It's OK That You're Not OK: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand by Megan Devine
33.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
In 2009, on a beautiful sunny day, Megan Devine witnessed the accidental drowning of her beloved partner Matt. "All my professional experience as a therapist felt meaningless," she writes. "Grief literature is loaded with well-intended advice that can actually worsen and extend someone's pain. We just d ...Show more
The Writer's Map: An Atlas of Imaginary Lands by Huw Lewis-Jones
60.00 NZD
Category: Gift Books
Maps can transport us, they are filled with wonder, the possibility of real adventure and travels of the mind. This is an atlas of the journeys that writers make, encompassing not only the maps that actually appear in their books, but also the many maps that have inspired them and the sketches that the ...Show more
Krithia: The Forgotten Anzac Battle of Gallipoli by Mat McLachlan
40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
Gallipoli is the defining battlefield in Australian history and identity, yet the tale of the Second Battle of Krithia has existed largely in the shadows of the bigger Gallipoli story. It is, however, one of the most poignant and tragic tales of World War I, now brought to light by bestselling military ...Show more
A Day in the Life of Abed Salama: A Palestine Story by Nathan Thrall
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
** Winner 2024 Pulitzer Prize for Non-Fiction ** A gripping, intimate story of one heartbreaking day in Palestine that reveals lives, loves, enmities, and histories in violent collision. Milad is five years old and excited for his school trip to a theme park on the outskirts of Jerusalem, but tragedy ...Show more
Disfigured: On Fairy Tales, Disability, and Making Space by Amanda Leduc
35.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
In fairy tales, happy endings are the norm -- as long as you're beautiful and walk on two legs. After all, the ogre never gets the princess. And since fairy tales are the foundational myths of our culture, how can a girl with a disability ever think she'll have a happy ending? By examining the ways tha ...Show more
Belonging: The Ancient Code of Togetherness by Owen Eastwood
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Whakapapa. You belong here. Whakapapa is a Maori word which embodies our human need to belong. It represents a powerful spiritual idea - we are all part of an unbroken and unbreakable chain of people who share a special culture. Owen Eastwood places this concept at the core of his methods to maximise a ...Show more
How to be a Bad Muslim and Other Essays by Mohamed Hassan
35.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Funny, elegiac and chilling, these essays from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan blend storytelling, memoir and non-fiction to map the experience of being Muslim in the C21st. This is the breakout non-fiction book from award-winning New Zealand writer Mohamed Hassan. From Cairo to Takapuna ...Show more
Be Good: Plant Based Recipes for Everybody by Buffy Ellen Gill
45.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Be Good to your health and our planet! Looking for some plant-based inspiration that is both flavoursome and nutritionally balanced? Then this is the book for you! Buffy Ellen Gill is a qualified nutritionist, naturopath and medical herbalist who offers one-on-one consults. She runs New Zealand's most ...Show more
Sam Hunt: Off the Road by Colin Hogg
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Thirty years after Hogg and Hunt collaborated on the now-legendary Angel Gear: Off the Road with Sam Hunt, the pair have decided to throw caution to the wind and proceed without doctors' certificates, to create an older, possibly wiser twin to that earlier book. A backstage pass to the private side of ...Show more
Stuff Every Mom Should Know by Heather Gibbs Flett; Whitney Moss
21.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
This pocket-sized parenting guide for moms and moms-to-be is perfect for a baby shower or Mother's Day gift. This little handbook is filled with all the secrets and strategies a smart mother needs to know. Featuring tips for mastering quick and easy meals, suggestions for baby-proofing like an exper ...Show more
Tangata Ngai Tahu: People of Ngai Tahu, Vol 1 by Takerei Norton
50.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Series: Tāngata Ngāi
Tangata Ngai Tahu remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu history into the present. The people in the book have contributed to their iwi, hapu and whanau in myriad ways: here are rangatir ...Show more
Daughters of Kobani by Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
37.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The extraordinary story of the women who took on the Islamic State and won. In 2014, northeastern Syria might have been the last place you would expect to find a revolution centered on women's rights. But that year, an all-female militia faced off against ISIS in a little town few had ever heard of: Ko ...Show more