Legacy: Sir Gordon Tietjens; My Story by Gordon Tietjens
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Gordon 'Titch' Tietjens, pioneer of the global sevens game, is one of New Zealand's greatest ever rugby coaches. His many accolades - including 12 IRB World Series, two IRB Rugby World Cups and four Commonwealth Games gold medals - easily place him alongside the likes of Fred Allen, Brian Lochore, Graha ...Show more
So Far, For Now by Fiona Kidman
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Evocative, wry and thought-provoking, this is a rewarding journey with one of our finest writers. It is a little over a decade since Fiona Kidman wrote her last volume of memoir. But her story did not end on its last page; instead her life since has been busier than ever, filled with significant changes ...Show more
Women and Leadership: Real Lives, Real Lessons by Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
An inspirational and practical book written by two high-achieving women, sharing the experience and advice of some of our most extraordinary women leaders, in their own words. From their broad experience on the world stage in politics, economics and global not-for-profits, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and Julia ...Show more
Fury by Kathryn Heyman
33.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A raw, painfully honest, heartbreaking account of a young woman raising herself out of abuse and poverty to become her own hero. A roadmap of recovery and transformation, this is the story of becoming heroic in a culture which doesn't see heroism in the shape of a girl. At the age of twenty, after a t ...Show more
Am I There Yet? by Mari Andrew
28.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
New York Times bestseller This on-point guide to growing up by Instagram sensation Mari Andrew captures the feelings and comical complexities of millennials and adulthood with essays and illustrations. In the journey toward adulthood, it is easy to find yourself treading the path of those who came b ...Show more
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Not being racist is not enough. We have to be antiracist. In this rousing and deeply empathetic book, Ibram X. Kendi, founding director of the Antiracism Research and Policy Center, shows that when it comes to racism, neutrality is not an option: until we become part of the solution, we can only be par ...Show more
Letters of Note - Correspondence Deserving of a Wider Audience by Shaun Usher
70.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Letters of Note is a collection of over one hundred of the world's most entertaining, inspiring and unusual letters, based on the seismically popular website of the same name - an online museum of correspondence visited by over 70 million people. From Virginia Woolf's heart-breaking suicide letter, to Q ...Show more
Made in America: An Informal History of American English by Bill Bryson
28.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: Bryson
"Funny, wise, learned and compulsive." (GQ). Bill Bryson turns away from travelling the highways and byways of middle America, so hilariously depicted in his bestselling The Lost Continent, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid and Notes from a Big Country, for a fast, exhilarating ride along the Ro ...Show more
Touring Edwardian New Zealand by Paul Moon
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The Edwardian era (1901-14) was fleeting but significant, perhaps nowhere more so than in Aotearoa New Zealand. At the turn of the twentieth century, many British regarded New Zealand as ‘the Britain of the South Seas’. Tourist promotions created an idealised impression of a country that was partly a c ...Show more
No Excuses: My Story - From Crime to Community and Fat to Fit by Dave Letele
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Dave Letele's life has taken him from crime to community, footy to failure, riches to rags (and back again), and from fat to fit. Today, he is a businessman, community leader and life coach who helps literally thousands achieve their goals as the face of Buttabean Motivation. He gives out free meals for ...Show more
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard
22.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
In the summer of 1991 I was a normal kid. I did normal things. I had friends and a mother who loved me. I was just like you. Until the day my life was stolen. For eighteen years I was a prisoner. I was an object for someone to use and abuse. For eighteen years I was not allowed to speak my own name. ...Show more
Shackleton's Boat Journey by Frank A Worsley
37.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Frank A. Worsley was the Captain of the H. M. S. Endurance, the ship used by the legendary explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton in his 1914-16 expedition to the Antarctic. On its way to the Antarctic continent the Endurance became trapped and then crushed by ice, and the ship's party of twenty-eight drifted i ...Show more