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A Common Pornography: A memoir by Kevin Sampsell
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
A Common Pornography explores the fragmented world of youthful memories in a style at once spare, haunting, and uncomfortably nostalgic. Kevin Sampsell's daring and creative style of memoir is peppered with insightful (perhaps distracting) footnotes by Mike Daily and ethereal photo-colleges by Melody Ow ...Show more
A Perfectly Good Family by Lionel Shriver
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Following the death of her worthy liberal parents, Corlis McCrea moves back into her family's grand Reconstruction mansion in North Carolina, willed to all three siblings. Her timid younger brother has never left home. When her bullying black-sheep older brother moves into "his" house as well, it's war ...Show more
A Vindication of Love: Reclaiming Romance for the Twenty-First Century by Cristina Nehring
$35.00 NZD
Category: Society & Culture | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In the twenty-first century, political correctness, cynicism, pragmatism, and the commodification of sex have reduced romantic love to a discredited myth or a recreational sport--"a cause for embarrassment," says Cristina Nehring. In A Vindication of Love, Nehring wrests romantic love from the clutch ...Show more
Blonde by Joyce Carol Oates
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In this ambitious book, Joyce Carol Oates boldly reimagines the inner, poetic, and spiritual life of Norma Jeane Baker--the child, the woman, the fated celebrity and idolized blonde the world came to know as Marilyn Monroe. In a voice startling, intimate, and rich, Norma Jeane tells her own story, that ...Show more
Devil in the Grove: Thurgood Marshall, the Groveland Boys, and the Dawn of a New America by Gilbert King
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Arguably the most important American lawyer of the twentieth century, Thurgood Marshall was on the verge of bringing the landmark suit Brown v. Board of Education before the U.S. Supreme Court when he became embroiled in a case that threatened to change the course of the civil rights movement and cost h ...Show more
Domestic Violets by Matthew Norman
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In the vein of Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta comes DOMESTIC VIOLETS, Matthew Norman's darkly comic family drama about love, loss, and ambition.
Everything Beautiful Began After by Simon Van Booy
$26.99 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Rebecca is young, lost, and beautiful. A gifted artist, she seeks solace and inspiration in the Mediterranean heat of Athens--trying to understand who she is and how she can love without fear. George has come to Athens to learn ancient languages after growing up in New England boarding schools and Ivy ...Show more
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
The Sleeper Hit of the Summer... Audrey Hepburn is an icon like no other, yet the image many of us have of Audrey -- dainty, immaculate -- is anything but true to life. Here, for the first time, Sam Wasson presents the woman behind the little black dress that rocked the nation in 1961. The first complet ...Show more
Full Woman, Fleshly Apple, Hot Moon by Pablo Neruda
$0.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Mitchell, widely known for his original and definitive translations of spiritual writings and poetry, has taken the work of Neruda (1904-1973), whose poems are passionate, humorous and exceptionally accessible, and brought them to life for a whole new generation of readers. Mitchell has selected nearly ...Show more
Futureproof by N Frank Daniels
$25.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
FUTUREPROOF is the story of a young man and his friends as they attempt to navigate their way through life's disfunction, heartbreaks, triumphs and pitfalls. "Really good shit." ~James Frey (A Million Little Pieces) "Daniels' work is raw, sprawling and brave." ~Samantha Dunn (Not By Accident) "FUTUREPRO ...Show more
GENTELMEN AND PLAYERS by HARRIS JOANNE
$19.95 NZD
Category: Not a Book | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
For generations, privileged young men have attended St. Oswald's Grammar School for Boys, groomed for success by the likes of Roy Straitley, the eccentric Classics teacher who has been a fixture there for more than thirty years. This year, however, the wind of unwelcome change is blowing, and Straitley ...Show more
Game Control by Lionel Shriver
$38.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Eleanor Merritt, a do-gooding American family-planning worker, was drawn to Kenya to improve the lot of the poor. Unnervingly, she finds herself falling in love with the beguiling Calvin Piper despite, or perhaps because of, his misanthropic theories about population control and the future of the human ...Show more