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When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S. Kushner
$30.00 AUD
Category: Special Orders | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
When Harold Kushner's three-year-old son was diagnosed with a degenerative disease and that he would only live until his early teens, he was faced with one of life's most difficult questions: Why, God? Years later, Rabbi Kushner wrote this straightforward, elegant contemplation of the doubts and fears t ...Show more
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice For Difficult Times [Thorsons Classics edition] by Pema Chodron
$22.99 AUD
Category: Mythology, Spirituality & Religion | Series: G - Reference, Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Pema Chodron reveals the vast potential for happiness, wisdom and courage even in the most painful circumstances. She teaches that there is a fundamental opportunity for happiness right within our reach, yet we usually miss it -- ironically, while we are caught up in attempt to escape pain and suffering ...Show more
William's Wife by Gertrude Trevelyan
$49.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
One of the most powerful psychological portraits in all fiction, back in print after over 80 years. When Jane marries the elderly grocer William Chirp, she thinks she has moved up into the comfort of middle class. Instead, she discovers that William exerts a control over her life that forces her to ...Show more
Winged Shoes and a Shield - Collected Stories by Don Bajema
$35.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Hallucinating between childhood and manhood, Eddie Burnett is both hero and anti-hero in this hard-hitting collection of linked stories. Coming of age in California's post-war suburbs and freefalling through the turbulence of the sixties and early seventies, Eddie's transformation from a boy's innocence ...Show more
Winter Solstice - An Essay by Nina MacLaughlin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * LOS ANGELES TIMES BESTSELLER * BOSTON.COM BOOKCLUB SELECTION A celebration and meditation on the season for drinking hot chocolate, spotting a wreath on a neighbor's door, experiencing the change in light of shorter days. All aspects of Winter, from the meteorological to the m ...Show more
With Bloom upon Them and Also with Blood - A Horror Miscellany by Justin Phillip Reed
$29.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
The "f**k" count is just over sixty. The images are screenshots. The metal is mostly nu. And the grant money's gone. From the author of The Malevolent Volume and National Book Award-winning Indecency comes a gory new mutation in the shape of nonfiction and criticism.In 2019, Justin Phillip Reed's romant ...Show more
You, Bleeding Childhood by Michele Mari; Brian Robert Moore (Translator)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Italy's great chronicler of the macabre and hilarious terrors of growing up geeky arrives in English at last. Long before the latest vogue for auto fiction, Michele Mari, one of Italy's most beloved authors, cast his mind back to the days of his own childhood, and found it crawling with monsters. Rais ...Show more
Your Love Is Not Good by Johanna Hedva
$44.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Falling in lust with a gorgeous white model could be a great career move for a Korean American painter, unless it's the surest route to self-destruction. Your Love Is Not Good is a queer, dark-hearted satire of the glamour and ugliness of the art world-wrapped in a novel of uncommon punk elegance.
Zhang Xiao: Community Fire by Xiao Zhang (Text by, Photographer); Ning Ou (Text by); Ilisa Barbash (Text by)
$99.99 AUD
Category: Photography | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
A vivid portrait of the centuries-old Chinese Spring Festival by a leading contemporary Chinese photographerDynamic vision of cultural shifts occurring in rural Chinese communities in the digital agePublication coincides with a solo exhibition at Harvard University in spring 2023Features texts in Englis ...Show more
ZigZag by Julie Paschkis
$34.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA | Series: G - Reference,Information and Interdisciplinary Subjects Ser.
Help ZigZag the alligator get his vowels back in this playful picture book from beloved author-illustrator Julie Paschkis! There's nothing ZigZag enjoys more than tasting his words as he uses them, plays with them, and enjoys them, for ZigZag is a lover of words! But one day, excited and energized, he ...Show more