Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone by Heidi Postlewait, Kenneth Cain, Andrew Thomson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Military & War
"It's the early 1990s and three young people are looking to change their lives, and perhaps also the world. Attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN, Andrew, Ken and Heidi's paths cross in Cambodia, from where their fates are to become inextricably bound.Over the coming years, their ...Show more
The River at the Centre of the World - A Journey Up the Yangtze, and Back in Chinese Time by Simon Winchester
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: good-very good
The mighty Yangtze splits China in two, between the wheat-growing North and the rice-growing South; almost 500 million people live and work along its banks. In this compelling book, award-winning writer Simon Winchester and his plucky companion Lily travelled upstream all the way from bustling cosmopoli ...Show more
Help Thanks Wow: The Three Essential Prayers by Anne Lamott
$10.00 NZD
Category: Spiritual & Religion
Anne Lamott has created a concise explaination of prayer.In three essential prayers she shows how to ask for assistance from a higher power, how to appreciate the good things in life and how to feel awe about the surrounding world. These prayers will help people to achieve a feeling of serenity and get ...Show more
Becoming Bulletproof by Poumpouras, Evy
$14.00 NZD
Category: Self-Help & Motivation
Protect yourself, read people, influence situations and live fearlessly.
Down Under by Bill Bryson
$8.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
Forget Crocodile Dundee, Castlemaine XXXX and the 2000 Sydney Olympics - Bill Bryson is the man to put Australia on the map. Bill Bryson has traversed the length and breadth of Australia to bring us his first major new book since the bestselling A Walk in the Woods. Bryson is a household name, synonymou ...Show more
Confessions of a Sociopath by M. E. Thomas
$10.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Confessions of a Sociopath is both the memoir of a high-functioning, law-abiding (well, mostly) sociopath and a roadmap -- right from the source -- for dealing with the sociopath in your life.As M.E. Thomas says of her fellow sociopaths, "We are your neighbors, your coworkers, and quite possibly the peo ...Show more
There's No Toilet Paper... On the Road Less Traveled - The Best of Travel Humor and Misadventure by Doug Lansky (Editor)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Series: Travelers' Tales Guides
The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely not the memorable trip, which is where everything goes wrong and one lives to tell the tale -- and laugh about it. This collection captures the wackiest and most bizarre experiences of well-known writers whose travels have taken a detour. Stories inc ...Show more
There's No Toilet Paper... On the Road Less Traveled
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
"The perfect trip, where nothing goes wrong, is surely not the memorable trip, which is where everything goes wrong and one lives to tell the tale-- and laugh about it. This collection captures the wackiest and most bizarre experiences of well-known writers whose travels have taken a detour. Stories inc ...Show more
Silver Linings by Fletcher, Martin
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing
Witty, warm and revealing, Silver Linings is an engaging travel book for a much-misrepresented country. Northern Ireland has made headlines around the world for three decades. The province has become synonymous with conflict, terrorism and tortuous efforts to forge peace. But what is life there reall ...Show more
The Road Home: A True Story Continues by Barbara Biggs
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
Sequel to 'In Moral Danger'(ISBN 0957912145). At 13 she runs away from a home for wayward girls. At 16 she admits herself to a psychiatric hospital. At 18, she escapes Cambodia as it falls to the Khmer Roughe. At 19, she is a prostitute in Japan and at 21, she threw unionism into chaos making headlines ...Show more
Round Ireland with a Fridge by Tony Hawks
$10.00 NZD
Category: Travel Writing | Reading Level: very good
A new edition of the story of comedian Tony Hawks' hitch-hiking journey around the circumference of Ireland, whilst carrying a fridge. Hawks was bet one hundred pounds that he could not complete the journey in one calendar month and this book charts his adventures and the people he encountered along the ...Show more
For the Love of A Child by Betty Mahmoody
$12.00 NZD
Category: Autobiography/Biography/Memoir
In 1986, Betty Mahmoody and her daughter made a daring escape from Iran into Turkey and freedom, leaving behind a husband and father who had commended them to a life of forcible exile. The story of that experience, Not Without my Daughter, became an international bestseller, with 15 million copies sold ...Show more