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A clever, hopeful, young graduate, Tito López, is poised at the entry to adulthood as well as a whole new millennium. Living in a provincial Mexican city at the turn of the 21st century he wants what most of us want ... a career, love, happiness. But will he find any of them on Cerro del Calvario?What's up with his nunnish clever sister Angelita? Will the deer's eye work - the amulet given by the wrinkled family workhorse, María? Who's the mysterious blond god, Salvador?The Unused Life of Tito López portrays the Lopez family in a way that will seem familiar to those from middle-class suburban amilies almost anywhere else in the world. Meanwhile, readers from outside Mexico will be intrigued by the sense of other, parallel, exotic, existences in our contemporary world.

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, strengthening students' confidence. This way any gaps in previous maths education that may have been holding students back will be found and addressed.This book is suitable for a range of students, from young kids who want to be extended to intermediate aged children who have 'fallen behind'. No specific year level is put on the book so kids are not shamed by the expectations of artificial divisions created by curriculum designs. Maggie's use of cute pictures and chatty, conversational language are in stark contrast to the usual dry intimidating maths textbook. She discusses serious maths concepts in a friendly way so everyone can enjoy discovering their secret math superpowers!

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 just trying to survive - grow some veggies, avoid being evicted, keep up with the local goss. Meanwhile a specialist in birdsong arrives hoping to conduct research in the surrounding hills. His project is regarded with ire or indifference by all except for Timothy, a weird loner living in the bush, whose speech is odd and behaviour odder.

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 Apia. Pru soon finds herself thinking things, feeling things, doing things she's never till now come close to thinking, feeling, doing. 'Are we just an ornamental waste of space, d'you think?' she asks Guy in Samoa. 'I rather think we are, darling.' 'Oh dear.' Pru Goes Troppo is a comic novel about the ups and downs of two people who are privileged parasites, yet curiously innocent. Among the themes explored in the story are class, gender, colonialism and neo-colonialism, ageing and belonging. And pratfalls.

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 in a taxi, and named Stevan.Green Grey rain tells the story of the first years of a little boy dreaming and singing, wondering and wishing, in the bush, rain, rust and sooty streets of 1950s Blackball. A story told by the boy. A story told too by the hit songs he hears on the radio. And a story told by his mother - someone who, with her sister, has already spoken to us in the pages of Oracles and Miracles. Stevan is one of New Zealand's most prolific writers with 24 books published (including histories, novels, and true tales) and numerous articles, essays, and short stories. He is an award-winning author, a best-selling author, yet still a humble and engaging author.