Cuba press limited (12 resultados)

Paperback. Condición: Good. Everything felt wrong, everywhere. The floor was at a weird angle - he took one step and staggered sideways against the wall. Was that shudder the house moving again? Zeke has to stay with his aunt and uncle in Lower Hutt after a landslide takes his East Coast home off its foundations. Allie puts her drought-ridden Otago dairy farm out of her mind and catches a plane to the capital city. Stephanie wonders why she's sitting around a table at the Ministry for Resilience - again. In Emergency Weather, three people find themselves in Wellington as the climate crisis crashes into their lives. A giant storm is on its way - what will be left of the city when it's over? A scarily prescient thriller by award-winning author and climate change activist Tim Jones. Ex school library but very good condition (apparently never read).…

Softcover. Condición: Fine. In 2015 Natalie Yule Yeoman was diagnosed with breast cancer. A Maze of Grace is the story of her response to the illness over a year, through diary entries, correspondence, poems, medical reports and family writings. By cultivating her inner resources, including her Christian belief and disarming sense of humour, Natalie was able to find new ways of coping with the devastation of the illness as it progressed to secondary tumours and became incurable. Hers is a story of diagnoses, delays, mistakes, inquiries and apologies - but it is also a story of faith and community, hope and family. Natalie's wish is that her discoveries on this pilgrimage will be helpful for anyone going through a health crisis. For others, the story of this wahine toa who lives life to the full will be quite simply an inspiration. Book mint but back cover creased very top corner. 305 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: New. On an atoll not far from now, nor far from here, we meet a young man named Mala, who is eager to discover the secrets of his island home. Woleai is strangely unaffected by changes wreaking havoc across the rest of the planet - and Mala needs to know why. The importance of his observations is brought to the forefront when scientists from afar arrive on the island. "A Sky of Wretched Shells" is a provocative story in the face of climate change, a merging of ancient and modern learning and an answer to the question of our place in the stars. 189 pages.…

Softcover. Condición: New. Helen Jacobs wrote her first poem nearly fifty years ago in response to a TV programme on nuclear war. Elaine Jakobsson in her life as a local body politician and environmental activist - mayor of Eastbourne, she worked for the Women's Electoral Lobby and was later appointed to the Planning Tribunal - Helen Jacobs was the name she adopted for her writing. In 1984 she launched her first collection, with five more to come over the years, and became actively involved with the poetry community in Christchurch. 58 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: New. We are tiny beneath the light charts the end of a marriage and the tumble of tiny moments that make up a life under stress, including the unexpected discoveries that can still bring joy - watching a child fly a blue kite or weaving words to make sense of sorrow. Heidi's second collection manages to speak of the beautiful and the ugly in a single breath, and out of enormity creates small parcels of light. 60 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: New. One moment Harriet's only problem is that she's not allowed to get her nose pierced, and the next her dad has disappeared. Now there's a new home, a new school and new friends that are not really friends at all. Awkward Alice who forgets her lunch is not a great substitute, nor is the monster gnawing at Harriet's insides that makes her binge on food. But then Alice invites her to the best tree fort ever - a place where Harriet no longer feels fat or friendless or sad, and where the bird with the rusty-red feathers comes to show her what she can't see for herself. 232 pages.…

Softcover. Condición: New. In 2015 Natalie Yule Yeoman was diagnosed with breast cancer. A Maze of Grace is the story of her response to the illness over a year, through diary entries, correspondence, poems, medical reports and family writings. By cultivating her inner resources, including her Christian belief and disarming sense of humour, Natalie was able to find new ways of coping with the devastation of the illness as it progressed to secondary tumours and became incurable. Hers is a story of diagnoses, delays, mistakes, inquiries and apologies - but it is also a story of faith and community, hope and family. Natalie's wish is that her discoveries on this pilgrimage will be helpful for anyone going through a health crisis. For others, the story of this wahine toa who lives life to the full will be quite simply an inspiration. 305 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: New. "Auckland city bars, 1996, when the click / whirr of a Polaroid 600 proved you were living your best life. Betty's is on repeat: waitress till late, drink till dawn, in bed to forget. But partying like there's no tomorrow is no fix for the problems crowding in. Her ex is back and drinking at her favourite haunts, her flat was burgled and she faces eviction if she can't pay late rent. And then there's the serial rapist called the Psychic who's terrorising women in their homes. When her ex is murdered and left in her bed, Betty and her flatmate Alabama turn to the bar world to find out who did it. Was it the Psychic - or someone closer?"--Publisher's description. 194 pages.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. 305 pages. In 2015 Natalie Yule Yeoman was diagnosed with breast cancer. A Maze of Grace is the story of her response to the illness over a year, through diary entries, correspondence, poems, medical reports and family writings. By cultivating her inner resources, including her Christian belief and disarming sense of humour, N atalie was able to find new ways of coping with the devastation of the illness a s it progressed to secondary tumours and became incurable. Hers is a story of di agnoses, delays, mistakes, inquiries and apologies ø but it is also a story of faith and community, hope and family. Natalieøs wish is that her discoveries on this pilgrimage will be helpful for anyone going through a health crisis. For o thers, the story of this wahine toa who lives life to the full will be quite sim ply an inspiration. …

Paperback. Condición: As New. 305 pages. In 2015 Natalie Yule Yeoman was diagnosed with breast cancer. A Maze of Grace is the story of her response to the illness over a year, through diary entries, correspondence, poems, medical reports and family writings. By cultivating her inner resources, including her Christian belief and disarming sense of humour, N atalie was able to find new ways of coping with the devastation of the illness a s it progressed to secondary tumours and became incurable. Hers is a story of di agnoses, delays, mistakes, inquiries and apologies but it is also a story of fai th and community, hope and family. Natalie's wish is that her discoveries on thi s pilgrimage will be helpful for anyone going through a health crisis. For other s, the story of this wahine toa who lives life to the full will be quite simply an inspiration. …

Softcover. Condición: New. A restless 17-year-old seeking fame, fortune (and romance) goes hitchhiking with three older girls. What begins as a holiday frolic becomes a survival recipe for life. Radiating hope and energy, the narrative follows this naive New Zealander to London with her family. Tragedy strikes when Julia's father dies and upheaval follows. After a trip to Paris, hitchhiking adventures encompass: sleeping rough in Stockholm, a traverse of Yugoslavia, and almost finding love in Greece. Meeting up with a boyfriend in Naples is the beginning of a chaotic motor-cycle ride and near disaster on a plain in Spain. Back in London Julia faces the Cuban missile nuclear threats and endures the worst winter of the century before returning to New Zealand. In due course she survives an impetuous marriage, cleaning her teeth with beer, a pavlova crisis and the dramatic outcome of a fatal mountaineering accident in the Southern Alps. Treks across the Antarctic wastes, seeing the US by pick-up truck, hitchhiking in South America completes the author's headlong pursuit of life and the sometimes catastrophic consequences. 336 pages. …

Softcover. Condición: New. In February 1945, with no veterinary training available in New Zealand, Graham Wallace braved a German raider in the Tasman Sea to begin his studies in Sydney. The potentially explosive journey setting the tone for a colourful life working with big farm animals in rural New Zealand as a travelling vet, later specialising in disease prevention and vaccine creation. Vet on the Go is a collection of tales about his time as a vet that is both informative and funny, and addresses changes in practice and attitudes in the profession over seventy years. 160 pages.…