From the Pilot's Seat: Kiwi Adventurers in the Sky by Fletcher McKenzie
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Enthralling tales from New Zealand pilots - both men and women - who fly a variety of aircraft around the world in a range of situations, from the domestic to the heart-stopping. Aviation safety expert and keen pilot Fletcher McKenzie has interviewed 23 Kiwi pilots who have worked around the world and ...Show more
Honouring Our Ancestors - Takatapui, Two-Spirit and Indigenous LGBTQI+ Well-being by Edited by Alison Green and Leonie Pihama
34.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
In these rigorous and challenging essays, writers from Aotearoa and Turtle Island (Canada and the United States of America) explore the well-being of takatāpui, two-spirit, and Māori and Indigenous LGBTQI+ communities. Themes include resistance, reclamation, empowerment, transformation and healing. Cen ...Show more
Encouraging Birds in the New Zealand Garden by Gordon Ell; Geoff Moon (Photographer)
30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Towards a Grammar of Race In Aotearoa New Zealand by Anisha Sankar (ed.); Lana Lopesi (ed.); Arcia Tecun (ed.)
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
A search for new ways to talk about race in Aotearoa New Zealand brought together this powerful group of scholars, writers and activists. For these authors, attempts to confront racism and racial violence often stall against a failure to see how power works through race, across our modern social worlds. ...Show more
Needs Adult Supervision by Emily Writes
35.00 NZD
Category: Essays
Needs Adult Supervision is Emily Writes' take on growing up and feeling like a real adult. This book looks at the growing pains of kids and their parents and their attempts to navigate a world that's changing by the minute. Emily paints a vivid picture of all the feelings, fortunes and failures that com ...Show more
Tools For The Top Paddock by Kane Brisco
37.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biographies & Memoirs
Farmer Kane Brisco's tools for the physical and mental strains of life on the land. When Kane Brisco was at his lowest ebb, he could barely even look at his stock. He stood in the middle of a paddock, with water flowing over his boots, trying to comprehend how many days of rain he'd endured without a b ...Show more
Under a Big Sky - Facing the elements on a New Zealand Farm by Tim Saunders
36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
The joys and challenges of day-to-day farming in extraordinary circumstances. Tim Saunders writes about his life and work on the farm that's been in his family for five generations. He encompasses drought, farming during lockdown, illness, financial pressure and the drive to become more viable and envir ...Show more
Tu Rangaranga - Rights, Responsibilities and Global Citizenship in Aotearoa New Zealand by Sharon McLennan (Editor); Margaret Forster (Editor); Carol Neill (Editor); David Littlewood (Editor); Rand Hazou (Editor)
60.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
The biggest challenges of the 21st century require global solutions. Focusing on three of the most urgent problems of our time - climate change, conflict and poverty, and inequality - Tu Rangaranga introduces the notion of global citizenship, and what it means to be an active citizen in today's world. I ...Show more
The Bookseller at the End of the World by Ruth Shaw
38.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny bookshops in the remote village of Manapouri in Fiordland, in the deep south of New Zealand. Ruth Shaw weaves together stories of the characters who visit her bookshops, musings about her favourite books, and ...Show more