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The Good Life on Te Muna Road by Deborah Coddington
$40.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
An engaging, affectionate reflection on life in a small rural community, finding love and making wine. The first time Deborah Coddington lived in Martinborough was in the height of the hippie era, when the old mansion Waiura attracted poets, protesters, novelists, photographers, artists and activists. I ...Show more
Thing Explainer: Complicated Stuff in Simple Words by Randall Munroe
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: General Adult
Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, "ten hundred") most common words to provide simple explanations for some of the m ...Show more
Be Happy - 35 Powerful Methods for Personal Growth & Well-Being by Rebecca Ray
$16.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Live Well Ser.
With tips and techniques on self-improvement, making choices, cultivation, positive habits, and making space, Be Happy is an easy-to-read, inspirational guide on developing habits for happiness.
Red Notice: How I Became Putin's No. 1 Enemy by Bill Browder
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
I have to assume that there is a very real chance that Putin or members of his regime will have me killed some day. If I?m killed, you will know who did it. When my enemies read this book, they will know that you know.Reads like a classic thriller, with an everyman hero alone and in danger in a hostile ...Show more
Ex Libris: 100 Books for Everyone's Bookshelf by Michiko Kakutani
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From 'the most powerful book critic in the English-speaking world' (Vanity Fair) comes an inspiring and beautifully illustrated selection of the life-changing books that none of us should miss 'Why do we love books so much?' For legendary literary critic Michiko Kakutani, books have always been an esca ...Show more
At the Pond - Swimming at the Hampstead Ladies' Pond by Esther Freud (Contribution by); Margaret Drabble (Contribution by); Leanne Shapton (Contribution by)
$24.99 NZD
Category: History
Tucked away along a shady path towards the north-east edge of Hampstead Heath is a sign: Women Only. This is the Kenwood Ladies’ Bathing Pond. Floating in the Pond’s silky waters, hidden by a canopy of trees, it’s easy to forget that you are in the middle of London. On a hot day, thousands of swimmers ...Show more
Dot by Kieran E. Scott
$26.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Are you feeling a little bit (or a lottle bit) anxious?Meet DOT, who's here to help. In this beautiful little hand-drawn book, DOT offers a practical way to comfort and calm anyone anxious, stressed or overwhelmed. For anyone (big or small) who wants to take a moment and some nice, deep breaths.
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Take Control and Master the Odds by Konnikova, Maria
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she approached Erik Seidel - Poker Hall of Fame inductee, winner of tens of millions of dollars in earnings - and asked him to be her mentor. She had faced a stretch of personal bad luck, and her reflections on th ...Show more
Birds NZ: Beauty like No Other - 2nd edition by Paul Gibson
$60.00 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
This new book is uniquely different from anything else on the market and has been fully updated and expanded for 2018. It is no ordinary book, comprising 320 pages of absolute beauty. An extremely appealing book for everyone. Over 300 birds are detailed, there are 700 photographs, and 50 pages of inform ...Show more
Our Dogs, Ourselves. The story of a unique bond by Alexandra Horowitz
$37.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In this book Alexandra Horowitz examines what's called the 'dog-human bond': examining all aspects of the complexity of this unique interspecies pairing. From her position as a dog scientist, she uses the science of dogs and dog-human interaction to ground a consideration of the various ways that dogs, ...Show more
Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester
$39.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
From the bestselling author Simon Winchester, a human history of land around the world: who mapped it, owned it, stole it, cared for it, fought for it and gave it back. The ownership of land has always been complicated, opaque, and more than a little anarchic when viewed from the outside. In this book, ...Show more
Word Drops: A Sprinkling of Linguistic Curiosities by Paul Anthony Jones
$22.99 NZD
Category: Non Fiction
If you're logofascinated, you are literally spellbound by language. Word Drops is a language fact book unlike any other, its linguistic tidbits all falling together into one long interconnected chain just with each fact neatly 'dropping' into place beside the next. What's more, throughout, footnotes ar ...Show more
