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Directions - New Zealanders Explore The Meaning Of Life
Neville Glasgow · 1995
NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)
Shoal Bay 1995 Paperback, 254pp. 20 well-known New Zealanders reveal some of their personal beliefs and private thoughts about their childhood and adolescence, about religion, spirituality, politics, identity and sexuality. (ISBN: 9780908704293). Good.
Henry VIII And His Wicked Wives (Horribly Famous)
Alan MacDonald · 2009
NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)
Scholastic 2009 Paperback, 176pp. Readers might already know that king Henry VIII is horribly famous for: · having a bit of a weight problem · marrying six unlucky wives · getting very carried away with his chopping block. But the book will also tell them the facts no other bi...
Religious Freedom, Minorities And Islam
Ahmad F. Yousif · 1998
NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)
Thinker\'s Library SDN BHD 1998 Paperback, 208pp. Signed. (ISBN: 9789676902979). Very Good.
The Invention of History: a Century of Interplay Between Theology And Politics in Palestine
Mitri Raheb · 2011
NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)
Diyar 2011 Paperback, 271pp. (ISBN: 9789950376045). Very Good.
The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth: the Hohokam Chronicles
William Smith Allison and Donald Bahr and Julian Hayden and Juan Smith · 1994
NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)
University of California Press 1994 Paperback, 352pp. In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of t...
A Private Affair?
Ken McMaster and Peter Swain · 1989
NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)
CP Books 1989 Paperback, 176pp. Owner\'s Name inside; Signed. (ISBN: 9780477014205). Good.
Zombiesons\' Time Machine
Knife & Packer · 2010
NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)
Scholastic Australia 2010 Paperback, 96pp. Your favourite Freak Street families are back, and they\'re all travelling through time! The Aliensons\' Time Hopper is flying them hundreds of years into the future, Zlobba has unleashed an ancient Egyptian curse, sending the Zombies...
The State Under Contract
Jonathan Boston · 1995
NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)
Bridget Williams Books 1995 Paperback, 230pp. One of the most distinctive and controversial features of New Zealand\'s reforms is the emphasis on contractualist modes of governance, including the use of new kinds of contracting within the public sector. These massive reforms r...
Last Night In Twisted River
John Irving · 2010
NZ$12.50 (€6.27 | $6.91 | £5.23 | ¥1,103)
Black Swan 2010 Paperback, 674pp. In 1954, in the cookhouse of a logging and sawmill settlement in northern New Hampshire, a twelve-year-old boy mistakes the local constable\'s girlfriend for a bear. Both the twelve-year-old and his father become fugitives, pursued by the cons...
Innovation and Independence: The Reserve Bank of New Zealand
Arthur Grimes and Gary Hawke and Frank Holmes and John Singleton · 2006
NZ$41.50 (€20.80 | $22.93 | £17.36 | ¥3,661)
Auckland University Press 2006 Hardback, 320pp. The Authors Re-examine The Bank\'s Early History And The Deepening Crisis Of The Late 1970s And Early 1980s, Explore Intellectual Developments At The Bank And The Crucial Change Of Government In 1984, And Explain How The Challeng...
The Saffron Robe
Jo Cutler · 2008
NZ$13.50 (€6.77 | $7.46 | £5.65 | ¥1,191)
Self-published 2008 Paperback. Small crease to cover. (ISBN: 9781877513275). Good.
Theodore Boone
John Grisham · 2011
NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)
Hodder & Stoughton 2011 Paperback, 263pp. THEODORE BOONE is thirteen and wants nothing more than to swap homeroom for the courtroom; he lives for big trials. Now the biggest murder case in his city\'s history is set to begin. In the packed court, a husband awaits trial for his...
Paula Spencer
Roddy Doyle · 2007
NZ$10.50 (€5.26 | $5.80 | £4.39 | ¥926)
Vintage 2007 Paperback, 292pp. Ten years on from The Woman Who Walked into Doors , Booker Prize-winning author, Roddy Doyle, returns to one of his greatest characters, Paula Spencer. Paula Spencer is turning forty-eight, and hasn\'t had a drink for four months and five days. H...
Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among The Converted Peoples
V. S. Naipaul · 1999
$11.50 (€10.43 | £8.70 | ¥1,836)
Abacus 1999 Paperback 437 This is a book about one of the more important and unsettling issues of our time. But it is not a book of opinion. It is - in the Naipaul way - a very rich and human book, full of people and stories. Islam is an Arab religion, and it makes imperial Ar...
Sylvie the Second
Kaeli Baker · 2015
NZ$17.50 (€8.77 | $9.67 | £7.32 | ¥1,544)
Makaro Press 2015 Paperback. It\'s another hospital trip in the witching hours for Sylvie, as part of the support crew for her crazy sister, Calamity Cate. An overdose, this time. As usual, it seems like the family is so caught up in all of Cate\'s drama that Sylvie goes unnot...
Buddy\'s Brother
Peter Carter · 2015
NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)
Submarine 2015 Paperback, 62pp. The poetry and prose in Buddy’s Brother is straight-up, in your face, and open-hearted, and covers Pete’s usual preoccupations: life and death, tennis and bad backs, dogs and walking. (ISBN: 9780994129901). Mint.
Felt Intensity
Keith Westwater · 2015
NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)
Makaro Press 2015 Paperback, 76pp. When the earth thrashes under us like a fish, the ordinary words we use to describe the devastation afterwards never seem enough. Lower Hutt poet Keith Westwater harnesses instead the language of science, journalism and myth to adequately exp...
Possibility Of Flight
Heidi North-Bailey · 2015
NZ$19.50 (€9.78 | $10.77 | £8.16 | ¥1,720)
Makaro Press 2015 Paperback, 76pp. There was a time when Heidi lived in a house on Grass St that once belonged to poet Lauris Edmond. The hillside garden grew tulips and poems, and in the house with its view of the harbour, Heidi wrote poems of her own. But always there is...
No One Home: A Boyhood Memoir In Letters And Poems
Keith Westwater · 2018
NZ$21.50 (€10.78 | $11.88 | £8.99 | ¥1,896)
Makaro Press 2018 Paperback, 88pp. No One Home tells the story of Keith Westwater growing up in 1950s New Zealand. At age seven he loses his mother to a botched operation and with her death loses a place to call home. So Keith and his brother take to the road with a gambling f...
Ham: An Obsession With The Hindquarter
Mark Scarbrough and Bruce Weinstein · 2010
NZ$15.50 (€7.77 | $8.56 | £6.48 | ¥1,367)
Harry N. Abrams 2010 Hardback, 224pp. A ham is (let us not mince words) a pig\'s rear end. It\'s a hefty hunk of flesh and bone, weighing in somewhere between 12 and 30 pounds. Fresh or cured, ham can be prepared in innumerable ways. And (here\'s the clincher) ham is incredibl...