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Sir Peter Blake - An Amazing Life by Alan Sefton
$12.00 NZD
Category: Sailing | Reading Level: very good
Sir Blake was a sailor, captain, and legend. The late Sir Peter Blake was perhaps the greatest competitive yachtsman of all time, the man who seized the America's cup and won the Whitbread. In his later years he turned away from international competition and used the yacht Seamaster to draw attention ...Show more
The Political Years by Marilyn Waring
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
"When I entered Parliament in 1975, I joined a very small club: although women in New Zealand won the right to vote in 1893, only a tiny handful had been Members of Parliament in the hundred or so years that followed. I was number 15!" In 1975, Marilyn Waring was elected to the New Zealand Parliament a ...Show more
Fred the Needle - The Untold Story of Sir Fred Allen by Alan Sayers & Les Watkins
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Sport History | Reading Level: near fine
At last, the book they said would never be published. Few New Zealand rugby personalities can truly be labelled "legends". Sir Fred Allen, though, is one of those rare exceptions. Along with the great Colin Meads, Allen is an icon of the game, universally loved and a true New Zealand hero. For yea ...Show more
Robert Laidlaw - Man For OurTime by Ian Hunter
$20.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The inspirational story of Robert Laidlaw, business genius and founder of the Farmers Trading Company. A panoramic biography of one of the 20th century's greatest and most innovative businessmen.
Kippenberger - An Inspired New Zealand Commander by Glyn Harper
$20.00 NZD
Category: New Zealand | Reading Level: good-very good
Major General Sir Howard Karl Kippenberger, KBE, CB, DSO and Bar, ED, was an exceptional New Zealander and one of the truly great military commanders of World War Two. Here Glyn Harper examines his formative years, including his WW1 experiences, and shows how they influenced his style of leadership and ...Show more
Tree of Strangers by Barbara Sumner
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A compelling memoir of adoption, loss and discovery ‘I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road.’ I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother I’d never met ...Show more
Metamorphosis: A Scientist's Story by Glen Metcalf
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Metamorphosis is the story of one woman's transformation from a traditional Kiwi housewife of the 1950s into an internationally known scientist. Born in 1926, married at 21 and a mother shortly after, Glen Metcalf's life changed when at age 35 she met Dr Donald Beaven, the founding professor of the Chri ...Show more
White Moko - Stories from my life by Tim Tipene
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A memoir from award-winning writer and inspirational speaker Tim Tipene. Tim founded the Warrior Kids programme 22 years ago. His courses now empower families and children. Himself the product of rape, Tim spent a miserable childhood in which he was abused by both his birth and foster families. This me ...Show more
Leading Lady: Eva Poole: A Life in the Spotlight by Vivienne Allan
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Articulate and intelligent, Eve Poole had a passion for the theatre and the arts. Her desire to protect one of Invercargill’s cultural icons led her into politics and she was elected as the city’s first woman mayor in 1983. Cath Tizard broke similar ground in Auckland that year – the two becoming trailb ...Show more
Purple Hands - A Kiwi Nurse-Midwifés Response in Times of Crisis by Barbara Walker
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
"What is life like for aid workers who gather from around the world so serve refugees who have fled their homes due to famine, political unrest, and disasters? Kiwi nurse-midwife, Barbara Walker - who spent 20 years working for international aid agencies - shares her dramatic, heart-rending, and inspiri ...Show more
Ripiro Beach - A Memoir of Life after Near Death by Caroline Barron
$16.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Does DNA write our destinies? Or do the hands that nurture triumph over nature? What is it that determines who we really are? Caroline Barron's father never found his birth mother. After he dies suddenly on her twentieth birthday, Caroline develops an insidious fear of her own untimely death. When she n ...Show more
The Flying Farmer - Remarkable Rural Recollections of Bruce Galloway: A Memoir by Bruce Galloway
$20.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: near fine