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Gullible's Travels - Vol 1, 1958-1963

Gail Gordon Brooks · 2024

NZ$22.00 (€11.03 | $12.16 | £9.20 | ¥1,941)

Self-published 2024 Paperback 588 Travel the world with this indefatigble adventurer. In the first volume, Gail recounts tales from his wanderings across India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, South Arabia, Nigeria, and East Africa. Heavy. Very Good

A Painted House

John Grisham · 2001

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Doubleday 2001 Hardback 400 A story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience. Luke helps his family pick the cotton from the farm that they rent. He finds himself keeping secrets that threaten the crops and will change the life of his family forever.. DJ; Owner's Name...

On Blue Ice: A Not Very Brave Journey To Antarctica

Kim Griggs · 2003

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Random House New Zealand 2003 Paperback 156 Antarctica holds a special place in New Zealanders' hearts and since 1923 New Zealanders have had their own slice of Antarctica. In 2001, Kim Griggs forged her own connection with Antarctica when she was selected to go as a journalis...

Language: Social Psychological Perspectives

Howard Giles and William Peter Robinson · 1980

NZ$29.00 (€14.54 | $16.02 | £12.13 | ¥2,558)

Pergamon Press 1980 Hardback 442 Selected Papers from the first International Conference On Social Psychology And Language, University of Bristol, July 1979. No DJ; Heavy; Owner's Name inside. Cover sunned, a few markings with highlighter. Good

A Night In The Netherhells

Craig Shaw Gardner · 1989

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Headline 1989 Paperback 194 "No more worry, no more fuss! Vushta now belongs to us!" Thus spoke the fearsome rhyming demon, Guxx Unfufadoo, as he and his malevolent minions dragged the City of Forbidden Delights down deep into their dire domain. Gone is Vushta! Gone the Greate...

The Dead Of The Night

John Marsden · 1998

NZ$11.50 (€5.77 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Pan 1998 Paperback 271 A few months after the first fighter jets landed in their own backyard, Ellie and her five terrified but defiant friends struggle to survive amid a baffling conflict. Their families are unreachable; the mountains are now their home. When two of them fall...

The Subtle Knife. His Dark Materials

Philip Pullman · 1998

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Scholastic 1998 Paperback 352 The epic adventure continues as Lyra finds herself in the beautiful, haunted world of Citta gazze. But here she encounters an ally. Like Lyra, Will Parry has spent his childhood playing games. Unlike hers, though, his have been deadly serious. Soo...

The Bonesetter's Daughter

Amy Tan · 2001

NZ$11.50 (€5.77 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Flamingo 2001 Hardback 320 LuLing Young is now in her 80s, and finally beginning to feel the effects of old age. Trying to hold on to the evaporating past, she begins to write down all that she can remember of her life as a girl in China. Meanwhile, her daughter Ruth, a ghostw...

Journey

Pippa Blake · 2011

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Penguin Books 2011 Hardback On 5 December 2001 New Zealand sporting and adventure hero Sir Peter Blake was killed by bandits at the mouth of the Amazon River. In this intimate account, Pippa Blake offers a private view of Sir Peter the husband and family man. Unpublished photo...

Between a Rock And a Hard Place

Aron Ralston · 2004

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Atria/ Simon & Schuster 2004 Paperback 388 One of the most extraordinary survival stories ever told -- Aron Ralston's searing account of his six days trapped in one of the most remote spots in America, and how one inspired act of bravery brought him home. Good

At One With the Sea: Alone Around the World

Naomi James · 1979

NZ$11.50 (€5.77 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

Hutchinson 1979 Hardback 128 The book is about Naomi James and her trip around the world sailing solo. She starts off in England, then to Cape Town, to Tasmania and back up to England. DJ; Owner's Name inside. DJ worn, small piece missing at top of spine; sticker on front; edg...

The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver · 2000

NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)

Faber & Faber 2000 Paperback 640 The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from h...

Life is So Good

George Dawson and Richard Glaubman · 2001

NZ$11.50 (€5.77 | $6.35 | £4.81 | ¥1,014)

HarperCollins Publishers Australia 2001 Paperback 304 What makes a happy person, a happy life? In this remarkable book, George Dawson, a 101-year-old man who learned to read when he was 98, reflects on the philosophy he learned from his father—a belief that "life is so good"—a...

The Other Side of Dawn

John Marsden · 1999

NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)

Pan Macmillan 1999 Hardback 333 Ellie and her friends, five Australian teenagers who survived the enemy invasion of their country, use guerrilla tactics to support a major counterattack by New Zealand troops. DJ. Good

A Multitude Of Monsters

Craig Shaw Gardner · 1988

NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)

Headline 1988 Paperback 201 "A fun romp. The field needs more humorists of this caliber. " (Robert Asprin) While seeking a cure for his malady of magicks, the suffering sorcerer Ebenezum and his hapless apprentice are rudely interrupted by militant monsters with a cause. Some ...

Five Poems

Stephanie De Montalk · 1999

NZ$26.00 (€13.03 | $14.37 | £10.87 | ¥2,293)

Rita Angus Cottage 1999 Card 8 Designed and handprinted at the Rita Angus Cottage, Wellington, by Brendan O’Brien: 1999. Thanks to the Thorndon Trust. Signed. No. 38 of 55 copies. Personal inscription from author dated Sept 2000. Good

Lost Possessions

Keri Hulme · 1985

NZ$34.00 (€17.04 | $18.79 | £14.22 | ¥2,999)

Victoria University Press 1985 Paperback 52 They have left me. The door is locked. The room is entirely bare. . . . Lost Possessions, a novella, was published in 1985, shortly before The Bone People won the Booker Prize. Good

Superfoods - 150 Superfood Recipes To Inspire Health & Happiness

2016

NZ$26.00 (€13.03 | $14.37 | £10.87 | ¥2,293)

Parragon Books Limited 2016 Hardback 315 HEALTH & WHOLEFOOD COOKERY. Superfood is filled with the world's top 150 superfoods. With complete nutritional information and delicious recipes to accompany each ingredient, Superfoods is your must-have guide to eating well. Some of th...

The Wretched Of The Earth

Frantz Fanon · 2001

NZ$34.00 (€17.04 | $18.79 | £14.22 | ¥2,999)

Penguin 2001 Paperback 255 Frantz Fanon's seminal work on the trauma of colonization, The Wretched of the Earth made him the leading anti-colonialist thinker of the twentieth century. This Penguin Modern Classics edition is translated from the French by Constance Farrington, w...

Last Days In Cleaver Square

Patrick McGrath · 2021

NZ$14.50 (€7.27 | $8.01 | £6.06 | ¥1,279)

Hutchinson 2021 Hardback 225 'Let there be no more of this clucking and wheedling. Oh Pa, are you sure? Or- Oh Francis, is this really a good idea? Let me be clear. I am always sure, and it is always a good idea. ' An old man is sleeping fitfully. It's too hot. The air is thic...