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Ake Ake Kia Kaha E! Forever Brave!: B Company 28th Maori Battalion 1939-1945 by Wira Gardiner
$50.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
A truly unique insight into the impact the Second World War had on the iwi of the central North Island and Bay of Plenty districts (including Te Arawa, Ngati Tuwharetoa, Tuhoe, Whanau-a-Apanui, Ngati Maru and Ngati Paoa) focusing on the region's war effort not only overseas, but also at home and in gove ...Show more
The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
$38.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
For the last twenty years, Melinda Gates has been on a mission. Her goal, as co-chair of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, has been to find solutions for people with the most urgent needs, wherever they live. Throughout this journey, one thing has become increasingly clear to her: If you want to ...Show more
The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month | Reading Level: 1 Fiction
The Doll Factory, the debut novel by Elizabeth Macneal, is an intoxicating story of art, obsession and possession. London. 1850. The Great Exhibition is being erected in Hyde Park and among the crowd watching the spectacle two people meet. For Iris, an aspiring artist, it is the encounter of a moment - ...Show more
The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley
$35.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
Posy Montague is approaching her seventieth birthday. Still living in her beautiful family home, Admiral House, set in the glorious Suffolk countryside where she spent her own idyllic childhood catching butterflies with her beloved father, and raised her own children, Posy knows she must make an agonisi ...Show more
Lost Roses (Lilac Girls #2) by Martha Hall Kelly
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
From the author of the million-copy bestseller Lilac Girls comes Lost Roses, which once again celebrates the unbreakable bonds of women?s friendship during the darkest days of history. It is 1914, and New York socialite Eliza Ferriday is thrilled to be traveling to St Petersburg with Sofya Streshnayva, ...Show more
Frensham: A New Zealand Garden by Juliet Nicholas; Margaret Long
$60.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
In this lavishly illustrated book, Canterbury gardener, Margaret Long, tells the fascinating story of Frensham, considered one of New Zealand's finest gardens. As though we are right there with her, the reader is taken on a tour through the seasons, listening as we go to Margaret's thoughts and insights ...Show more
Identity Crisis by Ben Elton
$37.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
Why are we all so hostile? So quick to take offence? Truly we are living in the age of outrage. A series of apparently random murders draws amiable, old-school Detective Mick Matlock into a world of sex, politics, reality TV and a bewildering kaleidoscope of opposing identity groups. Lost in a blizzard ...Show more
Book of Cohen by David Cohen
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
This is a story of two Cohens, the famous singer and his not-so-famous lifelong New Zealand fan. It spans several generations and locations, from the refugee waves of Europe of the 19th century to suburban New Zealand in the 1970s, late-night Montreal and New York and the menacing frontiers of the Middl ...Show more
Lanny by Max Porter
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
From the award-winning author of Grief is the Thing with Feathers comes a dark, playful, propulsive novel about an ethereal young boy who attracts the attention of a mythical, menacing force. There's a village an hour from London. It's no different from many others today: one pub, one church, red ...Show more
Larklight by Philip Reeve
$17.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
From the author of the international blockbuster Mortal Engines, adapted by visionary Peter Jackson, Larklight is an utterly unique and page-turningly brilliant Victorian space adventure. Art Mumby is just a normal boy living in space, but all that changes when an ancient race of gigantic white spiders ...Show more
Hello, Shadowlands - Inside the Meth Fiefdoms, Rebel Hideouts and Bomb-Scarred Party Towns of Southeast Asia by Patrick Winn
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
'Reads like a thriller you can't put down' - Megha Rajagopalan, China Bureau Chief, Buzzfeed News 'ensures you'll never think about Southeast Asia in the same way ever again.' - Geographical Magazine Essential to understanding Southeast Asia in the 21st century, Hello, Shadowlands ...Show more
A Mistake by Carl Shuker
$30.00 NZD
Category: Poppies Hot Picks This Month
Elizabeth Taylor is a surgeon at a city hospital, a gifted, driven and rare woman excelling in a male-dominated culture. One day, while operating on a young woman in a critical condition, something goes gravely wrong. A Mistake is a compelling story of human fallibility, and the dangerous hunger for bla ...Show more
