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Published by HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 1869509463ISBN 13: 9781869509460
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. Cantabrians mine their reserves of humour to bring some light to the dark post-earthquake days, creating one-liners which vie with the legendary Tui billboards for their pithy hilarity. This book draws together the best of hundreds of contributions to a Facebook page which now has thousands of contributors and loyal fans, both nationally and around the globe. 112 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 073229469XISBN 13: 9780732294694
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. The most highly anticipated celebrity autobiography of 2011! 'I'm excited to be writing another book. I found that between my talk show and my late night blogging, I didn't have enough ways to express myself.' Everyone loves Ellen! She is a beloved television icon and entertainment pioneer. Her distinctive comic voice has resonated with audiences from her first stand-up comedy appearances through to her work today on television, film and in the literary world. DeGeneres' hit syndicated talk show, THE ELLEN DEGENERES SHOW, is now in its eighth season and has earned a total of 29 Daytime Emmy awards. Additionally, DeGeneres has won 11 People's Choice Awards for Favorite Daytime Talk Show Host, Favorite Funny Female Star and Favorite Talk Show. She's hosted the Oscars and served as a judge on AMERICAN IDOL. Her previous books were both New York Times bestsellers. SERIOUSLY . I'M KIDDING is a look at Ellen's life through her humour. Four Fun Facts about Ellen: 1. Before she got her start in comedy, Ellen worked as a vacuum-cleaner saleswoman and an oyster shucker in New Orleans. 2. There is a ride featuring Ellen DeGeneres at Walt Disney World's Epcot park - Ellen's Energy World. 3. Oprah Winfrey played Ellen DeGeneres' therapist on the 1997 'coming out' episode of ELLEN. 4. Ellen DeGeneres used to love 'Hot Sox' - tall, glittery socks popular in the early '70s. But after moving to small-town Texas, she decided to give them away: 'I'm going to a place where they have gun racks on the back of the pickup trucks . I just have to get rid of anything weird,' she told THE NEW YORK TIMES in 2001. 320 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007427964ISBN 13: 9780007427963
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 'Afghanistan is just like Iraq 'ª ; hot, dusty and full of people who want to kill you', SSgt Simon Fuller, Royal Engineer Search Advisor Bomb Hunters tells the story of the British army's elite bomb disposal experts, men who face death every day in the most dangerous region of the most lethal country on earth 'ª ; Helmand Province, Afghanistan. Bomb Hunters are up against the Improvised Explosive Device 'ª ; the IED 'ª ; the deadly homemade bombs planted by the Taliban. Hard to detect and easy to trigger, an estimated 10 bombs for every one of the 10,000 British troops have been planted in the region. IEDs are now the main killer of British troops in Afghanistan and the ultimate psychological weapon. Bomb Hunters work in 50-degree heat as they take the 'long walk' into the kill zone, defusing as many as 15 bombs a day. In the past year the casualty rate has soared as the troops have become locked into a deadly game of cat and mouse 'ª ; to locate and deactivate the deadly bombs before they maim and kill soldiers, police and civilians. Skill, cold courage and inevitably pure luck play a huge part in the survival of these men and as the British public have already seen 'ª ; a single lapse of concentration can result in instant death. Ex-paratrooper, now defence journalist, Sean Rayment, takes the reader on a journey into the heat and dust of Helmand Province as he meets these courageous soldiers while they put their lives at risk to prevent other British troops falling victim to the IED. He interviews the Bomb Hunters as they perform their duties on the frontline and paints a breathtaking picture of what life is like for the men who play poker with their own lives every day, who live knowing the enemy watches their every move, waiting for a weakness to show itself, a pattern in technique to be exploited, or an error to be made that triggers the device itself. This is as vivid and dramatic as war reporting gets, mixing 'close to the bone' narrative and dead-pan black humour from the Bomb Hunters themselves, some of whom were subsequently killed in action. No punches will be pulled on what these men feel about the war, their place in it, the politicians and generals who send them there, and how they deal with the relentless pressure of the job itself in the heart of the world's most hostile combat environment. 304 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007432267ISBN 13: 9780007432264
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. 352 pages.
Published by HarperCollins (UK) 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007337663ISBN 13: 9780007337668
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. In the California wilderness no one can hear you scream. 284 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007418698ISBN 13: 9780007418695
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. At Westish College, a small school on the shore of Lake Michigan, baseball star Henry Skrimshander seems destined for big league stardom. But when a routine throw goes disastrously off course, the fates of five people are upended. Henry's fight against self-doubt threatens to ruin his future. College president Guert Affenlight, a longtime bachelor, has fallen unexpectedly and helplessly in love. Owen Dunne, Henry's gay roommate and teammate, becomes caught up in a dangerous affair. Mike Schwartz, the Harpooners' team captain and Henry's best friend, realizes he has guided Henry's career at the expense of his own. And Pella Affenlight, Guert's daughter, returns to Westish after escaping an ill-fated marriage, determined to start a new life. As the season counts down to its climactic final game, these five are forced to confront their deepest hopes, anxieties, and secrets. In the process they forge new bonds, and help one another find their true paths. Written with boundless intelligence and filled with the tenderness of youth, 'The Art of Fielding 'is an expansive, warmhearted novel about ambition and its limits, about family and friendship and love, and about commitment--to oneself and to others. 450 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2011 Paperback, 2013
ISBN 10: 0732292808ISBN 13: 9780732292805
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Near Mint. 227 pages.
Published by HarperCollins 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 073228970XISBN 13: 9780732289706
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. In AFTERLIFE, having become what they feared most, Bianca and Lucas face a scary new reality. They return to Evernight Academy, Lucas as a vampire and Bianca as a wraith. But Lucas is haunted by demons,both personal and supernatural. Bianca must help him fight the evil inside him - and find the power to claim her destiny at last. 360 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007360789ISBN 13: 9780007360789
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Good. A tremendous first novel from an exciting young author recently chosen as one of the Telegraph's '20 under 40' best UK writers.Famous for its electric chaos, the city of Bombay also accommodates pockets of calm. In one such space works Mohan, a contemplative man who has spent his life observing people from his seat as a letter-writer outside the main post office. But Mohan's lack of engagement with the world has caused a thawing of his marriage. At this delicate moment Mohan ' and his wife, Lakshmi ' are joined at their home in Saraswati Park by their nephew, Ashish, a sexually uncertain 19-year-old who has to repeat his final year in college.As the novel unfolds, the lives of each of the three characters are thrown into relief by the comical frustrations of family life: annoying relatives, unspoken yearnings and unheard grievances. When Lakshmi loses her only brother, she leaves Bombay for a relative's home to mourn not only the death of a sibling but also the vital force of her marriage. Ashish, meanwhile, embarks on an affair with a much richer boy in his college and, not long afterwards, succumbs to the overtures of his English tutor.As Mohan scribbles away in the margins of the sort of books he secretly hopes to write one day, he worries about whether his wife will return, what will become of Ashish, and if he himself will ever find his own voice to write from the margins about the centre of which he will never be a part. 300 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007319193ISBN 13: 9780007319190
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. 'Steven Tyler is one of the giants of American music, who's been influential for a whole generation of Rock 'n' Roll fans around the world. Long May He Rock!'--Sir Paul McCartney Does the Noise in My Head Bother You? is the rock memoir to end all rock memoirs--the straight-up, no-holds-barred life of Grammy Award-winning, Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and all around superstar legend Steven Tyler, lead singer of Aerosmith (and celebrity judge on American Idol). This is it--'the unbridled truth, the in-your-face, up-close and prodigious tale of Steven Tyler straight from the horse's lips'--as Tyler tells all, from the early years through the glory days, 'All the unexpurgated, brain-jangling tales of debauchery, sex & drugs. and transcendence you will ever want to hear.' 352 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers Ltd 2011 Paperback, 2012
ISBN 10: 1869509374ISBN 13: 9781869509378
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. 195 pages.
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Published by HarperCollins Publishers Limited 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 0007267126ISBN 13: 9780007267125
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome ' and Nature via Nurture ', turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist ' Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better. Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. The availability of almost everything a person could want or need has been going erratically upwards for 10,000 years and has rapidly accelerated over the last 200 years: calories; vitamins; clean water; machines; privacy; the means to travel faster than we can run, and the ability to communicate over longer distances than we can shout. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous. In this original, optimistic book, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other. The Rational Optimist ' will do for economics what Genome ' did for genomics and will show that the answer to our problems, imagined or real, is to keep on doing what we've been doing for 10,000 years ? to keep on changing. 464 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Publishers New Zealand 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 1869508629ISBN 13: 9781869508623
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Very Good. heavy 144 pages.
Published by HarperCollins Australia 2011 Paperback, 2011
ISBN 10: 0730495760ISBN 13: 9780730495765
Seller: Book Haven, Wellington, WLG, New Zealand
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Condition: Fair. 256 pages.