Ocean - Tales of Voyaging and Encounter that Defined New Zealand by Sarah Ell
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Lying in the middle of a vast ocean, Aotearoa New Zealand was the last habitable land mass in the world to be settled by humans. Our history represents the powerful coming-together of two great seafaring traditions, Polynesian and European.Oceantells the stories of pioneers and trail-blazers, from the b ...Show more
Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold by Stephen Fry
Category: Non Fiction | Series: Stephen Fry's Greek Myths | Reading Level: very good
No one loves and quarrels, desires and deceives as boldly or brilliantly as Greek gods and goddesses. In Stephen Fry's vivid retelling we gaze in wonder as wise Athena is born from the cracking open of the great head of Zeus and follow doomed Persephone into the dark and lonely realm of the Underworld. ...Show more
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
Category: Non Fiction
This beautifully packaged facsimile of Edith Holden s original diary is filled with a naturalist s masterful paintings and delightful observations chronicling the English countryside throughout 1906. As one of the few true records of the time in print, the handwritten thoughts and paintings contained in ...Show more
A Bold and Dangerous Family: The Rossellis and the Fight Against Mussolini by Caroline Moorehead
Category: Non Fiction | Series: One Family's Fight Against Italian Fascism
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice The acclaimed author of A Train in Winter and Village of Secrets delivers the next chapter in "The Resistance Quartet": the astonishing story of the aristocratic Italian family who stood up to Mussolini's fascism, and whose efforts helped define the path of ...Show more
Sentinels of the Sea : A Miscellany of Lighthouses Past by R. G. Grant
Category: Non Fiction
Lighthouses have always unsettled and attracted in equal measure, highlighting the triumphs and failures in humanity's battle with the forces of nature. Taking as its heroes the lighthouses themselves, Sentinels of the Sea describes the engineering genius that allowed their construction on even the smal ...Show more
Discoveries - The Voyages of Captain Cook by Nicholas Thomas
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Cook's great voyages marked the end of an era in world history. As he sailed into Hawaii in January 1778 he made contact with the last of the human civilizations to grow up independently of the rest of the world. But equally for the Polynesians and Melanesians of the Pacific, Cook's arrival in their mid ...Show more
A Life Less Throwaway: The Lost Art of Buying for Life by Tara Button
Category: Sale Book
A revolutionary guide to the art of mindful buying that will teach you how to resist cheaply made goods and make smart, fulfilling purchases that last a lifetime. With the whole world trying to convince us to spend our way to happiness, we've been left cluttered, stressed, and unfulfilled. Tara Butt ...Show more
Border: A Journey to the Edge of Europe by Kapka Kassabova
Category: Non Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Twenty-five years after she left, Kassabova returns to Bulgaria to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece in an immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and ex ...Show more
A Short History of Golf by Matt Cleary; Greg Norman (Foreword by)
Category: Non Fiction
'Bloody brilliant.' - Greg Norman This book tells the magnificent, sometimes tragic, always inspiring stories of the greats of golf and how they lit up the world with their own brands of magic. Since Old Tom Morris won three of the first four Open Championships in the 1860s at the famous St Andrews co ...Show more
Kakapo: Rescued from the Brink of Extinction by Alison Ballance
Category: Sale Book | Reading Level: very good
Kakapo follows the fall and rise of one of the world's most unusual birds, from the brink of extinction, through a roller-coaster ride of hope and loss. One of New Zealand's most threatened species, these charismatic yet mysterious night parrots, are now found only on a small number of predator-free isl ...Show more
The E Myth Revisited Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It by Michael E Gerber
Category: Business | Reading Level: good
An instant classic, this revised and updated edition of the phenomenal bestseller dispels the myths about starting your own business. Small business consultant and author Michael E. Gerber, with sharp insight gained from years of experience, points out how common assumptions, expectations, and even tech ...Show more