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Patched: The History of Gangs in New Zealand by Jarrod Gilbert
$52.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: very good
From 'bikie' gangs to skinheads, the Mongrel Mob to Black Power, gangs have had a massive impact on our society. Based on intensive research within gangs, Patched is the first major history of gang life in New Zealand. Jarrod Gilbert traces the story from the early bodgies and widgies, the rise of Hell' ...Show more
A Few Hares to Chase: the Life and Economics of Bill Phillips by BOLLARD ALAN
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Biography | Reading Level: Very Good
How did an electrician from New Zealand with a few mediocre grades in sociology write the second most cited economics article in the world, build the MONIAC - a revolutionary computing machine - and quickly rise to become one of the world's leading economists? From a remote Dannevirke farm to wartime PO ...Show more
A Dog Like That! (HB) by Janene Cooper
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books | Series: That Dog!
Everybody tells her how dogs should be, but this girl knows better. This is a delightfully warm story about a little girl and her unruly, loveable best friend.
Lifted by Bill Manhire
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays | Series: VUP Classics | Reading Level: very good
Description: The last lines of Bill Manhire's astonishing poem 'Kevin' lie at the heart of this book. These poems want urgently to know how the secular spirit can lift itself in the face of mortality and human violence. They are full of richness and courage and surprise, turning from grief to curiosity; ...Show more
Failed Love Poems by FLEMING JOAN
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
This book of fiction and slant autobiography by Joan Fleming occupies the dizzying space between what can be told about love, and what cannot.
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.
The Invisible Mile by David Coventry
$29.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The 1928 Ravat-Wonder team from New Zealand and Australia were the first English-speaking team to ride the Tour de France. From June through July they faced one of toughest in the race's history: 5,476 kilometres of unsealed roads on heavy, fixed-wheel bikes. They rode in darkness through mountains with ...Show more
Our Future is in the Air by Tim Corballis
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Fiction
In the larger sense, perhaps, they were trying to make a future. Somehow, all around, they felt vaguely that things were collapsing. All they could do in the midst of that was create something. It's 1975. A time of protest and upheaval is ending. A few years earlier, the world was in disarray. While pro ...Show more
Sport and the New Zealanders - A History by Greg Ryan; Geoff Watson
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ - History | Reading Level: near fine
"`. . . those two mighty products of the land, the Canterbury lamb and the All Blacks, have made New Zealand what she is in spite of politicians¿ claims to the contrary¿, wrote Dick Brittenden in 1954. `For many in New Zealand, prowess at sport replaces the social graces; in the pubs, during the furious ...Show more
The Taniwha in Our Backyard (Sharing Our Stories #2) by Malcolm Paterson; Martin Bailey
$22.00 NZD
Category: NZ - Childrens Picture Books | Series: Sharing Our Stories
Tui, his cousin Jennifer and their whanau go to the south Kaipara to visit their Uncle Rua and Auntie Mina. Exploring the area down to Muriwai, they learn about moa, kauri, Maui dolphins, kaitiakitanga (stewardship), geology and more. In the telling of their stories, a previously unknown taniwha (monste ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence: Collected Works by Hone Tuwhare
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ - Poetry / Plays
The collected poems of New Zealand's best-loved poet in a handsome volume. "A poem is a ripple of words on water wind-huffed ..." This volume showcases the finest examples of Hone's poetry, from his early triumph in No Ordinary Sun (one of the most reprinted collections in New Zealand) right up to his f ...Show more