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Making Maths Add Up takes a revolutionary new approach to teaching maths. Starting from scratch, it breaks seemingly complex mathematical concepts down into core parts, and builds upon each foundation skill in an intuitive way. This book equips kids with the skills and tools to explore and truly understand maths. While most books cover only a fraction of each topic, this book starts from the beginning and logically builds up each concept, str...

The valley is calm, quiet, waiting. Mrs Henderson thinks it's earthquake weather but she doesn't say anything, doesn't want to make a fuss. It's probably nothing. No one else notices it's quiet, too quiet, until everyone does at the same moment, like at a party when everything goes quiet and no one wants to be the first to speak. All the birds are airborne, and the whole valley holds its breath. In post-earthquake suburbia everyone is j...

This lyrical and joyful odyssey portrays the vagaries and foibles of Tito's life as he seeks self discovery and acceptance. Tito's spirited voice gives hope that love, bravery, and curiosity prevail.

Pru has been married to Guy for a quarter of a century. She hasn't had sex for ten years. 'Why the hell do I live my life this way?' she says to herself. 'I mean - really!' Change comes from out of the blue when odd old Uncle Bertie dies in Samoa and leaves his property to Guy. On a whim, the couple decide to go and take a look at what they know must be a tropical paradise. Not their usual stamping ground, you understand. Daringly, they fly to...

Rain on iron rooftops. A radio streaming the latest hit songs. It's the early 1950s. The baby boom. Valarie is a talkative, singing, slanging, pregnant daughter of the slums. Gilbert, her husband, is a well-spoken son of a landed family. They already have three kids. Gilbert has just taken a job as paymaster at a coal mine. The family is about to start life in a green and black and red township on the West Coast. A little boy is born, almost i...

The best-selling novel about twin girls growing up in New Zealand is back - with zombies! We all know about the zombie virus that ravaged New Zealand between the two world wars, but little has been written about how the biters it created affected the lives of women, especially working-class women. Stevan Eldred-Grigg's best-selling novel about twin sisters growing up during the depression has been updated by Helen Mae Innes to include the pr...