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LIKE NEW – A Medal for Leroy 9780007363582
R120.00 ISBN: LIKE NEW - 9780007363582The latest beautiful and uplifting novel from Michael Morpurgo, bestselling author, former children’s laureate, and the imagination behind the international theatrical and movie phenomenon, WAR HORSE Michael Morpurgo is flying high — a top 3 children’s author in the UK, he is also the man behind the biggest theatrical success in living memory, currently playing…
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USED – Life Of Pi 9781782118695
R150.00 ISBN: USED - 9781782118695One boy, one boat, one tiger . . . After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild, blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a zebra (with a broken leg), a female orang-utan – and a 450-pound Royal…
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Dancing in the Dust
Price range: R200.00 through R283.00A novel focusing on 1980s life in South African townships. Told from the point of view of a young woman full of desire for a better life out of the townships, the novel brings out the sacrifices and complexities of being a young black South African at the time, and does so in a fresh…
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LIKE NEW – Alone – Brett Archibald 9781928230304
R300.00 ISBN: 9781928230304In April 2013 a global breaking-news story surfaced on social media and in the world press, and rapidly gathered momentum. A South African man had fallen overboard in the night during a storm in remote Indonesian waters, without anyone else on board realising. Eight hours later a frantic search was underway. The incident caught the…
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A Streetcar Named Desire 2ED 9781350108516
R150.00 ISBN: 9781350108516This revised Student Edition includes an introduction by Bess Rowen, Assistant Professor at Villanova University, US, which looks in particular at the play’s treatment of rape, vulnerable people, mental institutions (especially in connection to Williams’s own family), sexuality and sexual desire. A Streetcar Named Desire shows a turbulent confrontation between traditional values in the American South…
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Love In The Time Of Treason – 9780620922777
Price range: R275.00 through R295.00 ISBN: 9780620922777Love In The Time Of Treason – 9780620922777
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
R240.00 ISBN: 9780008195588When Basil Hallward paints the portrait of young, handsome Dorian Gray, he falls prey to his dazzling beauty. Afraid that his youth and looks will waste away, Dorian expresses a wish that his portrait, and not he, will age and fade over time. His wish is granted, and over the ensuing years, Dorian indulges in…
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The Scarlet Letter –
R180.00 ISBN: 9781847494214Having been found guilty of adultery, Hester Prynne is forced to wear an embroidered scarlet letter A as a punishment for her sin. While her vengeful husband embarks on a quest to discover the identity of her lover, she is left to face the consequences of her infidelity and find a place for herself and…
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WAR HORSE PB – Morpurgo Michael 9780008640712
R200.00 ISBN: 9780008640712Before the Steven Spielberg film, before the National Theatre production, there was the classic children’s novel – War Horse. From the nation’s favourite storyteller, Michael Morpurgo. In the deadly chaos of the First World War, one horse witnesses the reality of battle from both sides of the trenches. Bombarded by artillery, with bullets knocking riders…
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Of Mice & Men Pb
R275.00 ISBN: 9781781125939A superb story of power and beauty, critically acclaimed across the world and now available in an accessible, super-readable format with dyslexia-friendly features, for all readers. Savvy George and gentle giant Lennie are drifters, hustling for a living in a string of dead-end jobs. George looks out for Lennie as they move from town to…
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The Breadwinner – Deborah Ellis
R425.00 ISBN: 9781554987658Recommended by Malala Yousafzai, The Breadwinner is the first book in Deborah Ellis’s bestselling series set in Afghanistan. This award-winning novel explores loyalty, survival, family and friendship under extraordinary circumstances.Parvana’s father is arrested and taken away by Taliban soldiers. Under Taliban law, women and girls are not allowed to leave the house on their own….
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I Am David (Egmont Mod Classic)
R265.00 ISBN: 9781405288736I am David – ‘You must get away tonight,’ the man had told him. David escapes from the concentration camp where he has spent his entire life and flees across Europe. He is utterly alone – who can he trust? What will await him? And all the while, how can he be sure that they…
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Animal Farm 9780241706985
R245.00 ISBN: 9780241706985A special student edition of Orwell’s timeless fable, with an introduction and study notes When the downtrodden animals of Manor Farm overthrow their master Mr Jones and take over the farm themselves, they imagine it is the beginning of a life of freedom and equality. But gradually a cunning, ruthless élite among them starts to…
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Cry, The Beloved Country – Alan Paton 9780099766810
R270.00 ISBN: 9780099766810“Cry the Beloved Country” is the deeply moving story of the Zulu pastor Stephen Kumalo and his son Absalom, set against the background of a land and a people riven by racial injustice. Remarkable for its contemporaneity, unforgettable for character and incident, “Cry, the Beloved Country” is a classic work of love and hope, courage…
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Wingfeather Saga Book 1 – Edge Of Dark Sea (Andrew Peterson) 9781529359800
R275.00 ISBN: 9781529359800After living for years under the occupation by the evil Fangs of Dang, the Igiby children find a map rumoured to lead to the lost Jewels of Anniera – the one thing the Fangs will do anything to find. The family is thrown headlong into a perilous adventure, uncovering truths about who they are that…
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Native Guard: Poems
R320.00 ISBN: 9780618872657Through elegaic verse that honors her mother and tells of her own fraught childhood, Natasha Trethewey confronts the racial legacy of her native Deep South—–where one of the first black regiments, The Louisiana Native Guards, was called into service during the Civil War. The title of the collection refers to the black regiment whose role…
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Listen to the Moon
R240.00 ISBN: 9781250104328Alfie lives off the coast of England. Merry lives in New York City. Until Merry and her mother set sail on the Lusitania for England, where Merry’s father is recuperating from a war injury. People told them not to go, hearing rumors that the Lusitania might be carrying munitions. But they are desperate to be reunited with Merry’s father….
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The Billion Dollar Soccer Ball 9780636091931
Price range: R120.00 through R152.00 ISBN: 9780636091931Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Shuters Short Story Anthology FAL (School Edition)
R85.00 ISBN: 9780796074386• Covers a wide range of different short stories. • Includes classic and contemporary works. • Authors from South Africa and the rest of the world. • Introductions, annotations and footnotes. • Contextual and other questions for each story. • Detailed marking guidelines
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USED – Joonie – Rayda Jacobs 9781431400997
R65.00 ISBN: 9781431400997Heartwarming yet tough, this unforgettable story centers around a brave, young black girl named Joonie from Grassy Park, South Africa. When both her uncle and local priest attempt to take sexual advantage of her, Joonie refuses their advances. For all her fortitude, however, Joonie is slow to learn from the past–especially with respect to relationships–and…
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Leopard Calling (MML Literature Awards) 9780636204348
Price range: R120.00 through R179.00 ISBN: 9780636204348Seventeen-year-old Sharna has a special gift – “animal kin” – the ability to communicate with animals. Sharna lives in the Cederberg mountains and her fate becomes entwined with Cape leopards which are being poached, when she responds to their distress calls. She clashes violently with Hendrik, her cruel stepfather, and is forced to flee her…
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LIKE NEW – The Other Side of Truth 9780141304762
Original price was: R170.00.R120.00Current price is: R120.00. ISBN: 9780141304762This is the story of 12 year-old Sade and her brother Femi who flee to Britain from Nigeria. Their father is a political journalist who refuses to stop criticising the military rulers in Nigeria. Their mother is killed and they are sent to London, with their father promising to follow. Abandoned at Victoria Station by…
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In a Different Time (Peter Harris) 9781415200490
Price range: R80.00 through R290.00 ISBN: 9781415200490About the book: It is the final years of Nationalist rule, and four ANC cadres steal across the border into South Africa. They left as students after the Soweto riots of June 1976; now they return as soldiers, a specialist unit reporting to Chris Hani. Their mission: to carry out acts of war in the…
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Learning to Fly and other stories: Short Stories for Grade 12: Anthology and study notes 9780636082816
Price range: R100.00 through R170.00 ISBN: 9780636082816Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Kite Runner – 9781526604743
Price range: R70.00 through R305.00 ISBN: 9781526604743Kite Runner – 9781526604743
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Encounters – An Anthology of South African Short Stories 9781868143252
Price range: R220.00 through R330.00 ISBN: 9781868143252Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
Harlekyn – Jaco Jacobs
Price range: R90.00 through R128.00 ISBN: 9780624048411Select options This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product page -
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (Ken Kesey) 9780141187884
Price range: R190.00 through R275.00 ISBN: 9780141187884Description Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electroshock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of…
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Night (Elie Wiesel) 9780140189896
Price range: R160.00 through R245.00 ISBN: 9780140189896Elie Wiesel’s harrowing first-hand account of the atrocities committed during the Holocaust, Night is translated by Marion Wiesel with a preface by Elie Wiesel in Penguin Modern Classics. Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that…
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Fahrenheit 451 SparkNotes Literature Guide
R195.00 ISBN: 9781411469532When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing. Fahrenheit 451 is regarded as one of American writer Ray Bradbury’s best…
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time , SparkNotes
R195.00 ISBN: 9781411471009When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.
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The Canterbury Tales (No Fear) 9781411426962
R230.00 ISBN: 9781411426962Why be frightened of the most wonderful collection of tales ever written? No Fear: The Canterbury Tales makes it simple for students to love Chaucer’s masterpiece in all its humor, bawdiness, and poignancy. It features the original text on the left-hand page, side-by-side with an easy-to-understand translation on the right; in addition, there is a complete list…
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Hamlet – Pelican 9780143128540
R220.00 ISBN: 9780143128540‘The tragical history of Hamlet Prince of Denmark’ edited by Willard Farnham, published in Penguin Books (USA) 1957; revised edition published 1970; edition edited by A. R. Braunmuller published 2001″–Colophon. This legendary Shakespeare series features authoritative and meticulously researched texts paired with scholarship by renowned Shakespeareans. Updated for the 21st century by editors Stephen Orgel…
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Changes: An Anthology of Short Stories – 9781928292005
Price range: R160.00 through R230.00 ISBN: 9781928292005Changes: An Anthology of Short Stories – 9781928292005
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Die Potlooddief en die Engel 9780798118507
Price range: R45.00 through R183.00 ISBN: 9780798118507About this book: Die potlooddief en die engel is ’n hedendaagse blyspel wat losweg gebaseer is op die Middeleeuse mirakel- en moraliteitspele. Alles is moontlik, met die gevolg dat hierdie heerlike en hoogs opvoerbare komedie, wat met groot sukses voorgeskryf is, net sulke prettige leesstof is.
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Lord of the Flies 9780571191475
Price range: R240.00 through R295.00 ISBN: 9780571191475Lord of the Flies – A plane crashes on an uninhabited island and the only survivors, a group of schoolboys, assemble on the beach and wait to be rescued. By day they inhabit a land of bright fantastic birds and dark blue seas, but at night their dreams are haunted by the image of a…
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Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris – 9781785763670
Price range: R240.00 through R290.00 ISBN: 9781785763670Tattooist of Auschwitz – Heather Morris – 9781785763670
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The Story of an African Farm (Olive Schreiner) 9780143185604
Price range: R200.00 through R270.00 ISBN: 9780143185604About the book: Among the numerous plaudits bestowed on this pioneer novel is that of Es’kia Mphahlele in 1960, when he found the issues Schreiner raised in it ‘too generous to fit into the South African pattern of values’, while Doris Lessing in her 1968 afterword considered it to be ‘one of those few rare…
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Brighton Beach Memoirs 9780573619410
Price range: R400.00 through R595.00 ISBN: 9780573619410Brighton Beach Memoirs – Meet Eugene Jerome and his family, fighting the hard times and sometimes each other – with laughter, tears, and love.It is 1937 in Brooklyn during the heart of the Depression. Fifteen-year-old Eugene lives in Brighton Beach with his family. He is witty, perceptive, obsessed with sex, and forever fantasizing his baseball-diamond…
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LIKE NEW – The Chibok Girls 9780241980897
Original price was: R340.00.R140.00Current price is: R140.00. ISBN: 9780241980897About the book: An urgent Penguin Special investigating the 2014 mass-kidnapping of 276 schoolgirls by the world’s deadliest terroristsOn 14th April 2014, 276 girls disappeared from a secondary school in northern Nigeria, kidnapped by the world’s deadliest terror group. A tiny number have escaped back to their families but many remain missing.Reporting from inside the…
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LIKE NEW – Gulliver’s Travels (Collins Classics) 9780007351022
R65.00 ISBN: 9780007351022HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. ‘I cannot but conclude the bulk of your natives to be the most pernicious race of little odious vermin that nature ever suffered to crawl upon the surface of the earth.’ Shipwrecked on the high seas, Lemuel Gulliver finds himself washed up on…
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MARKED DOWN – The Kite Runner 9780747566533
R100.00 ISBN: 9780747566533Twelve-year-old Amir is desperate to win the approval of his father and resolves to win the local kite-fighting toumament, to prove that he has the makings of a man. His loyal friend Hassan promises to help him? for he always helps Amir? but this is 1970s Afghanistan and Hassan is merely a low-caste servant who…
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Romeo and Juliet SparkNotes Literature Guide
R195.00 ISBN: 9781411469631When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this book offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs and symbols, a review quiz, and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.
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Lord of the Flies SparkNotes Literature Guide
R195.00 ISBN: 9781411469860A study guide to the novel offers a plot summary and analysis, review quizzes, and an examination of important quotations, along with analysis of the key themes, motifs, characters, and symbols in the work.
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The Kite Runner (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
R195.00 ISBN: 9781411470996SparkNotes Literature Guides: Making the reading experience fun! When a paper is due, and dreaded exams loom, heres the lit-crit help students need to succeed! SparkNotes Literature Guides make studying smarter, better, and faster. They provide chapter-by-chapter analysis; explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols; a review quiz; and essay topics. Lively and accessible, SparkNotes…
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Hamlet SparkNotes Literature Guide
R195.00 ISBN: 9781411469587When an essay is due and dreaded exams loom, this title offers students what they need to succeed. It provides chapter-by-chapter analysis, explanations of key themes, motifs, and symbols, a review quiz and essay topics. It is suitable for late-night studying and paper writing.
