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Daughter of Gloriavale: My Life in a Religious Cult by Lilia Tarawa
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
When Lilia's parents fled the cult and its dreadful secrets, Lilia and her many siblings were wrenched away from the only life they knew. Lilia struggled to adapt to life on the outside. Would she be damned to Hell for leaving? How could she learn to navigate this strange place called 'the world'? And w ...Show more
Southern People - A Dictionary of Otago Southland Biography by Jane Thomson (ed.)
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biography
Oscar Garden: An Tale of One Man's Love of Flying by Annamaria Garden
$25.00 NZD
Category: Aviation | Reading Level: near fine
One day in 1930, a man walked into a department store in London and bought an aeroplane. Having just learned to fly, Oscar Garden dreamed of flying to Australia. In his newly purchased aeroplane, he did just that. This adventure and myriad others this risk-taker embarked on are recounted in this book. O ...Show more
An Outsider Looks Back - Reflections on Experience by Ormond Wilson
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Frontiers: A Colonial Dynasty by Simon Best
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Two airmen of Māori descent lie buried together on a hilltop in Dorset, England. They are the grandson and great-grandson of a whaling captain who entered New Zealand waters in 1835, and who became one of the leading pioneers of European settlement in Wellington. The story’s main thread covers the four ...Show more
Lust for Land: James Henry Coleman : His Life, His Fortune, His Descendants by A.J. Coleman
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Record of J H Coleman's life from arrival in New Zealand in1859 until his death in 1928 aged 94; acquisition of pastoral land in Hawke's Bay; very early sittings of the Maori Land Court in Hawke's Bay; Royal Commission into land dealings, particularly concerning the Heretaunga block (James escaped); the ...Show more
Horncastle's Hero or Hell Raiser by Graeme Horncastle
$15.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
The Horncastle family is prominent in the New Zealand business world, but their ancestors are far less well known. This new book explores the life of Charlie Jacobsen, grandfather and great-grandfather of generations of Horncastles who, often from humble beginnings, have achieved success in many fields ...Show more
Louise Sutherland: Spinning the Globe by Bronwen Wall
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Series: New Zealand Cycling Legends | Reading Level: very good
Louise was a small woman with a big heart. She knew virtually nothing about bicycles, except what really mattered, and so became a cycling legend without winning a single race. Instead Louise Sutherland planned her own route - one that was far longer and rougher than any Tour de France. She was the firs ...Show more
The Cradle of Erewhon - Samuel Butler in New Zealand by Joseph Jones
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Keeper of the Sheep by Mary Catherine Goulter
$85.00 NZD
Category: Agriculture | Reading Level: very good
The Life and Times of Sir George Grey KCB by William Lee Rees and Lily Rees
$50.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good