Born Confused- Tanuja Desai Hidier

Dimple's parents are from India and she's spent years rebelling against their traditions. Now everything Indian is suddenly hip, even her best friend Gwyn has a bindi as an accessory. Dimple doesn't feel either Indian or American, she feels
both. Mainly she just feels confused.
Softcover,2003,478 pgs.
ISBN- 0439977479
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Like Heaven- Niala Maharaj

This is the story of Ved Sant, an Indian from Port of Spain, Trinidad — a ramshackle carnival culture, which is suddenly becoming oil and gas rich.
Softcover,2007,566 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099492276
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Imaginary Men- Anjali Banerjee

Lina Ray has a knack for pairing up perfect couples as a professional matchmaker in San Francisco, but her well-meaning, highly traditional Indian family wants her to get married. When her Auntie Kiki introduces Lina to the bachelor from hell at her sister's wedding in India, Lina panics and blurts out, "I'm engaged !.
Softcover,2005,236 pgs.
ISBN- 9781416509431
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

A Very Long Engagement- Sebastien Japriscot

One woman's quest,after the First World War,to discover what happened to her fiance' amid the carnage of battle.
Softcover,1997,312 pgs.
ISBN- 1860463614
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

When We Were Orphans- Kazuo Ishiguro

Moving between London and Shanghai during the inter-war years- a story of memory,intrigue and childhood vision surviving deep into adulthood.
Softcover,2000,368 pgs.
ISBN- 057120516X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Heaven Sent- Christina Jones

A magical romantic comedy.
Softcover,2007,253 pgs.
ISBN- 9780749938543
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The War Artist- Steven Kelly

An artist obsessed with war and its extremes falls in love with his best friend's wife.
Softcover,2000,181 pgs.
ISBN- 0684851326
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

The Circus In Winter- Cathy Day

The secret lives and loves of circus people and their descendants are revealed in these 11 linked short stories. From 1884 to 1939, the small town of Lima, Indiana, hosted the Great Porter Circus during the winter months.
Softcover,2004,228 pgs.
ISBN- 015101048X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Afterwards- Rachel Seiffert

Alice and Joseph meet in the pub and fall into a relationship that is easy but slightly distant. 'When he left, Joseph would just say he'd see her soon, and Alice liked that too: the way he wasn't asking or presuming, and how they managed neither to force nor avoid the question.
Softcover,2007,327 pgs.
ISBN- 9780434011865
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

A Fine Balance- Rohinton Mistry

India, 1975, and a callous government has declared a State of Emergency. In these uncertain times Dina Dalal - a spirited Parsi widow determined to avoid a second marriage - takes a student boarder and two Hindu tailors into her ramshackle flat. As the cruel policies of slum clearances and enforced birth control bring chaos to the city.
Softcover,1996,614 pgs.
ISBN- 0571179363
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Monkey Beach- Eden Robinson

Growing up a tough, wild tomboy, swimming, fighting and fishing in the remote Native village of Kitamaat, where the land slips into the green ocean on the northern edge of the world and strange things bubble below the surface, Lisa Marie has always been different.
Softcover,2000,374 pgs.
ISBN- 0349107912
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The Friends Of Meagre Fortune- David Adams Richards

Will Jameson has a temperament of iron, standing up to men twice his age when he takes over the Jameson lumber company after his fathers death. His younger brother Owen is sensitive, literary and fanciful. But when Will dies suddenly and Owen's beloved Lula rejects him, Owen's deeper character comes to light.
Softcover,2008,366 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099499183
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The Vine Of Desire- Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Anju and Sudha are two young women far from Calcutta, the city of their childhood. After a year of living separate lives are rekindling their friendship in America, the unlikely relationships they form in the world outside the immigrant Indian community profoundly transforming them.
Softcover,2003,398 pgs.
ISBN- 0349115842
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Knowing Max- James Long

At the age of 13,Miles Malan witnesses a horrifying fatal accident,which will never faed from his memory.
Softcover,2000,329 pgs.
ISBN- 0006510949
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

A Household Guide To Dying- Debra Adelaide

"Debra Adelaide's fictional account of an author's final days will have her readers in tears".
Softcover,2000,386 pgs.
ISBN- 9780330424257
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

The Flirt- Kathleen Tessaro

A delicious romantic comedy from the bestselling author of Elegance 'Unique situation available for attractive, well mannered, reasonably educated young man. Hours irregular. Pay generous. Discretion a must.' In a small office in Half Moon Street, Hughie Venables-Smythe discovers the world of the professional flirt.
Softcover,2008,454 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007215386
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Millroy The Magician- Paul Theroux

When Julie Farina walks into the tent at the Barnstable County Fair to see Millroy the Magician her life is transformed. Millroy performs miracles in front of her spellbound eyes. Through Julie, Millroy fins the strength to go out and preach his evangelical message.
Softcover,1994,439 pgs.
ISBN- 0140235280
Condition- C

Price: NZ $6.00

Roddy Doyle- The Dead Republic

Vol 3 of The Last Roundup.
We last saw Henry Smart, his leg severed in an accident with a railway boxcar, crawl into the Utah desert to die - only to be discovered by John Ford, who's there shooting his latest Western. The Dead Republic opens in 1951. Henry is returning to Ireland for the first time since his escape in 1922.
Trade pb,2010,329 pgs.
ISBN- 9780224090100
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

For One More Day- Mitch Albom

What would you do if you could spend one more day with a lost loved one ?
Hardback with dj,2006,197 pgs.
ISBN- 0316730939
Condition- B

Price: NZ $8.00

Queen Of Broken Hearts- Cassandra King

A therapist specializing in helping people get sorted out postdivorce has her own problems of the heart .
Trade pb,2007,411 pgs.
ISBN- 9781741148237
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Noah's Compass- Anne Tyler

A novel about a man adrift in his own life.
Trade pb,2009,277 pgs.
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Worst Fears- Fay Weldon

A novel about how even the most ordered life can unravel in days.
Hardback with dj,1996,196 pgs.
ISBN- 002239205
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Banyan Tree- Christopher Nolan

Banyan Tree spans three generations of O'Briens, who own a small dairy farm in Westmeath.
Hardback with dj,1999,245 pgs.
ISBN- 186159142X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

An Absolute Scandal- Penny Vincenci

A story of the last days of the glittering eighties and a devastating financial scandal that beset thousands of people when boom turned to bust.
Trade pb,2007,756 pgs.
ISBN- 9780755320851
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Anita Shreve- All He Ever Wanted

It is a fire in a New Hampshire hotel that brings Nicholas Van Tassel and etna Bliss together,a chance meeting that lights up a lifelong passion.
Softcover,2003,322 pgs.
ISBN- 0349115583
Condition- C

Price: NZ $8.00

Anita Shreve- Fortune's Rocks

It is the summer of 1899,and Olympia Biddeford and her parents have retired from the heat of Boston to the coastal resort of Fortune's rocks...
Softcover,1999,453 pgs.
ISBN- 0349112762
Condition- C

Price: NZ $8.00

Anita Shreve- All He Ever Wanted

Hardback with dj,2003,280 pgs.
ISBN- 0316861146
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Anita Shreve- Sea Glass

New Hampshire,1929- when sexton Beecher proposes to Honora Willard,she lays aside his flwas as one might overlook a small stain in a beautifully embroidered tablecloth...
Trade pb,2002,328 pgs.
ISBN- 0316859109
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Anita Shreve- Rescue

The car crash should have killed her...but rookie paramedic Peter webster takes the emergency call,and helps the young woman,Sheila Arsenault,to survive...
Trade pb,2010,288 pgs.
ISBN- 9781408700747
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Anita Shreve- Light On Snow

Walking through the new-fallen snow in the forest near their home,12-year old Nicky Dillon and her father come upon something inconceivable...
Hardback with dj,2004,275 pgs.
ISBN- 0316877336
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Anita Shreve- Sea Glass

Hardback with dj,2002,378 pgs.
ISBN- 0316780812
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Anita Shreve- The Last time They Met

When Linda Fallon and Thomas Janes meet at a writers' festival in Toronto,it is the first time they have seen each other for 26 years...
Trade pb,2001,330 pgs.
ISBN- 0316855960
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Alexander McCall Smith- Tears Of The Giraffe

The further adventures of Precious Ramotswe- Botswana's only -and finest private detective.
Softcover,2004,217 pgs.
ISBN- 0349116652
Condition- B

Price: NZ $8.00

Alexander McCall Smith- The Kalahari Typing School For Men

The 4th book in the series of the adventures of Botswana's female private detective-Precious Ramotswe.
Softcover,2002,210 pgs.
ISBN- 0349117047
Condition- B

Price: NZ $8.00

Alexander McCall Smith- The Sunday Philsophy Club

Behind Edinburgh's regimented Georgian facades,its moral compasses are spinning with greed,dishonesty and murderous intent...
Softcover,2004,295 pgs.
ISBN- 0349118698
Condition- C

Price: NZ $8.00

Alexander McCall Smith- The Sunday Philosophy Club

Behind Edinburgh's regimented Georgian facades,its moral compasses are spinning with greed,dishonesty and murderous intent...
Trade pb,2004,281 pgs.
ISBN- 0316729566
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Alexander McCall Smith- Blue Shoes And Happiness

A novel in the No.1 Ladie's Detective Agency Series.
Hardback with dj,2006,227 pgs.
ISBN- 0676976247
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Alexander McCall Smith- Friends,Lovers,Chocolate

Isabel Dalhousie thinks often of friends,sometimes of lovers and on occasion of chocolate...
Softcover,2005,297 pgs.
ISBN- 0349118043
Condition- C

Price: NZ $8.00

Alexander McCall Smith- Dream Angus

The Celtic God Of Dreams- some modern takes on old tales.
Hardback with dj,2006,173 pgs.
ISBN- 9781841958231
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Worst Thing I've Done- Ursula Hegi

Three friends.Two lovers.One line that shouldn't be crossed...
Trade pb,2007,260 pgs.
ISBN- 9781847370945
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Three Girls And Their Brother- Theresa Rebeck

They may be the granddaughters of a famous literary critic, but what really starts it all is Daria, Polly, and Amelia Heller’s stunning red hair. Out of the blue one day, The New Yorker calls and says that they want to feature the girls in a glamorous spread....
Trade pb,2008,401 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007257690
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Trip Of A Lifetime- Liz Bryrski

A woman injured in a shocking act of violence tries to put her life back together.
Trade pb,2008,343 pgs.
ISBN- 9781405038270
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Half A Yellow Sun- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Three characters swpet up in the maelstrom of the 1960's Nigeria-Biafra conflict.
Trade pb,2006,433 pgs.
ISBN- 0007225342
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Ben Elton- Blind Faith

A savagely comic novel set in a post-apocalyptic society.
Trade pb,2007,320 pgs.
ISBN- 9780593058015
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Late Nights On Air- Elizabeth Hay

Harry Boyd, a hard-bitten refugee from failure in Toronto television, has returned to a small radio station in the Canadian North. There, in Yellowknife, in the summer of 1975, he falls in love with a voice on air....
Softcover,2007,308 pgs.
ISBN- 9781847247872
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Highland Fling- Nancy Mitford

Nancy Mitford's first novel (1931)
Hardback with dj,1980,184 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Christmas Pudding- Nancy Mitford

Her second novel (1932).
Hardback with dj,1980,178 pgs.
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Gold Diggers- Tasmina Perry

When New York billionaire Adam Gold moves to London every red-blooded woman wants to get him into bed-and down the aisle.
Paperback,2009,675 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007838776
Condition- B

Price: NZ $6.00

Flawless- Tilly Bagshaw

Polished,perfect,priceless..that's just the men....
Trade pb,2009,384 pgs.
ISBN- 9781409100997
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Under A Tin-Grey Sari- Wayne Ashton

A sensual love story set in 1967 in the bustling city of Chittagong,East Pakistan.
Softcover,2002,478 pgs.
ISBN- 9781863683777
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Divide- Nicholas Evans

A family fractured by betrayal and struggling in search of lost happiness.
Trade pb,2005,403 pgs.
ISBN- 192079879X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

On Green Dolphin Street- Sebastian Faulks

One woman's attempt to face down death in the Cold War years.
Softcover,2002,341 pgs.
ISBN- 009927583X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Makers- Cory Doctorow

What does the future look like? A brilliantly entertaining and original novel about the end of the economy.
Trade pb,2009,416 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007330867
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini

A novel of betrayal and forgiveness in Afghanistan of the 1970's and today.
Softcover,2004,340 pgs.
ISBN- 9780747566533
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Widow And Her Hero- Tom Keneally

Based on two operations mounted during the closing phase of World War II against Japanese warships and merchant vessels moored in Singapore Harbour- a war widow discovers the truth about her lost husband fron his diaries.
Softcover,2007,295 pgs.
ISBN- 9781864711028
Condition-B

Price: NZ $10.00

Sentimental Journey- Jill Barnett

Kitty Kincaid grew up in the shadow of her father, a famous research scientist. But when she is captured by the Nazis in French Morocco, she must rely on her own wits to survive.
Hardback with dj,2001,436
pgs.
ISBN- 0671035339
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Shopaholic Abroad- Spohie Kinsella

Will travel broaden the mind ...or just loosen the purse strings...?
Softcover,2001,350 pgs.
ISBN- 0552999407
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Michael Tolliver Lives- Armistead Maupin

More of the life of sweet-spirited southerner Michael 'mouse' Tolliver.
Softcover,2007,332 pgs.
ISBN- 9780552772938
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

The Black Bonspiel Of Willie MacCrimmon- W.O.Mitchell

A book about curling, the noble sport that every winter turns otherwise sane men and women into broom-waving fanatics.
Small hardback with dj,1993,134 pgs.
ISBN- 0771060815
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Road To Paradise- Paullina Simons

Some journeys take you where you least expect to go....
Hardback with dj,2003,400 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007265268
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Dead Reckoning- Charlaine Harris

A Sookie Stackhouse novel.
Softcover,2011,325 pgs.
ISBN- 9780575096530
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Brida - Paula Coelho

The story of Brida,a beautiful young Irish girl,and her quest for knowledge.
Softcover,2009,296 pgs.
ISBN- 9780732287429
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Thing Around Your Neck- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Twelve dazzling stories that explore the ties that bind men and women, parents and children, Africa and the United States.
Trade pb,2009,217 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007296712
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Sparkles- Louise Bagshawe

Diamonds are forever....secrets aren't....
Trade pb,2006,536 pgs.
ISBN- 0755304306
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00

This Charming Man- Marian Keyes

"Everybody remembers where they were the day they heard Paddy de Courcy was getting married....."
Trade pb,2008,675 pgs.
ISBN- 9780718149130
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The True History Of Paradise- Margaret Cezair-Thompson

Easter 1981.With Jamaica in a state of emergency,the Landing family gathers to bury one of its own...
Softcover,2009,430 pgs.
ISBN- 9780755347049
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Blockade- Derek Hansen

Cheryl Bollock had chosen the certainty of riches over the possibility of love and was quite content...until the day love found her....
Trade pb,1998,511 pgs.
ISBN- 0732264960
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Speech Of Angels- Sharon Maas

Jyothi is growing up on the streets of Bombay when she is rescued by an affluent Western couple, their contribution to the starving of India. But she soon finds adapting to the orderly, middle-class English way of life, to school, and to rules and regulations hard.
Softcover,2004,374 pgs.
ISBN- 0007123868
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Shipping News- E.Annie Proulx

Quoyle is a hopeless hack journalist working in New York. When his two-timing wife dies in a road accident, he retreats to his ancestral home on the coast of Newfoundland where he must confront the unpredictable forces of nature and society.
Softcover,1993,337 pgs.
ISBN- 1857022424
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Accordian Crimes- E.Annie Proulx

The life story of a green,two-row button accordian from its maker in Sicily to new owners on the midwest prairie,Cajun bayoux,and a Chicago tenement.
Softcover,1996,543 pgs.
ISBN- 185702575X
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Postcards- E.Annie Proulx

The story of Loyal Blood,a man who spends a lifetime on the run from a crime so terrible that it renders him forever incapable of touching a woman.
Softcover,1992,340 pgs.
ISBN- 0006546684
Condition- C

Price: NZ $10.00

Pigs In Heaven- Barbara Kingsolver

Continuing the story begun in "The Bean Trees", this novel features the characters Taylor and Turtle as they witness an event whose repercussions will change their lives forever.
Softcover,1994,343 pgs.
ISBN- 0571171788
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Prodigal Summer- Barbara Kingsolver

At the center of this sprawling tale is a pack of coyotes that has wandered into the territory that park ranger Deanne Wolfe patrols in the aftermath of her divorce....and her reltionship with the man charged with destroying the coyotes...
Softcover,2000,447 pgs.
ISBN- 0571206484
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Poisonwood Bible- Barbara Kingsolver

An evangelical Baptist missionary takes his family to the Belgian Congo in 1959.
Softcover,2000,616 pgs.
ISBN- 057120175X

Price: NZ $10.00

The Angels Of Russia- Patricia le Roy

In the cold war Soviet Union even passion is political...
Softcover,1997,300 pgs.
ISBN- 0749931183
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Lovely Bones- Alice Sebold

Sisie Salmon speaks from heaven after she was murdered by a man in her neighborhood...
Softcover,2002,328 pgs.
ISBN- 0330485385
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Hundred Secret Senses- Amy Tan

A series of family secrets are unfolded that question the connections between chance and fate, beliefs and hopes, memory and imagination and the natural gifts of our 100 secret senses.
Trade pb,1996,358 pgs.
ISBN- 0002254700
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Bonesetter's Daughter- Amy Tan

The lives of an older generation of women whose fate has brought them from China to the US, and also those of their culturally-confused, American-born daughters.
Hardback with dj,2001,307 pgs.
ISBN- 0002254867
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Seduction Of Silence- Bem Le Hunte

Five Generations of One Remarkable Indian Family on a Quest for Enlightenment.
Trade pb,2000,398 pgs.
ISBN- 073226751X
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Piano Teacher- Janice Y.K.Lee

In 1942, Will Truesdale, an Englishman newly arrived in Hong Kong, falls headlong into a passionate relationship with Trudy Liang, a beautiful Eurasian socialite. But their love affair is soon threatened by the invasion of the Japanese, with terrible consequences for both of them, and for members of their fragile community who will betray each other in the darkest days of the war.
Trade pb,2009,334 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007286386
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Goddess Of Vengeance- Jackie Collins

Lucky Santangelo is back with a vengeance....
Trade pb,2011,471 pgs.
ISBN- 9781847379832
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

Friday Nights- Joanna Trollope

Friday nights,the best night of the week- talking,drinking,laughing and ...crying together...
Softcover,2008,415 pgs.
ISBN- 9780552774123
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Espresso Tales- Alexander McCall Smith

A 44 Scotland Street novel.
Softcover,2008,342 pgs.
ISBN- 9780349119700
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Importance Of Being Seven- Alexander McCall Smith

A 44 Scotland street novel.
Softcover,2010,279 pgs.
ISBN- 9780349123165
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Emotionally Weird- Kate Atkinson

A comic novel.
On a peat and heather island off the west coast of Scotland, Effie and her mother Nora take refuge in the large mouldering house of their ancestors and tell each other stories.
Softcover,2000,482 pgs.
ISBN- 9780552997348
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

The Gun Seller- Hugh Laurie

A comic novel.
Cold-blooded murder just isn't Thomas Lang's cup of tea. Offered a tidy sum to assassinate an American industrialist, he opts to warn the intended victim instead - a good deed that soon takes a bad turn....
Softcover,1997,338 pgs.
ISBN- 9780099469391
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

A Song In The Daylight- Paullina Simons

A blinding passion.
A perfect marriage.
An impossible choice....
Trade pb,2009,767 pgs.
ISBN- 9780007241552
Condition- B

Price: NZ $12.00

The Liar- Stephen Fry

Adrian Healey is magnificently unprepared for the long littleness of life; unprepared too for the afternoon in Salzburg when he will witness the savage murder of a Hungarian violinist; unprepared to learn about the Mendax device; unprepared for more murders and wholly unprepared for the truth.
Softcover,1991,388 pgs.
ISBN- 0099457059
Condition- B

Price: NZ $10.00

Meltdown- Ben Elton

For amiable City trader Jimmy Corby money was the new Rock n' Roll. His whole life was a party, adrenalin charged and cocaine fuelled. If he hadn't met Monica he would probably have ended up either dead or in rehab.
Trade pb,2009,384 pgs.
ISBN- 9780593061930
Condition- C

Price: NZ $12.00