The Invisible Millionaire: A Guide to Real Estate Wealth by Jonathan Bidmead
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Most millionaires in our midst are invisible. Many people would be surprised as to who the real millionaires are, as opposed to thosewho may drive prestige cars and live in the right suburbs.Invisible is how they make the intangible tangible.Invisible too are the thoughts, beliefs, axioms and actions of ...Show more
The Last Great Adventure Of Sir Peter Blake by Alan Sefton
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
This captivating book follows the late Sir Peter Blake - legendary yachtsman and adventurer - on his final, ill-fated voyage. It tracks him and his dedicated team on the blakexpeditions exploration vessel Seamaster to the environmental pulse points of the planet as they look to generate greater awarenes ...Show more
The Lazy Girl's Guide to Living a Beautiful Life by Matilda Rice
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Written in her chatty and approachable style, this is a refreshing, positive guide to life for young women. Matilda emphasises having fun and being yourself.She includes her favourite recipes and some great exercises and workouts you can do easily at home plus heaps of great advice on skincare, beauty a ...Show more
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd by Finlay Macdonald
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd is both a tale of remarkable success and a window into a brilliant creative mind.Finlay Macdonald's beautifully told, visually gorgeous biography of Dame Lynley Dodd and her creation, the rascally dog Hairy Maclary. 'A visual delight' NZ Listener's 100 Best Books of 2013' ...Show more
The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd by Finlay Macdonald
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: very good
Dame Lynley Dodd is New Zealand's best known author and illustrator of children's books. Her career was launched in 1973 with the publication of My Cat Likes to Hide in Boxes, which she collaborated on with cousin Eve Sutton. Other picture books soon followed and in 1983 the world famous Hairy Maclary f ...Show more
The Life and Times of a Brown Paper Bag by Kevin Milne
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Beloved television star of Fair Go, Kevin Milne's memoir is funny, insightful, incisive, moving and all-round entertaining. He talks of his long television career - 40 years - including 25 years of the long-running, top-rating Fair Go.Kevin writes in a relaxed, laconic style that draws the reader in im ...Show more
The Lone Ranger Story : From Salvage Tug to Superyacht by John Julian
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Lone Ranger worked as a salvage tug (then named Simson) and towed some of the largest oil installations ever built during twenty of the most challenging years in the history of the business. During the mid-1990s she embarked on a second career and has become the world's pre-eminent exploration yacht. As ...Show more
The Longest Day: Standing up to Depression and Tackling the Coast to Coast by Matt Calman
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
What do you do when you reach rock bottom? Matt Calman's most consistent tool for dealing with problems throughout his life was alcohol. But it got to the stage where he was no longer willing to put up with the dark side of his drinking. So he quit. But the problems that had been simmering away for most ...Show more
The Lost Pilot by Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
On 6 April 1945, a Japanese kamikaze pilot breaks cloud at 3,000 feet, near the island of Ishigaki. He plunges his Suisei divebomber into a fatal dive at the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious. On the signals deck, Chief Petty Officer W. T. Holman sees him coming - he has just seconds to react. ...Show more
The Man Who Created Narnia: The Life of CS Lewis by Michael Coren
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
The Story of C.S. Lewis
The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk by David Malcolm Grant
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
A major biography of arguably New Zealand's greatest modern political leader As Norman Kirk's body lay in state near the steps of Parliament on the day after his death on 31 August 1974, a kaumatua wailed 'the mighty totara has fallen'. The lament reflected what many New Zealanders felt about this big, ...Show more
The Myers by Paul Goldsmith & Michael Bassett
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
The Myers is a sweeping study of four generations of the Myers family. It moves from Prussian Poland to the goldfields of Ballarat to bankruptcy in the South Island and then to a growing fortune in beer and liquor. It tells the story of local government involvement by the first two generations, and the ...Show more