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My Name Is Lucy Barton: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: #1 | Reading Level: very good
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * A simple hospital visit becomes a portal to the tender relationship between mother and daughter in this extraordinary novel by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Olive Kitteridge and The Burgess Boys. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post * The N ...Show more
Nothing to See by Pip Adam
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men for mone ...Show more
Once by Morris Gleitzman
$24.00 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: #1Felix & Zelda | Reading Level: very good
Once I escaped from an orphanage to find my Mum and Dad. Once I saved a girl called Zelda from a burning house. Once I made a Nazi with toothache laugh. My name is Felix. This is my story. Felix lives in a convent orphanage in Poland. He is convinced his parents are still alive and that they will one da ...Show more
Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry, Essays & Short Stories | Series: 1st
Sam Duckor Jones’s first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Legend he turns once again to questions of existence but at an even bigger scale. These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at ...Show more
Patu : The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: Children's Non-Fiction | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin Bishop. Discover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bi ...Show more
Peacemonger: Owen Wilkes - International Peace Researcher by Edited by May Bass and Mark Derby
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: 1st
The life and work of outstanding New Zealand peace activist Owen Wilkes. Tributes from friends and associates. Born in Christchurch, Owen Wilkes was an internationalist and a dedicated New Zealander — a subsistence farmer on the West Coast (where his self-built eco-home was demolished by the local coun ...Show more
Pod by Laline Paull
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fiction A-Z | Series: No. 1 Ladies' Detective Ser.
Bestselling author of The Bees, Laline Paull returns with an immersive and transformative new novel of an ocean world - its extraordinary creatures, mysteries, and mythologies - that is increasingly haunted by the cruelty and ignorance of the human race. Ea has always felt like an outsider. As a spinne ...Show more
Rebel Skies (#1) by Ann Sei Lin
$21.99 NZD
Category: Children's Fiction | Series: Rebel Skies 1 | Reading Level: near fine
A fantasy adventure set in a world of flying ships and sky cities, where chosen ones have the ability to bring paper to life and work as Crafters – people who hunt wild paper spirits called shikigami. Inspired by Asian culture and exploring themes of empire, slavery and freedom. Kurara has never known a ...Show more
Scythe (#1 Arc of a Scythe) by Neal Shusterman
$18.99 NZD
Category: Young Adult Fiction | Series: Arc of a Scythe 1 | Reading Level: very good
A dark, gripping and witty thriller in which the only thing humanity has control over is death. In a world where disease, war and crime have been eliminated, the only way to die is to be randomly killed ("gleaned") by professional scythes. Citra and Rowan are teenagers who have been selected to be scyth ...Show more
Skyward: The First Skyward Novel by Brandon Sanderson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Fantasy & SciFi | Series: Skyward #1
Spensa's world has been under attack for hundreds of years. An alien race called the Krell leads onslaught after onslaught from the sky in a never-ending campaign to destroy humankind. Humanity's only defense is to take to their ships and fight the enemy in the skies. Pilots have become the heroes of wh ...Show more
Tangata Whenua - A History [text-only edition] by Atholl Anderson, Judith Binney, Aroha Harris
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
Tangata Whenua: A History presents a rich narrative of the Māori past from ancient origins in South China to the twenty-first century, in a handy paperback format. The authoritative text is drawn directly from the award-winning Tangata Whenua: An Illustrated History; the full text of the big hardback is ...Show more
The Book that Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence
$35.00 NZD
Category: Fantasy & SciFi | Series: Library Series #1 | Reading Level: very good
All books, no matter their binding, will fall to dust. The stories they carry may last longer. They might outlive the paper, the library, even the language in which they were first written. But the greatest story can reach the stars . . . Evar has lived his whole life trapped within a vast library, olde ...Show more