465 Results: New & Used in novels in Bayside Area, VIC (Page 8 of 20)

For students and others interested in analysing Charles Dickens classic novel “Hard Times’. Published: Carlton South, Vic. : National Educational Advancement Programs (NEAP), 2006. 72 p. ; H 21 cm. ISBN 9781864781168. Series: Smartstudy English text guide. A name has whited out in the front, and there is a small amount of highlighting in the text, otherwise in good condition. Cash only please on pickup from Newport (no posting).

Cute, compact vintage hardback edition of the Thomas Hardy classic novel, published: E P Dutton & Co., London, 1928 reprint of 1920 edition. 256 pages, measuring: W 11 x H 15 cm. Some slight discolouration on front cover, otherwise in very good condition. Cash only please on pickup from Newport.

Mint condition hardback first edition copy of J K Rowling’s seventh and final novel in the Harry Potter series. Comes with dust jacket. Published London: Bloomsbury, 2007. ISBN 13: 9780747591054. Excellent ‘as new’ condition – never read, no markings or defects. Cash only please on pickup from Newport.

Darkfall – Book One Of The Legendsong – Isobelle Carmody Good Condition Paperback 555 pages Publisher: Viking 1997 GoodReads Description: Book one of The Legendsong is set in a mysterious, uncertain world that only Carmody could create. After the death of her parents and her beloved instructor, Wind, Glynn devotes herself to the care of her sick twin sister, feeling her own life to be unimportant. One night, during a midnight swim, she is swept across the Void to the troubled watery world

Compass Press 1997 Very Good condition Large Print Edition Plastic covered paperback 275 pages Booko Description: `They all broke the rules. They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved, and how., And how much.' This is the story of Rahel and Estha, twins growing up among the banana jam vats and peppercorns of their blind grandmother's factory, and amid scenes of political turbulence in Kerala. Armed only with the innocence

Brand New condition. Unread. Paperback 538 pages MacLehose Press 2010 GoodReads Description: Harriet Vanger, a scion of one of Sweden’s wealthiest families disappeared over forty years ago. All these years later, her aged uncle continues to seek the truth. He hires Mikael Blomkvist, a crusading journalist recently trapped by a libel conviction, to investigate. He is aided by the pierced and tattooed punk prodigy Lisbeth Salander. Together they tap into a vein of unfathomable iniqu

Like New condition. Hardcover 260 pages Weidenfeld & Nicolson 2008 Booko Description: The first novel by Bernhard Schlink since his international best seller "The Reader, Homecoming "is the story of one man's odyssey and another man's pursuit. A child of World War II, Peter Debauer grew up with his mother and scant memories of his father, a victim of war. Now an adult, Peter embarks upon a search for the truth surrounding his mother's unwavering--but shaky--history and the possib

Like New condition. Paperback 342 pages Scribner 2017 GoodReads Description: New York Times and worldwide bestselling “dazzling storyteller” (Associated Press) Isabel Allende returns with a sweeping novel about three very different people who are brought together in a mesmerising story that journeys from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to 1970s Chile and Brazil. Pick up is free and easy. Postage: Aust Post: $10.70. Express Post $13.70 In the Midst of Winte

Like New condition. Paperback 203 pages Simon & Schuster 2017 Booko Description: Pearl Buck's 1931 Pulitzer Prizewinning classic about the rise and fall of Chinese villagers before World War I comes to life in this evocative graphic novel by New York Times bestselling author Nick Bertozzi. In The Good Earth, Pearl S. Buck paints an indelible portrait of China in the 1920s, when the last emperor reigned and the vast political and social upheavals of the twentieth century were but d

Very Good condition. Hardcover 195 pages Alfred A. Knopf 2006 GoodReads Description: In this luminous novel about love, loss, and the unpredictable power of memory, John Banville introduces us to Max Morden, a middle-aged Irishman who has gone back to the seaside town where he spent his summer holidays as a child to cope with the recent loss of his wife. It is also a return to the place where he met the Graces, the well-heeled family with whom he experienced the strange suddenness

The Confusions Of Young Törless – Robert Musil Very Good condition. Paperback 168 pages Oxford University Press 2014 GoodReads Description: Like his contemporary and rival Sigmund Freud, Robert Musil boldly explored the dark, irrational undercurrents of humanity. The Confusions of Young Törless, published in 1906 while he was a student, uncovers the bullying, snobbery, and vicious homoerotic violence at an elite boys academy. Unsparingly honest in its depiction of the author's t

Very Good condition. Paperback 189 pages Pulp the Classics Publishing 2013 GoodReads Description: “So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald. Set in the Jazz Age on Long Island, the novel depicts narrator Nick Carraway's interactions with mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and Gatsby's obsession to reunite with his former lover, Da

Like New condition. Paperback 181 pages Picador 2008 GoodReads Description: No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English pe

Very Good condition. Hardcover 319 pages GoodReads Description: Luminous, passionate, expansive, an emotional tour de force, Sunset Park follows the hopes and fears of a cast of unforgettable characters brought together by the mysterious Miles Heller during the dark months of the 2008 economic collapse. An enigmatic young man employed as a trash-out worker in southern Florida obsessively photographing thousands of abandoned objects left behind by the evicted families. A group of you

Like New condition Hardcover 337 pages GoodReads Description: A grumpy yet loveable man finds his solitary world turned on its head when a boisterous young family moves in next door. Meet Ove. He's a curmudgeon, the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglars caught outside his bedroom window. He has staunch principles, strict routines, and a short fuse. People call him the bitter neighbour from hell, but must Ove be bitter just because he doesn't walk around

Very Good condition Paperback 309 pages GoodReads Description: 'Shoot all the bluejays you want, if you can hit 'em, but remember it's a sin to kill a mockingbird.' A lawyer's advice to his children as he defends the real mockingbird of Harper Lee's classic novel - a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. Through the young eyes of Scout and Jem Finch, Harper Lee explores with exuberant humour the irrationality of adult attitudes to race and class in the Deep South of the 1930

Very good condition Paperback 275 pages GoodReads Description: This novel, by the author of Oscar and Lucinda, tells the story of a man who, recovering from death, is convinced that he is in hell. For the first time in his life, Harry Joy sees the world as it really is, and takes up a notebook to explore and notate the true nature of the Underworld.

Like New condition Hardcover 627 pages GoodReads Description: Eleven-year-old Owen Meany, playing in a Little League baseball game in Gravesend, New Hampshire, hits a foul ball and kills his best friend's mother. Owen doesn't believe in accidents; he believes he is God's instrument. What happens to Owen after that 1953 foul is both extraordinary and terrifying. At moments a comic, self-deluded victim, but in the end the principal, tragic actor in a divine plan, Owen Meany is the most he

As New condition Paperback 420 pages GoodReads Description: Mario Vargas Llosa's brilliant, multilayered novel is set in the Lima, Peru, of the author's youth, where a young student named Marito is toiling away in the news department of a local radio station. His young life is disrupted by two arrivals. The first is his aunt Julia, recently divorced and thirteen years older, with whom he begins a secret affair. The second is a manic radio scriptwriter named Pedro Camacho, whose racy, v

Very good condition Paperback 242 pages GoodReads Description: Jen Montgomery's life appears, almost suddenly, to be at an impasse. Nothing is as secure or as certain as she had previously thought. Love, marriage, parenthood, family, work, the very fabric of her identity seems to be shifting. She had always considered herself a 'forever' person but now she isn't so sure, and this is frightening and exhilarating. As Monty struggles to reconcile her inescapable desire to break free with t

As New condition Hardcover 370 pages GoodReads Description: One day while nursing her young son, Carolina receives a strange email from her boyfriend Aksel, detailing computer passwords and other instructions in event of his death. She grows worried at first, then irritated - this is so typical of her unsentimental partner. Aksel ends the message: Let's hope for the best! Five months later, he is dead. In her debut novel, Let's Hope for the Best, Carolina Setterwall recounts the inten

Very good condition Hardcover 292 pages GoodReads Description: Still Alice is a compelling debut novel about a 50-year-old woman's sudden descent into early onset Alzheimer's disease, written by first-time author Lisa Genova, who holds a Ph. D in neuroscience from Harvard University. Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children and a house on the Cape, is a celebrated Harvard professor at the height of her career when she notices a forgetfulness creeping into her life. As

As New condition Paperback 307 pages GoodReads Description: A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is grey. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend

Very good condition Hardcover 446 pages GoodReads Description: A century after its first publication, Robbery Under Arms remains as fresh and enthralling as when it originally appeared in serial form in the Sydney Mail. Related in first person by bushranger Dick Marston as he awaits his appointment with the gallows, the novel vividly evokes his turbulent years as cattleduffer and bushranger in company with his father Ben, brother Jim and the gentleman adventurer, Captain Starlight.