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Finding Freedom: Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Carolyn Durand; Omid Scobie
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world's attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son ...Show more
Where the Wild Dads Went by Katie Blackburn
$23.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: General Adult
The night Dad had a few cheeky ones after work, forgot the milk and tripped over the rubbish, Mum called him A Wild Thing and said "Don't mind me!" and spent the rest of the night on the phone . . . In this hilarious, touching homage to Maurice Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, a tired and emotional ...Show more
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living by Glennon Doyle
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't ...Show more
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
Jacinda Ardern - A New Kind of Leader by Madeleine Chapman
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-fiction general
Prime Minister of New Zealand Jacinda Ardern is a leader for a new generation, one tired of inertia in the face of pressing issues such as climate change, immigration and the rise of far-right terrorism. Ardern was catapulted onto the international stage with her grace and compassion following the Chri ...Show more
Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1 ...Show more
Debbie Harry: Face It by Debbie Harry
$50.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: very good
Debbie Harry has achieved a level of global success and iconic stature that is reserved for very few musicians, and even fewer women. Charismatic lead singer, critically acclaimed solo artist and style icon, her allure is endless and her legacy is enduring. In this, her first memoir, Debbie shares her r ...Show more
Dead People I Have Known by Shayne Carter
$40.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Reading Level: good
Winner - Ockham NZ Book Awards - General Non-Fiction Award 2020 In Dead People I Have Known, the legendary New Zealand musician Shayne Carter tells the story of a life in music, taking us deep behind the scenes and songs of his riotous teenage bands Bored Games and the Doublehappys and his best-known b ...Show more
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Educated is a remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho who strives for education while still showing great understanding and love for the world she leaves behind.' - BARACK OBAMA Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for t ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an ext ...Show more
Lady in Waiting : My Extraordinary Life in the Shadow of the Crown by Anne Glenconner
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography
**International Bestseller** **The Times (UK) Memoir of the Year** **One of Newsweek's Most Anticipated Books of 2020** An extraordinary memoir of drama, tragedy, and royal secrets by Anne Glenconner--a close member of the royal circle and lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret. As seen on Netflix's Th ...Show more
Machete and the Ghost by James Griffin; Oscar Kightley
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
Lelei Lelei Jnr (aka Machete) and Neil Turnbull (aka The Ghost) came from very different backgrounds but when they eventually found each other they became the 2nd five/centre combination that ruled world rugby. On the pitch they were an unorthodox and mostly unstoppable team. On their day, when they wer ...Show more