Rebel Girls Celebrate Neurodiversity: 25 Tales of Creative Thinkers by Rebel Girls
18.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
This collection features 25 inspiring tales of neurodivergent artists, athletes, innovators, and more. Read about how these women and girls thought creatively, achieved their dreams, and advocated for the rights of neurodivergent people everywhere.Walk the runway with Madeline Stuart, the first professi ...Show more
Nell
35.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
Nell is born to a new century, her early life forged in the freedoms of the NZ high country. Her own freedom is tested: by family expectation, by husband Herb’s pride, by the rigours of family life on a Maniototo sheep station. Nell dares to step beyond the bounds; she revels and stumbles in love; encou ...Show more
Resilience: a Story of Persecution, Escape, Survival and Triumph by Inge Woolf
35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Resilience is a Holocaust story and a New Zealand story. Born to a prosperous Jewish family, Inge Woolf witnessed the Nazis marching into Vienna in March 1938. To escape certain death, the family audaciously boarded a train to the heart of Nazi Germany – Berlin – and from there caught a plane to England ...Show more
Alias Anna: A True Story of Outwitting the Nazis by Susan Hood
20.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
The moving true story of how young Ukrainian Jewish piano prodigies Zhanna (alias Anna ) and her sister Frina outplayed their pursuers while hiding in plain sight during the Holocaust.She wouldn’t be Zhanna. She’d use an alias. A for Anna. A for alive. When the Germans invade Ukraine, Zhanna, a young Je ...Show more
A Miscellany of Mischief and Magic: Discover history's best hoaxes, hijinks, tricks, and illusions by Tom Adams
33.00 NZD
Category: Sport & Leisure
Welcome all rascals and tricksters to this marvellous miscellany of mischief and magic! This playful book explores the world of deception and trickery - both the good and the bad. Learn the secrets of infamous magic illusions and tricks and discover the stories of some of history's most notorious hoaxes ...Show more
Bookshop Dogs by Ruth Shaw
39.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Dogs of all shapes and sizes visit Ruth Shaw's three wee bookshops in Manapouri in the far south of Aotearoa New Zealand. Local dogs, holiday house dogs, travelling dogs: many have great stories, be they funny, sad, strange, bemusing, quirky or sweet. Woven throughout are tales of the very special Hun ...Show more
Be a Creative Changemaker: a Kids' Art Activity Book - Inspired by the Amazing Life Stories of Diverse Artists from Around the World by Paula Liz; Bambi Ramsey (Illustrator)
45.00 NZD
Category: Art & Craft Books | Series: Creative Changemakers Ser.
Celebrate the lives and work of 25 amazing artists from around the world! Get to know their stories, and then make your own creations inspired by their art. Although you may not recognize all of their names, the artists featured in Be a Creative Changemaker: A Kids' Art Activity Book transformed history ...Show more
Lewis Hamilton (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy bestselling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the incredible life of Lewis Hamilton, Formula One champion. Little Lewis's childhood was filled with cars, motorcycles and watching Formula One with his dad. On his fifth birthday, he re ...Show more
Bite Back: A Compassionate Guide to Navigating Eating Disorders by Genevieve Mora
38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A compassionate guide to navigating eating disorders, for those experiencing them and their loved ones, from someone who has been there. ‘If you’d asked me at 10 what my plans were for the next few years, fighting an eating disorder would not have made the list.’ Gen’s early teenage years were the har ...Show more
Jesse Owens (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Jesse Owens, the great track and field star. The youngest of ten children, Jesse grew up working in the cotton fields of Alabama. Discovered by his high school track and fiel ...Show more
Ayrton Senna (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
23.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
In this book from the critically acclaimed, multimillion-copy best-selling Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Ayrton Senna, the legendary Formula One hotshot. From the moment his father gave four-year-old Ayrton Senna a go-kart, he was in love with racing. Showing promise from an ear ...Show more
The Secret Elephant by Ellan Rankin
22.00 NZD
Category: General Picture Books
Discover the unbreakable bond between a baby elephant and her keeper in this heartfelt narrative set against the backdrop of World War II. As war looms on the horizon, things are changing at the zoo. Before, screeching monkeys dangled in trees, roaring lions sunbathed on the dusty ground and sniffling ...Show more