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Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living by Glennon Doyle
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern - A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following the Chri ...Show more
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped pe ...Show more
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody storie ...Show more
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: good
Winner - Ockham NZ Book Awards - General Non-Fiction Award 2020 In Dead People I Have Known, the legendary New Zealand musician Shayne Carter tells the story of a life in music, taking us deep behind the scenes and songs of his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys and his best-known b ...Show more
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't ...Show more
Face It (Debbie Harry Memoirs) HB by Debbie Harry
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Debbie Harry has achieved a level of global success and iconic stature that is reserved for very few musicians, and even fewer women. Charismatic lead singer, critically acclaimed solo artist and style icon, her allure is endless and her legacy is enduring. In this, her first memoir, Debbie shares her r ...Show more
Lady in Waiting: My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
The remarkable life of Lady in Waiting to Princess Margaret who was also a Maid of Honour at the Queen's Coronation - and is a character in THE CROWN this spring. Anne Glenconner reveals the real events behind The Crown as well as her own life of drama, tragedy and courage, with the wonderful wit and ex ...Show more
Machete and the Ghost by James Griffin; Oscar Kightley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
Lelei Lelei Jnr (aka Machete) and Neil Turnbull (aka The Ghost) came from very different backgrounds but when they eventually found each other they became the 2nd five/centre combination that ruled world rugby. On the pitch they were an unorthodox and mostly unstoppable team. On their day, when they wer ...Show more
The Choice: Even in Hell Hope Can Flower by Edith Eger
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
''This book has found a special place in my heart. It''s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'' Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK ''Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more tha ...Show more
A Place For The Heart: The Life and Work of Dave Comer, Photographer and Film Location Scout by Peta Carey
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Dave Comer was a highly respected and reknown photographer and film location scout, popularly known as `The man who found Middle Earth¿ for his central role in finding what are now the world famous locations for The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit films. He lived much of his life in and around Fiordlan ...Show more