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A Big Little Life : Dean Koontz order quantity
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Author: Dean Koontz
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Dean Koontz's first ever non-fiction book, the deeply moving story of his life with his good dog Trixie.Dean Koontz is known for exploring the dark side of human nature in his fiction. But his softer, playful side comes out when he talks about his beloved dog, Trixie, a golden retriever. Trixie had a special place in Dean's heart. And now, in this, his first non-fiction book, Dean opens his heart to his readers to give us memories of Trixie, of the glorious dog who changed him and changed his life. There's everything in this memoir: adventure, mischief, emotion, and sadness too. Dean will talk with joy about the many gifts Trixie gave him -- and the lessons she taught -- and he'll talk with sadness at losing his beloved pet. The loss of a dog is a heartbreak that's been experienced by a great many people, and Dean's delving into that loss is a powerful part of this book, and a cathartic experience for those of us who have loved and ... more

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About Time: Growing Old Disgracefully order quantity
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Author: Irma Kurtz
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Something in our world is changing. In ten years time 60% of us will be over 55. The retirement age is likely to move up to 70; modern medicine ensures that most of us will live well in to our 80s and most of us will choose to do some work, paid or voluntary, while we are still physically able. Yet older people have, as yet, no role in modern society. Old age is regarded as an invonvenience, something to be shunned and set apart from our daily lives. In this frank, often funny and always compelling disquisition on ageing, Irma Kurtz sets out to chart the territory through her own and others' experiences. Along the way she meets a diverse group of people whose insights into their own lives have much to offer a younger generation - from a 90-year-old weekly columnist and a vicar still working in his mid-70s to The Good Granny Guide's Jane Fearnley-Whittingstall and 'London's Rudest Landlord', Normal Balon of the celebrated Coach and ... more

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A Bridge Over:The Story Of John Masters, veteran fighter order quantity
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Author: Allan Marriott
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Dop November 2009, Christchurch

In 1965, John Milbanke Masters was awarded the Miitary Cross for action in Borneo, for which he was made a life member of the Gurkhas. In 2002 he was appointed an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit. Between these awards recognising gallantry and chivalry, John was the last New Zealand commander of 161 Battery in Vietnam. He brought the troops home in 1971 to mixed feelings across the country.
Returning soldiers were denied entry to RSAs. Isolated, some punished themselves and withdrew from society, others developed unexpected illnesses and cancers. Reports sponsored by New Zealand governments denied that soldiers had been in contact with chemical herbicides such as Agent Orange. For nearly 40 years, Vietnam veterans struggled for recognition.
Unknowingly, John had also brought home the map that eventually proved the extent to which New Zealand soldiers in Vietnam were in contact with chemical ... more

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A Fortunate Life order quantity
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Author: A. B. Facey
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Born in 1894, Facey lived the rough frontier life of a sheep farmer, survived the gore of Gallipoli, raised a family through the Depression and spent sixty years with his beloved wife, Evelyn. Despite enduring hardships we can barely imagine today, Facey always saw his life as a 'fortunate' one. A true classic of Australian literature, his simply written autobiography is an inspiration. It is the story of a life lived to the full - the extraordinary journey of an ordinary man.

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Africa My Youth order quantity
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Author: Dick Knight
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A.J.P.Taylor order quantity
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Author: C.J. Wrigley
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A scholar gentleman in the old style; a northern non-conforming radical; an academic steeped in Oxford traditions; a late 20th-century media personality; one of the most outstanding historians of his age: A.J.P. Taylor was all of these. He wrote about traditional historical subjects in a traditional manner and took narrative history to new heights and was equally at home with a critical academic, as with a vast popular audience. This biographical study of A.J.P. Taylor includes details of Taylor's privileged and cosseted childhood, the effect of his close but combative and stimulating family, the dissenting and nonconformist tradition, and his time as teacher, broadcaster journalist and historian. It attempts to evaluate how far he fulfilled his aim and conviction as to the importance of history and its place at the heart of national consciousness.

 
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Alaska Bush Pilot Chronicles order quantity
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Author: Mort Mason
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A Lion Called Christian : The enchanting true story of London's coolest cat order quantity
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Author: Anthony Bourke & John Rendell
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In 2008, YouTube featured an extraordinary film clip that soon became an internet phenomenon. It showed the emotional reunion of two young men and their pet lion, Christian, after they had left him in Africa with Born Free's George Adamson, who would introduce him into his rightful home in the wild.

A Lion Called Christian relates how Anthony 'Ace' Bourke and John Rendall visited London from Australia in 1969 and bought a boisterous lion cub in Harrods. For a while, the three of them lived together as flatmates on the King's Road, Chelsea, where Christian became a local celebrity. But he was growing up, fast, and even the church garden in which he exercised was becoming too small for him.
How could Ace and John avoid incarcerating him in a zoo for the rest of his life?
A chance meeting with Virginia McKenna and Bill Travers, stars of Born Free, led to Christian being flown to Kenya and placed under ... more

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All Balls and Glitter: My Life order quantity
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Author: Craig Revel Horwood
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In the paperback edition of All Balls and Glitter, Craig once more turns the spotlight on himself, with an updated chapter that includes gossip from the 2008 Strictly competition and the 2009 tour, plus new photographs from his private collection.

All Balls and Glitter is Craig's remarkable life story, beginning with the tale of his escape from his small-town home in Ballarat, Australia, aged just fifteen, to embark on a career as a song-and-dance man (and drag queen), and revealing the intimate secrets of his straight marriage and gay relationships, as well as the treachery and heartbreak that accompanied them.
Hear all the details of Craig's fascinating career as a performer, choreographer, director and - most recently - as a TV star on Strictly, Fame Academy and Celebrity MasterChef.
All Balls and Glitter is unmissable, packed with breathtaking backstage gossip and showbiz secrets from one of the most ... more


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All Bull : Tales of an Angus Studmaster order quantity
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Author: Robin Leech
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DoP 2009 NZ
Harley Jenkins was born in the Darfield hospital in the spring of 1930 and has remained in the area ever since. After leaving school in 1944 he worked on his father's farm at Kimberley and, on a casual basis, for other farmers in the district. His foray into farming on his own account came in 1954 with the purchase of three pedigree Angus heifers. A year later he was to purchase "Floridale" only a kilometre or so from where he was raised as a child and from those extremely modest beginnings so began a lifetime of dedication to the fickle business of running a commercial Angus cattle stud.

Harley's expertise with livestock has seen him make a considerable mark within the stud Angus world. Aside from his ability as an astute judge of cattle he has been blessed with a quick wit and a lively sense of humour. This story notonly tells of his farming achievements but also dwells on the lighter moments of life and some of the ... more

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Always Looking Up order quantity
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Author: Michael J. Fox
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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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A Man's Life : Mustering and deer hunting alone in New Zealand's beautiful mountains order quantity
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Author: E. Ted McLaughlin
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Ted McLaughlin has led a full and adventurous life. This is his autobiography spanning nine years living on his own for long periods in the mountains of New Zealand's South Island. Travelling on horseback with pack horses and hunting deer on foot, all in the era before the advent of helicopters, Ted has had to survive a lot of close brushes with death which has made him very self reliant. It is completely true in every detail - it was a tough life which was not for the faint hearted!

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Amelia Earhart order quantity
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Author: Marie K. Long
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Drawing on a recently discovered long-lost radio message, Elgin and Maria Long re-create the events inside the cockpit of the doomed Electra flown by Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan. The authors debunk the myths that Earhart and Noonan were captured by Japanese soldiers or cannibalistic island tribespeople. Instead, they offer overwhelming evidence that the plane ran out of fuel short of its Howland Island destination. Letting the facts speak for themselves, the authors go well beyond simply solving the long-standing mystery of Earhart's disappearance and vividly brings to life the primitive conditions under which Earhart flew, in an era before radar, with unreliable communication, grass landing strips, and poorly mapped islands. In Amelia Earhart, the authors remind us how daring early aviators were as they pushed the technology of the day to its limits, and beyond, to the point of risking their lives.

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Amy Amy Amy: The Amy Winehouse Story order quantity
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Author: Nick Johnstone
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This updated edition takes the story into the summer 2008 with her success at the American Grammies, where she won five awards, Her Brit Award performance, the latest on her 'Blake Incarcerated' and more headline grabbing antics in the bars of Camden Town. It traces her roots back to middle class North London where she grew up in a nice Jewish family, first in Southgate then in East Finchley where she moved to after her parents divorced. It follows her journey to stardom including her expulsion at the Sylvia Young theatre school, her time at the performing arts BRIT school and at a private all girls school in Mill Hill where she was miserable because there were no boys.
With original interviews from figures throughout her career, Amy Amy Amy tracks her early singing career, taking in key moments such as being discovered by Simon Fuller's 19 Management Ltd and getting signed to Island Records when she was only 18. It tracks ... more

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An A-Z of Hellraisers : A Comprehensive Compendium of Outrageous Insobriety order quantity
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Author: Robert Sellers
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An A-Z of Hellraisers is the last word on inebriated misbehaviour, and the miscreant mob in this whopper of a book constitute the most amazing grouping to see print, from Alexander the Great, whose drunken revelries once ended with the destruction of an entire city, to W. C. Fields, who passed critical judgement on a brass band by urinating over them from a hotel balcony, Dylan Thomas, who drove a sports car onto Charlie Chaplin's private tennis court, to Led Zeppelin drummer John Bonham, suffocating on his own vomit after consuming forty measures of vodka - what a night out that was! This hilarious volume makes for an ideal bedsife companion, or pub reading fodder, as it scrutinises and salutes these glorious individuals from Winston Churchill to Keith Moon, George Best to Ernest Hemingway, Wild Bill Hickok to Sam Peckinpah, Ozzy Osbourne to Errol Flynn. Just thank God we didn't have to live next door to any of them.




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Ancient Gonzo Wisdom order quantity
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Author: Hunter S. Thompson
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Bristling with inspired observations and wild anecdotes, this collection offers unique insight into the voice and mind of the inimitable Hunter S. Thompson, as recorded over the decades in the pages of "Playboy", the "Paris Review", "Esquire", in various lectures, and in television appearances, many in print for the first time. Fearless and unsparing, the interviews detail some of the most storied episodes of Thompson's life: his savage beating at the hands of the Hell's Angels, his talking football with Nixon on the 1972 Campaign Trail ('the only time in twenty years of listening to the treacherous bastard that I knew he wasn't lying'); his razor-sharp insight into the Bush-Cheney administration, his unlikely run for Sheriff of Aspen, and his successful public battle, during the last years of his life, to free an innocent woman from prison. In addition, Hunter Thompson's passionate tirades about journalism, culture, drugs, guns, and ... more

 
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Angelina : Unauthorised biography of Angelina Jolie order quantity
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Author: Andrew Morton
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A major biography of one of the world's most captivating movie stars

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An Irish Woman in Czarist Russia order quantity
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Author: Lombard
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Another Bullshit Night in Suck City order quantity
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Author: Nick Flynn
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Nick Flynn met his father when he was twenty-seven years old, working as a caseworker in a homeless shelter in Boston. As a teenager he'd received letters from this mystery father - self-proclaimed poet (and greatest American novelist since Mark Twain), descendant of the Romanov dynasty, alcoholic, and con-man doing time for bank robbery - but there had been no contact. Another Bullshit Night in Suck City (a phrase Flynn senior uses to describe his life on the streets) tells the story of the eerie trajectory that led Nick and his father into that homeless shelter, onto those streets, and finally to each other.
With a raw authenticity, telling honesty and a dark but necessary humour, Nick Flynn's memoir breathes new life and vigour into the form. In passionate and playful prose Another Bullshit Night in Suck City illuminates the emotional and physical consequences of a relationship between father and son that exists, if ... more

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A Puppy Called Aero order quantity
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Author: Liam Creed
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Liam Creed seemed like a lost cause. He was excluded from school more times than he can remember, his outbursts got him into trouble, he faced a constant struggle with medication, and his family were driven to despair. All because he was born with an inability to sit still and concentrate: Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Liam thought his life was destined for failure. Until, one life-changing day, he met a mischievous bundle of energy called Aero. Aero and Liam developed a special bond. As Liam struggled to train the mischievous dog, for once he didn't feel useless and afflicted. Against the odds, Liam made an inspirational breakthrough in his own condition and learned to believe in the future.

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A Series of Small Explosions order quantity
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Author: Maurice O'Reilly
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This book has been very popular among middle-aged men who perhaps remember their own teenage years. They enjoy it because it is irresistibly funny and certainly not considered politically correct. The author has wonderful reviews and feedback from readers.

The book covers the 2nd and 3rd decades of a young man's life in the early '70's - the cars he owned - and what he did with them. Today he would be called a boy racer. He likes to think he still is!

An excellent easy read with a ‘belly aching’ laugh on every page. An ideal gift for anyone with a sense of humour, a love of cars – and perhaps has indulged in a little bit of civil disobedience. They will love it.

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A Simple Kind of Life order quantity
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Author: Jeff Apter
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The Orange County band was formed in 1986 by Eric Stefani and John Spence who soon recruited Eric's younger sister Gwen as co-vocalist. With the addition of Tony Kanal on bass, No Doubt launched a 20-year career that would fuse ska, grunge, alt.rock and shades of other musical genres into a unique mix. The 1987 suicide of John Spence resulted in the battlefield promotion of Gwen Stefani to lead vocalist, a shift that would prove a launch pad for her future solo career and media celebrity status.

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A Simpler Time order quantity
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Author: Peter Fitzsimons
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It still amazes me what they allowed us to do without their supervision or help, while remaining deeply loving parents. Climb trees, from the age of four or five? No problems. Drive the tractor from the age of six or seven onwards? Good luck to you. Haul on the hoist to pull the bins filled with oranges off the trailer? Yes. Take your bike out on the Pacific Highway and ride to school? Just be careful, but okay. Their rough reckoning was that if we thought we could do something, we probably could - and if we thought we couldn’t do something, we probably still could, if we applied ourselves. Peter FitzSimons’ account of growing up on the rural outskirts of Sydney, in the 1960s is first and foremost a tribute to family. But it is also a salute to times and generations past, when praise was understated but love unstinting; work was hard and values clear; when people stood by each other in adversity. Above all, in the FitzSimons home, days ... more

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Ava Gardner : Love is nothing order quantity
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Author: Lee Server
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Ava Gardner was the sex symbol who dazzled the other sex symbols. Elizabeth Taylor and Lana Turner thought her the most beautiful woman they had ever seen. She drove Frank Sinatra to the brink of suicide. Ernest Hemingway carried around one of her kidney stones as a sacred memento. Howard Hughes begged her to marry him: she punched out his front teeth. Her charismatic presence, jaw-dropping beauty and scandalous adventures fuelled the legend that she became. Yet she was a farmgirl who became a reluctant goddess, and who retreated from the world's gaze for the last years of her life. Filled with fresh insights gleaned from interviews with Ava's colleagues, friends and lovers, this is the definitive biography of Hollywood's most glamorous, restless and uninhibited star.

First published 2006.

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A View from Within order quantity
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Author: Pauline Grogan
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A View From Within is Pauline Grogan's highly anticipated new book about the life of James Lynch, a heroic and inspirational person who has touched many peoples lives. For over forty years, James Lynch lay in Tauranga hospital, becoming the longest-stay permanent patient in New Zealand history. He was visited often, by celebrities and ordinary people alike, and formed deep and lasting relationships with many. This is the story of one of those relationships - a poignant portrayal of the close bond developed over the seventeen years James was visited by the author.

Pauline Grogan tells James' story with sensitivity and love. It is an absorbing tale of how a seriously disabled man was able to come to terms with his paralysed body and live a fullness of life. As the author discovered, he was able to help many others to move past the constraints of their lives to a greater fullness than would have otherwise been ... more

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A Walk with Jane Austen order quantity
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Author: Lori Smith
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At thirty-three, Lori Smith found herself falling short of her expectations: single, facing a difficult job, and sinking into something like depression. She needed a change - and she needed it now. In the absence of a Darcy, she made the bold move of leaving her job and country to travel through Jane Austen's England. On a voyage of multi-layered discovery, Lori leads readers through Jane's life and the landscapes she knew and loved - from Oxford to Bath, to London and the Hampshire countryside - and through her own emotional landscapes, in which grace and hope take the place of stagnation and despair. Along the way, we explore the small and the great things in human nature to discover what Austen herself knew: the joy of life, however ordinary or unexpected.

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A Warrior's Life : A Biography of Paulo Coelho order quantity
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Author: Fernando Morais
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Paulo′s first official biographer, Fernando Morais, provides an exhaustive look at Paulo′s fascinating and varied life, taking several years to research his subject, and interviewing everyone who knows Paulo. He weaves together the strands of Paulo′s life, revealing the man behind the world-famous writer.

Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in August 1947. Before he became internationally known and a worldwide bestseller, he had to overcome many obstacles. As a teenager, he was subjected to the brutality of electric shock treatment in the psychiatric hospital where his parents, who took his rebelliousness as a sign of madness, interned him three times. As a member of the esoteric underworld, he was put in prison for alleged subversive activities against the Brazilian dictatorship and subjected to physical torture.

Later, Paulo joined forces with rock star Raul Seixas and together they composed songs ... more

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Back From Africa order quantity
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Author: Corinne Hofmann
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After the phenomenal success of her two previous titles, here is the astonishing and absorbing follow-up in English for the first time. In The White Masai Corinne Hofmann told the incredible story of how she fell in love with and married Lketinga, a Masai warrior, and lived with his family in Kenya. Now, in Back From Africa, she describes her return to Switzerland and the difficulties that faced her there, detailing how she built a new life for herself and her daughter and overcame all obstacles with the same courage and optimism with which she faced the demands of her life in the Kenyan outback. Once again, Hofmann has proved herself to be an acute observer and an effective storyteller, and her astonishing and compelling tale speaks for herself.

What the reviewers have said about White Masai:
“The White Masai is a fascinating insight into a world most will never see”- Sunday Star Times
“Utterly fascinating…offers a unique ... more

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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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Befriend and Betray: Infiltrating the Hells Angels, Bandidos and Other Criminal Brotherhoods order quantity
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Author: Alex Caine
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The Hells Angels. The Bandidos. Asian triads. Russian mobsters and corrupt cops. Even the KKK. Just part of a day's work for undercover agent Alex Caine.

Alex started life as a working-class boy from Quebec who always thought he'd end up in a blue-collar job. But after a tour in Vietnam and a stretch in prison on marijuana-possession charges, he fell into the cloak-and-dagger world of a contracted agent or kite: Infiltrating criminal groups that cops across North America and around the globe were unable to penetrate themselves.
ks to his quickwittedness and his tough but unthreatening demeanour, Caine could fit into whatever unsavoury situation he found himself in.
25 years, his assignments ran the gamut from bad-ass bikers to triad toughs.
When a job was over, he'd slip away to a new part of the continent or the world, where he would assume a new identity and then go back to work on another group of bad guys. ... more


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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sky order quantity
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Author: Gina Wilkinson
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An account of the period Ginal Wilkinson spent living as a dependant spouse in Baghdad during the final year of Saddam Hussein's regime, and later as the ABC's correspondent in post-war Iraq.

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Beverley Reeves - Playing the Part : My Life as Wife of the Governor-General order quantity
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Author: Beverley Reeves
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Beverley Reeves gives an intimate account of life as the 'model wife' of the Governor-General Sir Paul Reeves. This is the insider story of a strong, intelligent woman who, as accompanying person to the GG, often had nothing to do except be well dressed, gracious, and socialise. Beverley Reeves' memoir is both frank and reflective.

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9780646480411

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Author: Mark Smith
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Amazing story of survival of two men in a liferaft. Mark Smith's calm approach allows him to take charge after seawater overrides the pumps on a sinking ship. His ability to think clearly in times of chaos combined with his astonishing will to live, helped him to defy death and ultimately save his life.

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9781869507053

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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9781869792947

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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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9781846099588

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Author: Geoff Brown
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This book is a definitive biography of James Brown, an extraordinary and controversial superstar, that encompasses his entire life until his death on Christmas Day 2006. For decades, James Brown dominated the changing face of post-war popular black music. Others have been as inspirational in the short term and several of his successors have been bigger pop stars, but none has matched Brown's independent authority, sustained influence or commercial longevity. But while generations danced to the pulse of James Brown, at the end of the 1980s the man himself was back in a Southern US jail, a mile from there he was incarcerated in his teens. Between two internments, is the compelling story of a man who, by reaching from his roots and striving determindly for himself, came to represent in music and personal power, the post-war emancipation of black America. It is illustrated with rare photographs and includes a comprehensive discography.

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9781592854684

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Author: Jennifer Storm
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9781869791537

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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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9780446406116

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Author: Rita Cosby
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YOU PROBABLY THINK YOU KNOW ALL THERE IS TO KNOW. ANNA NICOLE SMITH LOST HER SON. SHE ACCIDENTALLY OVERDOSED. SHE WAS A DRUG ADDICT. YOU DON'T KNOW A THING... She was famous for being famous-Americana at its Scarlet Letter-wearing best. A bodacious young girl from Texas, Anna remade herself into the centerfold of the world. She was a "dumb blonde," a stripper, a Playboy Playmate, who boldly took her case against her billionaire husband's family all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her tragic life and untimely death evoke an odd mix of fascination, shock, and dismay. And through it all, there still exists a voracious thirst to discover more about who she actually was...and how she "really" died. In a book that is sure to surprise even the most avid pop culture junkies, Rita Cosby blows the lid off this astounding story. After an in-depth investigation, this is the definitive journalistic account of the Anna Nicole Smith saga-with ... more

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9780980757002

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Author: Craig Jurisevic
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The year is 1999, and for the first time since World War II, Europe is witnessing scenes of mass murder. The forces of Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic have swept into Kosovo leaving a trail of death and heartbreak. Scenes of Milosevic's 'ethnic cleansing' play out on television screens all over the world; haunted figures huddled behind barbed wire fences, bodies heaped in ditches. Adelaide surgeon Craig Jurisevic recalls his grandfather's ordeal in a Nazi concentration camp and resolves to honour his memory by offering his skills as a surgeon to the victims of the conflict. Although no stranger to the battlefield, he is appalled at the unparalleled savagery of the Kosovo war. Sickened by scenes of murder and massacre, he sets aside his non-partisan status and joins forces with the Kosovo Liberation Army, operating on the injured at the front and leading night-time missions behind the lines to retrieve injured Kosovar villagers. ... more

 
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