NZ Second Hand Book: 2010

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Bob Ellis and Roy Masters - The Season

Bob Ellis and Roy Masters - The Season

Adult novel in four parts which follows the fluctuating fortunes of the Southpaws rugby league side during an entire season. Bob Ellis is the co-writer of 'Newsfront', 'The True Believers', 'Fatty Fin' and 'Goodbye Paradise'. Roy Masters has been a coach in rugby league and is the author of 'Inside League'.

Bob Budler - You Can Do It

Bob Budler - You Can Do It

Product Description
Bob Budler presents motivational messages from 137 successful men and women in business, education, religion, entertainment, government, industry and communications provide a treasure of experience and philosophy that you can apply to your own life!
With a foreword by Pat Williams and an introduction by Charlie "Tremendous" Jones.

About the Author
Bob Budler is an author,former reporter, editor and nationally syndicated newspaper columnist. For more than 35 Years, he headed corporate communications for some of the nation's leading companies.
His first book, "Patient: Heal Thyself!," written while he was recovering from heart surgery, has helped thousands of patients and their families deal with the same traumatic experience.

Now retired, he's a "grandpa-preneur" pursuing a freelance writing career embodying his You Can Do It! philosophy.

Bill Newman - The Ten Laws of Leadership

Bill Newman - The Ten Laws of Leadership

Mr Bill Newman is a distinguished Austrailian speaker. Since 1978 he has addressed audiences of thousands across Australia and around the world. Mr. Newman understands the needs of human hearts. He addresses the needs of the individual, the family and society. He speaks with compassion and yet is objective. His ability to communicat is such that people of all ages and walks of life readily listen to and find hope in his message. Bill Newman is currently heard on more than 50 radio stations across Australia. In conjuction with television networks he has producted several special TV programes and is also the author of a number of books. He contributes regularly in Australian newspapers under the heading : "Bill Newman Speaks". In His work with Church and Civic leaders he has become a highly respected national statesman. He is honored by the endorsement of Prime Ministers, Government leaders and Civic Authorities for his positive contribution to society. A family man, he lives in Queensland with his Wife Dorothy and their two sons, Ben and Luke.

Bernard King - Witch Beast

Belva Plain - Blessings

Belva Plain - Blessings

Dependable Plain ( Evergreen ) again deftly explores enduring themes: the various social strata of Jewish life; the complexities of family relationships; the consequences of following a deeply felt social conscience. At 36, Jennie Rakowsky is a lawyer specializing in defending the rights of impoverished women. She is about to marry Jay Wolfe, a widower with three young children, partner in a prestigious Manhattan law firm and, like Jennie, committed to saving the Green Marsh wildlife sanctuary from unscrupulous developers. Jennie's well-ordered life is shattered when the illegitimate daughter she gave up for adoption at birth, now a personable but strong-willed girl of 19 called Jill Miller, appears on Jennie's doorstep. To complicate matters, Jill's father also reappears and creates profound misconceptions that force Jay and Jennie to cancel their wedding. The author stretches an awkward subplot concerning mob-connected real estate developers far too thin, but her mixture of romance, suspense, and deeply felt familial conflicts should leave her fans well entertained. Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club dual main selections; Readers Digest Collection selection.

Antoinette Giancana n Thomas C.Renner - Mafia Princess

Antoinette Giancana n Thomas C.Renner - Inside a Mafia Family Mafia Princess

Anna Pasternak - Princess in Love

Anna Pasternak - Princess in Love

The true story of the love between the Lady Diana and one Captain James Hewitt narrates an affair which lasted for five years. Enjoy an account spiced by an audio version narrated by actor Patrick Macnee, one of Britain's best actors.

An account of the alleged love affair between Diana, the Princess of Wales, and Major James Hewitt.

Andrew Fusek Peters n Stephen Player - ED and The River of The Damned

Alexander Kent - To Glory We Steer

Alexander Kent - To Glory We Steer

January 1782. Captain Richard Bolitho is ordered to take the frigate Phalarope to the Carribbean, wherethe hard pressed Royal Squadrons are fighting for their lives against the combined forces of France and Spain and American privateers. It should have been a proud commission for Bolitho but Palarope had been driven to near mutiny by her previous commander.

Bolitho sets about restoring the ship's pride. Caught between the inner conflict and the broadsides of the enemy the great battle of the Saintes provides captain and crew with the ultimate chance of redemption.

Andrew Morton - Diana Her True Story

Andrew Morton - Diana Her True Story

Diana: Her True Story was originally published in 1992 under the guise of a quasi-authorized biography, with mostly unnamed courtiers and royalty as the accredited sources. It instantly became a sizzling, international bestseller that lanced the boil of Windsor family dysfunction, triggering a chain of events that led to Charles and Diana's divorce. After her tragic death in 1997, Morton revealed that Diana had not only been the main source for the book, but had also edited his original drafts for accuracy. In return for this gold mine of information, Diana wanted complete anonymity for fear of retaliation from the queen--a fear that seems reasonably justified after reading the icy, inhuman portrayal of Her Majesty. Beyond the racy and irregular royals, Diana: Her True Story gives a full account of the princess's rocky childhood, her bouts with bulimia, the rejection she felt by Charles and the royal family, and her tenacious ability to overcome adversity. Included are two sections of full-color photographs. ; Color Photographs; 1.2 x 9.3 x 6.1 Inches; 167 pages

British Historical Biographies & Memoirs Books Princess Diana Royalty Leaders & Notable People Women Specific Groups

Susan Hill - Air and Angels

Susan Hill - Air and Angels

Product Description
Celibate, irreproachable and distinguished, Thomas Cavendish is in his mid-fifties and the obvious man to become Master of his college. But, walking by the river, Thomas sees a young girl standing on the bridge. It is an apocalyptic vision, one that alters Thomas' life irrevocably and tragically, but with the beauty of joy of a love never previously imagined.
About the Author
Susan Hill is an award-winning novelist. She wrote Mrs de Winter, the bestselling sequel to Rebecca, and the ghost story The Woman in Black, which was adapted for the stage and has been running in the West End for 18 years. Her most recent books are the highly successful crime novels, The Various Haunts of Men and The Pure in Heart. She lives in Gloucestershire where she runs her own small publishing company, Longbarn Books

Susan Howatch - Absolute Truths

Susan Howatch - Absolute Truths

In a finale to the series set against the background of the Church of England, Charles Ashworth, Bishop of Starbridge in 1965, complacently proclaims against an immoral society. But then catastrophe tears his life apart and he is confronted with the disorder he had condemned in others.

Suzi Gablik - Magritte

Suzi Gablik - Magritte

A study of Rene Magritte's basic philosophy and art, and particularly the development of his Surrealist style.

Tad Williams - Otherland

Tad Williams - Otherland

Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
Otherland. Shrouded by secrecy, it is home to the wildest dreams and darkest nightmares. Incredible amounts of money have been lavished on it. The best minds of two generations have labored to build it. And somehow, bit by bit, it is claiming the Earth's most valuable resource - its children.

Only a few have become aware of the danger. Fewer still are willing or able to take up the challenge of this perilous and seductive realm. But every age has its heroes, and unusual times call for unusual champions.

Renie Sulaweyo, a teacher and the backbone of her family, proud of her African heritage, has fought all her life simply to get by. She has never wanted to be a hero. But when her young brother is struck down by a bizarre and mysterious illness, Renie swears to save him. When people around her begin to die, she realizes she has stumbled onto something she is not meant to know, a terrifying secret from which there is no turning back....

Thackeray Gallery - Michael Honnor

Vita Cochran and Jill Trevelyan - Rita Angus Live To Paint and Paint to Live

Thomas Eidson - All God's Children

Thomas Eidson - All God's Children

All the poor blind seamstress needs is a little money and a few honest breaks in order to raise four sons on her own whole holding on to the family farm. What she doesn't count on is a petty thief breaking into her house to evade capture. Instead of turning him in, she decides to safeguard him from a lynching posse. Now with the entire town against her and a crooked gang out to drive her off her land, it's up to this two-bit-thief, inspired by her sense of justice, to become a protector and fighter...even with the odds completely against him...

Under Orders, The Husband, Scared to Live, Orbit

4 in 1

Dick Francis - Under Orders
Dean Koontz - The Husband
Stephen Booth - Scared To Live
John Nance - Orbit

A Likeness in Stone - J.Wallis Martin

Hard cover

In the spellbinding tradition of Minette Walters and Ruth Rendell, author Julia Wallis Martin crafts an intelligent, atmospheric British suspense novel as engrossing as it is original.

An entire house, long submerged in the dark waters of a reservoir, unearths a starting find: the corpse of Helena Warner, an Oxford college student who disappeared twenty years earlier. For former homicide detective Bill Driver, it means the reopening of a case that, in his mind, was never really closed. And Driver thinks he knows who did it. But three of Helena's friends-her cold former lover Ian Gilmore, her jealous best friend Joan Poole, and talented but institutionalized artist Richard Wachmann-conspire to keep a decades-old, deadly secret from seeing the light of day...all the wile, a killer continues to strike again and again.

The Runaway Jury - John Grisham

Plot Summary :

Wendall Rohr and a legal team have filed suit on behalf of plaintiff Celeste Wood, whose husband died from smoking cigarettes. The trial is to be held in Biloxi, Mississippi, a state thought to have favorable tort laws and sympathetic juries. The defendant is a tobacco company, Pynex, which is part of the 'Big Four.' Durwood Cable is lead lawyer for the defense and assigns case management to Rankin Fitch, a ruthless lawyer and jury consultant who has helped to "win" cases like this.

Even before the jury has been sworn in, one of them, Nicholas Easter, has begun to quietly connive behind the scenes, in concert with a mysterious woman known only as Marlee.

Fitch has placed a camera in the courtroom, feeding to his office nearby so that the trial can be observed. As the case continues, Fitch is approached by Marlee with a proposal to 'buy' the verdict. Fitch attempts to gather information on Marlee, and eventually concedes to give her $10 million in exchange for a defense verdict.

After the money has been sent, however, it is revealed that Marlee and Nicholas have in fact been playing Fitch all along; Marlee's parents died from lung cancer, caused by cigarettes.

Easter becomes jury foreman and convinces them to find for the plaintiff and make a large monetary award - $2 million dollars for compensatory damages, and $400 million for punitive measures. The defense lawyers and their employers are devastated.

Whilst Easter and Marlee are now rich and satisfied that they served justice, Fitch realizes that his reputation is gone and that the tobacco companies, once undefeatable, are now vulnerable to lawsuits. Marlee plays the stock market with Fitch's money after the trial, and shows up one day to give him his money back, claiming she was only borrowing it, and that she is above stealing.

The book closes with Marlee warning Fitch that she and Nicholas will always be watching.

Drink With The Devil - Jack Higgins

Drink With The Devil - Jack Higgins

Hard cover

A dangerous Loyalist prisoner has escaped from a top-security US prison and is en route to Ireland, with the intention of buying arms and blowing the peace process out of the water. The only man who can avert disaster is IRA enforcer-turned-British secret agent, Sean Dillon.