Second-hand Books

Here's what one woman had to say about Marcus Buckingham's Find Your Strongest Life : If I ever see Marcus Buckingham in person, I'm going to shake his hand and...

Adventure turned nightmare: how did Alexander Dulaine's search for a lost plane become a struggle between life and death? Highly intelligent, independent, strong-willed, yet vulnerable, Alexander Dulaine is a woman...

A Beer Lover's must have companion to buying beer in Australia & New Zealand, including beer history, the brewing process, ingredients, sensory analysis in tasting beer, judging beer, buying beer,...

How to assemble a collection of first-edition fiction.

It's surprising what you can find by simply stepping out to look. Kathleen Jamie, award winning poet, has an eye and an ease with the nature and landscapes of Scotland...

The novel's about a bloke called Bloke but it's the women who explain manhood and his identity. A disappointed man always heads bush but never knows what to expect. The...

Known for his ability to find provocative answers to the most puzzling questions, Tom DeMarco explores a wide range of issues in twenty-four masterful essays.The offerings range from the wise...

A business novel focusing on project management. The novel aims to provoke readers to examine and reassess their business practices and transform the thinking and actions of managers.

Lay down, spin your eyeballs back into your brain and get ready for Flock of Dreamers, 20 tales from the subconscious by an international cast of comics creators. Experience the...

Runner-up for the Montana Book Awards 2000 Deutz Medal for Fiction, Golden Deeds is a novel about the human desire to connect things up. Warm, compassionate, beautifully written, Golden Deeds...

Profiles celebrities from Jean Harlow and Douglas Fairbanks to Elvis Presley and Robert Mapplethorpe by looking at their wills, which reveal a surprising amount of information about their lives.

During his 20 year film career many things have changed for Pirates of the Caribbean star Johnny Depp, but two have remained constant - his taste for quirky, edgy roles...

Michael Grecco is one of the best-known celebrity photographers in the world. His beautiful, insightful work is all around us--on movie posters, in advertising, on magazine covers, "everywhere." I delight...

What in the world is postmodernity? Is it the dominant reality today? If it is, what does it mean to be a church in a postmodern world? It seems that...

Before Father Patrick Bergquist moved to Alaska, he imagined himself spending his free evenings wrapped in a warm quilt, reading novel after novel during the long arctic winters. Those idealized...

Why are mathematical ideas so hard? Is mathematics an unassailable peak, which only the few can ever hope to conquer? Or can mathematics be broadened to be accessible to the...

From Top Gear to Brainiac, Richard Hammond is one of our most popular television presenters. But in September 2006, a high speed crash whilst filming for Top Gear left him...

Hereditary rule once dominated European politics. A few families, believing in divine rule, controlled the destinies of millions before they were ousted. This book takes an irreverent look at the...

Readers' imaginations will be fired on every page of this wonderful single-volume animal encyclopedia. The book is arranged into five chapters that explore the huge variety of the animal kingdom,...

The Kingfisher First Dictionary is the ideal introductory dictionary for young children. 1500 entry words are clearly defined, and each word is used in a sample sentence to reinforce understanding...

Computers could be like humans in every respect. They could have the intelligence to understand Shakespeare's plays, Napoleon's military strategy, Einstein's theories of relativity. They could have the creativity to...

Life is hard in post-Civil War New York, but change is in the air. Women are agitating for the vote and other rights. Immigrants are pouring into the city, bringing...

In a house overlooking Dublin Bay, Mimi and her daughter Grace are disturbed by the unexpected arrival of Grace's daughter Polly, and her striking new boyfriend. The events of the...

As a great teacher once said, 'We never ask the meaning of life when we're in love'. But the real question is, 'why aren't we in love all the time?',...

Ever wanted to know how it feels to win Tattslotto, die and come back to life, be brainwashed by a cult or attacked by a shark? These stories and more...

WINNER OF THE NED KELLY AWARD FOR BEST TRUE CRIME 2023 WINNER OF THE UK TRUE CRIME AWARD FOR BEST INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING 2024 A relentlessly fascinating and often jaw-dropping true...

From bestselling and award-winning author Frances Watts comes the first in an incredibly exciting new series of standalone historical novels. On the eve of her fifteenth birthday, Claudia is unexpectedly...

Andy Bell is a police constable with a problem. It's not that his chief hates his guts. It's not that he's an undercover cop living in a brothel and sleeping...