced her writing, Joyce Rupp mines the multiple meanings of important images in the Bible, in order to get us through...

If the end of exoticism is one of the characteristics of our time, and if classical anthropology based its study of alterity on this exotic distance from the other, is...

A woman visiting Venice fantasises that she is Mrs Noah. Her Ark, a vast, form shifting construct of the imagination, is a water-bourne library moored somewhere in the Lagoon, repository...

When a man who claims to be from outer space is brought into the Manhattan Institute, the mental ward seems to be just the place for him. However, this patient...

The book traces the legacy of racism across three continents, from its origins to the present day, bringing a sophisticated neo-Marxist analysis to bear on a muti-faceted and endemic topic....

After the extraordinary success of Water for Elephants, with 3 million copies shipped, Sara Gruen returns with another immensely charming, endlessly surprising, and engaging novel in which a family of...

A book on pregnancy loss, dispelling the myths about miscarriage and stillbirth. 'Invaluable for those dealing with pregnancy loss - medically and emotionally' Dr Devora Lieberman, MD, MPH, FRANZCOG, gynaecologist...

Virgil Mann has broken through the genteel facade of English society to expose the ruthless machine beneath, oiled with sex, money and chemicals. It is no place for the fainthearted....

Abandoned by her parents, Sameem Ali spent six and a half years growing up in a children's home. When she was told that her family wanted to take her back...

Tell the Truth, Let the Peace Fall Where it May is about coming clean down to the roots of your being. It's about walking through the world, through your entire...

A runaway train is racing toward five men who are tied to the track. Unless the train is stopped, it will inevitably kill all five men. You are standing on...

Stephen Kern writes about the sweeping changes in technology and culture between 1880 and World War I that created new modes of understanding and experiencing time and space. To mark...

Buried in the Egyptian desert some four thousand years ago, the Pyramid Texts are among the world's oldest poetry. Yet ever since the discovery of these hieroglyphs in 1881, they...