Adult imprint: 1806 books
by Jenny Pattrick
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
This tender and amusing novel is set in New Zealand in the nineties, with the Springbok Tour still a recent memory, and as the country debates whether to adopt MMP. Letter-writing is about to give way to email, but elderly Grace will resist the trend. Through letters and stories, we learn of her friendships,...
Is it Bedtime Yet?
Parenting ... the Hilarious, the Hair-raising, the Heart-breaking
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The experience of parenthood is different for everyone. And every day can be different too. Read a hilarious and moving collection of perspectives from the well-loved Emily Writes and her friends. Some of them are experienced writers, others have put pen to paper for the first time. If it takes a...
Parenting Tips: Toilet Training
How to Potty Train Your Child
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
**How to get your child from nappies and diapers into using the toilet themselves, written by a leading expert.**An explanation of the process children go through when they learn how to use the toilet by themselves. Once you understand this process, you'll be able to help them learn to go by themselves.The...
Growing Great Boys
100s of Practical Strategies for Bringing Out the Best In Your Son
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Practical, positive and informative parenting advice on raising great sons. Growing Great Boys is a brilliant, practical parenting book about parenting boys from toddlers to teens by one of New Zealand's leading parenting experts. Packed with tips and pragmatic ideas for parents, it has a strong and...
Fathers Who Dare Win
30 Ways to Be an Awesome Dad
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2012
The one book you will ever need on how to be great dad. Including clear strategies on everything from being a hero to your kids to communication to discipline, this is the one book fathers will ever need. It's encouraging and affirming and to the point, with comments like: 'Men are such a necessary...
Hard Country
A Golden Bay Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
**The inspiring and entertaining story of a determined woman and an isolated farming life in Golden Bay.**Robby Robilliard and her husband Garry arrived in Golden Bay in 1957. Married in their early twenties, and with a child on the way, they longed to own their own sheep station. When they bought...
Red Dog/Blue Dog
When Pooches Get Political
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
“Totally worth the Milk-bones I traded for it.” —Bo Obama
“So hilarious I peed on the rug.” —Barney Bush
Politics Goes to the Dogs
Have you ever considered that man’s best friend has political leanings just like we do? Red Dog / Blue Dog reveals that...
NBA List Jam!
The Most Authoritative and Opinionated Rankings from Doug Collins, Bob Ryan, Peter Vecsey, Jeanie Bu
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2012
NBA List Jam! is an entertaining and informative collection of 125+ ranked lists that discuss and debate the people, games, events, and ephemera that have made the NBA the spectator sport of choice for millions in North America and beyond.
The wide variety of list topics include Greatest Teams,...
by Andrew Fiu
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
An affecting, insightful and warm memoir of growing up Samoan in New Zealand - and of coping with heart disease. Andrew Fiu came to Ponsonby, Auckland as a three-year-old, part of the wave of immigration from Samoa that turned Auckland's inner city suburbs into a vibrant cultural melting pot. At 14...
Maori Boy
A Memoir of Childhood
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
**This is the first volume of Witi Ihimaera's enthralling, award-winning memoir, packed with stories from the formative years of this much-loved writer.**Witi Ihimaera is a consummate storyteller - one critic calling him one of our 'finest and most memorable'. Some of his best stories, however, are...
Forgotten Sundays
A Son's Story of Life, Loss, and Love from the Sidelines of the NFL
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2014
Forgotten Sundays is the coming-of-age story of a father-son relationship and the value of a good name, which Gerry Sandusky knows all too well. He has had to endure having an unfortunate name in sports, but to him the Sandusky name means something entirely different: honor, integrity, endurance,...
by Peter Wells
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
**Part history, part biography, part social commentary, this fascinating book is about infamous events that shook New Zealand to its core.**In 1865, Rev Carl Sylvius Volkner was hanged, his head cut off, his eyes eaten and his blood drunk from his church chalice. One name - Kereopa Te Rau (Kaiwhatu:...
The Rotation
A Season with the Phillies and the Greatest Pitching Staff Ever Assembled
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2012
Not since 1957 has one major league team's pitching staff boasted three pitchers (Roy Halladay, Cliff Lee, and Roy Oswalt) in the Top Ten in career winning-percentage. Plus, the Philadelphia Phillies' 2011 rotation also happens to include Cole Hamels-the 2008 NLCS and World Series MVP-and an alternating...
Closer
Major League Players Reveal the Inside Pitch on Saving the Game
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
The closer is the ace reliever who specializes in closing out the game without surrendering the lead. Facing a power hitter in the ninth inning with a man on base and no outs takes nerves of steel. The pressure on the mound is intense. It takes a special breed to hold it together in these situations....