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Channel Kindness by Lady Gaga
$40.00 NZD
Category: Social Issues
Channel Kindness is a collection of fifty-one stories of kindness, bravery, and resilience from young people all over the world collected by the Born This Way Foundation and introduced by Lady Gaga. For Lady Gaga, kindness is the driving force behind everything she says and does. The quiet power of kind ...Show more
Searching for Charlie: In Pursuit of the Real Charles Upham VC and Bar by Tom Scott
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Captain Charles Hazlitt Upham is the only combat soldier ever to win the Victoria Cross twice. His acts of bravery in World War II meant he probably deserved six more. The mystery of how a reserved, modest, slightly built farm valuer from New Zealand, could be so ferocious and fearless in battle has ...Show more
Seven Kinds of People You Find in Bookshops by Shaun Bythell
$17.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
A wickedly witty field guide to bookstore customers from the Person Who Doesn't Know What They Want (But Thinks It Might Have a Blue Cover) to the harried Parents Secretly After Free Childcare. It does take all kinds. If you visit bookshops more often than the grocery store, you'll recognize the types. ...Show more
Gone to the Woods: A True Story of Growing up in the Wild by Gary Paulsen
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
From the author of the bestselling Hatchet comes a true story of high-stakes wilderness survival! If not for his eight-hundred-mile journey from the busy Chicago city to a captivating Minnesotan farm aged five, there never would have been a Hatchet. Without the encouragement of the librarian who handed ...Show more
Elton John (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
In this momentous 50th book in the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Elton John, the piano wizard who rocketed to stardom with his music. As a child, Elton started playing his grandmother's piano in Harrow, London. He could pick ...Show more
Maya Angelou (Little People, Big Dreams) by Lisbeth Kaiser
$23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams | Reading Level: Children's - Grade 1-2, Age 6-7
In this international bestseller from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Maya Angelou, the powerful speaker, writer, and civil rights activist. Maya Angelou spent much of her childhood in Stamps, Arkansas. After a traumatic event at age eight, she ...Show more
Hope in a Ballet Shoe by Michaela DePrince
$18.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Hope in a Ballet Shoe tells the story of Michaela DePrince. Growing up in war-torn Sierra Leone, she witnesses atrocities that no child ever should. Her father is killed by rebels and her mother dies of famine. Sent to an orphanage, Michaela is mistreated and she sees the brutal murder of her favourite ...Show more
Guts (#3 Smile) by Raina Telgemeier
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Graphic Books | Series: Smile | Reading Level: very good
Raina wakes up one night with a terrible upset stomach. Her mom has one, too, so it's probably just a bug. Raina eventually returns to school, where she's dealing with the usual highs and lows: friends, not-friends, and classmates who think the school year is just one long gross-out session. It soon bec ...Show more
Shining Land - Looking for Robin Hyde by Paula Morris; Haru Sameshima
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A UNIQUE STORY BOOK FOR GROWN-UPS. Shining Land brings together award-winning novelist Paula Morris and distinguished photographer Haru Sameshima. It is the second in the kōrero series of picture books edited by Lloyd Jones, written and made for grown-ups, and designed to showcase leading New Zealand w ...Show more
Mophead Tu: The Queen's Poem by Selina Tusitala Marsh
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In her bestselling Mophead, poet laureate and fast talking PI Selina Tusitala Marsh recounted her experience growing up Pasifika in Aotearoa and realising how her (and your) difference can make a difference. In Mophead Tu, Selina is crowned Commonwealth Poet and invited to perform for the Queen in Westm ...Show more
Bella: My Life in Food by Annabel Langbein
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Reading Level: near fine
Bursting with tender and funny anecdotes and gorgeous recipes, Bella is Annabel Langbein's must-read memoir. For the first time, Annabel Langbein, New Zealand's most popular cookbook author, writes about her remarkable life and how food has shaped it, highlighting some of the recipes that have resonated ...Show more
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
$26.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Reading Level: good
Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl is not just a true story but also a piece of history. Written by Anne Frank for herself, at the age of 13, the diary contains candid and intimate details of Anne's thoughts and feelings during the two years of the Second World War she and her family and friends stay ...Show more