Tunnel 29 - The True Story of an Extraordinary Escape Beneath the Berlin Wall by Helena Merriman
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
He's just escaped from one of the world's most brutal regimes. Now, he decides to tunnel back in. It's summer, 1962, and Joachim Rudolph, a student, is digging a tunnel under the Berlin Wall. Waiting on the other side in East Berlin - dozens of men, women and children; all willing to risk everything to ...Show more
Under the Weather: A Future Forecast for New Zealand by James Renwick
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
The must-read book on what New Zealand's changing climate means for our everyday lives. A warmer world will change more than just our weather patterns. It will change the look of the land around us, what grows and lives on it - including us. In this must-read book, Professor James Renwick untangles how ...Show more
Unplugged: The Essential Digital Detox Plan by Orianna Fielding-Banks
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
The tools we created to facilitate our lives now control us and our lives. More and more we rely on digital connection to attempt to fulfill our needs, but so many of our human needs cannot be met by a smart phone. Digital technology has enabled us to do things that ten years ago were unthinkable, but i ...Show more
Until the End : Notes from a Small Life by Mike Riddell
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
My life is like so much smoke drifting on the horizon. It shifts in the breeze, dissipates, and is gone. Was it caused by any glowing embers that once burned? I might well think so, but I might equally be misled by the terror of insignificance. I don’t pretend that my existence has altered the flow of h ...Show more
Untwisted: The Story of My Life by Paul Jennings
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Honest, insightful, funny - a brilliant memoir about writing and teaching and life from one of Australia's most loved children's authors. Sometimes, rather than making you laugh or cry out in surprise, a story will instead leave you wondering about human fragility. In the telling of his own tale, childr ...Show more
Vasifika: Our Autism Journeys - Pasifika Families Living with Autism by Edited by Dahlia Malaeulu
$25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
Pasifika families living with autism share their lessons, heartbreaks and dreams of awareness and acceptance. This book is an open invitation to connect, to talanoa, to strengthen the va and give hope to families living with autism.
Very Thirsty Vampire: A Parody by Michael Teitelbaum
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
In this hilarious parody of a children's classic, and a follow-up to its highly successful cousin, The Very Hungry Zombie, The Very Thirsty Vampire presents a charming little fellow with a very specific kind of thirst. As he drinks his way through a variety of bartenders, baristas, wine stewards, soda j ...Show more
Voices of World War II - New Zealanders Share Their Stories by Renee Hollis (Editor)
$69.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Voices of World War II is a visually captivating compendium of photographs and written accounts, providing a snapshot of life during World War II from the point of view of those who lived through us. Fascinating and genuine, it shows the human side of war through dozens of first-hand accounts, memories ...Show more
We Had to Be Brave - Escaping the Nazis on the Kindertransport by Deborah Hopkinson
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Through the moving and often heart-wrenching personal accounts of Kindertransport survivors, critically acclaimed and award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson paints the timely and devastating story of how the rise of Hitler and the Nazis tore apart the lives of so many families and what they were forced ...Show more
What Does the Sea Sound Like?: Memoirs of a Coda (Child of Deaf Adults) by Evie Mahoney
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Evie Mahoney is a CODA, a Child Of Deaf Adults, raised in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the eldest of six hearing children. Being first born her early life was mainly in a deaf environment and she was sensitive to how hearing people outside that environment reacted to her family. She lived on the edge b ...Show more
When Driving Is Not an Option: Steering Away from Car Dependency by Anna Zivarts
$53.80 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
One third of people living in the United States do not have a driver license. Because the majority of involuntary nondrivers are disabled, lower income, unhoused, formerly incarcerated, undocumented immigrants, kids, young people, and the elderly, they are largely invisible. The consequence of this invi ...Show more
Why Calories Don't Count - How science got weight loss wrong by Giles Yeo
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
'In this great read, Giles Yeo ruthlessly and amusingly destroys the calorie as our most persistent diet myth.' Tim Spector, author of Spoon-Fed and The Diet Myth 'A tour de force by the wise and witty Professor Giles Yeo. As well as being one of the UK's foremost experts on the genetics of obesity, Pr ...Show more