All New Books

The Everything Guide: Hormones, health and happiness in menopause, midlife and beyond  

Author: Niki Bezzant Publisher: Penguin Books

Every woman's honest, healthy guide to eating, moving and feeling your best - for the rest of your life. Feel your best - for the rest of your life. The essential new book from bestselling health writer and trusted menopause advocate Niki Bezzant, author of This Changes Everything.

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The Practice of Mindfulness and Balance

Author: Rita Riccola Publisher: Upstart Press

Life can be challenging and when we feel over-stimulated and disconnected it is costly to our wellbeing. Dreaming of what-ifs and maybes in the future, while regretting and being trapped by our past means we are distracted from living life in the moment. Mindfulness trains the mind to be observant and responsive to the many challenges we face every day.

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New Zealand's Endangered Dolphins

Author: Maria Gill Publisher: Upstart Press

From award-winning writer Maria Gill, and illustrator Marco Ivancic, comes New Zealand's Endangered Dolphins. The North Island New Zealand dolphin (Popoto or Maui dolphin) is the most endangered dolphin in the world. The South Island New Zealand dolphin (Pahu or Hector's dolphin) is the smallest dolphin on the planet. Readers will learn more about these playful, intelligent and beautiful mammals…

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Organic Vegetable Gardening: A month-by-month guide to growing your own food

Author: Xanthe White Publisher: Penguin Books

The bestselling, expert guide to growing your own vegetables organically. In this classic bestseller, expert landscape designer Xanthe White takes readers by the hand and walks them from backyard bombsite to productive vegetable garden in a single year.

May 2024 release

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A Duck-Shaped Octopus: A Family's Journey Through Childhood Cancer

Author: Roanne Barnes Hautapu Publisher: Atuanui Press

In 2013 Quinn Hautapu presented to hospital with the seemingly minor symptom of a limp arm, within a short time she was on a Life Flight to Wellington to work out the cause of a massive bleed on the brain. She was seven years old. A month later, after brain surgery and numerous scans, the Hautapu family was given the shocking news that Quinn had brain cancer. What followed was 12 months of the most intense, emotional and difficult time that a family can experience.

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Environmental Defenders: Fighting for Our Natural World

Author: Raewyn Peart Publisher: David Bateman

In 1971, there was little in the way of protection for Aotearoa New Zealand’s unique natural heritage. Progress was the imperative for government and councils, with the land, rivers and coasts simply seen as resources to be exploited. This is the story of how a small organisation took on the establishment and won.

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The Trials of Nurse Kerr: The anatomy of a secret poisoner

Author: Scott Bainbridge Publisher: David Bateman

Did New Zealand have a secret poisoner? In 1992, builders demolishing a Devonport home stumbled across a skeleton, triggering an investigation that sent shockwaves across the community. The remains belonged to a woman who had died in the 1930s, and whispers soon emerged of the deadly legacy of Nurse Elspeth Kerr.

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Nothing Significant To Report: A Kiwi soldier's hilarious true stories of mischief and misadventure in the New Zealand Army

Author: Dario Nustrini Publisher: HarperCollins New Zealand

When new recruit Dario Nustrini's head was freshly shaved in preparation for the army, he knew nothing about what training to fight, kill and die for New Zealand would look like. Since leaving leaving high school the year before, he had been on a steady diet of spliffs, Speights and the occasional sandwich from the cafe he worked at as a waiter…

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