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PROTEST Tautohetohe - Objects of Resistance, Persistence and Defiance by Stephanie Gibson; Matariki Williams; Puawai Cairns
$70.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History
An illustrated history of protest and activism in Aotearoa New Zealand. For a small, peaceful democracy in the South Pacific, New Zealand has had its fair share of major protest issues, and over the decades New Zealanders have become adept at mobilising around causes. From protest about war – be it the ...Show more
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music History & Biography | Reading Level: good
Winner - Ockham NZ Book Awards - General Non-Fiction Award 2020 In Dead People I Have Known, the legendary New Zealand musician Shayne Carter tells the story of a life in music, taking us deep behind the scenes and songs of his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys and his best-known ba ...Show more
Selling the Dream: The Art of Early New Zealand Tourism by Peter Alsop & Dave Bamford & Gary Stewart
$79.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference | Reading Level: Near Fine
Selling the Dream is a stunning new book that celebrates the posters, brochures and magazines that were used to promote New Zealand tourism before 1960. In recent years New Zealand tourism posters and ephemera have become extremely collectable, as people have realised what an enormous contribution this ...Show more
How To Live by Helen Rickerby
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Reading Level: near fine
A new poetry collection that takes readers among ‘the unsilent women’, from Hipparchia to J. K. Rowling. ‘Women who speak have always been monstrous. That twisty sphinx, those tempting sirens; better plug your ears with wax, boys.’ Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell ...Show more
Inside The Black Horse
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Inside the Black Horse is a fast-moving thriller, a story of fate, and unlikely love story for our time. Pio Morgan is waiting outside a pub on a cold winter night. There is a debt he must pay and no options left. What he does next drags a group of strangers into a web of confusion that over the course ...Show more
Tableland by Ray Salisbury
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History | Reading Level: near fine
The story of the Tableland, the area behind Mt Arthur on the eastern side of Kahurangi National Park. Generations of Nelsonians have lived in sight of the Arthur Range on the western border of the Nelson district. But few of them know the stories that were played out on the Tableland, the high tussock p ...Show more
Wonderland: The New Zealand Photographs of Whites Aviation by Peter Alsop
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Art | Reading Level: near fine
Lewisville by Alexandra Tidswell
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
Martha Grimm has a sorrowful secret, and her daughter Mary Ann is the only other person in New Zealand who knows it. Growing up dirt-poor in Willoughby, Warwickshire, in 1814, Martha dared to imagine a different life. Now she is a wealthy and respectable Wellington settler half a world away. But the cos ...Show more
Nelson, Golden Bay, South Island West Coast Tide Tables by .
$8.50 NZD
Category: NZ - Reference
September 2006 - September 2007
Bella: My Life in Food by Annabel Langbein
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | 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
This Is Not How It Ends: How Rewriting your Story can Save Your Life by Jehan Casinader
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A BOOK OF HEALING AND HOPE BY NEW ZEALAND TV JOURNALIST JEHAN CASINADER As an award-winning TV journalist, Jehan Casinader told other people's stories - until he lost control of his own. Severely depressed, he tried everything - from mindfulness to massage; Prozac to Pilates. Was something missing? This ...Show more