The Unexpected Patient: True Kiwi stories of life, death and unforgettable clinical cases by Himali McInnes
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Stories of life, death and unforgettable clinical cases. A psychiatrist and a patient with supernatural connections. A plastic surgeon and a Whakaari/White Island volcanic eruption survivor. A trauma therapist caught in the aftermath of a violent methamphetamine episode. The Unexpected Patient tells the ...Show more
Grid - The Life and Times of First World War Fighter Ace Keith Caldwell by Adam Claasen
65.00 NZD
Category: Coming Soon
This gripping biography of Air Commodore Keith (Grid) Logan Caldwell CBE, MC,DFC & Bar, Croix de Guerre, tells the story of his remarkable exploits during theFirst World War, by the end of which he was the leader of the revered 74 - Tiger- Squadron, personally credited with the destruction or downin ...Show more
Greedy Cat by Joy Cowley
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
THE VERY FIRST GREEDY CAT ADVENTURE! Mum went shopping to buy some food. Along came Greedy Cat, in a hungry mood…
Greedy Cat and the Sneeze by Joy Cowley
23.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
Celebrating 40 years of Greedy Cat, we a proud to re-release this NZ classic picture book. Greedy Cat is feeling poorly.Snuffle and wheeze! Sniffle and sneeze!Katie thinks she has the answer to make him strong and healthy again… more food!
From There to Here - A Memoir by Joe Bennett
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: near fine
From Willingdon to Lyttelton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty. Joe Bennett is the author of countless columns, over twenty books, and now, at long last, a memoir. From There to Here describes a childhood of fishing, cricket, friends, a dog, some mild molestation and a few deat ...Show more
Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved Lessons in Chemistry and Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine, you will adore Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts. 'Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts plunges the reader into the gru ...Show more
Storms Ahead Rick Dodson: America's Cup champion to Paralympian by Rebecca Hayter
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
In 1997, America's Cup winning strategist Rick Dodson thought he was invincible. He had a happy marriage, a stack of wins in national and international sailing, and was part-owner in one of the world's most technically advanced sailmakers. But a diagnosis of MS (multiple sclerosis) threatened his world. ...Show more
Running on Empty: Antidepressants and Youth Suicide, A New Zealand Review by Richard Vernall
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Current Affairs
Running on Empty reviews the incidence of youth suicide (14–25 years) since the 1980s in New Zealand, the cost of youth suicide to society, the incidence of mental health in young New Zealanders and the prescription of antidepressants to combat depression and anxiety in young people. Despite the prescr ...Show more
Instant Weather Forecasting: You Can Predict the Weather by Alan Watts
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
Instant Weather Forecasting has been a perennial bestseller since it was first published nearly 50 years ago. A brilliant concept, its winning formula of 24 clear colour photographs of cloud formations and their accompanying explanatory text enables the reader to read the sky, pick up the clues, and pre ...Show more
Doctors in Denial - The Forgotten Women in the 'Unfortunate Experiment' by Ronald W Jones
42.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
When Dr Ron Jones joined the staff of National Women's Hospital in Auckland in 1973 as a junior obstetrician and gynaecologist, Professor Herbert Green's study into the natural history of carcinoma in-situ of the cervix (CIS) - later called 'the unfortunate experiment' - had been in progress for seven y ...Show more
Snake and Lizard (10th Birthday Edition) by Joy Cowley
26.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Children - 5 to 8 | Series: Snake and Lizard
A beautiful 10th birthday edition of this much-loved, timeless classic by Joy Cowley. A chapter book for children ages 5 and up. Snake and Lizard are a lovable, foolish pair. They are always arguing, embarking on unlikely enterprises and telling one another hotly contested tales. But none of this behav ...Show more
Great Barrier Island by Don Armitage
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Natural History
Great Barrier Island, the largest island off the coast of New Zealand's North Island and the outer-most island of the Hauraki Gulf, is comparatively undeveloped and free from many of the animal pests that have taken their toll elsewhere in New Zealand. As a result there is a superb natural landscape and ...Show more