What's My Tween Thinking? Practical Child Psychology for Modern Parents by Tanith Carey
$44.99 NZD
Category: Parenting - Older Children
A practical guide to parenting 8- to 12-year-olds applying modern psychology to everyday scenarios. Parenting just got tougher. As your child's brain rewires, hormones kick in, and independence beckons, a perfect storm for family conflict emerges. But help is at hand. Divided into two sections - aged ...Show more
Wild Things: How We Learn To Read and What Can Happen If We Don't by Sally Rippin
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life. When Sally Rippin discovered her child was struggling to read, the best-selling children’s author assumed it would sort itself out over time. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Her son’s dyslexia and ADHD went undiagnosed for years, leaving ...Show more
14 Nga Tohu Aroha Ka Tukuna by Wayne Youle
$19.90 NZD
Category: Books for Grown Ups
When we’re apart from the ones we love, how do we get our kisses to them? We blow them! The blown kisses in this charming book travel far. Tied to a rocket, attached to a pigeon, kicked like a rugby ball – and many other imaginative ways. Wayne Youle (Ngāpuhi, Ngāti Whakaeke, Ngāti Pākehā) is one of A ...Show more
17 Years Later: A shocking crime thriller by J.P. Pomare
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Is the truth sometimes best left buried? A crime masterpiece by bestselling author J. P. Pomare. The violent slaughter of the wealthy Primrose family while they slept shocked the nation of New Zealand and scarred the small idyllic rural town of Cambridge forever. All of the evidence pointed to their yo ...Show more
1984 by George Orwell
$15.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins Ser.
As he lay dying, George Orwell summoned his publisher Fred Warburg to his bedside. No longer capable of holding a pen, the writer dictated a message to the public about the world of his new novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four. 'Don't let it happen,' he concluded. 'It depends on you.' In an age of inescapable su ...Show more
7 Steps to Get Your Child Reading by Louise Park
$27.99 NZD
Category: Parenting - Older Children
Generation Alpha is the swiper, pincher, tapper cohort, the first to grow up with devices in their hands. They are breaking new ground as a result of technological advances, while you, their parents, are having to navigate these uncharted waters. Literacy is the single most important thing we can teach ...Show more
A Canoe Before the Wind: An Immigrant Son's Story of Family, Adversity and Courage by Vitale Lafaele
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future. In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in search of a better life. Instead, their eldest son, Vitale, arrived in an era of dawn raids by police and immigr ...Show more
A Conversation with My Country: Where We've Come From. Where We Can Go by Alan Duff
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
A personal account reviewing an eventful life and an amazing country. Following Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff wrote his hard-hitting book Maori- The Crisis and the Challenge in 1993. His controversial comments shook the country. A quarter of a century later, New Zealand and Maoridom are in a very differ ...Show more
A Glove Shop in Vienna and Other Stories by Eva Ibbotson
$19.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Curl up with a collection of romantic short stories taking you from nineteenth-century Vienna, over the wild moors of Northumberland to the snowy streets of pre-revolutionary St Petersberg. A collection of eighteen romantic short stories from the award-winning and much-loved Eva Ibbotson, A Glove Shop i ...Show more
A Journey Round My Skull by Frigyes Karinthy; Oliver Sacks (Introduction by); Vernon Duckworth Barker (Translator)
$45.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
The distinguished Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy was sitting in a Budapest caf , wondering whether to write a long-planned monograph on modern man or a new play, when he was disturbed by the roaring--so loud as to drown out all other noises--of a passing train. Soon it was gone, only to be succeeded ...Show more
A Joyful Life: One Woman’s Story of Triumph Over Trauma to Build a Life of Hope and Gratitude by Rosemary Kariuki, Summer Land
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
A Joyful Life is the astonishing memoir of Rosemary Kariuki, one of Australia's most beloved Local Heroes. Long before she was advocating for refugee and migrant women just like herself, Rosemary was a survivor like no other. As a child, she survived the first of many times she was sexually abused. A ...Show more
A Killing in November - The Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month by Simon Mason
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: DI Wilkins Mysteries Ser.
'[A] terrific crime novel' Mick Herron'This moody, atmospheric novel is full of surprises' Sunday Times (Crime Book of the Month)'[W]ell plotted and very funny' ***** Sun'This has a TV series written all over it' Daily Mail----------------------------------------------------------Ryan Wilkins grew up on ...Show more