2nd Hand The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho; Alan R. Clarke (Translator)
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Category: Literature | Series: Plus Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
A special 30th anniversary edition of the extraordinary international bestseller, with a new foreword. Every few decades a book is published that changes the lives of its readers forever. This is such a book - a beautiful parable about learning to listen to your heart, read the omens strewn along life's ...Show more
2nd Hand The Anchoress by Robyn Cadwallader
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Category: Literature
"The book that the whole literary world can't stop talking about." --Marie Claire (Australia)"A considerable achievement." --Sarah Dunant, The New York Times Book Review England, 1255: Sarah is only seventeen when she chooses to become an anchoress, a holy woman shut away in a small cell, measuring seve ...Show more
2nd Hand The Body In The Library by Agatha Christie
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Category: Literature | Series: Miss Marple
Agatha Christie's world-famous Miss Marple mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. It's seven in the morning. The Bantrys wake to find the body of a young woman in their library. She is wearing evening dress and hea ...Show more
2nd Hand The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
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Category: Literature | Series: JDS
Anyone who has read J.D. Salinger's New Yorker stories, particularly A Perfect Day for Bananafish, Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut, The Laughing Man, and For Esme--With Love and Squalor, will not be surprised by the fact that his first novel is full of children. The hero-narrator of THE CATCHER IN THE RYE ...Show more
2nd Hand The Chrysalids (Popular Penguins) by John Wyndham
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Category: Literature | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Chyrsalids is set in the future after a devastating global nuclear war. David, the young hero of the novel, lives in a tight-knit community of religious and genetic fundamentalists, always on the alert for any deviation from the norm of God's creation. Abnormal plants are publicly burned, with much ...Show more
2nd Hand The Colour of Water: A Man's Tribute to His Mother by James McBride
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Category: Literature
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2nd Hand The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: good
Suffused with rich satire, chaotic brilliance, verbal turbulence and wild humour, "The Crying of Lot 49" opens as Oedipa Maas discovers that she has been made executrix of a former lover's estate. The performance of her duties sets her on a strange trail of detection, in which bizarre characters crowd i ...Show more
2nd Hand The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: And Six Other Stories by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
Full grown with a long, smoke-coloured beard, requiring the services of a cane and fonder of cigars than warm milk, Benjamin Button is a very curious baby indeed. And, as Benjamin becomes increasingly youthful with the passing years, his family wonders why he persists in the embarrassing folly of living ...Show more
2nd Hand The Day Of The Triffids by John Wyndham
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Category: Literature | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In 1951 John Wyndham published his novel <i>The Day of the Triffids</i> to moderate acclaim. Nearly seventy years later, this horrifying story is a science fiction classic, touted by <i>The Times</i> (London) as having “all the reality of a vividly realized nightmare.” Bill Mas ...Show more
2nd Hand The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition of the World's Most Famous Diary by Anne Frank
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Category: Literature | Reading Level: very good
Anne Franks The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Annes thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends staye ...Show more
2nd Hand The Divine Wind by Garry Disher
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Category: Literature
Alice, Hartley, Mitsy and Jamie are kids growing up in Broome before the Second World War. Their lives, although very different, are bound by friendship. Hartley and Alice Penrose are the children of an uneducated pearling master and a cultivated, disgruntled mother. Mitsy Sennosuke is Japanese, the dau ...Show more