Second-hand Books

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and...

Wet Dog is a hilarious series of dogs photographed during their least favorite activity: bath time. Exposed at a vulnerable and humiliating moment, the soggy doggies wiggle, shake, haul themselves...

For twenty years John Aitchison has been travelling the world to film wildlife for the BBC and other broadcasters, taking him to far-away places on every continent. The Shark and...

We all depend on the finance sector. We need it to store our money, manage our payments, finance housing stock, restore infrastructure, fund retirement and support new business. But these...

The experience of losing a spouse can become an overwhelming chasm of grief, loss, confusion, and even anger. This touching, heartfelt book from veteran best-selling author Quin Sherrer, offers widows...

'Can books conduct electricity?' 'My children are just climbing your bookshelves: that's ok... isn't it?' A John Cleese Twitter question ['What is your pet peeve?'], first sparked the "Weird Things...

Two Shakes of a Lamb's Tail is the funny, illuminating diary of a year in the life of a New Zealand farm vet With a husband and two children, 1200...

This third and final adventure featuring crime-solving pair Bee and Flea explores how the backyard critters adapt and prepare for winter The weather is turning cold, and Bee notices that...

A charming and unique ode to natural curiosity and the beauty found in small, fleeting things. One day, Edie and Lou discover a visitor between the beet greens in their...

The perfect resource for budding bird-watchers, this beautiful, comprehensive introduction encourages children to appreciate the wonderful world of birds all around them. Because birds can be spotted in every neighborhood,...

'A charming book, ringing with the joy of existence.' - Richard Dawkins 'How often have you asked yourself: What is the meaning of life? Sasha Sagan finds it everywhere -...

Eleven of the most action-packed, hilarious stories from Marcus Emerson are now bundled into this epic collection! Video games, zombies, superheroes, time travel - and that's just in the first...

Zare Leonis seems destined to become a poster boy for the Empire. His sister, Dhara, has been accepted into the esteemed Imperial Academy on Lothal, and Zare is confident he'll...

For forty years Ross Gittins has had a ringside seat as the Australian economy has gone through radical change. He's covered forty budgets and sixteen elections, he's watched thirteen treasurers...

The Silence Between Us is a raw and original double memoir tracing a mother and daughter as they try to understand and rebuild their relationship after the daughter's suicide attempt....

'When are you having children?' 'Why didn't you have another child?' 'Well, I guess that's your choice, but...' They are questions asked of women of a certain age all the...

Before you fully investigate "Why Is This Night Different from All Other Nights?" ask yourself these questions: 1. If a train is already speeding through the night, is it too...

Do you smell smoke? Young apprentice Lemony Snicket is investigating a case of arson but soon finds himself enveloped in the ever-increasing mystery that haunts the town of Stain'd-by-the-Sea. Who...

Meat, seafood and poultry and vegetables, rice and beans all benefit from the process of gentle, slow cooking. Hot and spicy, rich and creamy. whatever the preference, there's plenty to...

Latika Bourke was adopted from India, aged eight months. Growing up in Bathurst, New South Wales she felt a deep connection to her Australian home and her Australian family. It...

Dogs express themselves in a 'secret language' that relies on expressions, body postures, barks, and growls. This language contains many subtle-but- important nuances and is very different from human verbal...

Krissie Donald has no desire to 'settle down'. Committed men are hers for the taking, but she prefers explosive liaisons to any sort of full-blown relationship. Krissie's best friend, Sarah,...

Australia is an amazing place, but did you know that some of our most stunning views can be experienced from the loo? After a life-changing trip to Kata Tjuta -...

p>Blue Paws is a rollicking true-life tale of a canine hero and his handler who catch crooks for a living./p>p>When Sydneysider Matt McCredie was finally accepted to train with the...

Some people are passionate about golf, others about football or fishing. Then there are those who just love cars. This book is as much about people as it is about...

As a follow-up to his successful Flash: Coloring in the Tattoo Style, famous tattoo artist Chris Garver presents an entirely new collection of tattoo art to color in The Flash...

How Are You Doing? No, Really ... In this poignant memoir that is both laugh-out-loud funny, and sniffle inducing, Clint Edwards explores his lifelong struggle with mental illness in the...

Beneath Venezuelan soil lies an ocean of crude - the world's largest reserves - an oil patch that shaped the nature of the global energy business. Unfortunately, a dysfunctional anti-American,...

Following the success and momentum of his anthology How to Love the World (93,000 copies in print), James Crews's new collection, The Path to Kindness, offers more than 100 deeply...

With a mix of genuine forgiveness, honest communication, and a strong desire to make things better, any relationship can improve. Our circumstances won't change, however, as long as two people...

The backyard has long been a space associated with recreation and relaxation, a private patch of earth to escape to, and a springboard for the imagination. In her signature style...

Ambitious, brilliant, and beautiful, Alex Sontheim is the star of Wall Street - and she knows it. So when Levy Manhattan Investments taps her to take their firm to the...

B. J. Kidd was Lecturer of Pembroke College and Vicar of St. Paul's, Oxford.

Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very...

This title provides contemporary criticism on one of the most widely read writers of the last century.

Pinochet File reveals a record of complicity with atrocity by the U.S. government. The documents, first declassified for the original edition of the book, formed the heart of the campaign...

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A century of naval history is chronicled here, with details on the major battles fought on the high seas by the navies of Britain, America, Russia, and Japan. Reprint..

Celebrated transsexual trailblazer Kate Bornstein has, with more humor and spunk than any other, ushered us into a world of limitless possibility through a daring re-envisionment of the gender system...

2009 Reprint of original 1956 edition. Paperback, 114pp. Mises wrote and lectured extensively on behalf of classical liberalism and is seen as one of the leaders of the Austrian School...

This book demonstrates how the course of the American Revolution and the creation of a national entity were influenced by the political, economic, and social diversity of the thirteen colonies....

IBS is one of our nation's most untalked-about ailments, but millions of people - mostly women - suffer from the debilitating condition, one that must be controlled primarily through diet....

Now available in paperback, The Green House vividly illustrates the emerging collaboration between stylish architecture, interior design, and environmental responsibility. This groundbreaking book features more than thirty-five residences in fifteen...

Many of us are facing unprecedented attacks on our democracy, our privacy, and our hard-won civil rights. If you're Black in the US, this is not new. As COLORLINES editors...