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The Soul of a Woman by Isabel Allende
$25.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction | Reading Level: very good
The wise, warm, defiant new book from literary legend Isabel Allende – a meditation on power, feminism and what it means to be a womanWhen I say that I was a feminist in kindergarten, I am not exaggerating.As a child, Isabel Allende watched her mother, abandoned by her husband, provide for her three sma ...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 ...Show more
October Mourning: A Song for Matthew Shepard by Lesléa Newman
$20.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
On the night of October 6, 1998, a gay twenty-one-year-old college student named Matthew Shepard was lured from a Wyoming bar by two young men, savagely beaten, tied to a remote fence, and left to die. Gay Awareness Week was beginning at the University of Wyoming, and the keynote speaker was Lesl a New ...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
Unfinished by Priyanka Chopra Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Autobiography
A thoughtful and revealing memoir from one of the world's most recognizable women, renowned for her bold risk-taking, multiculturalism, and activism. "I am a product of traditional India and its ancient wisdom, and modern India and its urban bustle. My upbringing was always an amalgamation of the two I ...Show more
The Frackers: The Outrageous Inside Story of the New Energy Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
The riveting, untold story of the tycoons behind the fracking controversy, from the bestselling author of The Greatest Trade Ever "Remarkable...A great read, whether you are pro-fracking or against it". (Matthew Bishop, The Economist). "Smart, colourful, gripping' Financial Times 'Excellent, highly read ...Show more
How to Drink a Glass of Wine
$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 Tattoo by Chris McKinney
$38.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
"A book about 'the sins of the fathers.' . . . A gritty, troubling book."--"The Honolulu Advertiser" "The other Hawai'i, the one tourists never get to see."--Ian MacMillan Ken Hideyoshi is the new guy in Halawa Correctional Institute. He's tough looking, a hard case, observes his cellmate Cal--the mute ...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 go ...Show more
The Electric Kool-aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
$27.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Tom Wolfe's The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test ushered in an era of New Journalism, "An American classic" (Newsweek) that defined a generation. "An astonishing book" (The New York Times Book Review) and an unflinching portrait of Ken Kesey, his Merry Pranksters, LSD, and the 1960s.
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
Pity the Nation: Lebanon at War by Robert Fisk
$45.00 NZD
Category: Adult Non-Fiction
Pity the Nation ranks among the classic accounts of war in our time, both as historical document and as an eyewitness testament to human savagery. Written by one of Britain's foremost journalists, this remarkable book combines political analysis and war reporting in an unprecedented way: it isan epic ac ...Show more