Don't Think About Purple Elephants by Susan Whelan
$15.99 NZD
Category: Parenting - Baby and Toddler
Sometimes Sophie worries -- not during the day when she is busy with family and friends, but at night when everything is calm and quiet. Her family all try to help, but somehow they just make her worries worse. Until her mother thinks of a new approach ... that might just involve an elephant or two! But ...Show more
Excommunicated - A multi-generational story of leaving the Exclusive Brethren by Craig Hoyle
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
A heart-wrenching multigenerational family memoir by an excommunicated member of the Exclusive Brethren. After coming out as gay as a teenager, Craig Hoyle was excommunicated from the New Zealand Exclusive Brethren. The conservative sect was everything he'd ever known - a childhood where television, po ...Show more
Fox Spirit On A Distant Cloud by Lee Murray
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Wellington, 1923, and a sixty-year-old woman hangs herself in a scullery; ten years later another woman 'falls' from the second floor of a Taranaki tobacconist; soon afterwards a young mother in Taumarunui slices the throat of her newborn with a cleaver. All are women of the Chinese diaspora, who came t ...Show more
Girl Stuff 13+: Your Full-on Guide to the Teen Years by Kaz Cooke
$50.00 NZD
Category: Parenting - Baby and Toddler
With more than 600 pages and heaps of cartoons, Girl Stuff has everything girls need to know about- friends, body changes, shopping, clothes, make-up, pimples (arrghh), sizes, hair, earning money, guys, embarrassment, what to eat, moods, smoking, why diets suck, handling love and heartbreak, exercise, s ...Show more
Heather Has Two Mummies (PB) by Leslea Newman
$18.99 NZD
Category: Parenting - Baby and Toddler
A rediscovered modern classic for today's generation in an updated, beautifully illustrated edition. Heather's favourite number is two. She has two arms, two legs,and two pets. And she also has two mummies. When Heather goes to school for the first time, someone asks her about her daddy, but Heather doe ...Show more
Helping Your Autistic Child - A Self-Help Guide for Parents by Ann Ozsivadjian
$29.99 NZD
Category: Parenting - Older Children | Series: Helping Your Child Ser.
Practical, evidence-based advice for managing distressed behaviours and common situations involving autistic children. Autism affects about one per cent of the population, and whilst it can present very differently among individuals, there are some common challenges faced by autistic people. This self- ...Show more
Hiwa: Contemporary Māori Short Stories by Edited by Paula Morris and Darryn Joseph
$44.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Hiwa is a vibrant, essential collection of contemporary Maori short stories, featuring twenty-seven writers working in English or te reo Maori. The writers range from famous names and award winners - Patricia Grace, Witi Ihimaera, Whiti Hereaka, Becky Manawatu, Zeb Nicklin - to emerging voices like Shel ...Show more
I'm a Big Brother by Joanna Cole
$17.99 NZD
Category: Parenting - Baby and Toddler
With an author's note about what big siblings need--extra guidance, reassurance, love--and sweet, engaging artwork, it's no wonder that nearly 4 million families have chosen I'm a Big Brother and its companion book, I'm a Big Sister, to prepare their young ones for their first big transition. "Someone ...Show more
Inside the Dyslexic Mind: A resource for parents, teachers and dyslexics themselves by Laughton King
$34.99 NZD
Category: Parenting - Older Children
Laughton King shares hisunderstanding of the dyslexic mind from his own lived experience as a dyslexicchild, an angry adolescent, a therapist and eventually an author. When describing what it is like to be dyslexic, he isincludes himself. 'We think in pictures, we chase words around the pages of books, ...Show more
Julia 1984 by Sandra Newman
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Julia is a bold feminist retelling of Nineteen Eighty-Four that goes beyond Winston Smith's story to finally reveal what life in Oceania was like for women London, chief city of Airstrip One, the third most populous province of Oceania. It's 1984 and Julia Worthing works as a mechanic fixing the novel ...Show more
Lola in the Mirror by Trent Dalton
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from international bestselling author of Boy Swallows Universe and All Our Shimmering Skies. 'Mirror, mirror, on the grass, what's my future? What's my past?' A girl and her mother are on the lam. They've been run ...Show more
Mister Pip (Popular Penguin) by Lloyd Jones
$15.99 NZD
Category: General Fiction
In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the power of narrative to transform our lives. On a copper-rich tropical island shattered by war, where the teachers have fled with most everyone e ...Show more