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Facing The Mountain: The Forgotten Heroes of the Second World War by Daniel James Brown
$30.00 NZD
Category: Military
On December 7th 1941, the Japanese Navy bombed Pearl Harbor. For many Americans, the surprise attack was a call to arms - but for the soldier sons of Japanese-American immigrant parents, it brought prejudice and scrutiny over where their loyalties lay.In Facing the Mountain, Daniel James Brown tells the ...Show more
Love-a-Duck by Alan James Brown
$18.99 NZD
Category: Children's books
Squirt! Squish! Squoo! Jane's Love-a-Duck has lost his squeak! So when he falls from the bathroom window... into the pram... then into the pond, no one notices - not even Jane. Has Love-a-Duck lost Jane for ever?
My New Zealand 123: Learn counting with art and objects from Te Papa (Board Book) by James Brown
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children's books | Series: My New Zealand...
Learn numbers - from one to one million! - with amazing art and objects from Te Papa, and fun rhyming text in this gorgeous board book. Collect all three in this inspiring new series - My New Zealand ABC Book, My New Zealand 123 Book and My New Zealand Colours Book - developed by Te Papa's own curators ...Show more
My New Zealand ABC: Learn the alphabet with art and objects from Te Papa (Board Book) by James Brown
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children's books | Series: My New Zealand...
Learn letters - from apples to zip! - with amazing art and objects from Te Papa, and fun rhyming text in this gorgeous board book. Collect all three in this inspiring new series - My New Zealand ABC Book, My New Zealand 123 Book and My New Zealand Colours Book - developed by Te Papa's own curators and e ...Show more
My New Zealand Colours: Learn colours with art and objects from Te Papa (Board Book) by James Brown
$19.99 NZD
Category: Children's books | Series: My New Zealand...
Learn colours - from red to rainbow! - with amazing art and objects from Te Papa, and fun rhyming text in this gorgeous board book. Collect all three in this inspiring new series - My New Zealand ABC Book, My New Zealand 123 Book and My New Zealand Colours Book - developed by Te Papa's own curators and ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
'The Boys in the Boat' is the story of Joe Rantz, a charismatic young man born dirt poor in the woods of Washington State, who dreams of escaping the challenges of the Great Depression, and a complicated family life full of painful memories. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight oth ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat by Daniel James Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography/Autobiography
Cast aside by his family at an early age, abandoned and left to fend for himself in the woods of Washington State, young Joe Rantz turns to rowing as a way of escaping his past. What follows is an extraordinary journey, as Joe and eight other working-class boys exchange the sweat and dust of life in 19 ...Show more
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics by Daniel James Brown
$24.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The #1 New York Times–bestselling story about American Olympic triumph in Nazi Germany For readers of Unbroken, out of the depths of the Depression comes an irresistible story about beating the odds and finding hope in the most desperate of times—the improbable, intimate account of how nine working-cla ...Show more
The Nature of Things - Poems from the New Zealand Landscape by James Brown (ed)
$34.99 NZD
Category: Poetry | Reading Level: very good
The Nature of Things is a celebration of the relationship between poetry and the New Zealand landscape. It matches a wide range of poems that in some way evoke or describe our landscape with images from the pre-eminent New Zealand photographer Craig Potton. The poems have been selected and the introduct ...Show more
The Tip Shop by James Brown
$25.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
You pick one up at the Tip Shop: oblivion’s final sieve meets your lucky day. James Brown shakes out oblivion’s final sieve in The Tip Shop. Found poems jostle with autobiographical poems, essayistic with epigrammatic, formally expert with some of his very best freeform sprawls. Alternately poignant and ...Show more
Warm Auditorium by James Brown
$28.00 NZD
Category: Poetry
James Brown’s fifth book of poetry moves through personal lyrics, narrative desire, and short takes, before arriving at a climactic antipoetry. Warm Auditorium is Brown at his most formally diverse, with rhyme, tongue-twisters, lists, monologues, and prose poems. Within its cleverness, humor, and verve ...Show more
With My Daddy by James Brown; Cally Johnson-Isaacs (Illustrator)
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children's books
Days with my daddy are always such fun,and ever so special together, as one.From breakfast at the zoo to bathtime by the sea, every moment of the day with Daddy is an adventure.With father lion cooking tea, daddy dog dancing, and papa penguin reading books, this is a touching celebration of the special ...Show more
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