Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness by David H. Lewis
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography
From author David H. Lewis and illustrator Gilang Bogy, Michael Jordan: Life Lessons from His Airness contains the secrets to success from the greatest basketball player of all time.“Sometimes a winner is just a dreamer who never gave up.”Michael Jordan defied gravity, transcended the world’s expectatio ...Show more
How to Be a Refugee - One Family's Story of Exile and Belonging by Simon May
$24.99 NZD
Category: Political
'A lyrical, fascinating, important book. More than just a family story, it is an essay on belonging, denying, pretending, self-deception and, at least for the main characters, survival.' Literary Review' Simon May's remarkable How to Be a Refugee is a memoir of family secrets with a ruminative twist, o ...Show more
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
$24.99 NZD
Category: General
The Sunday Times top 10 bestsellerWith a foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales'A stunningly moving book about the power of hope and love to overcome the very worst of mankind' Piers MorganWhen Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he'd ...Show more
Party Hopper by Peter McCardle
$35.00 NZD
Category: Political
“I’ve found over the many years that, when elections come along, I just sit still at my Beehive desk, buy a coffee, the people around me all change, and I just carry on.” This is the story of Peter McCardle’s journey through the last thirty years in New Zealand politics. Beginning as a National MP, then ...Show more
Rose: The Extraordinary Story of Rose de Freycinet: Wife, Stowaway and the First Woman to Record her Voyage Around the World by Suzanne Falkiner
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
The voyage of Rose de Freycinet, the stowaway who defied the French for love. In 1814, in the aftermath of the French Revolution, nineteen-year-old Rose Pinon married handsome naval officer Louis de Freycinet, fifteen years her senior. Three years later, unable to bear parting from her husband, she dre ...Show more
Out Here: An Anthology of Takatāpui and LGBTQIA+ Writers from Aotearoa by Chris Tse & Emma Barnes (Editors)
$50.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
A remarkable anthology of queer New Zealand voices. We became teenagers in the nineties when New Zealand felt a lot less cool about queerness, and gender felt much more rigid. We knew instinctively that hiding was the safest strategy. But how to find your community if you’re hidden? Aotearoa is a land o ...Show more
Still Standing by Jessica Quinn
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Jess Quinn's inspirational memoir tells her story of losing her leg to cancer as a nine-year-old and how she's come to an acceptance of this and turned it into a quest to help others. Jess Quinn is, in her own words, quite literally a walking miracle. Her body has been completely restructured so that sh ...Show more
Will by Will Smith, Mark Manson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Entertainment | Reading Level: near fine
One of the most dynamic and globally recognized entertainment forces of our time opens up fully about his life, in a brave and inspiring book that traces his learning curve to a place where outer success, inner happiness, and human connection are aligned. Along the way, Will tells the story in full of o ...Show more
Uncoupling - An insider's guide to separation in New Zealand by Barbara Relph
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: very good
Whether you are uncoupling from a relationship, or find yourself suddenly uncoupled, this book answers many questions to help you navigate the challenges of separation, helping you move through each step and into the next phase of your life. Using personal experience and knowledge from experts, Uncoupli ...Show more
James Courage Diaries by Chris Brickell
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ | Reading Level: near fine
New Zealand author James Courage was born in Christchurch in 1903, and he became aware of his homosexuality during his adolescent years. He moved to London in 1927 and began writing novels, plays, poems and short stories. He was much more sexually open than most of his homosexual writer contemporaries F ...Show more
A Week in September: A story of enduring love from the Burma Railway by Peter Rees
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Through a precious cache of WWII letters, a story of war is revealed. But also, most movingly, a story of love, resilience and survival, from award-winning and bestselling writer, Peter Rees. Doug Heywood was a grown man when he discovered, in a shoe box hidden in a wardrobe, a time capsule of sorts - ...Show more
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