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123 in English and Maori (Hairy Maclary and Friends) by Lynley Dodd
$12.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: 1st
A boisterous bilingual board book that introduces littlies to counting with the help of Hairy Maclary and his friends! A gorgeous board book with pictures of Hairy Maclary, Scarface Claw and other favourite characters created by Lynley Dodd to help children learn to count from 1-10 in Maori and English ...Show more
Blood & Dirt: Prison Labour and the Making of New Zealand by Jared Davidson
$49.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: 1st
'Picture, for a minute, every artwork of colonial New Zealand you can think of. Now add a chain gang. Hard labour men guarded by other men with guns. Men moving heavy metal. Men picking at the earth. Over and over again. This was the reality of nineteenth-century New Zealand.' Forced labour haunts the ...Show more
Colours in English and Maori (Hairy Maclary and Friends) by Lynley Dodd
$12.99 NZD
Category: Children | Series: 1st
A boisterous bilingual board book that introduces littlies to colours with the help of Hairy Maclary and his friends! A gorgeous board book with pictures of Hairy Maclary, Scarface Claw and other favourite characters created by Lynley Dodd to teach children their colours in Maori and English. This speci ...Show more
Ford: A Kiwi Obsession by Steve Holmes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Automotive & Transport | Series: 1st
Ford A Kiwi Obsession, describes the history of the Ford Australia motor company, from its early beginnings, its production of the Falcon model, expansion into New Zealand, right through to the final Falcon to roll off the assembly line. It features stories on several interesting Fords and their proud K ...Show more
Four Comic Novellas by Bob Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: new
"Four brilliant, original and funny novellas that will outrage and provoke readers' thoughts about modern life. Designed to be collected and for gift giving, this collection of sharp-witted tales on modern life will entertain and enthrall in the manner that only best-selling author Bob Jones can do and ...Show more
Holden A Kiwi Passion by Steve Holmes
$49.99 NZD
Category: Automotive & Transport | Series: 1st
"Holden A Kiwi Passion" celebrates Holden motor vehicles, New Zealanders' passion for them and the role they've played in our lives. It describes the history of the Holden motor company from its early beginnings in Australia, to its expansion into New Zealand. It features stories of several interesting ...Show more
Introducing He Whakaputanga (BWB Texts) by Vincent O'Malley and Jared Davidson
$17.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: 1st
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It wa ...Show more
Joseph Banks' Florilegium - Botanical Treasures from Cook's First Voyage by David Mabberley; Mel Gooding; Joe Studholme; Anon
$135.00 NZD
Category: History | Series: Botanical Treasures from Cook's 1st Voyage | Reading Level: new
Joseph Banks accompanied Captain Cook on his first voyage around the world from 1768 to 1771. A gifted and wealthy young naturalist, Banks collected exotic flora from Madeira, Brazil, Tierra del Fuego, the Society Islands, New Zealand, Australia, and Java, bringing back over 1,300 species that had never ...Show more
Kiwi Mustangs by Steve Holmes
$39.99 NZD
Category: Automotive & Transport | Series: 1st
The Ford Mustang met with unprecedented popularity on its release in the US over 50 years ago in 1964, and nowhere is the marque more popular than here in New Zealand.Steve Holmes presents an outstanding full-colour selection of privately-owned models residing in New Zealand, and their owners, and he pr ...Show more
Make Her Praises Heard Afar: The Untold story of New Zealand Women in WW1 by Jane Tolerton
$59.99 NZD
Category: New Zealand Historical | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
The history books tell us that about 550 New Zealand nurses went to World War One while other women stayed home, knitting, fundraising and looking after families and farms while the men were away. But many women went too, as doctors and ambulance drivers, munitions workers and mathematicians, civil serv ...Show more
Metamorphosis: A Scientist's Story by Glen Metcalf
$30.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand Biography & Memoirs | Series: 1st | Reading Level: near fine
Metamorphosis is the story of one woman's transformation from a traditional Kiwi housewife of the 1950s into an internationally known scientist. Born in 1926, married at 21 and a mother shortly after, Glen Metcalf's life changed when at age 35 she met Dr Donald Beaven, the founding professor of the Chri ...Show more
Nothing to See by Pip Adam
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Series: 1st | Reading Level: very good
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men for mone ...Show more