Second-hand Books

A new holiday classic--six of the most profound Christmas stories by the author of the bestselling Naked and Barrel Fever--is now in a paperback edition perfect for stocking stuffing.

The beguiling fourteen-year-old narrator of IN ZANESVILLE is a late bloomer. She is used to flying under the radar-a sidekick, a third wheel, a marching band dropout, a disastrous babysitter,...

Guiliana DePandi has distilled her knowledge as an on-the-town dater in LA into this funny but oh-so-practical and effective handbook. DePandi knows what it's like "out there" and has done...

Dozens of influential leaders have heard the pleas of mothers and children in developing countries. Raising their voices to inspire a movement to increase healthy pregnancies and lower death rates,...

From Tim LaHaye, co-author of the renowned Left Behind series, and Craig Parshall comes an epic story ripped from the headlines of world events and filtered through Scriptural prophecy. Joshua...

Most believed it had begun when God placed Adam & Eve, fully formed, into the Garden of Eden. Archaeology changed all that. Besides revealing to us the treasures, tombs and...

Are sports influenced by their social context? Can sport influence the social world? And how is sport changing in our increasingly globalized society? This thought-provoking text explores these questions and...

Robin Ballantyne is investigating the murder of a British man in Beijing. His headless body was found in woods by an icy, fetid lake - is his death linked to...

Marnie s schizophrenic father has gone missing.Her sister spends her days sitting on the sofa plucking out her eyelashes, one by one.Something has scared away all the neighbourhood cats and...

At the centre of Tessa Hadley's extraordinary first novel is Clare, a young mother of three, who finds that marriage to a good man no longer satisfies her and embarks...

The Australian Schoolmate Oxford Thesaurus contains the complete text of The Australian School Oxford Thesaurus, in a handy ringbinder format, which allows students to clip the dictionary into their folder...

Designed for use by primary school students, this dictionary contains 4,000 entries printed in large type face. Includes current Australian spellings and alternative spellings and an appendix of names of...

Turning the best stories inside out and upside down!Stalking the Story 1 and 2 explore where stories come from, how they develop, what shapes they take and why we need...

Understanding Health: A Determinants Approach introduces students to the variety of approaches to old and new public health, by placing them in the broader context of conditions and structures in...

As with the companion volume "King Solomon's Mines", this is the only available annotated edition of Haggard's adventure story, "She". An Englishman undertakes a quest to find Ayesha, the mysterious...

English grammar has changed a great deal since the beginning of the Twentieth Century, and it is a subject that can provide a complex minefield of uncertainties within the language....

Someday, Someday, Maybe is a story about hopes and dreams, being young in a city, and wanting something deeply, madly, desperately. It's about finding love, finding yourself and, perhaps most...

Set on a New Zealand Navy frigate during theKorean War, Boy Seaman Russell Purchas is determined to prove he can be brave when it comes to battle with the Communists....

There's something for everyone. There's no collection like it . . . Even more great stories and poems, recipes and holiday fun, hilarious cartoons, terrific art, and tips from celebrities....

Lloyd Jones's dazzling novel is set on a Pacific Island ravaged by war. Told through the eyes of young Matilda and drawing on the elusive power of great literature, it...

Paul Hanna is one of Australia's leading motivational speakers. Here, he speaks about the personal setbacks he has overcome - including a bushwalking accident that left doctors fearing he would...

"Philosophy, economics, and biology have rarely been so entertaining."-Matt Ridley, author of Genome Paul J. Zak's proclivity for taking blood samples has earned him a nickname as the "vampire economist."...

The highly anticipated, unforgettable new story from the internationally bestselling, multi-award-winning author of WONDER. When Silas Bird wakes in the dead of night, he watches powerlessly as three strangers take...

The Reading Group is the funny, insightful and emotional Number One Bestseller. A must-have story of everywoman, for everywoman . . . A New Year. A New Page. A New...

An entrancing story that is one of the most absorbing examinations of the English in Italy since A Room With A View. Set during one week in springtime Florence, A...

Smell is our most seductive and provocative sense, invading every domain of our lives. We can identify our relatives by smell alone, detect the availability of a potential mate, sniff...

Samantha Laschen, a doctor specialising in post-traumatic stress disorder, has moved to the Essex coast with her small daughter, Elsie, to escape the problems of her London life. Or so...

The Old Patagonian Express tells of Paul Theroux's train journey down the length of North and South America. Beginning on Boston's subway, he depicts a voyage from ice-bound Massachusetts to...

Science's traditional answers to the question: "How does complexity arise in nature?" are given at the beginning of this book. It shows how intelligence and human culture can be traced...

A successful and self-contained novelist, Felix Morsom suddenly gets thrust into the underworld of London's homeless, when a strange woman proclaims him the father of her son and he becomes...