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26 February 2016


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1007064-ThunderandLightningWeatherPastPresentFuture-9780224096751
Thunder and Lightning: Weather past, present, future by Lauren Redniss       $69.99
 An uncatagorizable fusion of storytelling and visual art, which grapples with weather in all its dimensions: its past and its future, its danger and its beauty, why it happens, what it feels like, what it means.
"Visually and imaginatively stunning, Redniss’s book reinvents graphic storytelling in thrillingly intrepid ways. Every page offers up exciting and affecting imagery" - Guardian
>> Take a peek! 
>> We also have Redniss's wonderful Radioactive, A tale of love and fallout in stock. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/993637-TheMakerofSwans-9781474600378
 The Maker of Swans by Padraic O'Donnell       $37.99
Mr Crowe was once the toast of the finest salons. A man of learning and means, he travelled the world, enthralling all who met him. Now, Mr Crowe devotes himself to earthly pleasures. He has retreated to his sprawling country estate, where he lives with Clara, his mysterious young ward, and Eustace, his faithful manservant. His great library gathers dust and his once magnificent gardens grow wild. But Mr Crowe and his extraordinary gifts have not been entirely forgotten. When he acts impetuously over a woman, he attracts the attention of Dr Chastern, the figurehead of a secret society to which Crowe still belongs. Chastern comes to Crowe’s estate to call him to account, and what follows will threaten everyone he cares for. But Clara possesses gifts of her own, gifts whose power she has not yet fully grasped. She must learn to use them quickly, if she is to save them all.
 "Lavishly entertaining, strange and captivating." - The Independent
"The prose is glorious, combining an ear for deep cadences of language with a phenomenal acuity of vision. O’Donnell is clearly a major talent." The Guardian
"A vividly imagined and deeply pleasurable gothic fantasy." - Financial Times

 My Name is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth Strout         $38.00   Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Her unexpected visit forces Lucy to confront the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of her life: her impoverished childhood in Amgash, Illinois, her escape to New York and her desire to become a writer, her faltering marriage, her love for her two daughters.  "Writing of this quality comes from a commitment to listening, from a perfect attunement to the human condition, from an attention to reality so exact that it goes beyond a skill and becomes a virtue." - Hilary Mantel
 The Butcher's Hook by Janet Ellis         $34.99
 Georgian London, in the summer of 1763. At nineteen, Anne Jaccob is awakened to the possibility of joy when she meets Fub, the butcher's apprentice, and begins to imagine a life of passion with him. Unfortunately her parents have already chosen a more suitable husband for her than Fub. But Anne is a determined young woman, with an idiosyncratic moral compass. In the matter of pursuing her own happiness, she shows no fear or hesitation. Even if it means getting a little blood on her hands....
"Ellis has created something marvellous in the character of Anne Jaccob - her voice is strange, dark and utterly mesmeric. This is historical fiction as I've never encountered it before: full of viscera, snarling humour and obsessive desire. I loved it." - Hannah Kent
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/994857-DownStation-9781473211452
 Down Station by Simon Morden          $34.99
 A small group of commuters and tube workers witness a fiery apocalypse overtaking London. They make their escape through a service tunnel. Reaching a door they step through...and find themselves on a wild shore backed by cliffs and rolling grassland. The way back is blocked. Making their way inland they meet a man dressed in a wolf's cloak and with wolves by his side. He speaks English and has heard of a place called London - other people have arrived here down the ages - all escaping from a London that is burning. None of them have returned. Except one - who travels between the two worlds at will. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/994167-CoralRouteTasmanEmpireAirwaysLtdFlyingBoatstheSouthPacific-9781927242896
 Coral Route: Tasman Empire Airways Ltd, flying boats and the South Pacific by Gerry Barton and Philip Heath      $45.00
The Coral Route was the first scheduled air service through the islands of the South Seas. Inaugurated by TEAL in 1951, using four-engined Solent flying boats, it flew into the jet age, becoming the world’s last long-haul flying boat route. Since its final service in 1961 the Coral Route has grown into an aviation legend, the passing decades seeing regular embellishments to old tales. 
>> Those were the days
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/996957-TheRedPencil-9780316247825
The Red Pencil by Andrea Davis Pinkney          $15.00
Life in Amira's peaceful Sudanese village is shattered when Janjaweed attackers arrive, unleashing unspeakable horrors. After losing nearly everything, Amira needs to find the strength to make the long journey on foot to safety at a refugee camp. She begins to lose hope, until the gift of a simple red pencil opens her mind - and all kinds of possibilities.
https://pageblackmore.circlesoft.net/products/995348-SomeHereAmongUs-9781408856703
Some Here Among Us by Peter Walker       $22.99
 Even a short life can cast a very long shadow. Forty years after their Wellington student days, protesting against the Vietnam War, what remains of the characters' idealism and hope? Now in small format.
>> Trailer.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1004887-ArmisticeDay-TheNewZealandStory-9781869664411
 Armistice Day, The New Zealand story: What it is and why it matters by Philippa Werry        $24.99
A children's book about the end of the First World War. 

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/996933-FeastoftheInnocents-9781848662322
 Feast of Innocents by Evelio Rosero       $24.99
 Doctor Justo Pastor Proceso Lopez, adored by his female patients but despised by his wife and daughters, has a burning ambition: to prove to the world that the myth of Simon Bolivar, El Libertador, is a sham and a scandal. But in Colombia you question the founding fables at your peril...
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/999887-MyHistoryAMemoirofGrowingUp-9781780227948
 My History: A memoir of growing up by Antonia Fraser        $27.99
A much-loved historian turns her thoughtful eye on the history of her own growing love of history. Now in paperback.
"A delight from start to finish. Antonia Fraser is warm, amusing, intelligent, generous and original." - The Spectator
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/998705-Wildlight-9781743537909
 Wild Light by Robyn Mundy        $37.99
Sixteen-year-old Stephanie West has been dragged from Sydney to remote Maatsuyker Island off the coast of Tasmania by her parents, hoping to recapture a childhood idyll and come to terms with their grief over the death of Steph's twin brother. Cut off from friends and the comforts of home, exiled to a lonely fortress and a lighthouse that bears the brunt of savage storms, the months ahead look to be filled with ghosts of the past.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/998006-TheForgettingTime-9781509806805
 Truthwitch ('Witchlands' #1) by Susan Dennard        $19.99
In a continent on the edge of war, two witches hold its fate in their hands. Young witches Safiya and Iseult have a habit of finding trouble. After clashing with a powerful Guildmaster and his ruthless Bloodwitch bodyguard, the friends are forced to flee their home. Safi must avoid capture at all costs as she's a rare Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lies. Many would kill for her magic, so Safi must keep it hidden - lest she be used in the struggle between empires. And Iseult's true powers are hidden even from herself. In a chance encounter at Court, Safi meets Prince Merik and makes him a reluctant ally. However, his help may not slow down the Bloodwitch now hot on the girls' heels. This promises to be an excellent series!
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/998027-ThePowerhouse-AmericaChinaandtheGreatBatteryWar-9780143128328
 The Powerhouse: America, China and the great battery war by Steve Levine        $37.00
"Powerhouse shows readers how a scientific insight can work its way slowly into the marketplace, to the point where it becomes ubiquitous. The book is also packed with the kind of strange, unexpected history that makes good science writing so memorable." - San Francisco Chronicle
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/996960-TheReaction-9781444794717
The Reaction by Helena Coggan       $24.99
For the first time in her life, fifteen-year-old Rose Elmsworth is alone. Her father, David, has been imprisoned and disgraced, a death sentence almost certain. She has been rejected by the Department, the amoral law-enforcement agency in which she grew up. Most dangerous of all is the terrible secret she and her father have been keeping all her life: if exposed, it has the power to destroy her.The stunning sequel to The Catalyst
>> Coggan is 16 years old.  
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/997326-ALongLongTrail-9780992247539
 A Long, Long Trail: Marching over the Rimutaka Hill, 1915-1918, and the re-enactment march, September 2015 by Neil Francis      $29.99
 The New Zealand Army used the Rimutaka Hill road, between Wairarapa and Hutt Valley, as the ultimate fitness test for infantry about to embark for service on the Western Front in World War One. Over 30,000 soldiers climbed to the 555 metre summit on their three-day trek, usually fed and cheered by civilians. As part of the centenary of the war, a Wairarapa group re-enacted the Rimutaka Crossing on 27 September 2015, without being forced to.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/993660?barcode=9780316389594&title=JerryonJerry%3ATheUnpublishedJerryGarciaInterviews
 Jerry on Jerry: The unpublished Jerry Garcia interviews edited by Dennis McNally     $59.99
Unpublished no longer, and for good reason
>> Are these his top ten solos?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/997986-TheStorytellersSecretFromTedSpeakerstoBusinessLegendsWhySomeIdeasCatchonandOthersDont-9781509814756
The Storyteller's Secret: How TED speakers and inspirational leaders turn their passion into performance by Carmine Gallo       $34.99
>> Or, Will Self on the role of storytelling in marketing
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/998006-TheForgettingTime-9781509806805
 The Forgetting Time by Sharon Guskin      $34.99
Noah is four and wants to go home. The only trouble is he's already home. Janie's son is her world, and it breaks her heart that he has nightmares. That he's terrified of water. That he sometimes pushes her away and screams that he wants his real mother. That it's getting worse and worse and no-one seems to be able to help. In desperation, she turns to someone who might have an answer - but it may not be one she's ready to hear. It may also mean losing the one thing she loves more than anything. Noah. 
"When I wasn't reading The Forgetting Time, I was itching to return to it. And when I was reading it, my mind was exploding with questions about what's possible, what's probable, and how our lives are caught between the two. Provocative, evocative, and fresh." - Jodi Picoult
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/998723-Leonard-9780283072536
Leonard: My fifty-year friendship with a remarkable man by William Shatner         $37.99
 >> It was a relationship made in space


19 February 2016

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/995591?barcode=9780908321452&title=AHistoryofNewZealandWomen
A History of New Zealand Women by Barbara Brookes      $69.99
A wonderful book, distilling New Zealand's history through the experiences of women. Fully illustrated and with full contextual treatment, the book is both browseable and rewards sustained reading. How have we done without this book so long?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/984812-WhentheFloodsCame-9781444736489
 When the Floods Came by Clare Morrall      $37.99
In a world prone to violent flooding, Britain, ravaged 20 years earlier by a deadly virus, has been largely cut off from the rest of the world. Survivors are few and far between, most of them infertile. Children, the only hope for the future, are a rare commodity. For 22-year-old Roza Polanski, life with her family in their isolated tower block is relatively comfortable. She's safe, happy enough. But when a stranger called Aashay Kent arrives, everything changes. At first he's a welcome addition, his magnetism drawing the Polanskis out of their shells, promising an alternative to a lonely existence. But Roza can't shake the feeling that there's more to Aashay than he's letting on. Is there more to life beyond their isolated bubble? Is it true that children are being kidnapped?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/915404-RainANaturalandCulturalHistory-9780804137096
Rain: A natural and cultural history by Cynthia Barnett        $49.99
Rain is elemental, mysterious, precious, destructive. It is the subject of countless poems and paintings; the top of the weather report; the source of the world's water. Barnett traces the story of rain from the first downpours that filled our oceans, through our attempts to understand and predict the weather, and the role of weather in our imaginations, to the future of rain in a time of climate change.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003637?barcode=9780864739797&title=TransitofVenus
 Transit of Venus by Hinemoana Baker, Urike Almut Sandig, Glenn Colquhoun, Uwe Kolbe, Brigitte Oleschinski and Chris Price      $29.99
Three German poets and three New Zealand poets mark the recent transit of Venus, reconsidering encounters between Europe and the Pacific 250 years after James Cook's voyage to observe the transit of Venus, the voyage upon which he landed at Tolaga Bay and provoked the first positive encounter between Maori and European.

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/998166-LittleHoneyBee-9781783702602
Little Honey Bee by Jane Ormes and Katie Haworth     $29.99
In a spring garden the flowers are slowly coming out as the weather warms up. As the flowers come, so too do bees and other forms of life. Each page of this book has flaps to lift that correspond with the shapes and layers of the different flowers. Readers are able to open the petals of a sunflower, and turn a vine of dog rose buds into an archway of fully bloomed flowers. Lovely!
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1004241-TheGatheringTideAJourneyAroundtheEdgelandsofMorecambeBay-9781910192191
 The Gathering Tide: A journey around the edgelands of Morecambe Bay by Karen Lloyd        $36.99
A deeply personal journey around the 60 miles of coastline that make up 'nature's amphitheatre' in north-west England. Embarking on a series of walks that take in beguiling landscapes and ever-changing seascapes, Lloyd tells the stories of the places, people, wildlife and history of Morecambe Bay. We meet the Queen's Guide to the Sands, discover forgotten caves and islands that don't exist, and delight in the simple beauty of an oystercatcher winging its way across the ebbing tide. Lloyd explores her own memories of the bay, making an unwitting pilgrimage through her own past and present.
"Evocative, muscular." - Kathleen Jamie

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/990675-ThisisLondonLifeandDeathintheWorldCity-9781447274797
 This is London: Life and death in the world city by Ben Judah      $39.99
 More than half of those who live in the UK's capital came from somewhere else - and most arrived in the last ten years. Migration is transforming London, for better and for worse. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/994761-WhereDidTheyGoASpottingBook-9781783702787
Where Did They Go? A spotting book by Emily Bornoff       $32.00
Where has the polar bear gone? Where did the lemur go? Can you find them? Search for endangered animals in jungles, in deserts and on the ice. Well?

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1004475?barcode=9780994123411&title=MotuekaWharf-100years
 Motueka Wharf: 100 years by Carol Dawber        $45.00
 The waterside town of Motueka has always been heavily dependent on its port. Over the years passenger services have operated between Riwaka, Motueka and Nelson, fishing fleets have worked the tides, fertiliser has come in shiploads and hops, tobacco, timber and livestock have gone out over the wharf. In 1955, when shipping was at its height, 276 vessels entered the harbour. Fully illustrated. 
 

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/992082-Max-9781922182852
 Max by Sarah Cohen-Scali         $26.00
When you first meet Max it's 1936, in Bavaria, and he's still a baby inside his blonde, blue-eyed mother. Utterly indoctrinated in the Nazi ideology, Max will address you and tell you his story until 1945 - his destiny as an exceptional being, the prototype of the 'Lebensborn' (Fountains of Life) program, designed to produce perfect specimens of the Aryan race to regenerate the Reich. But when Max meets Lukas, a young Polish boy who resembles him but who rebels against the Nazi system, cracks starts to appear in Max's convictions...
Gripping YA fiction with insight into Nazi psychology.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/991360-MendtheLiving-9780857053879
 Mend the Living by Maylis de Kerangal          $34.99
A young man's heart gives a woman life after he is left brain-dead after a surfing accident. 
 "Far from being the simple tale of a heart transplant, this novel is a true epic, a great modern saga that investigates our relationship with death as much as our relationship with language." - Lire

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/985009-HonkyTonkSamurai-9781444787214
 Honky Tonk Samurai by Joe R. Lansdale       $34.99
 Hap and Leonard are not your typical private eyes. But what they lack in experience they make up with perseverance. Hap, a former 60s activist and self-proclaimed white trash rebel, and Leonard, a tough black, gay Vietnam vet, have finally decided to make their detective work official. Their first client: a mean old woman looking for her missing granddaughter. The girl used to work for a car dealership in town, but it seems like cars weren't the only things on offer. The mystery thickens to include blackmail, revenge, and an in-bred family of hillbilly assassins. Only Hap and Leonard could turn a simple missing person case into a life-threatening showdown.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/967587-TheFoodLab-BetterHomeCookingThroughScience-9780393081084
The Food Lab: Better home cooking through science by J. Kenji Lopez-Alt       $89.99
The interactions between heat, energy, and molecules can create great food. This book shows that often, conventional methods don’t work that well, and home cooks can achieve far better results using new techniques.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/174131?barcode=9780500238738&title=TheBoyWhoBitPicasso
 The Boy Who Bit Picasso by Antony Penrose       $25.00
The true story of Antony Penrose, son of the photographer Lee Miller and the painter and writer Roland Penrose, and his childhood friendship with the great artist. Includes artwork by Picasso and photographs by Lee Miller. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003410?barcode=9780241240021&title=TheStarDiaries
Star Diaries by Stanislaw Lem        $37.00
From the most cerebral of SF writers, this set of stories all feature the adventures of space traveller Ijon Tichy, spinning in time-warps, spying on robots, encountering bizarre civilizations and creatures in space and being hopelessly lost in a forest of supernovae.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003409-TheBlessing-9780241974728
The Blessing by Nancy Mitford         $37.00
It isn't just Nanny who finds it difficult in France when Grace and her young son Sigi are finally able to join her dashing aristocratic husband Charles-Edouard after the war. For Grace is out of her depth among the fashionably dressed and immaculately coiffured French women, and shocked by their relentless gossiping and bedhopping. When she discovers her husband's tendency to lust after every pretty girl he sees, it looks like trouble. And things get even more complicated when little Sigi steps in...
"Deliciously funny." - Evelyn Waugh
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/991960-TheHiddenHalfofNatureTheMicrobialRootsofLifeandHealth-9780393244403
 The Hidden Half of Nature: The microbial roots of life and health by David Montgomery and Anne Bikel       $48.00
Microscopic organisms may provide the key to solving problems with agricultural production and with our own bodies. 
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/819168-TheManintheHighCastle-9780241968093
 The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick       $21.00
America, fifteen years after the end of the Second World War. The winning Axis powers have divided their spoils: the Nazis control New York, while California is ruled by the Japanese. But between these two states - locked in a cold war - lies a neutral buffer zone in which legendary author Hawthorne Abendsen is rumoured to live. Abendsen lives in fear of his life for he has written a book in which World War II was won by the Allies... A dystopian classic.
"A disturbingly plausible alternate history." - Lucy
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/977275-TakeSixGirlsTheLivesoftheMitfordSisters-9781784970871
 Take Six Girls: The lives of the Mitford sisters by Laura Thompson       $44.99
The eldest was a razor-sharp novelist of upper-class manners; the second was loved by John Betjeman; the third was a fascist who married Oswald Mosley; the fourth idolized Hitler and shot herself in the head when Britain declared war on Germany; the fifth was a member of the American Communist Party; the sixth became Duchess of Devonshire.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/990573-OccupyMe-9781473212961
 Occupy Me by Tricia Sullivan        $34.99
A woman with wings that exist in another dimension. A man trapped in his own body by a killer. A briefcase that is a door to hell. A conspiracy that reaches beyond our world...










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12 February 2016


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/997126-ThisCensus-Taker-9781509812141
 This Census-Taker by China Mieville       $37.99
 In a remote house on a hilltop, a lonely boy witnesses a traumatic event. He tries - and fails - to flee. Left alone with his increasingly deranged parent, he dreams of safety, of joining the other children in the town below, of escape.When at last a stranger knocks at his door, the boy senses that his days of isolation might be over.But by what authority does this man keep the meticulous records he carries? What is the purpose behind his questions? Is he friend? Enemy? Or something else altogether?
"Kafka rewritten by David Mitchell. This may well be the best thing you'll read all year." - Guardian
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/993975?barcode=9781782690917&title=Maresi%28RedAbbeyChronicles%231%29
 Maresi ('The Red Abbey Chronicles' #1) by Maria Turtschaninoff       $22.99
 Maresi came to the Red Abbey when she was 13, in the Hunger Winter. Before then, she had only heard rumours of its existence in secret folk tales. In a world where girls aren't allowed to learn or do as they please, an island inhabited solely by women sounded like a fantasy. But now Maresi is here, and she knows it is real. She is safe. Then one day Jai, tangled fair hair, clothes stiff with dirt, scars on her back, arrives on a ship. She has fled to the island to escape terrible danger and unimaginable cruelty. And the men who hurt her will stop at nothing to find her. Now the women and girls of the Red Abbey must use all their powers and ancient knowledge to combat the forces that wish to destroy them. And Maresi, haunted by her own nightmares, must confront her very deepest, darkest fears. A wonderful Finnish feminist YA fantasy! Recommended.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/977170?barcode=9780760348611&title=RareBooksUncovered%3ATrueStoriesofFantasticFindsinUnlikelyPlaces
 Rare Books Uncovered: True stories of fantastic finds in unlikely places by Rebecca Rego Barry       $32.99
Bibliophiles' barn finds! For every antiquarian or rare treasure found in possibly the last place you'd expect it to be waiting, how many are never found? It is probably time to start poking about. 
>> A copy of the rare upside-down edition of The Origin of the Species was discovered in an op shop by someone wearing white gloves
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/984810-Romanovs1613-1918-9780297852667
The Romanovs, 1613-1918 by Simon Sebag Montefiore         $49.99
Twenty tsars and tsarinas, some touched by genius, some by madness, but all inspired by holy autocracy and imperial ambition. Montefiore's chronicle reveals their secret world of unlimited power and ruthless empire-building, overshadowed by palace conspiracy, family rivalries, sexual decadence and wild extravagance, and peopled by a cast of adventurers, courtesans, revolutionaries and poets, from Ivan the Terrible to Tolstoy, from Queen Victoria to Lenin. Another gripping history from this fine writer.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/994993?barcode=9781776570300&title=HowtobeFamous%28PB%29
 How To Be Famous by Michal Shalev        $19.99
 Take a trip through the zoo with this irrepressible pigeon, as she preens and poses alongside all the animals, right up to the sharp teeth of a grumpy lion...
"This is a bird book. If you open out the flaps, it looks like a bird! I can say elephant too. Oh no! The lion is scary! And the kangaroo is going to jump down and eat the people! I want to be a butterfly, so I can fly in the air and poop on people. How can I be a butterfly?" - Bryony (4)
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1003630?barcode=9781927322314&title=ThePrisonDiaryofA.C.Barrington%3ADissentandConformityinWartimeNewZealand
 The Prison Diary of A.C. Barrington: Dissent and conformity in wartime New Zealand by John Pratt       $39.99
Archie Barrington was a leading New Zealand pacifist during World War II. Incarcerated in Mount Crawford Prison for his beliefs in 1941, he kept an illicit diary, scrawled in the margins of books. Many years later his son John happened across the diary and painstakingly reconstructed it. Barrington vividly and compellingly recorded the squalid, rundown conditions, monotonous and exhausting labour, the intense cold from which there was little protection, and the strategies he and his fellow pacifists adopted to enable them to cope with prison life. What were Barrington and his like doing in prison, when similar expressions of dissent would almost certainly have been ignored in Australia or Britain? Why was New Zealand, with its egalitarian reputation, so intolerant and punitive?
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1007699-AWomansHutsandHideawaysMoreThan40SheShedsandOtherRetreats-9781782493228
 A Woman's Huts and Hideaways: More than 40 'she-sheds' and other retreats by Gill Heriz       $39.99
 A bespoke shed in an Urban backyard, surrounded by pots of plants and flowers, serves as an isle of peace for its owner, Wendy. By the Waterside, Mary has built a beach hut on the coast, perched on stilts with a view out to the sea. Hidden away, in an enchanting wilderness in Norfolk, UK, is Janet and Sue's Secret Garden. Here, there are three sheds: an old summerhouse full of light; a hide nestled in the bushes for watching the local wildlife; and a renovated wagon used as a base for recording their wildlife observations. In Portland, Oregon, Polly uses her inland boathouse as a Creative space for writing. From yurts to Airstreams, beach huts to bothies, the huts and hideaways have one thing in common--they are all inspirational spaces created by women, for women.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/986872?barcode=9780062348159&title=GodLovesHaiti%3AANovel
God Loves Haiti by Dimitry Elias Leger        $32.99
A novel tracing the fates of three lovers in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, and the challenges they face readjusting to life after an earthquake devastates their city. 
"Luminous. Leger writes beautifully and with an immense humanity. He renders Haiti in all of its stupendous beautiful tortured complexity. A stand-out novel." - Junot Diaz

http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/969780-TheNaturalWorldofWinnie-the-Pooh-9781604695991
 The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh: A walk through the forest that inspired the Hundred Acre Wood by Kathryn Aalto   $55.00
Visit the ancient black walnut tree on the edge of the Ashdown Forest that became Pooh's house, go deep into the pine trees to find Poohsticks Bridge, and climb up to the top of the enchanted Galleons Lap, where Pooh says goodbye to Christopher Robin. Discover how Milne's childhood connection with nature and his role as a father influenced his famous stories, and how his close collaboration with illustrator E. H. Shepard brought those stories to life.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/973383-HowWeLive-9783832732189
 How We Live by Marcia Prentice       $89.99
An intimate photographic journal of designers' and artists' homes and work spaces from around the world, including Mumbai, Beirut, Marrakech, Reykjavik, Mexico City and Amsterdam.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/994991-AComplicatedCaseDetectiveGordon2-9781776570652
 A Complicated Case ('Detective Gordon' #2) by Ulf Nilsson and Gitte Spee       $19.99
 Something is going on in the forest. The animals are troubled. But no one dares make a statement to the police. Detective Gordon and his assistant Buffy must investigate! It is a complicated case. The two police officers split the workload: Buffy questions the suspects, while Gordon stays in bed to think. Who is the culprit?


http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/956869-Stina-9781851778584
Stina by Lani Yamamoto         $27.99
Stina does not like the cold. In fact, she will go to any length to avoid it. Even in summer she will never go out without tights and socks that cover her knees. When the Icelandic winter comes she retreats inside, and invents ingenious devices to protect her from the slightest chill. The temperature drops further and Stina finally succumbs to the lure of her feather duvet and falls into a deep and dreamless sleep from which she is woken by a pounding at her door - two children tumble in blown by the icy wind and Stina learns that nothing can keep you as warm as friendship. A very lovely book!
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Of Love and Desire by Louis de Bernieres         $37.00
Louis de Bernières' poetry collection includes poems he has written about love and desire throughout his life, under the influence, it seems, of everybody from the classical Persian poets, to Neruda, to Quintus Smyrnaeus, to Brian Patten; sometimes passionate and romantic, sometimes cynical and angry.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1004245?barcode=9781783780099&title=AllDaysareNight
All Days are Night by Peter Stamm       $23.00
Gillian seems to have it all - she is beautiful, successful, and securely married. But one night, after an argument with her husband, their car crashes on a wet road, and everything is lost. When she wakes in the hospital, she is a widow with a ruined face and no way back to the person she thought she was. It is only when she begins to piece together the painful shards of her present existence and revisit a relationship from her past that she is able to glimpse the freedom that might come with her loss.
"A brilliant, bruising tale of shattered lives." - Independent
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 Walking the Himalayas by Levison Wood         $39.99
When Wood put his foot on the Silk Road in Afghanistan he found himself walking the entire length of the Himalayas. 
>> Onto the scree; onto the screen
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 Speak My Language edited by Torsten Hojer         $29.99
 "There is something special about literature that addresses our innermost sexual and amatory selves. Gay stories offer us vindication, fellowship, validation and a sense of shared identity that we need now as much as ever." - Stephen Fry (in the foreword to this anthology)
A wide-ranging selection, including work by Patrick Gale, Damon Galgut, Neil Bartlett, Felice Picano and Joseph Olshan. 
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Female Mutilation: The truth behind the horrifying global practice of female genital mutilation by Hilary Burrage       $29.99
Is cultural sensitivity preventing us from taking action to protect individual women and girls? How can change be brought about, and the practice eliminated?

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The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp by Rick Yancey        $14.99
Alfred Kropp is an ordinary kid with an ordinary life - until he steals the legendary sword of King Arthur and mistakenly delivers it into the wrong hands... (In other words: EXCITING). 
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 Before They Pass Away by Jimmy Nelson        $130.00
A photographic showcase of tribal cultures from around the globe, presented as an antidote to globalisation.
http://www.pageandblackmore.co.nz/products/1008476-MyFathersEars-9780473335878
 My Father's Ears by Karen Goa     $24.99
 When an Italian-Canadian immigrant's harsh but intriguing past catches up with him, his sceptical daughter Sophie rattles family skeletons in her quest to discover the truth about her father, his affair with a Romanian trapeze artist and a mysterious New Zealander claiming to be his son.
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 The Box of Demons by Daniel Whelan      $19.99
Ben Robson can't remember a time before he had the box, with its three mischief-making demon occupants: smelly, cantankerous Orf, manically destructive Kartofel, and fat, slobbering greedy-guts Djinn. When Ben was a kid it was fun, and he enjoyed their company. Now he's twelve they're nothing but trouble.Then one day Ben has an angelic visitor who tells him that he can be rid of the box forever if he sends it back to hell. There's only one catch - the box has other plans...
[Is this a parable of cell-phone addiction?]
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 Glass Sword by Victoria Aveyard         $24.99
The gripping sequel to Red Queen! If there's one thing Mare Barrow knows, it's that she's different. Mare's blood is red - the colour of common folk - but her Silver ability, the power to control lightning, has turned her into a weapon that the royal court tries to control. The crown calls her an impossibility, a fake, but as she makes her escape from the prince and friend who betrayed her, Mare uncovers something startling: she is not the only one of her kind. Pursued by the Silver king, Mare sets out to find and recruit other Red and Silver fighters to join in the struggle against her oppressors. But Mare finds herself on a deadly path, at risk of becoming exactly the kind of monster she is trying to defeat. Will she shatter under the weight of the lives that are the cost of rebellion? Or have treachery and betrayal hardened her forever?
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The Driftless Area by Tom Drury      $21.99
 "A moody and mysterious tale. Drury has forged an entrancing form of midwestern paranormal noir. Deadpan wit, cosmic melancholy, characters both ethereal and down-and-dirty, predicaments a Beckett character would accept as inevitable, and a porous divide between the living and the dead add up to a delectably unnerving outlaw fairy tale." - Donna Seaman