Williams: 1396 books

'It strikes me with great clarity that if you look at the problems in isolation they each seem intractable; but when you grasp that there could be one single solution, then suddenly there is a glimpse of light at the end of the tunnel.' The state of New Zealand’s freshwater has become a pressing...

Pauline O’Regan entered a convent at the age of 21. Thirty years later, in 1973, she and two other nuns moved into a house in a raw suburban development in Christchurch to create a new form of vocational community.A Changing Order tells the story of O’Regan’s life: her childhood on a remote farm,...

In a time of global political ferment, established ideas are coming under renewed scrutiny. Chief among them is one of the dominant notions of our era: that we should entrust markets with many of the tasks previously carried out by government.In this wide-ranging book, Max Rashbrooke goes beyond anecdote...

HE CAN'T STAY — SHE CAN'T LET HIM GO Halley’s world is full of hand-outs and hand-me-downs. Even her apartment bedroom is shared, with her distant and self-centered mother. Halley has only a battered blue truck to call her own—until she meets Edmund, the second Earl of Shaftesbury. Edmund has...

Jillian dreams of abandoning her business major and going to culinary school in Europe, but her parents’ expectations and a crippling fear of flying threaten to keep her grounded. To address her fear of flight, she travels to 1908 to meet Wilbur Wright. She doesn’t plan on meeting handsome Everett,...

DaVinci has a job to do: travel back in time to save her house from demolition, which isn’t a problem except that in doing so, she ruins everything else in her life. Quintus, a hunk from 53 BC stuck in this century, has his own job: deliver a letter from Caesar to Pompey. Obviously, he’ll need...

It's her move... Life is returning to normal for Kris and Hazel Van Helsen...until Hazel makes an unexpected discovery, which makes her question whether she knows Kris as well as she thinks she does. A past act of revenge involving Morten Hardanger has disastrous consequences, and an opportunity to escape the situation presents itself, leading Hazel further into danger...

'While I’ve spent enough time in universities to understand the meaning of various freedoms, I’ve also spent enough time in the world to see the opposite of freedom: persecution, detention, and the slow drag of less obvious oppressions.' In 2013, Murdoch Stephens began a campaign to double...

This is a fun rhyming story about a once- fat boy named Chester. He only likes to eat sweets, candies, chocolates and pies. But he had a problem when the school nurse saw him. She ordered Chester to exercise and each healthy food. So he did. To his amazement, healthy food tasted good! Many kids are...

When Edmund is mysteriously returned to the seventeenth century, Halley must brave sickness without antibiotics, a second wife, and the Virgin Queen herself to save the man she loves before he's lost to her forever.