The Falconer by Dana Czapnik
$22.99 NZD
Category: Leading Edge 2010 | Reading Level: very good
'An electric debut' New York Times 'Exhilarating' Claire Messud 'Deeply affecting' Salman Rushdie A new coming-of-age classic, an early '90s New York-set novel of love, basketball, art and feminism. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public ...Show more
Mammals of the South-west Pacific by Tyrone Lavery, Tim Flannery
$250.00 NZD
Category: Level 01 Pre-reading
The natural history of over 180 mammal species native to Melanesia, Micronesia and Polynesia. The South-west Pacific has long been a major drawcard for naturalists wishing to study wildlife and how it evolves on our planet. Islands are special because they promote unusual forms of life, and large propor ...Show more
Nuns What are they For by BOULDING MARIA WEBB BRUNO & DANIELOU CARDINAL JEAN
$0.00 NZD
Category: Easy Read | Series: One Fifties Heritage Series
In Contemplative Nuns: are they wasting their lives?, Maria Boulding, a highly-respected spiritual writer and translator, gave her testimony as contemplative nun, in a way both eloquent and forceful. The second text Why Enclosed Nuns? written by Bruno Webb a generation earlier is more theoretical, thoug ...Show more
Stories of Historic Hawke's Bay by Michael Fowler
$79.99 NZD
Category: Easy Read
Michael Fowler’s latest 176 page book contains 69 feature length stories richly illustrated with photos (many in colour) on Hawke’s Bay’s history.
Guns, Germs and Steel: A short history of everybody for the last 13,000 years by Jared Diamond
$35.00 NZD
Category: Leading Edge 2010 | Reading Level: good-very good
**WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE** Why has human history unfolded so differently across the globe? Jared Diamond puts the case that geography and biogeography, not race, moulded the contrasting fates of Europeans, Asians, Native Americans, sub-Saharan Africans, and aboriginal Australians. An ambitious syn ...Show more
The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 NZD
Category: Easy Read | Reading Level: very good
"When a man's favourite elephant vanishes, the balance of his whole life is subtly upset. A couple's midnight hunger pangs drive them to hold up a McDonald's. A woman finds she is irresistible to a small green monster that burrows through her front garden. An insomniac wife wakes up in a twilight world ...Show more
To Become an Outlaw by Peter Murphy
$27.99 NZD
Category: Easy Read | Series: Ben Schroeder Ser.
'When a man is denied the right to live the life he believes in, he has no choice but to become an outlaw' - Nelson Mandela1964, Apartheid South Africa. Danie du Plessis, the son of a conservative Afrikaner family, is poised to start a glittering legal academic career at one of South Africa's leading un ...Show more
Australian Fish and Seafood Cookbook: The Ultimate Kitchen Companion by John Susman; Anthony Huckstep; Sarah Swan; Stephen Hodges
$79.99 NZD
Category: Leading Edge 2010
The definitive culinary guide to the fish and seafood of Australia
The Falconer by Dana Czapnik
$22.99 NZD
Category: Leading Edge 2010 | Reading Level: very good
'An electric debut' New York Times 'Exhilarating' Claire Messud 'Deeply affecting' Salman Rushdie A new coming-of-age classic, an early '90s New York-set novel of love, basketball, art and feminism. Seventeen-year-old Lucy Adler, a street-smart, trash-talking baller, is often the only girl on the public ...Show more
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman by Haruki Murakami
$19.99 NZD
Category: Easy Read | Reading Level: very good
Coming this October: Killing Commendatore, the much-anticipated new novel from Haruki MurakamiThe twenty-four stories that make up Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman generously express the incomparable Haruki Murakami's mastery of the form. Here are animated crows, a criminal monkey, and an ice man, as well ...Show more
Big Hustle A Boston Street Kid's Story of Addiction & Redemption by WAHLBERG HIM
$57.95 NZD
Category: Easy Read