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Published by HarperCollins 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0732280613ISBN 13: 9780732280611
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 'Why are things as they are and not otherwise?' Johannes Kepler (1571-1630) How much chocolate is toxic? Is the Daddy Long Legs the most venomous spider in the world? Did genetic engineering put an ear on the back of a mouse? Is Hardwood hard? Can you 'spot reduce' fat and does muscle turn to fat? Did pirates really walk the plank? Dr Karl discusses these questions, and others, in his quest to expose more mythconceptions about life, the universe and everything. Dr Karl Kruszelnicki is the Julius Sumner Miller Fellow at the University of Sydney. He appears on Triple J and other ABC radio stations, and on BBC radio, and is a regular guest of Kochie and Mel on Channel 7's Sunrise. This is Dr Karl's 25th book and is based on his popular Good Weekend column, Mythconceptions. 230 pages.
Published by HarperCollins (UK) 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007233310ISBN 13: 9780007233311
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. The Boleyn Inheritance is a wonderfully atmospheric evocation of the court of Henry VIII, and the woman who destroyed two of his queens, from the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. The year is 1539 and the court of Henry VIII is increasingly fearful at the moods of the ageing sick king. With only a baby in the cradle for an heir, Henry has to take another wife and the dangerous prize of the crown of England is won by Anne of Cleves. She has her own good reasons for agreeing to marry a man old enough to be her father, in a country where both language and habits are foreign. Although fascinated by the glamour of her new surroundings, she senses a trap closing around her. Catherine is confident that she can follow in the steps of her cousin Anne Boleyn to dazzle her way to the throne but her kinswoman Jane Boleyn, haunted by the past, knows that Anne's path led to Tower Green and to an adulterer's death. The story of these three young women, trying to make their own way through the most volatile court in Europe at a time of religious upheaval and political uncertainty is Philippa Gregory's most intense novel yet. 528 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Australia 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0732276748ISBN 13: 9780732276744
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. She's street-smart, stunning and hoping to leave her troubled past behind her - Mak is back in the new bestseller from the author of Covet. Makedde 'Mak' Vanderwall has her PhD and has started a new life in Australia with her detective boyfriend, Andy Flynn. To scrape together extra cash to start her first forensic psychology practice, Mak begins working part-time for an infamous Sydney PI. With a knack for investigation and bending the law, she might just have stumbled across her true calling - and the career choice that could finally bust up her relationship once and for all. Then Mak is hired by a mysterious client to investigate the murder of A-list PA Meaghan Wallace. The police believe it's an open and shut case: a junkie street-kid is guilty. But the case turns out to be a lot more complicated as Mak uncovers a dangerous web of cover-ups, killers for hire, the powerful and debauched rich, and Australia's sleazy underbelly. If the boy didn't kill Meaghan, then who set him up? And how far will they go to keep their guilt a secret? 320 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007196970ISBN 13: 9780007196975
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. The new fast-moving thriller from Dean Koontz is the story of an innocent man forced by a serial killer to choose who will be murdered next.William Wiles is an easygoing thirty-something, a bartender who lives a quiet life alone until a serial killer singles him out - not to kill him, but to force him to decide who the next victim will be. On his SUV Billy finds the first note:'If you don't take this note to the police and get them involved, I will kill a lovely blonde schoolteacher. If you do take this note to the police, I will instead kill an elderly woman active in charity work. You have four hours to decide. The choice is yours.'Billy pays an informal visit to an acquaintance, Lanny Olson, who is a policeman, and who thinks the note is a prank. The schoolteacher dies. The next note reverses the choices: if Billy takes the note to the police, a mother of two young children will die. If he doesn't, an unmarried man who won't be much missed will die. Lanny has to take this note seriously but the deadline runs out before he can decide how to make his involvement official. Billy doesn't hear from him again because Lanny himself, unmarried, who will not be much missed, has become the next victim.There will be more communications from the killer, more hideous choices, with ever tighter decision times, and with each choice Billy is drawn deeper into an accelerating nightmare, which steadily becomes more personal, more confrontational, until he is isolated, with no one to turn to and no one to rely on but himself. Finally he must risk everything to save the intended victims . 512 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 186950612XISBN 13: 9781869506124
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 272 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Children's Books 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007234635ISBN 13: 9780007234639
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. 237 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007224893ISBN 13: 9780007224890
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. From the bestselling author of Along Came a Spider and Cat and Mouse, a mesmerising tale of non-stop action and suspense. Already a bestseller in paperback - now reissued in striking new cover style.Nobody knows the underbelly of the city like New York cop John Stefanovitch. He's out to get Alexandre St-Germain, the most powerful member of the Midnight Club - a secret international society of ruthless crime czars, all of whom are 'respectable' businessmen. And Stef's the ideal man for the job - until he's levelled by a blast from St-Germain's shotgun and left for dead.Now, Stef is back, wheelchair-bound, yet sworn to destroy St-Germain. With the help of a beautiful journalist and a Harlem cop, Stef is determined to crack the Midnight Club. And he's up against odds that are as unknown as they are deadly. 304 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0061172081ISBN 13: 9780061172083
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Near Mint.
Published by HarperCollins New Zealand 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 1869506170ISBN 13: 9781869506179
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 320 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007172095ISBN 13: 9780007172092
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Krimi. 480 pages.
Published by HarperCollins (UK) 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007193238ISBN 13: 9780007193233
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Kernel Fleck has always known he's weird. He sees lights. Strange, multi-colored patches of light, swirling through the air. But it's not until a window opens into a demon world, with horrific consequences, that Kernel discovers his powers. As a Disciple, his mission is to hunt vicious, powerful demons to the death. 288 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007231830ISBN 13: 9780007231836
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. In his latest #1 'New York Times' bestseller, Koontz offers the story of an ordinary man whose commitment to his wife will take him on a harrowing journey of adventure, sacrifice, and redemption to the mystery of love itself--and to a showdown with the darkness that would destroy it forever. 400 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007176252ISBN 13: 9780007176250
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 400 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0002259885ISBN 13: 9780002259880
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. A great king brings peace to a warring nation. Centuries later his writings will bring hope to those facing the tragic legacy of modern Cambodia's bloody history.When archaeologists discover a book written on gold leaves at Angkor Wat, everyone wants a piece of the action. But the King, the Army and the UN are all outflanked when the precious artefact is kidnapped, along with Professor Luc Andrade, who was accompanying it to the capital for restoration.Luckily for Luc his love and respect for Cambodia have won him many friends, including ex-Khmer Rouge cadre Map and the young moto-boy William. Both equally determined to rescue the man they consider their mentor and recover the golden book, they form an unlikely bond. But William is unaware of just how closely Map's violent past affects him.The book contains the words and wisdom of King Jayavarman VII, the Buddhist ruler who united a war-torn Cambodia in the twelfth century and together with his enlightened wife created a kingdom that was a haven of peace and learning. His extraordinary story is skilfully interwoven with the tales of Luc, Map and William to create an unforgettable and dazzling evocation of the spirit of Cambodia and her peoples in all their beauty and tragedy. 480 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2006 Paperback, 2009
ISBN 10: 0007148836ISBN 13: 9780007148837
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. This sweeping historical novel tells the dramatic tale of that most intriguing of Renaissance women, Lucrezia Borgia.Incest. Poison. Betrayal. Three wedding presents for the Borgia bride.Italy 1492 Pope Alexander VI is elected. And so begins the Borgia reign of terror.Alexander murders, bribes and betrays to establish his dynasty. No one is immune. Rome is a hotbed of accusation and conspiracy. Every day, the River Tiber is full of new bodies.Sancha de Aragon, daughter of King Alfonso II of Naples, arrives in Rome newly wed to Alexander's youngest son, Jofre. Their marriage protects Naples against the ambitions of the French King Louis and gains Spanish support for the Borgias. But Rome is very different to her beloved Naples.The debauchery of the Borgia inner-circle is notorious: every lust is indulged and every indiscretion overlooked. Sancha is no innocent: she possesses an indomitable spirit which allows her to survive in the snake-pit, but her ancestors once rivalled the Borgias in cruelty and Sancha's greatest fear is that blood will out.Lucrezia Borgia's vicious jealously stings Sancha at first, but gradually the two young women develop a cautious friendship. Lucrezia, adored by her father but used ruthlessly as a political tool, seems deceptively innocent and sympathetic, and their bond strengthens when Lucrezia is married to Sancha's treasured brother, Alfonso. But when Sancha falls in love with Cesare Borgia, her husband's enigmatic older brother, she has no idea of how bizarre and internecine are the family's true ties. Alexander is rather more than an indulgent father; Lucrezia not the innocent she appears; and Cesare's ambition burns wildly. The only safe relationship with the Borgias is none at all: as Sancha, her brother and Naples are soon to discover. 384 pages.
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Published by HarperCollins New Zealand 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 1869506294ISBN 13: 9781869506292
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. When 18-year-old Kitty Carlisle's father dies unexpectedly in Norfolk in 1838, Kitty and her mother are left impoverished. After Kitty is discovered in a compromising position with an unscrupulous adventurer, her reputation is left in shreds. In desperation, her mother banishes Kitty to the colonies in disgrace, under the guardianship of her dour missionary uncle and his long-suffering wife. Against the backdrop of the wild and unruly Bay of Islands in the period leading up to the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi, Kitty meets and falls in love with Ryan Farrell, a rude, aloof and atheistic ships captain. When she discovers he is also a gun runner, her loyalties are torn and her tempestuous nature leads to an estrangement. The path to true love is tortuous, involving rampaging Maori war parties, illicit sexual liaisons and incarceration in Sydney's Hyde Park Barracks, forgery, betrayal and death at sea. A tempestuous romance and a lively adventure with a fiery and memorable heroine, Kitty is a stand-alone novel, with potential as an ongoing saga of love and adventure on the high seas in the Pacific of the 1800s, by one of our leading historical novelists. 352 pages.
Published by HarperCollins (UK) 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0007208006ISBN 13: 9780007208005
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Set in Whitechapel in 1888. Fiona Finnegan is the spirited, ambitious daughter of an Irish dock worker. She longs to break free from the squalid lanes and alleys of Whitechapel, where she has a job in a tea factory. With the love of her life, Joe Bristow, she dreams of escaping the poverty and opening her own tea shop. But one by one her dreams fall apart as her father is killed in a dock accident, Joe is seduced by another woman, and her mother is viciously murdered. Devastated, her life in tatters, Fiona flees to New York where she sets up home with her alcoholic uncle. Slowly she builds his small grocery shop into a thriving tea house, and her new life flourishes. After years of hard work, she establishes herself as the head of her own powerful tea empire. But she cannot forget London. Convinced that her father was murdered by his brutal employer, Fiona vows to seek revenge and ruin him once and for all. Making her way back to the streets of her impoverished childhood, Fiona must start her fight again. 800 pages.
Published by HarperCollins New Zealand 2006 Paperback, 2005
ISBN 10: 1869505816ISBN 13: 9781869505813
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 255 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty Ltd 2006 Paperback, 2006
ISBN 10: 0732280923ISBN 13: 9780732280925
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Journalist and author Christopher Kremers sprawling portrait of India at the crossroads. With insight garnered from eight years working and living there, this is also an intensely personal story about coming to terms with a dazzlingly different culture. heavy 427 pages.