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Caged

Susan Brocker · 2023

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

Scholastic New Zealand Limited 2023 Paperback 240 ''A heart-wrenching story about Sam, a 14-year-old girl from a struggling homeless family, who is already involved in petty crime. She must face her own fears and her sense of what is right, to defy a dangerous drug criminal, a...

Life On The Color Line: The True Story Of A White Boy Who Discovered He Was Black

Gregory Howard Williams · 1996

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

Plume 1996 Paperback 304 Here As a child in 1950s segregated Virginia, Gregory Howard Williams grew up believing he was white. But when the family business failed and his parents’ marriage fell apart, Williams discovered that his dark-skinned father, who had been passing as It...

Weekends With The Sunshine Gardening Society

Sophie Green · 2023

NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)

Hachette Australia 2023 Paperback 432 Noosa Heads, 1987: Newly divorced Cynthia has returned to her home town from Los Angeles to reconnect with her 19-year-old daughter, who is pregnant and determined not to listen to her mother's advice. Cynthia's former best friend, Lorrain...

So Much To Tell You

John Marsden · 2000

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Lothian Books 2000 Paperback 109 This remarkable novel, now an established classic, is based on a true story. It was awarded the Children's Book Council Book of the Year Award in 1988, the Victorian Premier's Award, the 1989 Koala Award and the Christopher Medal (USA), as well...

Dead Average!

Moya Simons · 1994

NZ$9.50 (€4.76 | $5.25 | £3.97 | ¥838)

Omnibus 1994 Paperback 140 When Danny Thompson gets the starring role in a TV commercial, he is all set to make his fortune. But of course, something goes embarrassingly, horribly wrong. Owner's Name inside. Tear to contents page. Fair

Fast Asleep: How To Get A Really Good Night's Rest Anz Edition

Michael Mosley · 2020

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Simon & Schuster 2020 Paperback 288 Can't sleep? Who better to deliver the recipe for a peaceful night based on groundbreaking sleep science than the bestselling author of The Fast 800, The Clever Guts Diet and The 8-week Blood Sugar Diet. Getting a good night's sleep can impr...

Jimmy And The Desperate Woman & Other Stories

D. H. Lawrence · 1996

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

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC 1996 Hardback 182 These six stories represent the diversity of Lawrence's writing, from the realism of his early fiction to the myth and fable of his later works. DJ. DJ rubbed. Good

Number Our Days

Barbara Myerhoff · 1980

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Simon and Schuster 1980 Paperback 318 When noted anthropologist Barbara Myerhoff received a grant to explore the process of aging, she decided to study some elderly Jews from Venice, California, rather than to report on a more exotic people. The story of the rituals and lives ...

Introduction To Ayurveda

Bob Gibbons and Siân Pritchard-Jones · 2008

NZ$8.50 (€4.26 | $4.70 | £3.56 | ¥750)

Pilgrim Press 2008 Paperback 84 Good

Fat City

Karen Hitchcock · 2015

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

Black Incorporated 2015 Paperback 64 I ask a young 200-kilo patient what he snacks on. "Nothing," he says. I look him in the eye. Nothing? He nods. I ask him about his chronic skin infections, his diabetes. He tears up: "I eat hot chips and fried dim sims and drink three bottl...

Taliban: Militant Islam, Oil And Fundamentalism In Central Asia

Ahmed Rashid · 2010

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Yale University Press 2010 Unknown Binding 344 Ahmed Rashid, called "Pakistan's best and bravest reporter" by Christopher Hitchens, brings the shadowy world of the Taliban and its impact on Afghanistan and the Middle East and Central Asia into sharp focus in this modern classi...

Need

Nik Cohn · 1997

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Alfred A. Knopf 1997 Hardback 312 New York City is in the grip of a bad-moon heat wave, with the street-corner preachers running amok. Into the fray, four damaged lives come together at a pet store on the Upper West Side, each one consumed by a private hunger and driven toward...

All The Wrong Places: A Life Lost And Found

Philip Connors · 2015

NZ$18.50 (€9.27 | $10.22 | £7.74 | ¥1,632)

W. W. Norton & Company 2015 Paperback 243 In his debut Fire Season, Philip Connors recounted with lyricism, wisdom, and grace his decade as a fire lookout high above remote New Mexico. Now he tells the story of what made solitude on the mountain so attractive: the years he spe...

Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld · 2023

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Doubleday 2023 Paperback 320 Life is (not)* a Romantic Comedy... With a series of heartbreaks under her belt, Sally Milz - successful script writer for a legendary late-night TV comedy show - has long abandoned the search for love. But when her friend and fellow writer begins ...

The End Of Your Life Book Club

Will Schwalbe · 2013

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Two Roads 2013 Paperback 336 'A wonderful book about wonderful books and mothers and sons and the enduring braid between them. ' - Mitch Albom, author of Tuesdays With Morrie 'a true meditation on what books can do. ' - Edmund de Waal, author of The Hare with Amber Eyes Mary A...

Happy-Go-Lucky

David Sedaris · 2022

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Little, Brown 2022 Paperback 259 So often Sedaris's phrasing is beautiful in its piquancy and minimalism... His life is extraordinary in so many ways - the drug addiction, the eccentric family, the crazy jobs, the fame, the globetrotting - but one of the more unlikely achievem...

Get Outdoors

Paul Adamson · 2022

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Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited 2022 Paperback 192 From the author of the award-winning Beginner's Guide to Hunting and Fishing in New Zealand, Get Outdoors is full of fun ideas to get your body moving and your brain inventing. Select an activity from between the cove...

Peter Mcleavey: The Life And Times Of A New Zealand Art Dealer

Jill Trevelyan · 2013

NZ$49.00 (€24.56 | $27.08 | £20.49 | ¥4,322)

Te Papa Press 2013 Hardback 496 The first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the 1950s has shaped--even transformed--New Zealand art. McLeavey's personal story is remarkable but in it, his contemporaries will recognise common themes: ...

New New Zealand Houses

Patrick Reynolds and John Walsh · 2007

NZ$44.00 (€22.06 | $24.31 | £18.40 | ¥3,881)

Random House 2007 Hardback 272 DJ; Heavy; Large. Very large and heavy (2.5kg) - extra postage required for overseas orders. Very Good

Sleeping With The Mayor: A True Story

John Jiler · 1999

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Hungry Mind Press 1999 Paperback 361 A rich, many-voiced narrative that encompasses the breadth of New York City, from the glittering soirees of the powerful to a colorful cast of individuals bring on the street and at times even underground. A true story that reads like Tom W...