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  • Detention

    "Australian author Tristan Bancks has created a fictional but thoroughly researched, fast paced, suspenseful and ultimately hopeful story." - Better ReadingSima and her family are pressed to the rough, cold ground among fifty others. They lie next to the tall fence designed to keep them in. The wires are cut one by one.When they make their escape, a guard raises the alarm. Shouting, smoke bombs, ... Read more

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  • Starting Secondary School

    ‘We want to give you and your child the best opportunity to thrive in secondary school. By the end of this book you're going to feel a whole lot more capable of dealing with what Year 7 throws at you.’The jump between primary and secondary school marks one of the biggest transitions in a student’s life. It’s the point at which a child leaves the relatively safe cocoon of childhood and enters the ... Read more

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  • Lydia Bradey: Going Up Is Easy

    Going Up is Easy

    Provocative, stirring, and beautifully co-written by novelist Laurence Fearnley, Lydia Bradey: Going Up is Easy is the story of how one woman took on the mountaineering world and won. In 1988, Lydia Bradey became the first woman to climb Mount Everest without supplementary oxygen. She made the ascent alone and to date she is the only New Zealander to have made an oxygen-free ascent. Her climb was ... Read more

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  • How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays

    This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna, Athens to Istanbul, How To Be A Bad Muslim maps the personal and public experience of being Muslim through essays on identity, Islamophobia, surveillance, migration and language. Traversing storytelling, memoir, journalism and humour, Hassan speaks authentically and piercingly on ... Read more

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  • The Good Doctor

    The Good Doctor is the inspirational life story of Dr Lance O'Sullivan, the man who stood up to help those most in need when no one else would. Lance O'Sullivan is a man on a mission. Raised in Auckland by a solo mother, he had a modest upbringing typical of the time, if one chequered with difficulties. After being expelled from two schools, Lance could have gone off the rails. Instead, he found ... Read more

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  • Things I Learned at Art School

    by Megan Dunn ...
    Part memoir, part essay collection, Megan Dunn’s ingenious, moving, hilariously personal Things I Learned at Art School tells the story of her early life and coming-of-age in New Zealand in the ‘70s, ‘80s and ‘90s. From her parents’ divorce to her Smurf collection, from the mean girls at school to the mermaid movie Splash!, from her work in strip clubs and massage parlours (and one steak ... Read more

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  • How to Loiter In a Turf War

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    by Coco Solid ...
    Like nothing you’ve read before, How to Loiter in a Turf War is a lucid, genre-bending, cinematic work of fiction from one of Aotearoa’s most versatile artists. It’s a day in the life of three friends beefing with their own city, Tamaki Makaurau. With gentrification closing in and racial tensions sweltering, the girls must cling to their friendship like a life raft, determined not to let their ... Read more

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  • Letters to You

    Words of Support and Inspiration for Difficult Times

    by Jazz Thornton ...
    This book was designed to be read not just once, or in order, letter by letter, but to be used again and again as a tool when you encounter difficult emotions and experiences, to help you feel less alone. It is based on something that helped Jazz Thornton on her own journey towards mental health. A good friend wrote her a set of letters each in a separate labelled envelope. Every letter was ... Read more

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  • Ten Rules for Detectives

    by Kierin Meehan ...
    We always knew we'd be awesome private detectives. Problem was, Boris and me live in this small country town, and we couldn't find anything to detect. But then, last month, a horse-riding ghost appeared, and a whole lot of creepy bats flew into town . . .So how did we end up on the trail of a bushranger's hidden treasure? And how did we end up working with Julia Kelly, the most annoying girl in ... Read more

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  • Good As Gold

    by Justin Smith ...
    Some stories are too good to be true …It's the 1861 and there are three campfires burning outside the gold-mining town of Mull Creek. At the first is Jesus Whitetree, an escaped orphan with no knowledge of his new world, not even his age or real name. He only knows he wants to find gold. Gold makes everything good.At the second fire is the Jack Pink Gang. Jack is a little-known bushranger who is a ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Bringing Up Boys Who Like Themselves

    Following the success of Raising Girls Who Like Themselves, Kasey Edwards and Dr Christopher Scanlon have written a much-requested book about raising boys.Bringing Up Boys Who Like Themselves will give you more clarity and peace of mind about:How to give your boy the skills and confidence to resist peer pressure and the influence of unhealthy masculinityHow to teach him the most effective way to ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Any Ordinary Day

    Blindsides, Resilience and What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life

    by Leigh Sales ...
    As a journalist, Leigh Sales often encounters people experiencing the worst moments of their lives in the full glare of the media. But one particular string of bad news stories – and a terrifying brush with her own mortality – sent her looking for answers about how vulnerable each of us is to a life-changing event. What are our chances of actually experiencing one? What do we fear most and why? ... Read more

    $22.99 USD