The Keeper of Miracles by Phillip Maisel
$37.99 NZD
Category: Political
Phillip Maisel OAM was born in August 1922, in Vilna, Lithuania. When the Germans arrived in Vilna in 1941, Phillip's life changed dramatically. He survived two years in a squalid, overcrowded Jewish ghetto, before enduring multiple Nazi labour and concentration camps. Phillip was liberated in 1945 whil ...Show more
Tikanga: Living with the traditions of te ao Māori by Francis Tipene, Kaiora Tipene
$39.99 NZD
Category: NZ
The stars of The Casketeers on how to live a fulfilling life, rich with tikanga. Following on from the bestseller Life as a Casketeer, Francis and Kaiora Tipene share how they bring the traditional values of tikanga Māori into day-to-day living and what they learnt about the concepts of te ao Māori grow ...Show more
The Tales of Two Fannies - Farmyard to Furnaces: Fanny and Fanny
$20.00 NZD
Category: General
The Tales of Two Fannies is an insight into the world of two best friends, whose characters you will come to know as 'Fanny One' and 'Fanny Two'. With a combined nursing career spanning fifty plus years, they have come together to share their truthful tales. No 'holes' barred, Fanny and Fanny have a sen ...Show more
What You Made of It - A Memoir, 1987-2020 by C K Stead
$49.99 NZD
Category: General | Reading Level: near fine
The third and final volume of C. K. Stead’s memoirs, from leaving the University of Auckland to write full-time until today. ‘These are my encounters and engagements with the world of books and writers, and of teaching and writing about them,’ C. K. Stead writes in this third and final volume of his mem ...Show more
This Is a Call: The Life and Times of Dave Grohl [New Edition] by Paul Brannigan
$29.99 NZD
Category: Biography
'Someone called and said Kurt died. I just f*****g lost it.' He has sold over 40 million albums. He's been in bands that have changed popular music forever. He saw his best friend commit suicide. He starts supergroups. He's the nicest guy in rock. From Nirvana to Foo Fighters, from brotherhood to bitter ...Show more
My Amy: The Life We Shared by Tyler James
$39.99 NZD
Category: Entertainment
Written with a searing honesty and published for the tenth anniversary of Amy Winehouse's death, My Amy is an evocative portrait of unbreakable lifelong friendship - and a devastating study into fame, addiction and self-sabotage. Only one person knows what really happened to Amy, other than Amy herself ...Show more
I Know This to Be True - Jacinda Ardern on Kindness, Empathy and Strength by Jacinda Ardern
$20.00 NZD
Category: Political | Reading Level: near fine
'I Know This to Be True' is a global five-year project founded on original interviews to inspire a new generation of leaders. Truth, wisdom, inspiration and what really matters for the most inspiring leaders of our time. Politician, feminist and champion for social equality, Jacinda Ardern epitomizes th ...Show more
Beautiful Things: A Memoir by Hunter Biden
$38.00 NZD
Category: Motivation
When he was two years old, Hunter Biden was badly injured in a car accident that killed his mother and baby sister. In 2015, he suffered the devastating loss of his beloved big brother, Beau, who died of brain cancer at the age of 46. These hardships were compounded by the collapse of his marriage and a ...Show more
Auē (Aue) by Becky Manawatu
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in the music he draws out of the guitar that was his father’s. It spills out of the gang violence that killed his father and sent his mother into hiding, and the shame he feels about abandoning his eight-year- ...Show more
Grief on the Run by Julie Zarifeh
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Julie Zarifeh shares the tragic story of losing her 27-year-old son, Sam, in a whitewater rafting accident just sixteen days after her 60-year-old husband, Paul, died of pancreatic cancer. She describes how she and her surviving son and daughter dealt with this double whammy and how she embraced the not ...Show more
Life as a Novel - A Biography of Maurice Shadbolt Volume One 1932 - 1973 by Philip Temple
$9.99 NZD
$44.99 (77% off)
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Maurice Shadbolt believed that New Zealanders should tell their own stories, cherish their own myths and believe in their own big lies before they could stand upright in a post-colonial world. Through his fiction, non-fiction and international journalism, he played a leading role in projecting New Zeala ...Show more
Life in a Cold Climate - Nancy Mitford - the Biography by Laura Thompson
$25.00 NZD
Category: Entertainment
Nancy Mitford was, in the words of her sister Lady Diana Mosley, 'very, very complex'. Her biographies and novels, her journalism, and the vast body of letters to her family, friends such as Evelyn Waugh, and to the great love of her life, Gaston Palewski, all tell an intriguing story. Drawing from thes ...Show more