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The Windsor Diaries: 1940-45 by Alathea Fitzalan Howard
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General
The Windsor Diaries are the never-before-seen diaries of Alathea Fitzalan Howard, who lived alongside the young Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret at Windsor Castle during the Second World War. Alathea's home life was an unhappy one. Her parents had separated and so during the war she was sent to live wi ...Show more
Agent Sonya: Lover, Mother, Soldier, Spy by Ben Macintyre
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General
In the quiet Cotswolds village of Great Rollright in 1945, an elegant housewife emerged from her cottage to go on her usual bike ride. A devoted wife and mother-of-three, Mrs Burton seemed to epitomise rural British domesticity.However, rather than pedalling towards the shops with her ration book, she w ...Show more
Rich Enough? A Laid-Back Guide for Every Kiwi by Mary Holm
$37.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General | Reading Level: very good
Read this one book, set up your money, and get on with your life! Find out what many in the financial world don't want you to know. Laid-back investing is not only easier, it can actually make you richer. Learn how to kill off debt, curb spending, find your best KiwiSaver fund, save painlessly, buy a ho ...Show more
This One Wild and Precious Life by Sarah Wilson
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General
In This One Wild and Precious Life, Sarah Wilson explores the central disorder of modern existence: disconnection from ourselves, disconnection from community, disconnection from the preciousness of life on this planet This One Wild and Precious Life is a journey of the soul, a case for why we need to ...Show more
Impossible: My Story by Stan Walker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
Tales from the Ruakituri Valley by Dave Withers
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General
The Ruakituri valley is South East of Gisborne, and runs up to the Urewera National Park. The Ruakituri river emerges from the native bush of the park and tumbles through gulleys until it drops three levels over the spectacular 100 metre escarpment, and so down through the beautiful farming area that f ...Show more
The Wild Silence (#2) by Raynor Winn
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General
Raynor Winn's magical and life-affirming new book, The Wild Silence - the follow-up to the uplifting, Sunday Times, internationally bestselling, Wainwright prize shortlisted, and Costa shortlisted, The Salt Path. In The Salt Path, Raynor and Moth go out to find the sea, the windswept and wild coastline, ...Show more
Never Leave a Man Behind - Around the Falklands and Rowing Across the Pacific by Mick Dawson
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General
The stories of two veterans - one traumatised, one blind - who rediscover themselves with the help of a friend in the course of two epic ocean adventures, kayaking around the Falklands and rowing across the Pacific. Mick Dawson tells the story of kayaking around the Falkland Islands with friend and fel ...Show more
Millie Marotta's Woodland Wild by Millie Marotta
$25.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General | Series: Millie Marotta Ser.
Go into the woods with Millie Marotta The New York Times bestselling artist has created a stunning coloring book filled with forest-dwelling creatures. In the sixth installment of her wildly popular coloring book series, Millie Marotta takes us through the woodlands of the world. More than 90 intricat ...Show more
The Ratline: Love, Lies and Justice on the Trail of a Nazi Fugitive by Philippe Sands
$38.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General | Reading Level: very good
As Governor of Galicia, SS Brigadesführer Otto Freiherr von Wächter presided over an authority on whose territory hundreds of thousands of Jews and Poles were killed, including the family of the author's grandfather. By the time the war ended in May 1945, he was indicted for 'mass murder'. Hunted by the ...Show more
Wings over Water - The Story of the World's Greatest Air Race and the Birth of the Spitfire by Jonathan Glancey
$45.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General
The thrilling story of the Schneider Trophy, a series of glamorous air races that captivated both sides of the Atlantic and became a driver and celebration of speed and engineering prowess.
Observations from the Bar by Leslie Ann Nash
$30.00 NZD
Category: Non-Fiction General
Throughout jazz history there have been nightclubs where the music and the atmosphere live on to become legendary, like Minton's in Harlem or Lincoln Gardens in Chicago. In Paris in the late 1940's, it was Aerobleu -- notorious for its all-night jam sessions and its enigmatic owner, Max Morgan. In the h ...Show more
