The cuba press (96 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. A freak accident leaves Sam Steele with no legs, one hand and one eye, but not for long. He gets super spare body parts from the mysterious prosthetic engineer Doctor Ecks, who recruits Sam as a superhero and gives him a side-kick dog with a high-tech tail. Sam's first mission is to stop the Nemerons from the 12th quadrant from taking over Earth by blowing up the worlds poo ponds, but things get messy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Scrape away the barnacles, re-examine the origins of Christian faith, take full account of modern knowledge and experience, open your mind to new possibilities, rethink what faith can mean in this new millennium - that's the plea Ian Harris makes in this challenge to reset faith within today's secular frame. New World, New God showed how this reset can bring to light new interpretations for God, Jesus, the Bible and the great Christian festivals. Hand in Hand goes back a step to show why such a reset is necessary. Harris sees the secular not as hostile to faith, but as the neutral setting for religion in the modern world. He debunks the view that science is its polar opposite, and urges the churches to embrace the new reality as a positive for Christian understanding and for life.…

Paperback. Zustand: 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).…

Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. "A crash site memorial for a daughter is disturbed by road workers, a son goes missing after an earthquake, a husband struggles with his wife going into dementia care, grandparents meet-up with a grandchild they lost contact with when his parents divorced, a late-in-life relationship is broken apart when his health declines, a couple who lease out their basement flat discover a former tenant has been linked to a murder. Each of Karen Phillips' stories is like the glass houses in the title story - small pieces, some opaque and some translucent, that offer glimpses of ordinary families whose lives are coming apart, sometimes in ways imperceptible to the outside eye. Memories of a kinder past are one way to pull things back together and simple humanity is another, but sometimes the answer is where you least expect it. "--Publisher information. 179 pages.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. A freak accident leaves Sam Steele with no legs, one hand and one eye, but not for long. He gets super spare body parts from the mysterious prosthetic engineer Doctor Ecks, who recruits Sam as a superhero and gives him a side-kick dog with a high-tech tail. Sam's first mission is to stop the Nemerons from the 12th quadrant from taking over Earth by blowing up the worlds poo ponds, but things get messy.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Wellington: the land dips and rols, the wind has a life of its own. Dig a little deeper and the city is unforgiving and unrepentant. Forget the politicians, they are poor amateurs in deception and crime. Stella has returned to Wellington, a private investigator. Her best friend Teri is found dead, and Stella is tenacious in her search to find out what happened and who's responsible. 312 pages.…

Paperback. Zustand: Good. Sure thirty years is a long time. Sure the case was closed. Well, never really a case as such. Fifteen-year-old brown girl tops herself, who cares? Turn the page. That bloody notebook, thought Club. God knows what was in it. Who knew that little bitch could even write? Ruby Palmer has been dealt a rough hand. She was left in a kete at the back door of the Porohiwi Home for Children when she was a baby, and then at seven she discovered that Betty - who stopped the bad stuff happening to Ruby at the Home - had drowned. Now in her thirties, Ruby needs to find out what really happened to her and Betty at the Home - and her only lead is a notebook that uses the symbols in playing cards to tell a story she doesn't fully understand. But her investigations set off a chain reaction: a man in a balaclava attacks her and there are break-ins at her apartment and the local theatre where she's acting in The Importance of Being Earnest. As Ruby goes deeper into the mystery at the heart of the Home, she starts to find answers to questions she hadn't dared ask. Owner's Name inside.…

Softcover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Fine. After months of researching butterflies in Samoa, Adam is looking forward to returning home to his family. Then his transfer to the airport doesn't arrive. Worse, a hastily arranged taxi takes him not to departures but an empty field in the middle of nowhere, and he misses his flight. As he fails to find alternative ways off the island - other flights, ferries, even seagoing yachts - he grows increasingly frustrated, especially as all overseas phone lines and emails seem to be down as well. In a cafe, he meets Eve, who offers to help him. He decides he has to trust her, for there is no one else. Yet he has a strange feeling he's met her before . Both Feet in Paradise is a masterpiece of storytelling that suspends the reader in a world of relentless beauty - where one step forward is two steps back and nothing and no one can be relied on, least of all yourself. Signed.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. After months of researching butterflies in Samoa, Adam is looking forward to returning home to his family. Then his transfer to the airport doesn't arrive. Worse, a hastily arranged taxi takes him not to departures but an empty field in the middle of nowhere, and he misses his flight. As he fails to find alternative ways off the island - other flights, ferries, even seagoing yachts - he grows increasingly frustrated, especially as all overseas phone lines and emails seem to be down as well. In a cafe, he meets Eve, who offers to help him. He decides he has to trust her, for there is no one else. Yet he has a strange feeling he's met her before . Both Feet in Paradise is a masterpiece of storytelling that suspends the reader in a world of relentless beauty - where one step forward is two steps back and nothing and no one can be relied on, least of all yourself. Signed.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. After months of researching butterflies in Samoa, Adam is looking forward to returning home to his family. Then his transfer to the airport doesn't arrive. Worse, a hastily arranged taxi takes him not to departures but an empty field in the middle of nowhere, and he misses his flight. As he fails to find alternative ways off the island - other flights, ferries, even seagoing yachts - he grows increasingly frustrated, especially as all overseas phone lines and emails seem to be down as well. In a cafe, he meets Eve, who offers to help him. He decides he has to trust her, for there is no one else. Yet he has a strange feeling he's met her before . Both Feet in Paradise is a masterpiece of storytelling that suspends the reader in a world of relentless beauty - where one step forward is two steps back and nothing and no one can be relied on, least of all yourself. Signed.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. After months of researching butterflies in Samoa, Adam is looking forward to returning home to his family. Then his transfer to the airport doesn't arrive. Worse, a hastily arranged taxi takes him not to departures but an empty field in the middle of nowhere, and he misses his flight. As he fails to find alternative ways off the island - other flights, ferries, even seagoing yachts - he grows increasingly frustrated, especially as all overseas phone lines and emails seem to be down as well. In a cafe, he meets Eve, who offers to help him. He decides he has to trust her, for there is no one else. Yet he has a strange feeling he's met her before . Both Feet in Paradise is a masterpiece of storytelling that suspends the reader in a world of relentless beauty - where one step forward is two steps back and nothing and no one can be relied on, least of all yourself. Signed.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. The 1958 travel letters and sketches of Stewart Bell Maclennan. 'Hello my dears, I'm writing this in the train which is stopped at the moment at Salzberg for passport examination. So if the writing becomes erratic, you'll know I'm on the way again . ' Stewart Bell Maclennan was the first Director of New Zealand's National Art Gallery, and the first full-time professional director of a public art gallery in New Zealand. In 1958 he spent six months in Europe and America, visiting galleries and museums to gather ideas.At home in Wellington his wife and four children eagerly awaited his letters, following his progress with coloured flags on a map on the lounge wall. His daughter, Mary Bell Thornton, has now put together a delightful collection of the letters to and from Stewart and his family - including some of the sketches he made while travelling. A frank and intimate record of the art world of the 1950s, and packed with humour. Unread but has shelf wear: corners bumped.…

Paperback. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

Paperback. Zustand: 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. Zustand: 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. …

Paperback. Zustand: New. The 1958 travel letters and sketches of Stewart Bell Maclennan. 'Hello my dears, I'm writing this in the train which is stopped at the moment at Salzberg for passport examination. So if the writing becomes erratic, you'll know I'm on the way again . ' Stewart Bell Maclennan was the first Director of New Zealand's National Art Gallery, and the first full-time professional director of a public art gallery in New Zealand. In 1958 he spent six months in Europe and America, visiting galleries and museums to gather ideas.At home in Wellington his wife and four children eagerly awaited his letters, following his progress with coloured flags on a map on the lounge wall. His daughter, Mary Bell Thornton, has now put together a delightful collection of the letters to and from Stewart and his family - including some of the sketches he made while travelling. A frank and intimate record of the art world of the 1950s, and packed with humour.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. For a while, living a digital life was like being a successful swan. Dignified gliding over the lake like you understood the way the world worked, the world being hard bright stones at the bottom of the lake and you on the surface, held up. Is our identity more of a composite than we realise? We often think of ourselves as formed from our core values or our DNA, but in Social Media, Mary Macpherson explores identity as a creation of the interactions we have with others: friends, family and the wider world, and the evolving role technology now plays in this. A playful and provocative collection that drills into our social and media selves using elements from short stories, art projects and films.…

Paperback. Zustand: New. Kay McKenzie Cooke chronicles life as it comes to her - the quotidian happenings in and around her home in Dunedin and further south where she grew up, and not-so-ordinary upturned world she experiences when she visits her son in Berlin. 97 pages.

Paperback. Zustand: New. I walk into Ema Saiko's room to find the poet herself at the writing desk, long hair scraped back in a bun. She wears an embroidered robe. Tea? I offer. It seems the right thing to do. I let her choose the teapot. I was tossing up between late evening blue and bright green. She claps her hands and says something about bamboo. So I go with the green one that looks like a Dalek. The poems in Janis Freegard's new collection take their starting point from the poet's daily ritual of reading the tea leaves while writing in the Ema Saiko room in the Wairarapa. This leads to unexpected discoveries about the world around her, from spider visitors to the writing room and a papyrus-fine gecko skin in the nearby wildlife sanctuary, to news of the ancient bdelloid rotifers that defy natural disasters and the recently extinct amphibians that did not. Then a gender- and species-fluid interpreter turns up to help the poet work her way through the daily revelations in her tea cup . Reading the Signs is a series of linked poems that are thoughtful and humorous, provocative and tender, and come together as a quiet epic about a planet that is fast running out of puff. Beginning to show signs of shelf wear. …

Softcover. Zustand: 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. Zustand: Fine. Wellington: the land dips and rols, the wind has a life of its own. Dig a little deeper and the city is unforgiving and unrepentant. Forget the politicians, they are poor amateurs in deception and crime. Stella has returned to Wellington, a private investigator. Her best friend Teri is found dead, and Stella is tenacious in her search to find out what happened and who's responsible. 312 pages.…

Paperback. Zustand: Fine. Wellington: the land dips and rols, the wind has a life of its own. Dig a little deeper and the city is unforgiving and unrepentant. Forget the politicians, they are poor amateurs in deception and crime. Stella has returned to Wellington, a private investigator. Her best friend Teri is found dead, and Stella is tenacious in her search to find out what happened and who's responsible. 312 pages.…

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Paperback. Zustand: Fine. It is Hamburg, 1920. Abruptly Erna leaves her marriage and her three daughters, and disappears from the family. No one speaks of her again. One by one the other members of the Simon family begin to disappear, with death from natural causes and then as a response to what is happening in Germany with the rise of the Third Reich. The family is Jewish, they cannot stay. After the war, what appears to be the remnant of the Simon family finds its way to New Zealand to start a new life. There are three: Wally, Liesl and Eric. Time passes and the family grows. Then one day an email arrives. We Came from Hamburg is a story of secrets, persecution and escape, and the elation of finding people half a century later who share a story you thought had been left behind. Signed.…

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Paperback. Zustand: New. Simon Sweetman - blogger, reviewer, podcaster, and author of On Song: Stories Behind New Zealand's Pop Classics - releases his first poetry collection, The Death of Music Journalism. Simon's been writing poems since he was first listening to bands on his Walkman, but then he started sharing them via social media and open mic nights. Word got around and he was a sleeper hit at LitCrawl's Lit-Sync For Your Life and the 2020 Variety for Fierys. Marking a pivot from the razor-sharp and sometimes controversial music writing he is best known for, Simon's collection is as wide-ranging as his career to date. He writes about late-night encounters on the phone with rock stars, hanging out as a student in Wellington flats, the simplicity of time spent with family and the unpredictable life of a freelance music reviewer, and what happens when these things occasionally intersect. A natural storyteller whose poetry is filled with characters both famous and ordinary, this eagerly awaited collection is unpredictable, anarchic, playful and surprisingly heartfelt.…