Not Just Passing Through: The making of Mt Roskill by Jade Reidy

$25.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

DoP - 2007, Auckland 176pp Tells an engaging and complex story of the movers and shakers (including volcanoes) in what became New Zealand's largest borough, framing their actions against a wider environmental and political canvas.

Letters from the Bay of Islands: The Story of Marianne Williams by Marianne Williams

$35.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

In 1822, nearly twenty years before the Treaty of Waitangi imposed British control over Maori land, Marianne Williams, her husband, Henry, a missionary, and their three children, left England bound for the Bay of Islands, New Zealand.

Rugged Determination: Historical Window on Swanson 1854 - 2004 by Jack Adam, Vivien Burgess and Dawn Ellis

$55.00 NZD

Category: Regional | Reading Level: very good

Australians in the Waikato War 1863-1864 by Leonard L. Barton

$55.00 NZD

Category: Maori | Reading Level: near fine

Shadow Man by Eva Wong Ng

$14.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine

New Zealand Spiders An Introduction by R.R. Forster and L.M. Forster

$45.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good

Politics in New Zealand by Richard Mulgan

$14.00 NZD

Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: very good

This textbook is an introduction to the study of New Zealand politics. This second edition is designed to incorporate the major changes that have occurred to the New Zealand political system with the advent of MMP.

A Teaching Life by Carol White

$14.00 NZD

Category: Education | Reading Level: very good

The life story of Carol White a passionate educational leader, who championed education for refugees, and a range of cultures in NZ schools. She was the controversial co-principal of a large multicultural Auckland school, Selwyn College.

A Treasury of New Zealand Fishes by David H. Graham; Gilbert Percy Whitley

$25.00 NZD

Category: Natural History | Reading Level: very good

A Strange Outcome: The Remarkable Survival Story of a Polish Child by John Roy-Wojciechowski & Allan Parker

$14.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good

This edition is out of print. John Roy-Wojciechowski (Jan) was five years old in 1940. Along with his mother, three sisters and two brothers, he was rounded up by the conquering Russians and sent by train to a camp in the Arctic. This was the fate of millions of Polish people that the Russians de cided were ‘unworthy’. Millions died on the journey and during the years they spent in labour camps, including little Jan’s mother. But the children survived, miraculously, enduring the unbelievable cold, lack of food and hardship. This is an account of that terrible journey, which eventually brought Jan to New Zealand in the late 1940s, as well as an account of the Russian campaign in Poland and some of the excesses of Stalin. ...Show more

The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower by Kevin Biggar

$14.00 NZD

Category: Nautical | Reading Level: very good

The Heart of Jesus Valentino by Emma Gilkison

$14.00 NZD

Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine

During a routine 12-week scan, Emma Gilkison thinks it looks as though her unborn baby has a marble rolling on his chest. In fact, it is his heart growing outside his body - an extremely rare and fatal condition called ectopia cordis. Emma and her partner Roy now face two heartbreaking options. Should t hey end the pregnancy? Or continue in the knowledge their baby will die? The couple walk a minefield as they seek help and spiritual counsel from people of many different views and beliefs, and at the same time struggle to keep their relationship alive. This is an extraordinary story about people forced to go beyond their everyday experience and confront head-on issues of life and death. It will touch all who read it, and is already having an impact in the medical world. ...Show more