Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand
By: Nic Low
4.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu’s ancient oral maps and moder…
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1. Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
By: Neil Shubin
4.03
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
Why do we look the way we do? What does the human hand have in common with the wing of a fly? Are b… read more
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"We were not designed rationally, but are products of a convoluted history."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Look at the first arch in a human and a shark, and you find a very similar state of affairs: jaws."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"In a perfectly designed world —one with no history— we would not have to suffer everything from hemorrhoids to cancer."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
"Many of the molecules that microbes use to cause us misery are primitive versions of the molecules that make our own bodies possible."-Neil Shubin, Your Inner Fish: a Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body
2. Ghosts of Gondwana: The History of Life in New Zealand
By: George W. Gibbs
4.31
Format: 232 pages, Hardcover
Have you ever wondered why New Zealand's plants and animals are so different from those in other co… read more
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3. Galápagos
By: Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
4.38
Format: 613 pages,
Galapagostakes the reader back one million years, to A.D. 1986. A simple vacation cruise suddenly b… read more
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4. Arctic Dreams
By: Barry Lopez
4.13
Format: 334 pages, Paperback
Barry Lopez's National Book Award-winning classic study of the Far North is widely considered his m… read more
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5. Instructions for a Heatwave
By: Maggie O'Farrell
3.67
Format: 542 pages, Hardcover
Sophisticated, intelligent, impossible to put down, Maggie O'Farrell's beguiling novels blend richl… read more
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6. Potiki
By: Patricia Grace
3.00
Format: 107 pages, Paperback
A Maori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purcha… read more
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7. Lola in the Mirror
By: Trent Dalton
4.41
Format: 448 pages, Kindle Edition
Bighearted, gritty, magical and moving, Lola in the Mirror is the irresistible new novel from inter… read more
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8. Wifedom: Mrs. Orwell's Invisible Life
By: Anna Funder
4.13
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
This is the story of the marriage behind some of the most famous literary works of the 20th century… read more
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9. Pet
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.06
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more
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10. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
11. Wavewalker: Breaking Free
By: Suzanne Heywood
4.27
Format: 416 pages, Hardcover
‘A seven-year old girl on a seventy-foot yacht, for ten years, over fifty thousand miles of sailing… read more
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"Do you want to hear a secret?' I asked him, leaning closer. 'I don't want to be different — I want to be normal. I don't want to be stuck out at sea away from my friends. I know Mum and Dad would lau…"-Suzanne Heywood, Wavewalker: Breaking Free
12. Turncoat
By: Tihema Baker
4.20
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
I see you’re coming to terms with what it means for a Human to serve the Hierarch.’ ‘Well, I know … read more
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13. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
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14. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
15. Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
By: Thor Hanson
4.21
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
- Треть нашего рациона состоит из «пчелозависимых» продуктов.- Гималайские виды шмелей способны лет… read more
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"In the past, people around the world heard the buzzing of bees as voices of the departed, a murmured conveyance from the spirit world. This belief traces back to the cultures of Egypt and Greece, amo…"-Thor Hanson, Buzz: The Nature and Necessity of Bees
16. Straight Up
By: Ruby Tui
4.38
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more
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"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"-Ruby Tui, Straight Up
17. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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18. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
19. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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20. Loop Tracks
By: Sue Orr
4.16
Format: 332 pages, Paperback
It’s 1978: the Auckland abortion clinic has been forced to close and sixteen-year-old Charlie has t… read more
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21. Adventures with Emilie: Taking on Te Araroa trail in 138 life-changing days
By: Victoria Bruce
4.21
Format: 336 pages, Kindle Edition
“I’m here because I want to test the very limits of my own resilience and reassure myself that no m… read more
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22. Amma
By: Saraid de Silva
4.45
Format: 282 pages, Paperback
Three generations. Three continents. Three sexualities. 1951. Singapore. Ten-year-old Josep… read more
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23. Kāwai For Such A Time As This
By: Monty Soutar
4.16
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it’s never… read more
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24. Eddy, Eddy
By: Kate De Goldi
3.96
Format: None pages, Paperback
Eddy, Eddy is a coming of age story, a love story, an earthquake story and a story of finding your … read more
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25. Audition
By: Pip Adam
3.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more
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26. Untouchable Girls: The Topp Twins' Story
By: Jools Topp
4.45
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The iconic Kiwi duo - comedians, country music stars, yodellers, lesbians - in their own words. … read more
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27. We Can Make A Life
By: Chessie Henry
4.59
Format: 253 pages, Paperback
Hours after the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake, Kaikōura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the… read more
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28. Uprising: Walking the Southern Alps of New Zealand
By: Nic Low
4.57
Format: 384 pages, Paperback
This book is about walking as a form of knowing. Armed with Ngāi Tahu’s ancient oral maps and moder… read more
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29. From There to Here
By: Joe Bennett
4.05
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
From Willingdon to Lyttleton, a memoir about love, learning and the journey to thirty The first 30… read more
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30. Ash
By: Louise Wallace
4.35
Format: 160 pages, Paperback
Thea lives under a mountain – one that’s ready to blow. A vet at a mid-sized rural practice, she… read more
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31. A Life Less Punishing: 13 Ways to Love the Life You've Got
By: Matt Heath
4.33
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
Why is it that no matter how good things get, we still feel dissatisfied? A few years ago, Matt Hea… read more
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