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The Oarsome Adventures of a Fat Boy Rower : How I went from couch potato to Atlantic Rowing Race winner
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Kevin Biggar
This is a story about trying to find happiness. There is a strange trick to being happy. This is the story of how Kevin Biggar lost the trick and found it again. There's quite a bit about rowing as well. If you are in a hurry here are the contents of this book in 150 words or less: "I stop being immortal. I have a traumatic pizza ordering experience and realize I am very unhappy. I quit my job, girlfriend, house and go live with my mother. I watch a lot of daytime TV. The 'How's Life' show decides that I row the Atlantic. I team up with the original Naked Rower, we struggle to raise money, start building the boat, start training insanely. I lose the plot. Find a rowing partner, lose a rowing partner, get another rowing partner - Jamie. Meet Hot Polish Girl with cold hands. Start the race (badly). Row into storm. Take the lead. Row. Lose the lead. Row. Attempt a Big Push. Nothing happens. More rowing. Hallucinations. Slowly catch up! ...
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An Angel at My Table (An Autobiography - Book 2)
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NZ$ 28.00 each
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Janet Frame
An Angel at my Table
is the second book of Janet Frame's three-volume autobiography, described by Michael Holroyd as
'one of the greatest autobiographies written this century'
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It follows her life as a student and years of incarceration in mental hospitals.
First published in 1984, it won the Non-fiction Prize of the New Zealand Book Awards.
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An Autobiography (To the Is-land/An Angel at My Table/The Envoy from Mirror City)
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Janet Frame
A beautiful new edition, celebrating Janet Frame’s life and bringing together all three award-winning books of her autobiography: To the Is-Land, An Angel at My Table and The Envoy from Mirror City. “One of the greatest autobiographies written this century.”
— Michael Holroyd.
First published 1982, 1984 & 1985; this omnibus edition 1989.
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An Improper Daughter
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Ruth Jones
Ruth Jones was born on 'the wrong side of the blanket' in 1928, and placed in a children's home at the age of ten days. This autobiography is the result of nearly seventy years sleuthing in New Zealand and England. With indomitable spirit, humour and a keen eye and ear for events and attitudes, Ruth opens up a world so very different from that which most of us have enjoyed.
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Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA : 68 Great New Zealand Scientists
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NZ$ 36.00 each
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Author:
Veronika Meduna & Rebecca Priestley
From Joseph Banks to Ernest Rutherford to Beatrice Tinsley to Ingrid Visser, 'Atoms, Dinosaurs & DNA' covers 68 of New Zealand's most pre-eminent scientists. Among them are some of the earliest explorers and collectors, the first professional scientists and some of today's leading scientists who are continuing to make discoveries about our world and working to shape our future. There is a great spread of specialst fields include botany, physics, geology, archaeology, nutrition, marine science, palaentology, nanotechnology, ornithology, conservation and much more. By presenting the life and work of each scientist in chronological sequence, this book also charts the history of science in New Zealand over the past two centuries. This book is based on a major science exhibition, curated by the authors and held at the National Library of NZ in 2006.
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Billy T: the life and times of Billy T James
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Matt Elliott
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 ...
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Fighting For My Life : The Confession of a Violent Offender
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NZ$ 35.00 each
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J. J. Joseph
In 2006 Joseph was convicted of a violent assault on his wife. His subsequent detention meant there was a very real possibility that he might never be reunited with her and might not see his children again. Full of remorse, Joseph accepted his punishment, worked through the counselling and anger management courses he was required to complete, and fought to see his family again. During this period he took a good hard look at his life.
At his violent upbringing dominated by a father whose fists were his first resort, at his hostile relationship with his mother (also a victim of violence), at the heartbreaking suicide of his younger brother, at his father’s shocking murder, at his drug abuse and womanising.
He was forced to see what other people saw: a frightening and violent man whose actions were unpredictable.
It was then that he understood, for the first time, what his wife had to put up with and why she was sometimes reticent ...
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From Poverty Bay to Broadway: The Story of Tom Heeney
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Lydia Monin
This is the story of Tom Heeney, New Zealand's great boxing hero.
On 26 July 1928 Tom Heeney entered the ring at New York's Yankee Stadium, in front of 46,000 spectators, wearing a Maori cloak. Guaranteed $100,000, he was about to fight world heavyweight champion Gene Tunney.
In his hometown of Gisborne crowds cheered him on in what was described as 'the most ambitious radio station hook-up in history.'
This was the golden, mafia-controlled, era of American boxing.
From Poverty Bay to Broadway
takes us into this world: the world of Tom Heeney.
This beautifully written and extensively researched book follows the life of one of New Zealand's most colourful sports personalities from a labourer's cottage in Gisborne to the nightclubs of Broadway to fishing in Florida with Ernest Hemingway.
It reveals both the infamous (he killed a man with one punch, left another for dead on the canvas and ran with ...
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Gods and Little Fishes : A Boy and a beach
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NZ$ 40.00 each
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Author:
Bruce Ansley
‘I’m a Brighton boy, and no expatriate is neutral. We have it branded on our psyches.
The place turns on like a refrigerator light when we open the door on our memory. …’ Bruce Ansley
When you walk along the pier under the huge blue sky and with clean surf on either side, you can easily think that New Brighton is the loveliest place in the world. This was once New Zealand’s most bustling township, however it became a parable of New Zealand when the revolution of the eighties and nineties derailed it.
New Brighton’s youth grew up in happy anarchy beside its great, glorious beach.
In Gods and Little Fishes, Bruce Ansley gives us immediate entry into one such rich, well-lived boyhood and family life. He both captures the freedoms of a childhood many would envy now, and offers a perceptive adult sensibility charged with a partisan view.
Not only a marvellous memoir, this is also a superb portrait of a seaside town set in the second ...
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High Adventure (Ascent of Everest)
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NZ$ 30.00 each
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Author:
Edmund Hillary (maps by A Spark;sketches George Djurkovic)
Reprinted on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the conquering of Everest, this is the authoritative first-person account of Hillary and Tenzing's conquest. "High Adventure" is regarded as a mountaineering classic, but it is also a thrilling and inspiring story of courage and endurance.
First published 1955.
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