Forces and Motion by Chris Oxlade
$29.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Science Files Ser.
Presenting facts, figures and information on forces and motion, this title covers a range of topics including gravity, magnetic forces, measuring force and velocity, laws of motion, energy, different types of forces, momentum, pressure, and relativity.
Flames by Robbie Arnott
$29.99 NZD
Category: Children's
A young man named Levi McAllister decides to build a coffin for his 23-year-old sister, Charlotte"who promptly runs for her life. A water rat swims upriver in quest of the cloud god. A fisherman named Karl hunts for tuna in partnership with a seal. And a father takes form from fire. A tale of grief and ...Show more
Hurricane Tim by Neville Peat
$49.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Very Good
When Tim Wallis's Spitfire crashed at Wanaka airfield in 1996, his accident was reported around the world. This lion-hearted Central Otago man, whose life of risk, adventure and success was the stuff of legend, was, in seconds, literally brought to his knees. Sir Tim Wallis is known as the pilot and hun ...Show more
Pickerill - Pioneer in Plastic Surgery, Dental Education and Dental research by Harvey Brown
$50.00 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Near Fine
Founding Director of a new Dental School at the age of twenty-eight, only eighteen months after completing his medical and dental studies at the University of Birmingham, was just one of Henry Percy Pickerill's achievements in a highly productive life. His research and writing on dental caries were inte ...Show more
Ants of New Zealand by Warwick Don
$59.95 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Very Good
This book identifies and describes both native and exotic species. It is iIllustrated throughout with diagrams and photographs and includes notes on identification and collection of ants. First published December 2007.
Beyond the Breakwater: Stories 1948-1998 by O E Middleton
$49.95 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Very Good
Beyond the Breakwater brings together twenty-six outstanding short stories spanning half a century by an acclaimed master of the genre, O.E. Middleton. While Middleton has been linked with the masculine realist New Zealand tradition of Frank Sargeson and Roderick Finlayson, Beyond the Breakwater also co ...Show more
The Freedom Circus: One family's death-defying act to escape the Nazis and start a new life in Australia by Sue Smethurst
$40.00 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen)
Written by award-winning author and journalist Sue Smethurst, whose husband is Mindla and Michael's grandson, The Freedom Circus is an epic story of courage, hope, humanity, survival and, ultimately, love. When Sue Smethurst first sat down with her grandmother-in-law and asked how she survived the Holoc ...Show more
The Tears of Harry Wakatipu by Jack Lasenby
$12.99 NZD
Category: Fiction (child/Teen) | Reading Level: Very Good
Harry Wakatipu returns to the Hopuruahine Hut, and his dogs to walk on water, slays the first of the Grim Inscrutable Wolves, and lives all winter on a single moa's egg. What happens when the flying dunny lands in the river-bed, when Harry Wakatipu ferments con-densed milk...Tuck this book under your s ...Show more
Sports Carnival (Ella and Olivia #10) by Yvette Poshoglian
$7.99 NZD
Category: Children's | Series: Ella and Olivia
Ella and Olivia have been training hard for their school sports carnival! But can their team win the best-ever grand prize?
From Moa to Dinosaurs (PB) by Gillian Candler; Ned Barraud
$19.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From Moa to Dinosaurs, the fifth title in the acclaimed 'explore & discover' series for children, looks back in time to reveal what lived in ancient New Zealand. The book begins with a glimpse of the animals that lived in New Zealand just before people arrived. It then goes back in time, providing s ...Show more
Philosophy for Beginners by Nick Radford
$22.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: For Beginners
Philosophy is a way of thinking about just about anything. It asks big questions from nature of reality to what beauty is. Using lively examples and thought experiments, this book provides an accessible introduction to a wide range of philosophical questions and invites the reader think about things in ...Show more