Random House New Zealand: 495 books

**How to help your child deal wth bullying, with strategies and practical advice from a parenting expert.**Dealing with bullying is a difficult but essential part of parenting. It is a serious problem and we need to protect our children from this form of abuse. Some bullying is obvious and some bullying...

Each year thousands of Australia’s legendary Brumbies are aerially culled or captured and sold for slaughter to manage the world’s largest population of wild horses. When the Wilson Sisters hear of government plans to cull 90 per cent of the Snowy Mountain Brumbies, they eagerly sign up for the...

**Great ideas and top tips for building a strong, functioning family from parenting gurus Ian and Mary Grant. Parenting skills that any family can use effectively, with excellent practical advice including smart strategies, action labs and chapter summaries.**Children need to know the security of...

**Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year shares how to grow a successful business.**It's tough starting and running a small business - you can feel like the underdog competing with large businesses that have more money, more experience and better established reputations. But small businesses have...

A tense short story about a cop caught out while planting a listening device. Hiding behind a couch, Adam Gellworth (a police surveillance expert or 'bugger' of twenty years' experience) is forced to contemplate the life he has led to get to this precarious point. But what of the men he was sent to...

**How you can forecast the weather by the moon.**Weather forecasting by the moon has been practised for thousands of years and almanacs were once a common feature of rural life, foretelling storms, floods, and droughts. Ken Ring's mathematical theory that revives the old idea about the moon influencing...

**Retrain your breathing to manage your asthma medication and stress.**A fully revised, updated (and renamed) edition of the successful 2002 Breathing Works for Asthma, this book is the asthma sufferer's indispensable companion. Roughly one person in seven experiences asthma at some time in their...

**Funny, moving, insightful, these stories are, above all, delightfully different.**A well-known poet pursues his elusive muse; a Kiwi makes himself indispensable in OZ; a revolutionary fast-food franchise revs up Russia's economy; a racing-car driver is airborne; a Frenchman called Foucault puts...

An exciting young adult historical **novel based on the true story of Captain Bligh leading his sailors to safety after the mutiny on the Bounty.**Sixteen-year-old John Hallet was on board the ill-fated Bounty when Fletcher Christian and others of the crew staged the mutiny against Captain Bligh....

**A powerful novel by the author of Once Were Warriors about a half caste and his Maori warrior ancestor, cast out of his tribe.**Jimmy understands all about belonging and not belonging. he sees himself as part of both sides of the moon: 'Kind of black man, sort of nigger, in my own country, and kind...

**A compelling noir novel, set in the 1930s, echoing elements of classic hardboiled fiction while foreshadowing contemporary ills.**In a city of elusive agendas, it's hard to find the truth. It's even harder to find what's right. A bootlegger's dream is rocked by an attempt to destroy his lucrative...

**Bursting with verbal dexterity and laugh-out-loud humour, this novel also shows compassion and warm affection for the West Coast landscape and people.**Simon Fyfe, better known as Feefi - short for Fee Fi Fo Fum - is Special. He's a giant of a man (he stayed in his mother's womb for an extra month)...

**A superbly poised and finely nuanced short story, tracking a pivotal point in a relationship built on reticence and recognition of differences.**In the wintry light of the late afternoon, a man and a woman walk through snow-covered palace gardens. Their careful conversation skates over intensely...

The youth from the old colonies head to London, a mecca for hedonism, dangerous encounters and self-discovery in this vibrant, shocking novel by the award-winning writer of Stonedogs. Craig Marriner's second novel lifts the lid on the Big OE as his sprawling cast of young Southerners tackle London...