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Who Am I? A Life Turned Upside Down order quantity
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NZ$ 20.00 each
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Author: Armstrong Ruth
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Dop 2009, New Plymouth
A5/80pp
softcover

The personal account of the journey following a nmotor vehicle accident in 2005 that left Ruth with multiple broken bones and the complications of a severe traumatic brain injury

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The World's Your Lobster : More blah blah blah order quantity
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Author: Joe Bennett
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One of New Zealand's most widely read and popular syndicated columnists, both in newspapers and magazines, Joe Bennett's erudite and wryly amusing commentaries on the foibles and eccentricities of modern life qualify him as one of our best-loved grouches. He finds much to complain about, much to condemn and, occasionally and always entertainingly, something to praise - which usually involves a dog or two. His annual collections of the best of these columns have steadily built a dedicated readership, and this year's offering is equally flavoursome, as his writing continues to mature and ripen, like his beloved red wine. We've bottled the best of 2009 and are happy to report it will be another vintage year for those who love his crisp, clever, dry and always clever takes on life in these modern times of ours, that never waste a single word. One for the fans that is sure to also win him new ones.

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A Plume of Bees : A Literary Biography of C K Stead order quantity
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Author: Judith Dell Panny
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C.K. Stead is certainly one of New Zealand's most honoured writers and probably the most argued about. Judith Dell Panny has become a literary detective in her remarkable research into the origins of the Stead opus, from his early life to his influences here and abroad and their effects on his work.
Controversies swirl around Stead. Why and how does he write as he does? What has shaped him, what are the patterns, repeated and intricate, that permeate his extraordinary and ongoing work? In her investigations of all this, Panny also assesses the many effects his writing has on others. With Stead nobody sits on the fence.
WHY DO THE LITERATI HATE KARL STEAD? was the feature in North and South. Yet Janet Frame had “a feeling of amazed gratitude” because of Panny's book on her own work, I Have What I Gave. Readers, said Frame, would now be able to approach her work from new and original perspectives, enabling them to find their ... more

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9781869792947

Bird on a Wire : The Inside Story From A Straight Talking CEO order quantity
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Author: Theresa Gattung
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No woman has ever risen as far in the corporate world as former Telecom CEO Theresa Gattung. Her appointment, at such a young age and from the marking ranks, astounded the country, and her leadership of the big telco that Kiwis love to hate was never far from the headlines.

This no-holds-barred memoir tells of her ambition, her determination, and her rise to business power. It tells of the highs of running a vitally important company such as Telecom and also the lows, as the company struggled with the Australian AAPT acquisition, shareholder pressure, antagonism from the government, battles with its telco competitors and changing technology. After seven years she felt she'd given her all.
The personal toll of those tough years at the top had been significant and Gattung is frank about how she had to rebuild her life with a clear focus. First with her chic Californian fashion store showcasing New Zealand fashion, and now with her ... more


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9781869710644

Peter Bush : A Life in Focus order quantity
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Author: Peter Bush with Paul Thomas
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Peter Bush is a living legend in New Zealand photojournalism and a figure of world renown in his specialist field of rugby photography. At times his life story reads like a 'Boy's Own' adventure: frightening storms at sea; stowaways and escaped lunatics; stranded and starving in the most inaccessible part of Fiordland; hunting in the Kalahari Desert and exploring a ghost town on Africa's most inhospitable coast; close encounters with the French Foreign Legion, the SAS, and Communist secret police; man-eating tigers and charging bull elephants....A riveting and hugely entertaining memoir.

First published October 2009

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Trust : A true story of women and gangs order quantity
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Author: Pip Desmond
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In 1977 an idealistic young doctor’s daughter, fresh out of university, knocked on the door of a run-down old house in inner-city Wellington. She was greeted by a woman in a Black Power T-shirt with metal in her nose and a spidery tattoo on her left cheek. ‘Whaddya want?’ the woman growled.
So began Pip Desmond’s extraordinary time as a member of Aroha Trust, a work cooperative set up in the heady years of feminism, community activism and the first stirrings of the Maori renaissance. For three years this unique, unruly group of girls did physical ‘men’s work’, lived together, and stood side by side against a backdrop of gang violence, police harassment and a society that didn’t want to know. When the government changed the rules for relief work, Aroha Trust folded, but the friendships endured. Trust tells the women’s stories – much of it in their own words – with the respect and compassion that comes from a shared bond over 30 years. ... more

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9781869791537

Blake: Leader order quantity
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Author: Mark Orams
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New Zealand lost one of its favourite sons when Sir Peter Blake was shot and killed in the Amazon in late 2001. Blake had become a icon after leading New Zealand to victory in the 1995 and 2000 America's Cups, following earlier successes in the Whitbread Round the World Race and Jules Verne Challenge. His accomplishments demonstrate his skill at assembling, managing and leading winning teams.

Blake: Leader is written by sailor and marine scientist Dr Mark Orams, who sailed around the world with Blake and worked with him at Team New Zealand and Blakexpeditions. In this book he looks at Blake's successful style of leadership from a personal viewpoint. It mixes reminiscences and anecdotes from Orams and other sporting and business figures who worked closely with Blake with practical observations of how he chose and led teams. Break-out boxes and chapter summaries highlight key points and techniques that can be used by leaders ... more

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Ned and Katina : A true love story order quantity
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Author: Patricia Grace
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A true story of love in wartime and in peace by one of New Zealand's finest writers. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the Far North.

They live a long, rich and happy life together, raising a family and involving themselves in community affairs there and in the Wellington region. Ned dies in 1987, Katina in 1996. Years later, the whanau of Ned and Katina approached writer Patricia Grace to compile their parents' story. Ned & Katina is the result. This warm, beautifully written true story is impossible to put down.

First published October 2009.

 
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9780476011564

A Time For Courage order quantity
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9781877517051

Backroads : Charting a Poet's life order quantity
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Author: Sam Hunt
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Sam Hunt's life as a poet and performer has always strayed far off the straight and narrow, more akin to following a series of winding backroads that have led to places and people away from the mainstream. As a child, Hunt was surrounded by 'a lot of words, a lot of poems,' and from the age of eight, he knew he wanted to live the life of a poet. His parents and grandparents were his earliest influences, and later it was the likes of W. B. Yeats, Pablo Neruda and Dylan Thomas; while within New Zealand, Alistair Campbell, James K. Baxter and Denis Glover, among others, inspired and nurtured him. Backroads is a memoir, a series of reflections by Sam Hunt on his life as a poet. He talks about inspiration and its unwelcome antagonist, drying up; the importance of performing, of 'saying poems out loud'; his good friends, like artist Robin White and his faithful canine companion Minstrel; his early publishing ventures and his experiences with ... more

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9781869792459

Down, Across & Up : An Epic Kiwi Adventure Around New Zealand On Horseback order quantity
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Author: Genevieve & Kerrin Revell
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This is a heart warming Kiwi adventure story that follows a young couple who set out to conquer the coastline of New Zealand armed with their horses, a campervan for support, a tent and a cameraman. The journey took them over 5,000 kms through some of New Zealand's most spectacular
scenery, but the going was not easy as every day brought them new challenges. However the can-do Kiwi attitude and the help of some local characters saw them through. Genna was an experienced horsewoman but Kerrin had never ridden before, and this was just one of the many challenges that faced them on their journey.
But along the way Genna and Kerrin met many characters, got really close to their horses and the land,
learned a lot about each other, made a documentary, wrote a book and raised over $32,000 for Canteen. A fine adventure indeed.



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9780143203551

Inga : My Story order quantity
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Author: Inga Tuigamala with Myan Subrayan
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'Inga the Winger' - Va'aiga Tuigamala, one of the most imposing and explosive wingers New Zealand rugby ever produced - has decided to tell his full story for the first time. This is the fascinating, inspirational story of overcoming hardship, reaching the heights of All Black hero status and the debacle of the amateur/professional era, the excesses of UK rugby league, and finally of returning to a vocation among the people rooted at the very centre of his real life. Inga discusses all aspects of his journey, much of it previously untold: from family life to his many sporting achievements to his role today as a mentor, inspirational community leader and successful businessman. Much more than a sports biography, this is the real story behind the 'gentle giant' of New Zealand rugby.

First published November 2009, Auckland

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9781869507657

Off the Radar...a man, a plan and a paddock... order quantity
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Author: Te Radar
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Te Radar has written a series of yarns about his experiences and the characters he has met while living off the land in a small community north of Auckland. This book is a tie-in to the television series 'Off the Radar'.

First published December 2008, Auckland

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9781877505010

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Author: Lisa Tamati
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The Badwater ultramarathon through Death Valley in the United States is one of the world's toughest races. Lisa Tamati was the first New Zealand woman to compete in the race alongside such legends of the sport as Dean Karnazes and David Goggins.

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9780143011651

All This and a Bookshop Too order quantity
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Author: Dorothy Butler
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Dorothy Butler is an international award-winning authority on children's books and reading. She has also been a successful teacher, an innovative bookseller and the much-loved author of children's books, all the while raising eight lively children with her husband Roy. Now in her eighties, in All This and a Bookshop Too Dorothy shares the inspiring story of her adult life. Picking up from the first volume of her autobiography, There Was a Time, Dorothy eloquently writes of her many consuming interests, her friendships and her family: her early married life with Roy Butler, living in a tent on Auckland's North Shore, and later setting up a speciality children's bookstore in their home; about becoming an international reading specialist and writing her own award-winning books. Dorothy's book is both a deeply personal story of private triumphs and tragedies, and a salute to the golden age of children's book publishing and retailing in ... more

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9781869791339

Anna Kavan's New Zealand : A pacific interlude in a turbulent life order quantity
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Author: Anna Kavan (ed. Jennifer Sturm)
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New Zealanders live 'in temporary shacks, uneasily, as reluctant campers too far from home', wrote Anna Kavan in a London magazine in 1943.

Her seemingly negative comments created a stir both in the UK and New Zealand and suggested Kavan felt nothing but antipathy for the country.
However, in researching this prize-winning author of nineteen books, Dr Jennifer Sturm uncovered letters and unpublished short stories written during Kavan's sojourn in New Zealand that show a more complex, affectionate and significant response. Those stories are published here for the first time, along with a fascinating discussion of this experimental writer and talented artist, who struggled with bouts of depression and insecurity, as well as heroin addiction and a stream of unconventional love affairs.
Kavan roamed the world trying to find a home, and although her stay in New Zealand was for less than two years, her stories reveal a ... more

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Billy T: the life and times of Billy T James order quantity
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Author: Matt Elliott
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Billy T James was a larger-than-life comedian who gave us some of our best belly laughs. An accomplished singer and musician, he created enduring characters, poking the borax at the oh-so-delicate state of race relations in New Zealand in a way that stood him head and shoulders above other performers of his era. Like John Clarke's Fred Dagg, Billy T's characters were Kiwi through and through and we loved him for it. When he died in his early forties, of complications following a heart transplant, the nation was shocked - first by his premature death, and then by one of the first highly publicised interracial body-snatching incidents. His Pakeha wife and his iwi disagreed over funeral arrangements, ending in the taking by force of his body from their home in Auckland to a marae in Ngaruawahia. The sight of iwi and family battling in the media and reports of his body being transported in a van made sickening headlines. His widow, Lynn ... more

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Changing Pace : A memoir order quantity
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Author: Sir Richard Hadlee
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This memoir recounts the last few years of Sir Richard Hadlee's cricketing career before describing the tumultuous period in his life that followed his retirement. He describes the way in which his life, once so successful and full of high achievement, was suddenly shattered as he experienced a debilitating heart attack that led to major surgery, and shortly afterwards his marriage of twenty-two years disintegrated and came to a painful end. He then describes how, with the help of the woman who was to become his new wife he picked up the pieces and created a new life, first as a cricket ambassador and commentator, and then as the chairman of selectors for New Zealand Cricket. If he had hoped that at that point his life might become smoother sailing he soon found that being a cricket selector brought with it fresh challenges and exposed him to close scrutiny and criticism from the media.

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Cleo : How An Uppity Cat Helped Heal a Family order quantity
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Author: Helen Brown
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Helen Brown wasn't a cat person, but her nine-year-old son Sam was. Helen's heart melted as Sam held one of the kittens in his and the deal was done - the kitten would be delivered when she was big enough to leave her mother. A week later, Sam was dead. Not long after, a little black kitten was delivered to the grieving family.
This is the story of how a small black feline helped mend a family's broken hearts by sheer force of her cat personality.
It is a warm and often funny book about love, loss and redemption.

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9781869506803

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Author: Janice Marriott & Virginia Pawsey
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Janice Marriott and Virginia Pawsey, who went to Gisborne Girls’ High together, met again after thirty years at a school reunion. They rekindled their friendship and began writing, discovering in the process a shared passion for gardening – despite their having created two very different gardens. Janice lives in central Wellington where her riotously colourful mix of flowers, fruit and vegetables surround her tiny house in the midst of the CBD. Virginia helps run a South Island high country farm and her garden has to feed shearers and farm labourers as well as cope with possums, runaway livestock and the challenges of rural life. Their wonderful correspondence tells the stories of their lives, their gardens, their loves and their losses, and is ultimately a book about female friendship, and a love of making things grow. As the seasons unfold, the stories of their gardens become metaphors for life.

Beautifully written, their ... more

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