Simon Shuker's Code-Cracker (07) by Simon Shuker
$16.99 NZD
Category: puzzle/sudoku/crossword
Another 125 Code-Cracker puzzles in the seventh volume of the puzzle series that is enjoyed daily in newspapers from Whangarei to Invercargill, including the Otago Daily Times, Dominion Post and New Zealand Herald.
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life by Mark Manson
$34.99 NZD
Category: Mind/Body/Spirit | Reading Level: very good
For the past few years, Mark Manson-via his wildly popular blog-has been working on correcting our delusional expectations for ourselves and for the world. He now brings his hard-fought wisdom to this groundbreaking book. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-tal ...Show more
Mah Jong Player's Companion by Patricia Thompson, Betty Maloney
$22.99 NZD
Category: Nerd/Geek/Super Cool | Series: Langaroo Press Mah Jong
The essential companion for the dedicated Mah Jong player who also enjoys the social aspect of the game. Since the arrival on the market of Patricia Thompson and Betty Maloney's two previous books, The Game of Mah Jong Illustrated and Improve Your Mah Jong, a wide range of hands from many parts of the ...Show more
The Field Guide to New Zealand Geology (revised edition 2009) by Jocelyn Thornton
$50.00 NZD
Category: Parenting
This is the first field guide written for the general public and beginners in geology in New Zealand. Now fully revised and updated, it shows travellers in New Zealand something of the tremendous variety of our rocks, minerals and fossils and describes what to look for in many areas where rock formation ...Show more
The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Didion's journalistic skills are displayed as never before in this story of a year in her life that began with her daughter in a medically induced coma and her husband unexpectedly dead due to a heart attack. This powerful and moving work is Didion's "attempt to make sense of the weeks and then months t ...Show more
Simon Shuker's Code-Cracker (13) by Simon Shuker
$15.95 NZD
Category: puzzle/sudoku/crossword
Another 125 Code-Cracker puzzles in the thirteenth volume of the popular puzzle series that is enjoyed daily in newspapers throughout New Zealand.
Mauri Ora: Wisdom from the Maori World by Peter Alsop & Te Rau Kupenga
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
Pearls of wisdom – whakataukī – have been gifted from generation to generation as an intrinsic part of the Māori world. As powerful metaphors, they combine analogy and cultural history in the most economical of words. Short and insightful, they take you by surprise, engendering reflection, learning and ...Show more
Te Rongoa Maori: Maori Medicine by P. M. E. Williams
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: very good
Pip Williams, a retired pharmacist living in Northland, has spent his life observing and recording the use by local Maori of native plants for medicinal purposes. Te Rongoa Maoribrings together his observations on 43 New Zealand plants and the health problems they were used to treat, colourfully intersp ...Show more
50 Speeches That Made the Modern World: Famous Speeches from Women's Rights to Human Rights by Chambers
$49.99 NZD
Category: History
Throughout history, great speeches have produced great change. From inciting violence and asserting control to restoring peace and securing freedom, nothing has the raw emotional power of a speech delivered at the right moment, in the right place, with the right content, and the right delivery. 50 Speec ...Show more
Tikanga Māori - Living by Maori Values by Hirini Moko Mead
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
Tikanga Maori is the authoritative and accessible introduction to understanding the correct Maori ways of doing things as they were done in the past, as they are done in the present - and as they may yet be. In this revised edition, Hirini Mead has added an extensive new chapter on mana whenua, mana moa ...Show more
For Your Brilliant Birthday by Purple Ronnie
$17.99 NZD
Category: Funny/Quirky | Series: Purple Ronnie
Here's to an epic birthday, You deserve the very best, Time for cake and fizz, and giggles and bumps, And then a well-deserved rest. Show your birthday bestie how much they mean to you with the help of Purple Ronnie! Cute cartoons combine with silly and sometimes irreverent poems along with funny one-li ...Show more
Maori Place Names: Their Meanings and Origins by A. W. Reed; Peter Dowling
$34.99 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: very good
Pronounce and understand Māori place names with the new fourth edition of A.W. Reed's classic guide to meanings and origins of names across New Zealand. From Ahaura to Whitianga, this handily sized book is the definitive guide to over 2300 of the most common and notable Maori names on our land. Why do W ...Show more