A Photographic Guide to Fossils of New Zealand by Hamish Campbell; Alan Beu; James Crampton; Liz Kennedy; Marianna Terezow
28.00 NZD
Category: Fossils
A reprint under a new ISBN, this handy reference guide focuses on plant and animal fossils commonly found in New Zealand. Fossils are the preserved remains of past life and are very much part of the natural environment in this country. The range of fossils described covers the geological time-scale of P ...Show more
Mansfield and Me - A Graphic Memoir by Sarah Laing
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Katherine Mansfield is a literary giant in New Zealand-but she had to leave the country to become one. She wrote, 'Oh to be a writer, a real writer.' And a real writer she was, until she died at age 34 of tuberculosis. The only writer Virginia Woolf was jealous of, Mansfield hung out with the modernists ...Show more
Hungry to Be Happy: How I Lost and Found My Mind by Harry Averill
34.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
As a fourteen-year-old psych ward patient, Harry realised he had a choice: let anorexia keep ruining his life, or fight back against everything his mind told him was true. Now twenty-two years old, Harry delicately pieces together how his mind derailed to that point, what's happened since he made his c ...Show more
Shackleton's Endurance: An Antarctic Survival Story by Joanna Grochowicz
19.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Adrift on the Antarctic pack ice with no means of escape and no hope of rescue, Ernest Shackleton and his men are surely doomed. In August 1914, Ernest Shackleton and his men set sail for Antarctica, where they plan to cross the last uncharted continent on foot. In January 1915, his ship, the Endurance, ...Show more
The Book of Angst - Understand and Manage Anxiety by Gwendoline Smith
28.00 NZD
Category: Teenage Issues
From the author of international bestsellers The Book of Knowing and The Book of Overthinking. There's a lot of angst around these days. This heightened sense of fear, concern, insecurity and uncertainty can be overwhelming. Bestselling author of The Book of Overthinking and The Book of Knowing Gwendo ...Show more
Michael Cullen Labour Saving: A Memoir by Michael Cullen
50.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Secondhand. A fascinating and in-depth insight into the extraordinary career of one of our most important politicians, who was instrumental in shaping the development of Aotearoa New Zealand. In this clever, witty and detailed memoir, Hon Sir Michael Cullen describes his lengthy political career, incl ...Show more
Animals of Aotearoa (HB) by Gillian Candler; Ned Barraud
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Animals of Aotearoa is a must-have compendium for children curious about New Zealand’s wild animals. Based on the award-winning and best-selling ‘Explore and Discover’ children’s series about New Zealand’s natural history, this book is packed full of illustrations and information about our native anima ...Show more
Impossible (Young Readers' Edition) by Stan Walker
25.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
An abridged edition of the bestselling memoir. Stan Walker is one of Aotearoa's most famous singers. But nothing ever came easy for Stan. What were the chances of success for a kid whose parents had both been in jail? Whose world had been filled with drugs and violence and things no kid should even kno ...Show more
First to the Top: Sir Edmund Hillary's Amazing Everest Adventure by David Hill; Phoebe Morris
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Picture Books | Series: David Hill's Kiwi Legends
Up on the world's highest mountain, the sky is tinged the black color of space and the air is almost too thin to breathe. How did Ed, a small, shy boy from a tiny New Zealand town, grow up to become the world's most famous mountaineer and adventurer? How did he climb Everest and do many other astonishin ...Show more
Introducing the Women's Suffrage Petition 1893 (BWB Texts) by Barbara Brookes and Jared Davidson
18.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
In 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world with universal suffrage: all New Zealand women now had the right to vote. This achievement owed much to an extraordinary document: the 1893 Women’s Suffrage Petition. Over 270 metres long, with the signatures of some 24,000 women (and at least tw ...Show more
The Forgotten Wars: Why the Musket Wars Matter Today by Ron Crosby
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Ron Crosby brilliantly rewrites his seminal The Musket Wars on a thematic basis, simplifying it to a concise work full of maps and illustrations for the general reader. Distinguished author Ron Crosby outlines why the Musket Wars were a crucial phase of New Zealand history and should be taught today. ...Show more
Bumblebees Have Smelly Feet by Rachel Weston
20.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Bumblebees Have Smelly Feet contains fascinating buzz facts, information on why bumblebees have whiffy feet, how their bodies work, their superpower eyesight, their family life cycle, and how you can help this integral insect survive. This wonderful book will excite and delight young readers and the you ...Show more