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A Land Discovered, Gondwana, 1835 by John Parker
$26.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand
Covers the creation of the New Zealand land mass and the arrival of the people that make up most of the population of today’s New Zealand, and looks at the effect this gathering of peoples has had on the land and on each other. The text is written to entertain as well as inform and the layout is rich ...Show more
Another Time, Another Life: (The Story of a Crime 2) by Leif G W Persson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: The\Story of a Crime Ser.
Stockholm, 1975: Six young people take the entire staff of the West German embassy hostage. The long siege ends with the deaths of two hostages and the wounding of several others. Jump to 1989: When a Swedish civil servant is murdered, the two leading detectives on the case find their investigation hast ...Show more
Between Summer's Longing and Winter's End: (The Story of a Crime 1) by Leif G W Persson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: The Story of a Crime
Stockholm. The dead of winter. The temperature is already well below freezing. A young American dies, falling from a tall building. It appears to be a casual, self-inflicted death. It should be an open-and-shut case. But when Superintendent Lars Martin Johansson begins to delve beneath the layers of co ...Show more
Falling Freely, as If in a Dream: (The Story of a Crime 3) by Leif G W Persson
$24.99 NZD
Category: Crime & Thrillers | Series: Story of a Crime
From the grand master of Scandinavian crime fiction - and one of the best crime writers of our time-a new critically acclaimed novel centered around the unsolved murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986. It's August 2007, and Lars Martin Johansson, chief of the National Bureau of Criminal Inv ...Show more
From Treaty to Nationhood, 1830 -1913 FRONTIER OF DREAMS by John Parker
$26.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand
Looks at the era of negotiation and settlement, from the Treaty of Waitangi to the land grabs, from votes for women and the discovery of gold, through to the establishment of a socialist state and the growth of local industry. Suggested level: secondary.
Into the 21st Century 1947-2005 by John Parker
$24.99 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Frontier of Dreams: The Story of New Zealand | Reading Level: very good
Reviews the internal strife and restructuring, highlights and horrors that helped to create modern New Zealand, from the era of post-war growth, through the anti-nuclear stand and Bastion Point to the rise of Maori sovereignty and the plans for a new millennium. The text is written to entertain as well ...Show more
Leading Men by Christopher Castellani
$28.00 NZD
Category: LGBTQI+ | Series: Inspired by love story of Tennessee Williams & Frank Merlo | Reading Level: near fine
'Extraordinary' Lauren Groff, author of Florida 'Blazing... casts a spell right from the start' New York Times 'A novel of rare insight and beauty' Garth Greenwell, author of What Belongs To You PORTOFINO, ITALY. JULY 1953 At a glittering party thrown by Truman Capote, literary sensation Tennessee Wil ...Show more
Loss of Memory Is Only Temporary - Stories by Johanna Kaplan; Francine Prose (Introduction by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Short Stories | Series: Art of the Story Ser.
A funny, fresh, and brilliantly insightful collection of stories from a beloved writer, with a new introduction by Francine Prose Johanna Kaplan's beautifully written stories first burst on the literary scene in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Today they have retained all of their depth, surprise, and h ...Show more
Megalodon by Ben Garrod
$28.26 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Extinct - the Story of Life on Earth Ser.
TV scientist Ben Garrod presents the biggest extinction events ever, told from the point of view of evolution's superstars, the most incredible animals ever to swim, stalk, slither or walk our planet. Whether you're 9 or 90, his unique exploration of the most destructive, yet most creative, force in nat ...Show more
The 40sThe Story of a Decade by New Yorker Magazine Staff; Henry Finder (Editor); David Remnick (Introduction by); W. H. Auden (Contribution by); Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by)
$36.95 NZD
Category: hallo shop | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
Including contributions by W. H. Auden - Elizabeth Bishop - John Cheever - Janet Flanner - John Hersey - Langston Hughes - Shirley Jackson - A. J. Liebling - William Maxwell - Carson McCullers - Joseph Mitchell - Vladimir Nabokov - Ogden Nash - John O'Hara - George Orwell - V. S. Pritchett - Lillian Ros ...Show more
The 50s: The Story of a Decade by The New Yorker Magazine; Henry Finder (Contribution by); David Remnick (Introduction by); Elizabeth Bishop (Contribution by); Truman Capote (Contribution by); Henry Finder (Editor)
$16.95 NZD
Category: hallo shop | Series: New Yorker: the Story of a Decade Ser.
Including contributions by Elizabeth Bishop - Truman Capote - John Cheever - Roald Dahl - Janet Flanner - Nadine Gordimer - A. J. Liebling - Dwight Macdonald - Joseph Mitchell - Marianne Moore - Vladimir Nabokov - Sylvia Plath - V. S. Pritchett - Adrienne Rich - Lillian Ross - Philip Roth - Anne Sexton ...Show more
The Lives of Bees: The Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild by Thomas D. Seeley
$54.99 NZD
Category: Animals | Series: Untold Story of the Honey Bee in the Wild
How the lives of wild honey bees offer vital lessons for saving the world's managed bee colonies Humans have kept honey bees in hives for millennia, yet only in recent decades have biologists begun to investigate how these industrious insects live in the wild. The Lives of Bees is Thomas Seeley's capti ...Show more