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1421 - The Year China Discovered America by Gavin Menzies
$39.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The incredible true story of the discovery of America before Columbus was even born.Gavin Menzies's extraordinary findings rewrite history. On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen sailed from its base in China. The ships, huge junks nearly five hundred feet long and built from the f ...Show more
A Crack in the Edge of the World - America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906 by Simon Winchester
$36.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
The international bestselling author of The Professor and the Madman and Krakatoa vividly brings to life the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake that leveled a city symbolic of America's relentless western expansion. Simon Winchester has also fashioned an enthralling and informative look at the tumultuous sub ...Show more
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
$24.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: P. S. Ser.
From Paulo Coelho, author of the international bestseller "The Alchemist," comes a poignant, richly poetic story that reflects the depth of love and life. Rarely does adolescent love reach its full potential, but what happens when two young lovers reunite after eleven years? Time has transformed Pilar i ...Show more
Portrait in Sepia - A Novel by Isabel Allende
$10.00 AUD
Category: Catalogue | Series: P. S. Ser.
"Spectacular story-telling . . . the author's elaborate skill in weaving intimate emotional detail into the broad canvas of history is in fantastic display."--Atlanta Journal-Constitution A spellbinding family saga--a sequel to Daughter of Fortune--from the bestselling author of The House of the Spir ...Show more
Profiles in Courage by KENNEDY JOHN F
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Category: Biography | Series: P. S. Ser.
The Pulitzer Prize winning classic by President John F. Kennedy, with an introduction by Caroline Kennedy and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy. Written in 1955 by the then junior senator from the state of Massachusetts, John F. Kennedy's Profiles in Courage serves as a clarion call to every American. I ...Show more
Selected Poems by Gwendolyn Brooks
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Category: Poetry | Series: P. S. Ser.
"Probably the finest black poet of the post-Harlem generation." -- Robert F. KiernanSelected Poems is the classic volume by the distinguished and celebrated poet, Gwendolyn Brooks, winner of the 1950 Pulitzer Prize, and recipient of the National Book Foundation Medal for Distinguished Contribution to Am ...Show more
The Odyssey of Homer by Richmond Lattimore
$23.99 AUD
Category: Literature | Series: P. S. Ser.
The most eloquent translation of Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus and his arduous journey home after the Trojan WarThis is Homer's epic chronicle of the Greek hero Odysseus' triumph over Troy and arduous journey home: Odysseus survives a storm and shipwreck, the cave of the Cyclops and ...Show more
The Secret of Chanel No. 5: The Intimate History of the World's Most Famous Perfume by Tilar J. Mazzeo
$34.99 AUD
Category: Fashion | Series: P. S. Ser.
With its rich golden hue, art deco-inspired bottle, and timeless, musky scent, Chanel Number 5 is the world's bestselling perfume. Reverently known among industry insiders as "le monstre" - the monster - it is arguably the most coveted consumer luxury product of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. ...Show more
When Nietzsche Wept: A Novel of Obssession by Irvin D. Yalom
$32.99 AUD
Category: Reference | Series: P. S. Ser.
In nineteenth-century Vienna, a drama of love, fate, and will is played out amid the intellectual ferment that defined the era. Josef Breuer, one of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, is at the height of his career. Friedrich Nietzsche, Europe's greatest philosopher, is on the brink of suicidal des ...Show more
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