Pressing the Right Buttons: People Skills for Business Success by Allison Mooney
$29.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
People skills are extremely important in the business world today. To be successful at any level you need to be able to work with a variety of people, communicate with them, and keep them happy. This book provides a simple framework for analysing personality types and will show you the best ways to moti ...Show more
Ross Taylor: Black & White by Paul Thomas
$49.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
When an athlete with an exceptional record of achievement and longevity comes to the end of their career, the numbers can speak for themselves.Ross Taylor has scored the most runs, made the most centuries and taken the most catches by a New Zealander in international cricket. He's the first New Zealand ...Show more
Ruby Tui - Straight Up by Ruby Tui
$36.99 NZD
Category: NZ Biography
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable childhood yearning for a better option in life to Olympic Champion and the world's best rugby sevens player. Ruby learned to rely on herself and her own strengths as a child, growing up without role models, in ...Show more
The Missing Piece: A Woman's Guide to Understanding, Diagnosing and Living with ADHD for readers of Gwendoline Smith and Chanelle Moriah by Julie Legg
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Everything you need to know about recognising and diagnosing ADHD in women, and how to live a full and fulfilling life after. When Julie Legg was diagnosed with ADHD at age 52, suddenly her life made sense. Bringing together her own experience along with research studies and personal stories from othe ...Show more
The Redhead Gets the Gig - A Musical Memoir by Linn Lorkin
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
You may have heard Auckland’s beloved ‘Piano Bar Lady’ Linn Lorkin performing live, or reading her racy memoir on National Radio. Standing Room Only recently featured her hilarious recounting of her time with David Lange at Ōtāhuhu College and her subsequent musical OE in Europe in the ’60s, from swingi ...Show more
There's a Cure for This - A Memoir by Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
The striking debut memoir from award-winning doctor and writer, Emma Wehipeihana [Emma Espiner]. "I graduated as a doctor in 2020 and arrived into the Covid-19 pandemic with my ta moko on my arm, my hospital lanyard, my stethoscope and a purpose. I don't know why medicine felt like coming home. I had no ...Show more
Things to Look Forward To: 52 Large and Small Joys for Today and Every Day by Sophie Blackall
$49.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Everyone needs things to look forward to: big things and small things, on good days and on bad days, whether we actively create delight for ourselves or simply allow it to enter our lives. In these pages, beloved author and illustrator Sophie Blackall has gathered a collection of joys for all of us – re ...Show more
Wawata - Moon Dreaming by Hinemoa Elder
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
Hina, the Maori moon goddess, has 30 different faces to help illuminate life's lessons - a different face and a different energy for each day of the month. And with her changing light, new insights are revealed. This book gives us the chance to connect to the ancient wisdom of the old people, who reach ...Show more
Whakawhetai: Gratitude - A Daily Bilingual Journal by Hira Nathan
$36.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
A beautiful bilingual gratitude journal to help improve your te reo and your life. Kia ū ki te pai, kia whai hua ai. Hold on to what is good and good things will follow. An inspirational, bilingual gratitude journal, based on the Māori holistic approach to health, hauora. Discover the four dimens ...Show more
Wild Things: How We Learn To Read and What Can Happen If We Don't by Sally Rippin
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
We love wayward children in literature. Not so much in life. When Sally Rippin discovered her child was struggling to read, the best-selling children’s author assumed it would sort itself out over time. She couldn’t have been more wrong. Her son’s dyslexia and ADHD went undiagnosed for years, leaving ...Show more
A Canoe Before the Wind: An Immigrant Son's Story of Family, Adversity and Courage by Vitale Lafaele
$39.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future. In 1962, a Samoan family journeyed to New Zealand - a country immigrants once called 'the land of milk and honey' - in search of a better life. Instead, their eldest son, Vitale, arrived in an era of dawn raids by police and immigr ...Show more
A Conversation with My Country: Where We've Come From. Where We Can Go by Alan Duff
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Non-Fiction (Adult)
A personal account reviewing an eventful life and an amazing country. Following Once Were Warriors, Alan Duff wrote his hard-hitting book Maori- The Crisis and the Challenge in 1993. His controversial comments shook the country. A quarter of a century later, New Zealand and Maoridom are in a very differ ...Show more