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But I Changed All That: 'First' New Zealand Women by Jane Tolerton
$18.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adults | Series: 1st
As we commemorate 125 years since New Zealand women became the first in the world to vote in national elections, this book celebrates some of our first women: of politics and public service, business and broadcasting, the arts and academia, sport and cinema. From 1893 to 2018, from Kate Sheppard to Jaci ...Show more
Introducing He Whakaputanga (BWB Texts) by Vincent O'Malley and Jared Davidson
$17.99 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 1st
The content of this short book is derived directly from the larger illustrated publication, foregoing all illustrations to suit the BWB Texts format. He Whakaputanga o te Rangatiratanga o Nu Tireni/The Declaration of Independence of New Zealand was signed by fifty-two rangatira from 1835 to 1839. It wa ...Show more
Make Her Praises Heard Afar: The Untold story of New Zealand Women in WW1 by Jane Tolerton
$25.00 NZD
Category: History, Philosophy, Religion | Series: 1st
The history books tell us that about 550 New Zealand nurses went to World War One while other women stayed home, knitting, fundraising and looking after families and farms while the men were away. But many women went too, as doctors and ambulance drivers, munitions workers and mathematicians, civil serv ...Show more
Nothing to See by Pip Adam
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Series: 1st
It’s 1994. Peggy and Greta are learning how to live sober. They go to meetings and they ring their support person, Diane. They have just enough money for one Tom Yum between them, but mostly they eat carrot sandwiches. They volunteer at the Salvation Army shop, and sometimes they sleep with men for mone ...Show more
Party Legend by Sam Duckor Jones
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry | Series: 1st
Sam Duckor Jones’s first poetry collection was a tour of small towns, overgrown lawns, and giant clay men. In Party Legend he turns once again to questions of existence but at an even bigger scale. These are poems about creation, God, intimacy, the surreality of political rhetoric, misunderstandings at ...Show more
Patu : The New Zealand Wars by Gavin Bishop
$40.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: 1st
A large-format, stunning visual history of the New Zealand Wars of the 1800s, suitable for children and adults, by the multiple-award-winning Gavin Bishop. Discover the key people, perspectives and battles of the New Zealand Wars in this powerfully told and richly illustrated visual history by Gavin Bi ...Show more
Te Kaieke Tohora : The Whale Rider Te Reo Edition by Witi Ihimaera
$26.00 NZD
Category: Te Reo | Series: 1st
Whakamiharo ana tera te tirohanga atu ki a ia, ki te kaieke tohora. I rere atu te wai i a ia, ka hamama tona waha kia taea ai te hau makariri te kupa iho. Ko ana karu e kohara ana i te ahurei. Korekoreko katoa ana te tinana i te rehu taimana. I runga i taua taniwha ano nei he tekoteko paku kua whakairot ...Show more
The New Zealand Wars | Nga Pakanga o Aotearoa by Vincent O'Malley
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction | Series: 1st
The New Zealand Wars were a series of conflicts that profoundly shaped the course and direction of our nations history. Fought between the Crown and various groups of Maori between 1845 and 1872, the wars touched many aspects of life in nineteenth century New Zealand, even in those regions spared actual ...Show more
Victory Park by Rachel Kerr
$35.00 NZD
Category: Modern | Series: 1st
Kara lives in Victory Park council flats with her young son, just making a living by minding other people’s kids – her nightly smoke on the fire escape the only time she can drop her guard and imagine something better. But the truth is life is threadbare and unpromising until the mysterious Bridget move ...Show more
Why Memory Matters: 'Remembered histories' and the Politics of the Past (BWB Texts) by Rowan Light
$17.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: 1st
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