| Author: | Joshua Mezrich |
| Category: |
Science |
| Reading Level: | 3 Biography |
Gripping and evocative, How Death Becomes Life takes us inside the operating room and presents the stark dilemmas that transplant surgeons must face daily: How much risk should a healthy person be allowed to take to save someone she loves? Shou... read more
| Author: | Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff |
| Category: |
Travel |
DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooks
Discover Japan with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this fascinating country before you've even packed your case - catch th... read more
| Author: | Dorling Kindersley Publishing Staff |
| Category: |
Travel |
DK Eyewitness travel guides: award-winning guidebooks
Discover France with this essential travel guide, designed to help you create your own unique trip and to transport you to this beautiful country before you've even packed your case - wander t... read more
| Author: | Anna Shillinghaw Hampton; Victoria Wall Harris (Photographer) |
| Category: |
Cookery |
| Series: | Simply Delicious Ser. |
Master the techniques of making your perfect grain bowl Ancient grains are making their way back into the modern-day diet, which is great news for health-inspired home cooks. They have always been around, but now you can find bulgur wheat, fre... read more
| Author: | Shaun Barnett; Chris Maclean |
| Category: |
NZ |
Leading the Way celebrates the centenary of New Zealand's first tramping club, established in 1919, and places its achievements within the evolution of tramping, our most popular sporting activity. The TTC inspired the formation of other tramping clubs thr... read more
| Author: | Kathryn O'Shea-Evans |
| Category: |
Arts |
Take a tour of the most exquisite intimate retreats--inside and out. These beguiling, intimate, and restorative spaces are marvels of design. From serenely dreamy bedrooms to charming reading nooks and sophisticated studies, Veranda reveals a... read more
| Author: | Monty Soutar |
| Category: |
Military |
This major publication about Maori participation in the First World War is written by NZ's leading Maori military historian Dr Monty Soutar, author of the award-winning Nga Tama Toa C Company, Maori Battalion. A fascinating look at the Pioneer Battal... read more
| Author: | Lynn Vincent |
| Category: |
Military |
'Extraordinary...serious naval history and a detective story, told with passion.' The Times 'Vividly detailed...compelling yet comprehensive.' Los Angeles Times 'Simply outstanding.' Booklist (starred review) 'Gripping... This yarn has it all.' USA Today The ... read more
| Author: | Chris Sidwells |
| Category: |
Sport |
Eddy Merckx. Fausto Coppi. Jacques Anquetil. Bernard Hinault. Beryl Burton. Marianne Vos.A sole cyclist battling over a pass high in the mountains is one of the most romantic of sporting images. In the past 150 years road cycling has been dominat... read more
Jupiter: The Ruthless One - Mars: The Doomed One - Sun: The Fiery One - Saturn: The Beautiful One - Pluto: The Mysterious One Professor Brian Cox is back with another insightful and mind-blowing exploration of space.
This time he shows us our solar system as we've never seen it befor... read more
| Author: | Amanda Little |
| Category: |
Political/World |
| Reading Level: | 4 Non Fiction |
Is the future of food looking bleak - or better than ever? At a time when every day brings news of drought and famine, Amanda Little investigates what it will take to feed a hotter, hungrier, more crowded world. She explores the ... read more
| Author: | Anne De Courcy |
| Category: |
Biography |
| Reading Level: | 4 Non Fiction |
Far from worrying about the onset of war, in the spring of 1938 the burning question on the French Riviera was whether one should curtsey to the Duchess of Windsor. Few of those who had settled there thought much about what was going on in the rest of Europe. It was a golden, gla... read more
