The Last Secret Agent: The untold story of my life as a spy behind Nazi enemy lines by Pippa Latour
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The extraordinary true story of one of the last female special operation agents in France to get out alive after its liberation in WWII. Born in 1921, Pippa Latour was a covert special operations agent who parachuted into a field in Nazi-occupied Normandy. Trained by the British as a Special Operations ...Show more
Endurance: 100 Tales of Survival, Adventure and Exploration by Levison Wood
$50.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
100 of the most astonishing stories of human survival, adventure and exploration, chosen by Levison Wood. We are always captivated by tales of courage and bravery, of world-firsts and death-defying experiences. In this anthology, explorer and bestselling author Levison Wood has gathered 100 of the most ...Show more
Dame Suzy D: My Story by Susan Devoy
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A four-time world squash champion, Dame Susan Devoy has led a remarkably varied life. She's been Race Relations Commissioner, a television star, a newspaper columnist, raised four boys and met Bill Clinton and King Charles. Fiercely driven and wildly competitive, her straight up style and hilarious turn ...Show more
Ultimate Road Trips: Aotearoa New Zealand by Brett Atkinson
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Series: Ultimate Ser.
Ultimate Road Trips: Aotearoa New Zealand is your inspirational and comprehensive touring guide to New Zealand, featuring 36 road trips across the North and South islands. From coastal journeys exploring the country's beaches and bays, to inland adventures through rugged volcanic and alpine landscapes, ...Show more
Whakawhetai: Gratitude - A Daily Bilingual Journal by Hira Nathan
$37.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
A beautiful bilingual gratitude journal to help improve your te reo and your life. Kia ū ki te pai, kia whai hua ai. Hold on to what is good and good things will follow. An inspirational, bilingual gratitude journal, based on the Māori holistic approach to health, hauora. Discover the four dimens ...Show more
Reading Genesis by Marilynne Robinson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
"For generations, the Book of Genesis has been treated by scholars as a collection of documents by various hands expressing different factional interests, with borrowings from other ancient literatures that mark the text as derivative. In other words, academic interpretation of Genesis has centered on t ...Show more
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel
$35.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behavior is hard to teach, even to really smart people. Money - investing, personal finance, and business decisions - is typically taught as a math-based field, where data and formulas tell us exactly what to do ...Show more
Lost Connections: Why You're Depressed and How to Find Hope by Johann Hari
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: 4 non fiction
THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Depression and anxiety are now at epidemic levels. Why? Across the world, scientists have uncovered evidence for nine different causes. Some are in our biology, but most are in the way we are living today. Lost Connections offers a radical new way of thinking about this cris ...Show more
Magic Pill: The Extraordinary Benefits and Disturbing Risks of the New Weight Loss Drugs by Johann Hari
$39.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
The bestselling author of Lost Connections and Stolen Focus takes a revelatory look at the new drugs transforming weight loss as we know it sharing his personal experience on Ozempic and examining our ability to heal society's dysfunctional relationship with food, weight and our bodies. In January 2023, ...Show more
Private Revolutions: Coming of Age in a New China by Yuan Yang
$39.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A Sunday Times, Observer and Waterstones Best Book of 2024 This is a book about the coming of age of four women born in China in the 1980s and 1990s, dreaming of better futures. It is about Leiya, who wants to escape the fate of the women in her village. Still underage, she bluffs her way on to the fact ...Show more
Invasion: Inside Russia's War on Ukraine by Luke Harding
$28.00 NZD
Category: History | Reading Level: good
The first account of the Ukraine war, from the award-winning journalist and #1 New York Times selling author of Collusion and Shadow State who forecasted Putin's dark adventurist ambitions. For months, the omens had pointed in one scarcely believable direction: Russia was about to invade Ukraine. And ye ...Show more
Ngatokimatawhaorua - The Biography of a Waka by Jeff Evans
$50.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand
Ngatokimatawhaorua, the longest waka taua to be built in modern times, is a national taonga and resides at the Treaty Grounds at Waitangi. The inspiration for its construction came from Te Puea Harangi's dream to build seven waka for the 1940 centennial commemorations of the signing of the Treaty of Wai ...Show more