Forgotten Warriors: A History of Women on the Front Line by Sarah Percy
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
From Boudicca to Ukraine, battlefields have always contained a surprising number of women. Tracing the long history of female fighters, Forgotten Warriors puts the record straight, exploring how war became an all-male space, and getting to the bottom of why women were allowed to be astronauts a full thi ...Show more
After Alexander: The Legacy of a Son by Jan Pryor
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Jan Pryor blends her personal experience of losing a child with her professional understanding of family dynamics and children's development. The clumsiness of consolation; the challenges of organising a funeral and what to do with Alexander's ashes; the isolation, being far from friends and family; con ...Show more
The Bulford Kiwi: The Kiwi We Left Behind by Colleen Brown
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Little known story from after WW1, when NZ troops waited months in Sling Camp in southern England after the war ended to get a ship home. * Rioting in the camp led to plans to keep troops busy by cutting a giant Kiwi into the chalk hill behind the camp. * The Bulford Kiwi has become a monument built by ...Show more
The Enchanted Hour: The Miraculous Power of Reading Aloud in the Age of Distraction by Meghan Cox Gurdon
30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
"Parents and grandparents shouldn't miss The Enchanted Hour."-- James Patterson, international bestselling author A Wall Street Journal writer's conversation-changing look at how reading aloud makes adults and children smarter, happier, healthier, more successful and more closely attached, even as techn ...Show more
Take Risks by John Marsden
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Life is a thrilling adventure. Our children get only rare glimpses of the possibilities. To roam, to dare, to fail ... these are the rights of children. John Marsden, the award-winning, bestselling author of the Tomorrow series, has spent his life educating kids and teenagers. He is passionate about the ...Show more
Consent Laid Bare: Sex, Entitlement & the Distortion of Desire by Chanel Contos
40.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
A battle cry from a generation no longer willing to stay silent, this book is a must for women, and men, navigating desire in the age of entitlement. You are a fourteen-year-old girl at a party. You are drunk. All your friends are drunk. A boy is pressuring you to have sex. You don't really want to, but ...Show more
How to Drink a Glass of Wine by John Saker
26.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
New Zealand has become one of the world's great wine-drinking and producing countries. After six years as a top wine writer, John Saker has blended a thousand impressions, delicious experiences and startled taste buds into an engrossing guide to the world's most loved - and debated - beverage. A glass o ...Show more
The Good Doctor by Lance O'Sullivan
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Lance O'Sullivan is a man on a mission. Raised in Auckland by a solo mother, he had a modest upbringing typical of the time, if one chequered with difficulties. After being expelled from two schools, Lance could have gone off the rails. Instead, he found his way at Hato Petera College, connecting with ...Show more
Our Iceberg is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions by John Kotter
33.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
This charming story about a penguin colony in Antarctica illustrates key truths about how we deal with the issue of change: handle the challenge well and you can prosper greatly; handle it poorly and you put yourself at risk. The penguins are living happily on their iceberg as they have done for many ye ...Show more
The Imaginary Lives of James Poneke by Tina Makereti
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
While exhibited as a curiosity, a Maori boy turns his gaze on Victorian London. 'The hour is late. The candle is low. Tomorrow I will see whether it is my friends or a ship homewards I meet. But first I must finish my story for you. My future, my descendant, my mokopuna. Listen.?So begins the tale of Ja ...Show more
Backyard to Backpack by Evie Farrell
37.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Inspiring true story of a single mum and daughter who traded a conventional life in the suburbs for a life lived fully together travelling the world. What if you followed your heart to a life that made you truly happy? When her daughter Emmie was 6 years old, Evie Farrell left her corporate career, sol ...Show more
Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Ray: "Traitor or Patriot? Now we have Edward Snowden’s own story — high-school dropout; hacker; joined the Army after 9/11; top secret security clearance at the age of 22. Will make you wonder about the wisdom of Australia sharing its intelligence with the U.S. And make you worry about how much the gov ...Show more