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A Line of Sight by Adrienne Jansen
30.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
A Line of Sight is a compelling whodunnit woven through a story of community, family and an extraordinary eight-year-old boy. When Nick and Graham set out rabbit shooting one August day neither of them realise their lives are about to change forever. They spot a couple of suspected cannabis growers on t ...Show more
A Stone Seat and a Shadow Tree by JANSEN Adrienne
19.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"These are poems that matter.. Extraordinarily clear-sighted and tough-minded, beneath their quiet, lucid surfaces some big and complex things are going on." Bill Manhire
Floating the Fish on Bamboo by Adrienne Jansen
24.95 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Wordly tale with spiritual tone. Evocative and poetic, this book is a splendid sucessor to the author's fist novel and will secure her reputation as one of New Zealand's most compelling writers.
Light Keeping by Adrienne Jansen
37.99 NZD
Category: Contemporary Fiction
A novel about loss and light, about storytelling and the sea. The year is 1977 and a shocking accident sees Robert and Jess suddenly orphaned. Finding refuge with their lighthouse keeper grandparents, they begin to navigate their loss and rebuild their lives. But how secure can this new home be, with th ...Show more
Migrant Journeys: New Zealand Taxi Drivers Tell Their Stories by Adrienne Jansen; Liz Grant
39.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Migrant Journeys is about driving taxis in New Zealand cities - and it is about much more than that. Here fourteen migrant taxi drivers talk about their lives - where they came from and why they came here, what it was like to settle in New Zealand, how they got into the taxi business, and how they see t ...Show more
More of Us by Adrienne Jansen
22.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
Families, language, fear, loss, food and the victories that can come slowly. These are at the heart of this collection of poems by people who have come to New Zealand as migrants or refugees. More Of Us provides a glimpse into the experiences of this diverse group of people, which includes those who mad ...Show more
The Crescent Moon: The Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand by Adrienne Jansen and Ans Westra
45.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
The Crescent Moon : The Asian Face of Islam in New Zealand opens new doors into the lives of the largest group of Muslims in New Zealand and in the world as a whole: those of Asian descent. Photographer Ans Westra and writer Adrienne Jansen - armed with a camera and a tape recorder - take a trip through ...Show more
The Curioseum: Collected Stories of the Odd & Marvellous by Adrienne Jansen
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
What happens when you take 22 of New Zealand's best children's story writers and let them loose 'backstage' at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa? We invited authors from around the country to choose one of the museum's taonga (treasures) as a starting point for an imaginative journey. The res ...Show more
The Score by Adrienne Jansen
28.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A grand piano crashes off a crane that's lifting it into a block of council flats. Rebuilding it is impossible. But for Stefan, piano restorer and illegal immigrant, it's the only way out of a heap of trouble. And for better or worse, a misfit bunch of tenants weighs in to help him. Everything depends o ...Show more
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