The Girl Who Came Home: A Novel of the Titanic by Hazel Gaynor
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Series: A\Titanic Novel Ser. | Reading Level: General Adult
A voyage across the ocean becomes the odyssey of a lifetime for a young Irish woman. . . .Ireland, 1912 . . .Fourteen members of a small village set sail on RMS Titanic, hoping to find a better life in America. For seventeen-year-old Maggie Murphy, the journey is bittersweet. Though her future lies in a ...Show more
Orphan Number Eight by Kim Van Alkemade
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: very good
** NEW ** A stunning debut novel in the vein of Sarah Waters' historical fiction and inspired by true events, it tells the fascinating story of a woman who must choose between revenge and mercy when she encounters the doctor who subjected her to dangerous medical experiments in a New York City Jewish or ...Show more
Moonlight Over Paris: A Novel by Jennifer Robson
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
An aristocratic young woman leaves the sheltered world of London to find adventure, passion, and independence in 1920s Paris in this mesmerizing story from the USA Today and internationally bestselling author of Somewhere in France and After the War is Over. Spring, 1924 Recovering from a broken warti ...Show more
Mademoiselle Chanel by C W Gortner
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
For readers of The Paris Wife and Z comes this vivid novel full of drama, passion, tragedy, and beauty that stunningly imagines the life of iconic fashion designer Coco Chanel--the ambitious, gifted laundrywoman's daughter who revolutionized fashion, built an international empire, and become one of the ...Show more
News of the World: A Novel by Paulette Jiles
$25.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
A New York Times Bestselling AuthorA #1 LibraryReads Pick2016 National Book Award FinalistIn the wake of the Civil War, a seventy-year-old retired army captain does live readings to paying audiences hungry for news of the world. He is offered a $50 gold piece to deliver a young orphan, raised by Kiowa r ...Show more
The Cherry Harvest by Lucy Sanna
$33.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: Adult
A memorable coming-of-age story and love story, laced with suspense, which explores a hidden side of the home front during World War II, when German POWs were put to work in a Wisconsin farm community . . . with dark and unexpected consequences.The war has taken a toll on the Christiansen family. With f ...Show more
Kingdom of Olives and Ash - Writers Confront the Occupation by Michael Chabon; Ayelet Waldman
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Published to coincide the with 50th anniversary of the Israel occupation of the West Bank, an anthology that explores the human cost of the conflict there as witnessed by such notable writers as Colum McCann, Colm Toibin, Dave Eggers, Madeleine Thien, Eimear McBride, Taiye Selasi and editors Michael Cha ...Show more
A House Without Windows by Nadia Hashimi
$15.00 NZD
$25.00 (40% off)
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
A vivid, unforgettable story of an unlikely sisterhood--an emotionally powerful and haunting tale of friendship that illuminates the plight of women in a traditional culture--from the author of the bestselling The Pearl That Broke Its Shell and When the Moon Is Low. For two decades, Zeba was a loving w ...Show more
Marlene by C W Gortner
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
From the cabarets of Weimar Berlin to the dazzling film studios of Hollywood s golden age, an enthralling novel of a glamorous legend Maria Magdalena Dietrich was born for a life on the stage. Raised in genteel poverty after the First World War, the willful teenager vows to become an actress and singer, ...Show more
Promise - A Novel by Minrose Gwin
$27.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
In the aftermath of a devastating tornado that rips through the town of Tupelo, Mississippi, at the height of the Great Depression, two women worlds apart--one black, one white; one a great-grandmother, the other a teenager--fight for their families' survival in this lyrical and powerful novel."Gwin's g ...Show more
The Color of Our Sky: A Novel by Amita Trasi
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
In the spirit of Khaled Hosseini, Nadia Hashimi and Shilpi Somaya Gowda comes this powerful debut from a talented new voice-a sweeping, emotional journey of two childhood friends in Mumbai, India, whose lives converge only to change forever one fateful night. India, 1986: Mukta, a ten-year-old village g ...Show more