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A Common Pornography: A memoir by Kevin Sampsell
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | 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 Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear
$35.00 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S.
Private investigator Maisie Dobbs receives her first assignment from the British Secret Service in A Lesson in Secrets, the eighth book in Jacqueline Winspear s award-winning mystery series. Sent to pose as a junior lecturer at a private college in Cambridge, she will monitor any activities not in the i ...Show more
APRIL 1865 by Jay Winik
$25.95 AUD
Category: History | Series: P. S. Ser.
This New York Times best-seller from noted historian and acclaimed author Jay Winik forever changes common perceptions of the final month of the American Civil War. April 1865 could have destroyed the nation. Instead, it saved it. As April begins, the battered Confederate capital of Richmond falls to th ...Show more
City of Refuge by Tom Piazza
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
In the heat of late summer, two New Orleans families--one black and one white--confront a storm that will change the course of their lives. SJ Williams, a carpenter and widower, lives and works in the Lower Ninth Ward community where he was born and raised. Across town, Craig Donaldson, a Midwestern tr ...Show more
Crooked Little Vein by Warren Ellis
$24.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S.
Burned-out private dick Michael McGill needs to jump-start his career. What he gets instead is a cattle prod to the crotch. The president's heroin-addicted chief of staff wants McGill to find the Constitution-the real one the Founding Fathers secretly devised for the time of gravest crisis. And with God ...Show more
Dessa Rose: A Novel by Sherley A Williams
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P.S. (Paperback)
Sherley A. Williams' highly acclaimed historical novel details two women's fierce strength of will and an unlikely bond despite racial barriers in the pre-civil war south"Having this treasure of a book available again for new and more readers is not only necessary, it is imperative."-Toni MorrisonIn 182 ...Show more
Drinking Closer to Home: A Novel by Jessica Anya Blau
$27.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser. | Reading Level: very good
From the critically acclaimed author of "The Summer of Naked Swim Parties" comes a new novel of California, growing up, and learning to love one's family. There is nothing like ten days with one’s family to bring forth old obsessions and stir up childhood memories. When Anna, Portia and Emery’s mother, ...Show more
Fifth Avenue, 5 A.M. : Audrey Hepburn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and the Dawn of the Modern Woman by Sam Wasson
$27.99 AUD
Category: Creative Arts and Drama | 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
Genome : The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
$27.95 AUD
Category: Science | Series: P. S. Ser.
Following in the tradition of James Gleick' Chaos, Matt Ridly vividly explores the most profound scientific discovery of the century--the mapping of the human genome. But what does that mean? In witty, clear language, Ridley answers this question for your students. Genome helps them understand what the ...Show more
God's Secretaries by Adam Nicolson
$29.99 AUD
Category: No Category | Series: P. S. Ser.
A net of complex currents flowed across Jacobean England. This was the England of Shakespeare, Jonson, and Bacon; the Gunpowder Plot; the worst outbreak of the plague England had ever seen; arcadian landscapes; murderous, toxic slums; and, above all, sometimes overwhelming religious passion. Jacobean En ...Show more
Guided Reading: Good First Teaching for All Children by Irene C. Fountas (Lesley College, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
$64.95 AUD
Category: General References | Series: F&P Professional Books and Multimedia Ser.
Among the many changes to sweep American literacy education has been a move toward whole class instruction. Nonetheless, children still bring to literacy a wide range of experiences and competencies. How, then, might teachers best support a literate community yet still meet the needs of individual reade ...Show more
Guiding Readers and Writers - Teaching Comprehension, Genre, and Content Literacy by Irene C. Fountas; Gay Su Pinnell
$74.95 AUD
Category: Education | Series: F and P Professional Books and Multimedia Ser.
The product of many years of work with classroom teachers, Guiding Readers and Writers is one of the most comprehensive, authoritative guides available. It explores all the essential components of a quality literacy program in six separate sections: Breakthrough to Literacy: Fountas and Pinnell prese ...Show more