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9780473150372

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Author: Jim Rotherham
Published by: publishme
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Author: Alan Duff
Published by: Tandem Press
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Alan Duff is the author of the bestselling Once Were Warriors, One Night Out Stealing, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? and Both Sides of the Moon, and here for the first time is the true story of this controversial writer's life.
This memoir is the story of a talented but tormented child surrounded by violence and alcohol abuse. He bucked authority, ran away from a broken home, experienced incarceration in a boy's home, borstal and eventually, as a young man, entanglement with real criminals in England. Then there is the return home and a remarkable recovery to become not only New Zealand's bestselling novelist, but also a spokesperson for underprivileged New Zealanders, a widely read columnist and the initiator of the brilliantly successful Books in Homes scheme.

This is a moving and honest account of a challenging and eventful life by one of New Zealand's most outspoken personalities.

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9781741759617

Oprah: A Biography order quantity
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Author: Kitty Kelley
Published by: Allen & Unwin(Australia) Pty Ltd
In Stock: 9
Oprah Winfrey is best known for her stratospherically successful talk show, which has become the highest-rated program of its kind in history. However, she is a television and film producer and was nominated for an Academy-Award for her role in The Color Purple. Enormously wealthy as a result of the success of her show, she donates huge amounts of money to philanthropic causes. Some people regard her as the most influential woman in the world. Winfrey was born into poverty in rural Mississippi to a teenage single mother and was initially looked after by her grandmother. She moved to a disadvantage inner city Milwaukee neighbourhood when she was six and experienced considerable hardship as a child and adolescent, including being raped at the age of nine and becoming pregnant at 14, her son dying at just two weeks of age. Sent to live with the man she calls her father, a barber in Tennessee, Winfrey landed a job in radio while still in ... more

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Reach for the Skies : Ballooning, Birdmen and Blasting into Space - My Story of Flight order quantity
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Author: Branson Richard
Published by: Random House
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As far back as stories go, pioneers have reached for the skies. In the last two hundred years, they have mastered the air and made the modern world possible. Today they are bringing outer space within our reach. They're inventors and toymakers, amateurs and adventurers, visionaries, dreamers and, yes, crackpots. Some have called them irresponsible, even dangerous. But I have met many of them. I have worked with them, and funded them, and flown with them. I admire them, and trust them, and I think they and their kind are our future.
In this book I look at the history of flight through the stories and people who have inspired me throughout my life. In these pages you will find stories of miraculous rescues; of records made and broken; of surprising feats of endurance and survival, including some of my own adventures, as well as developments in the future of air (and space) travel. It is a story of pioneers, and of course it ... more

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9780857200426

Unplayable : An Inside Account of Tiger's Most Tumultuous Season order quantity
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Author: Lusetich
Published by: Simon & Schuster
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Robert Lusetich set out in January 2009 to follow Woods for the year. The only journalist to cover every tournament Tiger played, Lusetich interviewed tournament directors, agents, caddies, PGA Tour officials, sponsors, rival players and those inside Woods's camp, and has continued to cover Woods through the end of the season, including the subsequent scandal surrounding his marital infidelities. Unplayable is the definitive, comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at how the 2009 season unfolded for Woods, both personally and professionally. The book offers
a richly compelling narrative of Tiger's victories and defeats -- all while conveying the untold story of the bitter rivalries and ongoing tensions among top players -- and explains how Woods managed to lead a double-life while dominating in one of the world's most competitive sports. Standing apart from all of the other reporting on the scandal to date, Unplayable
gives much ... more

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9780340998762

The Shaking Woman or a History of My Nerves order quantity
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Author: Siri Hustvedt
Published by: Hodder Paperback
In Stock: 8
While speaking at a memorial event for her father, Siri Hustvedt suffered a violent seizure from the neck down. She managed to finish her talk and the paroxysms stopped, but not for good. Again and again she found herself a victim of the shudders. What had happened?Chronicling her search for the shaking woman, Hustvedt takes the reader on a journey into contemporary psychiatry, neurology and psychoanalysis. She unearths stories and theories from the annals of medical history, literature and philosophy, and delves into her own past. In the process, she raises fundamental questions: what is the relationship between mind and body? How do we remember? What is the self?In a seamless synthesis of personal experience and extensive research, Hustvedt conveys the often frightening mysteries of illness and the complexities of diagnosis. As engaging as it is thought-provoking, The Shaking Woman brilliantly illuminates the age-old dilemma of the ... more

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9780670918713

Triumph : Life after the cult - a survivor's lessons order quantity
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Author: Carolyn Jessop
Published by: Penguin Books Ltd
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The author of "The New York Times" bestseller "Escape" returns with a moving and inspirational tale of her life after she heroically fled the cult she'd been raised in, her hard-won new identity and happiness, and her determination to win justice for the crimes committed against her family.
In 2003, Carolyn Jessop, 35, a lifelong member of the extremist Mormon sect the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), gathered up her eight children, including her profoundly disabled four-year-old son, and escaped in the middle of the night to freedom. Jessop detailed the story of her harrowing flight and the shocking conditions that sparked it in her 2007 memoir, "Escape." Reveling in her newfound identity as a bestselling author, a devoted mom, and a loving companion to the wonderful man in her life, Jessop thought she had put her past firmly behind her.
Then, on April 3, 2008, it came roaring back in full ... more

 
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9781869508548

Behind the Pit Wall order quantity
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Author: McMurray, Bob/Thompson, Eric
Published by: harper collins
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Bob McMurray has just about seen all you can in motor sport. This book is not about just the racing side of all things Formula One. What McMurray wants to share is more along the lines of ‘Bob’s Big Adventure’ and try to give a flavour of what went on during all those years. The book is a colourful tapestry of stories behind the drivers who risked it all and what it was like to part of their 'families'.

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Author: David Brun-Lambert
Published by: Aurum Press Ltd
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"The greatest female artist of the 20th century"
- Elton John

This first-ever biography of Nina Simone caused quite a stir among reviewers.
No-one was quite prepared for the life story of the singer of such enduringly uplifting classics as "My Baby Just Cares for Me" turning out to be such a chilling litany of mental disorder, vile temper, terrible abuse at the hands of bad men, and a self-destructively hostile attitude all too often to the acolytes who came to see her perform.
Brun-Lambert shows how Simone saw herself as a lifelong victim of racism, right from being turned down by the prestigious music school that would have enabled her to become a classical musician.
Undiagnosed bipolar disorder, he argues, added to her torment.
But it was her unforgettable voice, and, at best, her utterly magnetic performances, that kept people coming to a sold-out Ronnie Scott's every time she was in residency, and ... more


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9781869793913

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Author: Ray Avery
Published by: Vintage New Zealand
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Ray Avery is an amazing person. He is the current NZer of the Year because of his clever work in the third world using his scientific and business knowledge to provide cheap cataract operations, cheap and more effective incubators for babies and other creative scientific solutions. His childhood was very 'Angela's Ashes' - brought up in an orphanage (his own mother had tried to sell him?, then ran away and lived on the streets. But Ray went on to become a scientist, a millionaire, very successful businessman and now someone who literally does help to change the world. During the mid-nineties Ray spent most of his time working in Eritrea and Nepal setting up two world class Intraocular lens laboratories. At that time the cost of an Intraocular lenses was about US$300 but Ray managed to put the technology together to produce lenses for under US$10.00 making modern Cataract surgery accessible to the poor throughout Africa and Asia.Today ... more

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9780099527039

A Fork in the Road order quantity
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Author: Andre Brink
Published by: Vintage Books
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Andre Brink grew up in the deep interior of South Africa, as his magistrate father moved from one dusty dorp to the next. With searing honesty he describes his conflicting experiences of growing up in a world where innocence was always surrounded by violence. From an early age he found in storytelling the means of reconciling the stark contrasts - between religion and play-acting, between the breathless discovery of a girl called Maureen and the merciless beating of a black boy, between a meeting with a dwarf who lived in a hole in the ground and an encounter with a magician who threatened to teach him what he hadn't bargained for. While living in Paris in the sixties his discovery of a wider artistic life, allied to the exhilaration of the student uprising of 1968, confirmed in him the desire to become a writer. At the same time the tragedy of Sharpeville crystallised his growing political awareness and sparked the decision to return ... more

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9780007355235

Making the Cat Laugh : One woman's journal of single life on the margins order quantity
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Author: Lynne Truss
Published by: Harper Collins
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One woman's journal of single life on the margins. A brilliant collection of Lynne Truss' journalism -- recording the life of a metropolitan refugee from coupledom. The alternative 'Bridget Jones'. For seven long years, starting in 'The Listener' in 1988 and continuing in 'The Times' and 'Woman's Journal', Lynne Truss has been trying to make her cat laugh. It has been an uphill task, which is why she deserves this book, a recognition of outstanding courage in the face of futility. Along the way, 'Margins', 'Single of Life' and 'One Woman's Journal' have collected a band of devoted fans, yet still the cat remains unimpressed. Never have so many jokes about Kitbits been found in such concentration as in 'Making the Cat Laugh'. But under the headings such as 'The Single Woman Considers Going Out but Doesn't Fancy the Hassle' and 'The Single Woman Stays at Home and Goes Quietly Mad', we discover a writer not only obsessed with cats, but ... more

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9781921667473

Russell Crowe - The Biography order quantity
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Author: Howden, Martin
Published by: Woodslane
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One of Hollywood's hottest properties and the actor whose uncompromising reputation - both on and off the screen - has ensured he is constantly in the public eye, Russell Crowe has a fascinating personal and professional story. From early TV and stage work to career-defining roles in Ridley Scott's epic Gladiator and Robin Hood movies. Much of Russell's early life was spent moving between his native New Zealand and Australia as his parents' film-set catering business gave him an insight in to acting and stoked his fascination of the movie industry. His first taste of fame came in a touring stage production of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, which was followed with parts in musicals such as Grease and Blood Brothers, before Russell was drawn to more challenging roles and to the screen in Australia, where he starred in his breakthrough film Romper Stomper. Romances with some of the most beautiful women in the world heightened his profile ... more

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9780143203384

Temuera Morrison : From Haka to Hollywood order quantity
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Author: Temuera Morrison with Paul Little
Published by: Penguin Books (N.Z.) Ltd.
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Temuera Morrison was a local television heartthrob (Close to Home, Shortland Street) when he gained international attention for his portrayal of the abusive and alcoholic Jake in Lee Tamahori's Once Were Warriors (1994). The son of a musician and nephew of famed New Zealand entertainer Sir Howard Morrison, he was raised in modest surroundings in Rotorua. Morrison's vivid performance in Warriors won him the Best Actor trophy at the 1994 New Zealand Film and TV Awards, and the attention brought Morrison to Hollywood. His initial American roles were in a handful of would-be blockbusters which died on the vine commercially speaking, including Barb Wire, The Island of Dr. Moreau, and Speed 2: Cruise Control. However, Morrison fared better at the box office with 2000's Vertical Limit, and the year before he made a triumphant return to New Zealand to star in the sequel to Once Were Warriors, What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? which won him ... more

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9780747585664


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Eat, Pray, Love : One Woman's Search for Everything order quantity
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Author: Elizabeth Gilbert
Published by: Bloomsbury
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Eat,Pray,Love is a journey around the world, a quest for spiritual enlightenment and a story for anyone who has battled with divorce, depression and heartbreak.
It's 3 a.m. and Elizabeth Gilbert is sobbing on the bathroom floor. She's in her thirties, she has a husband, a house, they're trying for a baby - and she doesn't want any of it.
A bitter divorce and a turbulent love affair later, she emerges battered and bewildered and realises it is time to pursue her own journey in search of three things she has been missing: pleasure, devotion and balance.
So she travels to Rome, where she learns Italian from handsome, brown-eyed identical twins and gains twenty-five pounds,an ashram in India, where she finds that enlightenment entails getting up in the middle of the night to scrub the temple floor,and Bali where a toothless medicine man of indeterminate age offers her a new path to peace: simply sit still and smile.
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9780340976807

Parky : My Autobiography order quantity
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Author: Michael Parkinson
Published by: Hodder Paperback
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From prize-winning journalist to chat show king on a show voted one of the top ten British TV programmes of all time, Michael Parkinson's starry career spans over four decades. Now an international celebrity himself, the man from a humble but colourful Yorkshire mining family who can tease out the secrets of even the most reticent star guest, at last reveals his own story, with the easy manner and insight that has kept his audiences fascinated. His distinguished career has involved working on highly acclaimed current affairs and film programmes. His wide interests and expertise include jazz, film, football and cricket. Witty, humorous and blessed with exceptional intellectual clarity, Michael Parkinson's memoir is a joy to read.

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9781869508371


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Author: William Taylor
Published by: HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand)
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In this warm and witty memoir William Taylor writes engagingly about life as a writer, teacher and solo father.
An imaginative, original and spirited individual, he taught for many years in the Central and the Lower North Island, often in single - or two-teacher schools. After the first of his six adult novels was published in 1970, he continued to play a prominent role in his local community. He was Principal of Ohakune School and Mayor of Ohakune from 1981 to 1988.
His first novel for younger readers was published in 1981, and in 1986 he began writing full-time - his work adapted for theatre and television, frequently translated, and continuously in print for over 40 years.
This is a fascinating and entertaining memoir from a renowned New Zealand author.

First published May 2010.



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9780330519984

The Bridge: The life and rise of Barack Obama order quantity
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Author: David Remnick
Published by: Macmillan General Books
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This book, Remnick's first full length work of non-fiction since the bestselling King of the World, will tell the story of race in the history of America through the prism of the country's first mixed-race president; a man elected against the odds, symbol of hope for many, inheritor of a nation in the throes of a catastrophic crisis of identity.

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9781408702123

The Forgotten Highlander order quantity
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Author: Alistair Urquhart
Published by: Virago Press Ltd
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Alistair Urquhart was a soldier in the Gordon Highlanders captured by the Japanese in Singapore. He not only survived working on the notorious Bridge on the River Kwai , but he was subsequently taken on one of the Japanese 'hellships' which was torpedoed. Nearly everyone else on board died and Urquhart spent 5 days alone on a raft in the South China Sea before being rescued by a whaling ship. He was taken to Japan and then forced to work in a mine near Nagasaki. Two months later a nuclear bomb dropped just ten miles away ...This is the extraordinary story of a young man, conscripted at nineteen and whose father was a Somme Veteran, survived not just one, but three close encounters with death - encounters which killed nearly all his comrades.

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Author: Michael J. Fox
Published by: Ebury Press
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'At the turn from our bedroom into the hallway, there is an old full-length mirror in a wooden frame ...
This reflected version of myself, shaking, rumpled, pinched and slightly stooped, would be alarming were it not for the self-satisfied expression pasted across my face. I would ask the obvious question, 'What are you smiling about?' but I already know the answer: 'It just gets better from here'.

Struck with Parkinson's - a debilitating, degenerative disease - at the height of his fame, Michael J. Fox has taken what some might consider cause for depression and turned it into a beacon of hope for millions.
In Always Looking Up, Michael's "Sunday Times" bestselling memoir, he writes with warmth, humour and incredible honesty about the journey he has undertaken since he came to terms with his condition.


 
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