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
Towards Compostela - Walking the Camino de Santiago by Catharina Van Bohemen
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: very good
Catharina van Bohemen walked the Camino de Santiago in 1998. Jenny Shipley was New Zealand’s prime minister, Bill Clinton’s relationship with Monica Lewinsky was exposed, the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Northern Ireland, and the Russian rouble nearly collapsed. Catharina’s marriage had ended and ...Show more
Alpine Panorama: A view to a climb by Andy Buchanan
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Pictorial
For lovers of the great outdoors and those captivated by the silent allure of Canterbury’s alpine horizon, Andy Buchanan’s Alpine Panorama: A view to a climb is a celebration of nature’s majesty and a tribute to the enduring connection between man and mountain. The distant alpine skyline served as a mag ...Show more
Breaking Twitter: Elon Musk and the Most Controversial Corporate Takeover in History by Ben Mezrich
40.00 NZD
Category: Business and Law
Gripping and darkly comic, Breaking Twitter takes readers inside the battle between one of the most intriguing, polarizing, influential men of our time – Elon Musk – and the company that owns our world’s best hope for a shared global conversation. From employee accounts within Twitter headquarters to t ...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