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How to Take a Breath - Reduce stress and improve performance by breathing well by Tania Clifton-Smith
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: near fine
Learn how to breathe well for reduction in stress and anxiety, better sleep, clearer thinking and improved performance in sports and at work, written by an experienced clinical expert in breathing disorders. Breathing well can bring about improvements in a surprising number of areas of your life. This s ...Show more
It Rained Warm Bread: Moishe Moskowitz's Story of Hope by Gloria Moskowitz-Sweet, Hope Anita Smith
$18.00 NZD
Category: Middle Fiction
Moishe was thirteen when the Nazis invaded Poland in 1939 and he was sent to Auschwitz. His home was ravaged, his family torn apart by illness and abduction. Years of brutality drew on as Moishe moved from one labor camp to the next. Finally, towards the end of the war and at the peak of Moishe's deepes ...Show more
Jude the Obscure (Clothbound Classic) by Thomas Hardy; Coralie Bickford-Smith (Illustrator); Dennis Taylor (Notes by, Introduction by)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser.
The innocent and naive Jude Fawley is trapped into marriage by the seductive Arabella Donn. But their union is an unhappy one, and Arabella leaves him. Jude's welcome freedom allows him to pursue his obsession with his pretty cousin, Sue Bridehead, a brilliant, charismatic freethinker who would be his i ...Show more
Le Picnic: Chic Food for on-the-Go by Smith Street Books Staff (Editor); Suzy Ashford
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Cooking
Le Picnicreimagines outdoor lunching as a chic activity that's worth putting in a little more effort into. Rather than take along a boring sandwich and a flask of coffee to your next picnic, why not a bacon and leek quiche, a beautiful potato and pork sausage galette or cherry tomato tartlets? Classic F ...Show more
Little Goose's Autumn by Elli Woollard; Briony May Smith (Illustrator)
$18.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
A beautiful and uplifting story about a little goose finding her place in the world, from the talented creators of Little Bear's Spring. As summer fades to autumn, a lively young goose feels a change in the air and senses she has something important to do - but what? The beavers are chopping wood, the s ...Show more
Lost in Music by Giles Smith
$35.00 NZD
Category: Music
'In the Spring of 1989, shortly after my twenty-seventh birthday, as I stood in the sleet at a bus stop in Colchester, it dawned on me that I had probably, all things considered, failed in my mission to become Sting. At least, for the time being.'Lost in Music is about growing up with pop music - about ...Show more
Misadventures by Sylvia Smith
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Canons Ser.
Misadventures is a unique ensemble of mishaps and anecdotes revealing the ups and downs of one woman's life in twentieth-century London. Sylvia Smith's deadpan patter belies the startling complexities, humour and darkness at the heart of this remarkable memoir.
New Orleans Noir - The Classics by Julie Smith (Editor)
$35.00 NZD
Category: Hard-boiled & Noir | Series: Akashic Noir Ser.
"Explores the dark corners of our city . . . set both pre- and post-Katrina . . . harrowing reading, to be sure, but it's pure page-turning pleasure, too." --The Times-Picayune Residents of the Big Easy are proud of its unique history and character. Resourceful and resilient, they are survivors--of nat ...Show more
Out of the Forest: The True Story of a Recluse by Gregory Smith (local)
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
For years a man calling himself Will Power lived in near-total isolation in northern New South Wales, foraging for food, eating bats and occasionally trading for produce. But who was this mysterious man who roamed the forest and knew all of its secrets and riddles? Some people thought he might be Jesus. ...Show more
Persuasion (Clothbound Classic) by Jane Austen; Gillian Beer (Introduction by, Editor, Notes by); Coralie Bickford-smith (Illustrator)
$40.00 NZD
Category: Clothbound Classics | Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Sir Walter Elliot, de Kellynch-Hall, dans le comté de Somerset, n'avait jamais touché un livre pour son propre amusement, si ce n'est le livre héraldique. Là il trouvait de l'occupation dans les heures de désoeuvre- ment, et de la consolation dans les heures de chagrin. Devant ces vieux parchemins, il é ...Show more
Return to Valetto by Dominic Smith
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction
A captivating and moving new novel from the international bestselling author of The Last Painting of Sara de Vos. A nearly abandoned Italian village, the family that stayed, and long-buried secrets from World War II. On a hilltop in Umbria sits Valetto. Once a thriving village-and a hub of resistance an ...Show more
Spring: 'A dazzling hymn to hope' Observer by Ali Smith
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Fiction | Series: Seasonal Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: near fine
What unites Katherine Mansfield, Charlie Chaplin, Shakespeare, Beethoven, Brexit, the present, the past, the north, the south, the east, the west, a man mourning lost times, a woman trapped in modern times? Spring. The great connective. With an eye to the migrancy of story over time, and riffing on Peri ...Show more