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Old Wellington in Colour by Hugh Price
$34.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Pictorial
Old picture-postcards of Wellington strike a soft spot because many of the views are recognisable despite the hundred-year gap, offering a glimpse of a half-familiar past. The charm and distinctive look of these pictures comes from their delicate colouring. They started life as black and white prints an ...Show more
John and Charles Enys: Castle Hill Runholders 1864-1891 by Abrahamson, Jenny
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Pictorial
John and Charles Enys: Castle Hill Runholders (1864-1891) records the story of two Cornish brothers who ran the Castle Hill sheep run for more than 25 years in the late 19th century. Extracts from letters by both brothers and paintings by Charles that they sent to their family at Enys in Cornwell give a ...Show more
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Heart of Darknessby Joseph ConradIn Conrad's haunting tale, Marlow, a seaman and wanderer, recounts his physical and psychological journey in search of the enigmatic Kurtz. Travelling to the heart of the African continent, he discovers how Kurtz has gained his position of power and influence over the lo ...Show more
The Bike and Beyond: Life on Two Wheels (BWB Texts) by Laura Williamson
$14.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Series: BWB Texts | Reading Level: very good
'The bicycle is a time machine, a link to the past. But sometimes the bicycle also feels like a link to the future - not the future we once imagined, the one with flying cars and replicators, but more like the one the Victorians might have pictured: streets crowded with bikes, strange ones of all kinds. ...Show more
Grandma's Week Off by Helen McKinley
$19.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books | Reading Level: good
Grandma wakes up one Monday morning and decides she doesn't want to be a boring old Grandma any more. So she throws her knitting out the window and embarks on a week of fun-filled adventures, including bungy jumping, hang-gliding, parachuting, and eventually taking a rocket to the moon.
Helen Clark: Inside Stories by Claudia Pond Eyley, Dan Salmon
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: Very Good
New Zealand's first elected woman prime minister; nine years in power through the foreshore and seabed, Afghanistan and Iraq, Corngate and Paintergate; head of the UN Development Program and ranked among the most powerful women in the world. Helen Clark's public life is well known. But what about the in ...Show more
The Little Kiwi's Matariki (PB) by Nikki Slade Robinson
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
The little Kiwi is fast asleep in her burrow. A beam of moonlight shines right down into her burrow. She wakes, and realises it is time. Hurrying out into the night, she wakes each of her friends from their mid-winter slumber. 'Kia tere! Hurry!' she urges them.
Louie the Tui Learns to Sing by Janet Martin
$19.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
A rhyming picture book about the Tui, a New Zealand native bird. "Louie the Tui wanted to sing - but he couldn't quite start. With a little help from a friend, who loved music and feeding the birds, Louie discovered tht if you try hard enough you can do anything! New Zealand author and illustrator, prin ...Show more
The Waka by Jean Prior
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
Based on the traditional counting rhyme of the animals boarding Noah's ark, this version offers a New Zealand perspective, with some of the native animals of Aotearoa being called aboard the waka, a large Maori canoe.
Hairy Maclary's Caterwaul Caper (Board Book) by Lynley Dodd
$17.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books | Series: Hairy Maclary and Friends
Hairy Maclary heard a strange sound, a yowling, a wailing that echoed around . . . What could be causing the caterwauling cacophony that brings Hairy Maclary and his friends running?' A child's best introduction to books' - The Timeswww.hairymaclary.com
He Pukapuka Tataku Nga Mahi a Te Rapuaraha Nui / A Record of the Life of the Great Te Rauparaha by Tamihana Te Rauparaha
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography
A biography of Te Rauparaha by his son Tamihana, published for the first time in a bilingual Māori/English edition. Kaore kau he kaumatua hei rite ma Te Rauparaha te mahio ki te whawhai, me te toa hoki, me te tino tangata ki te atawhai tangata. There has never been a man equal to Te Rauparaha in terms ...Show more
Whose Home is This? (PB) by Gillian Candler
$15.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books
Following on from the acclaimed Whose Beak is This? and Whose Feet are These?, author Gillian Candler and illustrator Fraser Williamson turn to looking at homes. Whose Home is This? includes native birds and sea creatures, such as the yellow-eyed penguin, octopus and crabs. While having fun guessing wh ...Show more