Art & Architecture
- Ceramics : 400 years of British collecting in 100 masterpieces, Patricia F. Ferguson 738 FER
- Co-art : artists on creative collaboration, Ellen Mara De Wachter 709 DE
- Drawing calm : relax, refresh, refocus with 20 drawing, painting, and collage workshops inspired by Klimt, Klee, Monet, and more, Susan Evenson 701.15 EVE
- Francis Upritchard : Jealous saboteurs, 709.93 UPR
- An exhibition surveying twenty years of work by the New Zealand-born, London-based, artist.
- Line into color, color into line : Helen Frankenthaler, paintings 1962-1987 759.13 FRA
- Michelangelo & Sebastiano, Matthias Wivel 709.45 WIV
- The first publication to consider the relationship between these two major artists of the High Renaissance.
- Raymond Pettibon : a pen of all work, Massimiliano Gioni, Gary Carrion-Murayari 709.73 PET
- This thorough, multifaceted assessment of Raymond Pettibon's entire career to date includes nearly 700 images, contributions from important figures in the art-historical and cultural fields, and a recent interview with the artist.
- Realms of wonder : Jain, Hindu, Islamic art of India, including Nepal and Pakistan, James Bennett, editor 704.948 REA
- Rogues' gallery : a history of art and its dealers, Philip Hook 708 HOO
- Towards a new architecture, Le Corbusier 720 LE
- Walter Leblanc, Francesca Pola 709.2 LEB
Automobiles
- Bus chassis builders of New Zealand, Sean Millar 629.2223 MIL
- How to restore classic car interiors : repair, restoration, maintenance 629.26 HOW
Biographies
- 1963 : a slice of bread and jam, Tommy Rhattigan 941.085 RHA
- Amid the derelict terraced houses of Manchester's Hulme, is one boy's year of adventure, abuse,
crippling poverty and an encounter with The Moors Murderers.
- A house in Flanders, Michael Jenkins 944.28 JEN
- In 1951 Michael Jenkins, then 14 years old, spent the summer with the aunts in Flanders. His aunts were a group of elderly women whose connection to his family had never been explained but they immediately embraced him and he quickly became entwined in the lives of an extended family of aunts, uncles and cousins.
- A matter of honor : Pearl Harbor : betrayal, blame, and a family's quest for justice, Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan 940.5426 KIM
- An account of the Japanese attack
on Pearl Harbor in 1941, the 'scapegoat' Admiral Husband Edward Kimmel, the failure of the top brass in Washington to provide Kimmel with vital intelligence prior to the attack, and the continuing efforts of the family to have Kimmel formally exonerated.
- A true story of the great escape : a young Australian POW in the most audacious breakout of WWII, Louise Williams 940.5472 WIL
- Shot down in 1942, young Australian fighter pilot John Williams DFC became a POW in the notorious Stalag Luft III camp in Germany. John had joined the air force shortly before the outbreak of war and, in the larrikin tradition, led his squadron into air combat over the deserts of Libya and Egypt dressed in sandals and shorts.
- Around & around & around, Roy Starkey 797.124 STA
- Born in Liverpool in 1945, Roy Starkey grew up fascinated with the natural world. At the age of twenty-five with very
little money, no boatbuilding skills and no experience of the sea he built Sea Loone, a thirty-three foot sloop, and sailed away.
- Between the world and me, Ta-Nehisi Coates 305.896 COA
- For Ta-Nehisi Coates, history has always been personal. At every stage of his life, he's sought in his explorations of history answers to the mysteries that surrounded him most urgently, why he, and other black people he knew, seemed to live in fear. What were they afraid of?
- By the olive groves : a Calabrian childhood, Grazia Ietto Gillies 945.78 IET
- In 1939 a girl was born in the Aspromonte mountains of Calabria, a beautiful land steeped in history and suffused with tradition but weighed down by poverty and the 'Ndrangheta Calabria's Mafia. As the tremors of World War II shake the heart of Calabria, so the little girl's childhood unfolds.
- Edward Turner : the man behind the motorcycles, Jeff Clew 629.2275 TUR
- Reprinted after a long absence. The life of Edward Turner, one of Britain's most talented motorcycle designers, is revealed.
- Fingers in the sparkle jar : lessons in life and death, Chris Packham 508 PAC
- An introverted, unusual young boy, isolated by his obsessions and a loner at school, Chris Packham only felt himself in the fields and woods around his suburban home. But when he stole a young Kestrel from its nest, he was about to embark on a friendship that would teach him what it meant to love, and that would change him forever.
- Going to blazes : further tales of a country fireman, Malcolm Castle 363.37 CAS
- It's 1987 and 26-year-old Malcolm Castle is going up in the world. He's made it through eight long years as a rookie fire-fighter, he's become an accepted member of Red Watch in Shrewsbury and he's just got his pilot's licence so he can fly far above the town in his brand new microlight.
- Her : a memoir, Christa Parravani 306.875 PAR
- Christa Parravani and her identical twin, Cara, were linked by a bond that went beyond siblinghood, beyond sisterhood,
beyond friendship. Christa Parravani's account of being left, one half of a whole, and of her desperate, ultimately triumphant struggle for survival is informative, heart-wrenching and unforgettably beautiful.
- How to make a French family : a memoir of love, food, and faux pas, Samantha Verant 944.736 VER
- When Samantha is given a second chance at love at the age of 40,
she moves to southwestern France, thinking she's prepared for her new role in life as an instant American wife and stepmom. It turns out, though, that making a French family takes more than just good intentions and a quick lesson in croissant-baking.
- I am dogboy, Karl Hyde 781.66 HYD
- In 1999, Underworld's Karl Hyde began writing a public diary. Every day since then, Hyde has documented his thoughts, lyrical works-
in-progress, poetry and biographical essays alongside 'found' visuals.
- Island nurses : stories of birth, life and death on remote Great Barrier Island, Leonie Howie & Adele Robertson 610.73 HOW
- A story about the simple life on an isolated island; a story about two remarkable women and how they forged their careers in a remote place.
- Katherine Mansfield : the early years, Gerri Kimber 823.912 MAN
- Like farmer, like son : a memoir, Adam Henson with Ian Gittins 630 HEN
- Agriculture and show business may appear to be unlikely bedfellows, but for Countryfile presenter
Adam Henson, as for his father, Joe, who tragically passed away in the autumn of 2015, they are the twin poles that have defined his life.
- Lonely boy : tales from a Sex Pistol, Steve Jones with Ben Thompson 781.66 JON
- Without the Sex Pistols there would be no Punk. And without Steve Jones there would be no Sex Pistols.
- Mad, bad & dangerous to know, Ranulph Fiennes 910.92 FIE
- Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite and raised millions of pounds for charity.
- No way but this : in search of Paul Robeson, Jeff Sparrow 305.896 ROB
- Paul Robeson was an actor and performer, a champion athlete, a committed communist, a brilliant speaker, and a passionate activist for social justice in America, Europe, and Australia. Hailed as the most famous African American of his time, he sang with a voice that left audiences weeping, and, for a period, had the entire world at his feet and then lost everything for the sake of his principles.
- Out of the silence : memories, poems, reflections, Terry Waite 956.92044 WAI
- At the height of the Lebanese civil war in the 1980s over 100 foreign civilians were taken hostage by Islamic Jihad. As the Archbishop of Canterbury's special envoy, Terry Waite conducted several successful missions to negotiate the release of numerous hostages. But in January 1987, while on one of his many visits to Beirut, he was captured himself.
- Prince Charles : the passions and paradoxes of an improbable life, Sally Bedell Smith 941.085 CHA
- Road to Tara : the life of Margaret Mitchell, Anne Edwards 813.52 MIT
- A biography of Peggy Mitchell Marsh, who led a life as interesting as those of her characters in her
epic, Gone with the Wind.
- Spider from Mars : my life with Bowie, Woody Woodmansey with Joel McIver 781.66 WOO
- Woody's memoir, which he started work on in 2014, focuses on this key period and brings it to glorious life. With the confidence of youth, Woody always thought he'd be in a famous band but the nineteen-year-old rocker from Hull never expected to be thrust into London's burgeoning glam rock scene, and also into a bottle-green velvet suit and girl's shoes. Playing with Bowie took him on an eye-opening and transformative journey.
- The defiant one : a biography of Tony Curtis, Aubrey Malone 791.43028 CUR
- This new biography contains excerpts from interviews and articles by and about Curtis all the way from his teens in the Bronx to his death at 85 in 2010. Many of these are little known and provide insights into his complex relationship with fame, family and females, the three obsessions of his life.
- The enlightened Mr. Parkinson : the pioneering life of a forgotten English surgeon, Cherry Lewis 610.92 PAR
- Parkinson's disease is one of the most common forms of dementia, with 10,000 new cases each year in the UK alone, and yet few know anything about the man the disease is named after.
- The gift from darkness : how I escaped with my daughter from Boko Haram, Patience Ibrahim with Andrea C. Hoffmann 363.32 IBR
- The girl from the Metropol Hotel : growing up in communist Russia, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya 891.7 PET
- The prizewinning memoir of one of the world's great writers,
about coming of age and finding her voice amid the hardships of Stalinist Russia. Like a young Edith Piaf, wandering the streets singing for alms, and like Oliver Twist, living by his wits, Ludmilla Petrushevskaya grew up watchful and hungry, a diminutive figure far removed from the heights she would attain as an internationally celebrated writer.
- The marquis : Lafayette reconsidered, Laura Auricchio 944.04 LAF
- In a biography that looks past the storybook hero who cast aside family and fortune to advance the transcendent aims of liberty and justice, Laura Auricchio gives us a rich portrait of a man driven by dreams of glory and felled by tragic, human weaknesses.
- The master mechanic : the unique story of the boy from Hunterville who became a Ferrari mechanic, Gordon Campbell 796.72 WIL
- The small town of Hunterville was a centre of motor racing excellence in the 1960s and '70s, visited by a veritable who's-who of national and international motor racing personalities, thanks to one man - Bruce Wilson.
- The rules do not apply : a memoir, Ariel Levy 305.3 LEV
- In 2012, at age 38, when she left on a reporting trip to Mongolia, Ariel Levy thought she had figured it out: she was married, pregnant, successful on her own terms, financially secure. A month later, none of that was true.
- The sound of summer : a memoir, Jim Maxwell 796.358 MAX
- For more than four decades, Jim Maxwell has called the cricket for the ABC.
- The stranger in the woods : the extraordinary story of the last true hermit, Michael Finkel 974.122 KNI
- In 1986, twenty-year-old Christopher Knight left his home in Massachusetts, drove to Maine, and disappeared into the woods. He would not speak to another human being until three decades later when he was arrested for stealing food.
- This is it! : the secret lives of Dr. Conrad Murray and Michael Jackson, Conrad Murray 781.66 JAC
- This is It, is the never-before told and often shocking inside story of the King of Pop, Michael Jackson and his personal physician Dr. Conrad Murray.
- Walden on wheels : on the open road from debt to freedom, Ken Ilgunas 643.2 ILG
- Walden on Wheels offers a spirited and pointed perspective on the dilemma faced by those who seek an education but who also want to, as Thoreau wrote, "live deep and suck out all the marrow of life".
- White butterflies, Colin McPhedran 362.87 MCP
- This autobiography recalls McPhedran's pre-war childhood as part of a large Anglo-Burmese family, the Japanese invasion and his extraordinary trek to freedom.
- Who I am, Charlotte Rampling with Christophe Bataille 791.43028 RAM
- Oscar-nominated Charlotte Rampling most recently appeared in hit ITV drama Broadchurch, the BBC's London Spy and HBO's Dexter, and the feature film 45 Years.
- Wishful drinking, Carrie Fisher 791.43028 FIS
- Actress and novelist Carrie Fisher describes the ups and downs of her eventful life--growing up with celebrity parents, her early success in the hugely popular Star Wars movies, her battle with addiction and mental illness, her turbulent romances, and her role as a single mother.
- Woman in the wilderness : a story of survival, love & self-discovery in New Zealand, Miriam Lancewood 993 LAN
- This inspirational story of adventure and bravery tells how
one woman learned to dig deep and push the boundaries in order to discover what really matters in life...Miriam is a young Dutch woman living a primitive, nomadic life in the heart of the mountains with her New Zealand husband.
Business & Management
- Audio branding : using sound to build your brand, Laurence Minsky, Colleen Fahey 658.827 MIN
- Down and out in the new economy : how people find (or don't find) work today, Ilana Gershon 650.14 GER
- How to write a brilliant CV, Jim Bright, Joanne Earl and David Winter 650.14 BRI
- Permission to speak freely : how the best leaders cultivate a culture of candor, Doug Crandall and Matt Kincaid 658.409 CRA
- Start your own import/export business : your step-by-step guide to success, Rich Mintzer 658.11 STA
- Superfandom : how our obsessions are changing what we buy and who we are, Zoe Fraade-Blanar & Aaron M. Glazer 658.834 FRA
- The 80/20 principle : the secret of achieving more with less, Richard Koch 650.1 KOC
- The aisles have eyes : how retailers track your shopping, strip your privacy, and define your power, Joseph Turow 658.834 TUR
- The global Silicon Valley handbook : the official entrepreneur's guide to the hottest startup scenes from around the globe, Michael Moe and the Global Silicon Valley Team 658.11 MOE
- The new rules of work : the ultimate career guide for the modern workplace, Alexandra Cavoulacos and Kathryn Minshew 650.14 CAV
- The Paula principle : why and how women work below their level of competence, Tom Schuller 650.1 SCH
- The Peter F. Drucker reader : selected articles from the father of modern management thinking, 658 DRU
- The successful interview : why should we hire you?, Steve Williams 650.144 WIL
- What makes an effective executive, Peter F. Drucker 658.409 DRU
- Winning new business, Stewart Stuchbury 658.11 STU
Cartoons
- David Wiesner & the art of wordless storytelling, Eik Kahng 741.64 WIE
- The complete Peanuts, 1959 to 1960, Charles M. Schulz 741.5 SCH
Computers
- Introducing Elixir : getting started in functional programming, Simon St. Laurent and J. David Eisenberg 005.11 ST
- Murach's Python programming : beginner to pro, Michael Urban, Joel Murach 005.133 PYT
- Understanding the digital world : what you need to know about computers, the Internet, privacy, and security, Brian W. Kernighan 004 KER
Crafts & Collecting
- Bohemian macrame, Gwenael Petiot 746.422 PET
- Cross stitch mini motifs : nature : many new cross stitch motifs inspired by nature, Susan Bates 746.443 BAT
- Folded book art : 35 beautiful projects to transform your books, create cards, display scenes, decorations, gifts, and more, Clare Youngs 745.54 YOU
- Handmade bags in natural fabrics : 60 easy-to-make purses, totes and more, Emiko Takahashi 646.48 TAK
- Handpicked : simple, sustainable, and seasonal flower arrangements, Ingrid Carozzi 745.92 CAR
- Imagine a forest : designs and inspirations for enchanting folk art, Dinara Mirtalipova 745.4 MIR
- It's a small world felted friends : cute and cuddly needle felted figures from around the world, Sachiko Susa 746.0463 SUS
- Little knits for little feet, Jody Long 746.432 LON
- London in fragments : a mudlark's treasures, Ted Sandling 942.1 SAN
- Mudlarking, searching the Thames foreshore, has a long tradition: mudlarks used to be small boys grubbing a living from scrap. Today's mudlarks unearth relics of the past, from Roman tiles to elegant Georgian pottery.
- Mandalas & doilies to crochet : delightful designs to brighten your life, Marie-Line Andre 746.434 AND
- New York beauties & flying geese : 10 dramatic quilts, 27 pillows, 31 block patterns, Carl Hentsch 746.46 HEN
- Pin loom weaving to go : 30 projects for portable weaving, Margaret Stump 746.14 STU
- Quilled mandalas : 30 paper projects for creativity and relaxation, Alli Bartkowski 745.54 BAR
- Simply tradition : 70 fun & easy holiday ideas for families, Kierste Wade 745.5 WAD
- The collectible LEGO mini figure : values, investments, profits, fun facts, collector tips, Ed Maciorowski, Jeff Maciorowski 688.725 MCI
- The great pottery throw down, Liz Wilhide and Susie Hodge 738.09 WIL
- The skirt emporium, Madame Zsazsa 646.437 ZSA
- This fun, quirky book is packed with 25 gorgeous, colourful skirts for adults up to size UK 20/US 16 and children from 2 years old.
- The tunic bible : one pattern, interchangeable pieces, ready-to-wear results!, Sarah Gunn and Julie Starr 646.404 GUN
- The wreath recipe book : year-round wreaths, swags, and other decorations to make with seasonal branches, Alethea Harampolis and Jill Rizzo of Studio Choo 745.92
- Wen Redmond's digital fiber art : combine photos & fabric :create your own mixed-media masterpiece, 745.5 RED
- Zen chic inspired : a guide to modern quilt design, Brigitte Heitland 746.46 HEI
Crime & Espionage
- A stolen childhood : a dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future, Casey Watson 362.733 WAT
- Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she's too young to even understand.
- Anatomy of innocence : testimonies of the wrongfully convicted, Laura Caldwell and Leslie S. Klinger 364.973 ANA
- Death comes knocking : policing Roy Grace's Brighton, Graham Bartlett with Peter James 363.20942 BAR
- Fans of Peter James and his Roy Grace series of crime novels know that his books draw on in-depth research into the lives of Brighton and Hove police and are set in a world every bit as gritty as the real thing.
- Masking evil : when good men and women turn criminal, Carol Anne Davis 364.1523 DAV
- Master manipulator : the explosive true story of fraud, embezzlement, and government betrayal at the CDC, James Ottar Grundvig 364.168 GRU
- In 2000, the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC) carried out a secret mission to bury, skew, and manipulate data in six vaccine safety studies, in a coordinated effort to control the message that "vaccines do not cause autism."
- Rest in power : the enduring life of Trayvon Martin, Sybrina Fulton and Tracy Martin 364.1523 MAR
- When Trayvon Martin took his last walk down a Florida street on a cool February evening in 2012, he was just another American teenager, heading home with candy and a soda, talking on the phone with a friend, and dreaming of the future. By the end of the night he was dead--gunned down by a neighbourhood watchman.
- The innocent man : murder and injustice in a small town, John Grisham 345.025 GRI
- In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. Six years later he was back, his dreams broken. In 1982, a waitress names Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered. For this crime, Ron and his friend, Dennis Fritz, were charged with capital murder. This book talks about this case.
- The spider network : the wild story of a math genius, a gang of backstabbing bankers, and one of the greatest scams in financial history, David Enrich 364.168 ENR
- The Wall Street Journal's award-winning business reporter unveils the bizarre and sinister story of how a math genius named Tom Hayes, a handful of outrageous confederates, and a deeply corrupt banking system ignited one of the greatest financial scandals in history.
Economics
- Banker to the poor : the autobiography of Muhammad Yunus, founder of the Grameen Bank, Muhammad Yunus with Alan Jolis 332.31 YUN
- Chutzpah & Chutzpah : Saatchi & Saatchi : the insiders' stories, Richard Myers, Simon Goode and Nick Darke 338.76165 MYE
- Dirty secrets : how tax havens destroy the economy, Richard Murphy 336.206 MUR
- Get a financial life : personal finance in your twenties and thirties, Beth Kobliner 332.024 KOB
- Property entrepreneur : the wealth dragon way to build a successful property business, Vincent Wong 333.33 WON
- Prosperity without growth : foundations for the economy of tomorrow, Tim Jackson 338.92 JAC
- Rational investing : the subtleties of asset management, Hugues Langlois and Jacques Lussier 332.6 LAN
- Requiem for the American dream : the 10 principles of concentration of wealth & power, Noam Chomsky 339.2 CHO
- Singapore : unlikely power, John Curtis Perry 330.95957 PER
- Tax and fairness, Deborah Russell and Terry Baucher 336.24 RUS
- The production of money : how to break the power of bankers, Ann Pettifor 332.401 PET
- The truth about your future : the money guide you need now, later, and much later, Ric Edelman 332.024 EDE
- Utopia for realists, Rutger Bregman 330 BRE
- A noted Dutch journalist and economist proposes an outline for a new worldwide Utopia, including a shortened work week, a guaranteed basic income for all, wealth redistribution, and open borders everywhere.
- Worth it : your life, your money, your terms, Amanda Steinberg 332.024 STE
- You are a badass at making money : master the mindset of wealth, Jen Sincero 332.024 SIN
Education
- Creative schools : revolutionizing education from the ground up, Ken Robinson and Lou Aronica 371.207 ROB
- Designs for learning : teaching in adult, tertiary and vocational education in Aotearoa New Zealand, Lisa Maurice-Takerei & Helen Anderson 347.993 MAU
- Excellent sheep : the miseducation of the American elite and the way to a meaningful life, William Deresiewicz 378.73 DER
- Finding quality early childcare : a step-by-step guide for parents about what matters most, Sarah Taylor Vanover 372.21 VAN
- I wish my teacher knew : how one question can change everything for our kids, Kyle Schwartz 370.114 SCH
- Mathematical mindsets : unleashing students' potential through creative math, inspiring messages, and innovative teaching, Jo Boaler 510 BOA
- The price of admission : how America's ruling class buys its way into elite colleges and who gets left outside the gates, Daniel Golden 378.16 GOL
- The tutor : transformational educators for 21st century learners, Adrian Schoone 371.39 SCH
Engineering technologies
- Biotechnology for beginners, Reinhard Renneberg, Viola Berkling, Vanya Loroch 660.6 REN
Environment
- Burn out : the endgame for fossil fuels, Dieter Helm 333.82 HEL
- Nature's allies : eight conservationists who changed our world, Larry A. Nielsen 363.7 MUI
- The running hare : the secret life of farmland, John Lewis-Stempel 577.4 LEW
- Traditional ploughland is disappearing. Seven cornfield flowers have become extinct in the last twenty years. Once abundant, the corn bunting and the lapwing are on the Red List. The corncrake is all but extinct in England. And the hare is running for its life. John Lewis Stempel demonstrates that it is still possible to create a place where the hare can rest safe.
Farming
- The permaculture market garden : a visual guide to a profitable whole-systems farm business, Zach Loeks 631.58 LOE
Fashion
- Costume jewellery, Judith Miller with John Wainwright ; photography by Graham Rae 688.2 MIL
- Dress [with] sense : with over 200 illustrations, Christina Dean, Hannah Lane, Sarah Tarneberg 646.3 DEA
- London uprising : fifty fashion designers, one city, Tania Fares and Sarah Mower 746.92 LON
- Magnificence of the Tsars : ceremonial men's dress of the Russian Imperial Court, 1721-1917 : from the collection of the Moscow Kremlin Museums, Svetlana A. Amelekhina and Alexey K.
Levykin 391.1 AME
- Secrets of a beauty queen, Stephanie Darling 646.7 DAR
- The new tattoo, Josep Maria Minguet 391.65 NEW
- The New Tattoo is packed with glorious full-colour photographs that explore the amazing range and creativity of designs that can be found in today's tattoo culture, and shows how tattoo artists are influenced by art, fashion and contemporary culture from around the world.
Film, Television & Theatre
- Doctor Who : the vault, Marcus Hearn 791.457 HEA
- High Noon : the Hollywood blacklist and the making of an American classic, Glenn Frankel 791.437 FRA
- The art of movement, Ken Browar and Deborah Ory, NYC Dance Project 792.8 BRO
- The greatest shows on earth : a history of the circus, Linda Simon 791.3 SIM
Folklore
- Norse mythology, Neil Gaiman 398.20948 GAI
- The customs and traditions of Wales, Trefor M. Owen 398.09429 OWE
Food & Wine
- Alan Dunn's celebration cakes, 641.8653 DUN
- Big fat food fraud : confessions of a health-food hustler, Jeff Scot Philips 338.19 PHI
- Presents an account of the shady practices of the food and weight-loss industries,
showing how labels can be manipulated for profits, the media can be led to promote specific products, and regulators can be fooled.
- Dinnertime goodness : 85+ fresh, seasonal meals, Nadia Lim 641.54 LIM
- Food swings : 125 + recipes to enjoy your life of virtue & vice, Jessica Seinfeld with Sara Quessenberry 641.5 SEI
- Home cook : over 300 delicious, fuss-free recipes, Thomasina Miers 641.5 MIE
- Julie Goodwin's essential cookbook, 641.5 GOO
- Little Pip eats the colours of the rainbow, Amie Harper 641.5622 HAR
- My kind of food, Valli Little 641.5 LIT
- Simplissime light : the easiest cookbook in the world : light recipes to read at a glance and make in a flash, Jean-Francois Mallet 641.5944 MAL
- Spice health heroes, Natasha MacAller 641.6383 MCA
- The $50 weekly shop : how to buy groceries for a family of four on a tight budget, Jody Allen 641.552 ALL
- The CSIRO low-carb diet, Grant Brinkworth and Pennie Taylor 641.5638 BRI
- The energy guide : a step-by-step plan to finding the energy you need to flourish, Dr Libby Weaver 641.563 WEA
- The great dixter cookbook : recipes from an English garden, Aaron Bertelsen 641.5942 BER
- The man who ate Lincoln Road, Steve Braunias 993.23 BRA
- The discovery that one street in Auckland was lined with 55 food joints got Steve Braunias thinking. Could one man eat the lot in a single year?
- The Moosewood cookbook, Mollie Katzen 641.5636 KAT
- The Mountain Cafe cookbook : a Kiwi in the Cairngorms, Kirsten Gilmour 641.5 GIL
- The rainbow juice cleanse : lose weight, boost energy, and supercharge your health, Dr. Ginger Southall 641.875 SOU
- The really quite good British cookbook : the food we love from 100 of our best chefs, cooks, bakers and food heroes, editor, William Sitwell 641.5941 REA
- The roasting tin : simple one dish dinners, Rukmini Iyer 641.71 IYE
Gardens and Gardening
- Attracting birds and other wildlife to your garden in New Zealand, Gordon Ell 577.55 ELL
- Big ideas, small spaces : cutting-edge ideas and 30 projects for balconies, roof gardens, windowsills, and terraces, Kay Maguire & Tony Woods 635 MAG
- Floret Farm's cut flower garden : grow, harvest & arrange stunning seasonal blooms, Erin Benzakein with Julie Chai 745.92 BEN
- Garden design : a book of ideas, Heidi Howcroft & Marianne Majerus 712.6 HOW
- Gardening for mindfulness, Holly Farrell 635 FAR
- Gardening for wildlife : a complete guide to nature-friendly gardening, Adrian Thomas 639.92 THO
- Healing garden, David Kamp 712 HEA
- New Nordic gardens : Scandinavian landscape design, Annika Zetterman 712.6 ZET
- Plants you can't kill : 101 easy-to-grow species for beginning gardeners, Stacy Tornio 635 TOR
- Practical gardening : techniques, plants, planning, design, Jackie Matthews, Richard Bird and Andrew Mikolajski 635 MAT
- Step-by-step projects for self-sufficiency, 635 STE
- The container gardener : inspirational ideas for pots and plants to transform any garden, Frances Tophill 635.986 TOP
- The English roses, David Austin 635.93 ROS
- The thoughtful gardener, Jinny Blom 712.6 BLO
Genealogy
- Land research for family historians in Australia & New Zealand, Carole Riley 929.3 RIL
- One family, six names : the story of the name and medieval origins of the Scottish family of Hercus, Herkes, Harcus, Harkes, Harkess and Arcus, John and Ann Hercus 929.2 HER
Graphic Arts
- Graphic : 500 designs that matter, 741.6 GRA
Health & Medicine
- Awakening from Alzheimer's : how 9 maverick doctors are reversing Alzheimer's, dementia and memory loss, Peggy Sarlin 616.831 SAR
- Can't just stop : an investigation of compulsions, Sharon Begley 616.8522 BEG
- Chair yoga : sit, stretch, and strengthen your way to a happier, healthier you, Kristin McGee 613.7046 MCG
- Coping with diverticulitis, Peter Cartwright 616.34 CAR
- Every body yoga : let go of fear, get on the mat, love your body, Jessamyn Stanley 613.7046 STA
- First, we make the beast beautiful : a new story about anxiety, Sarah Wilson 616.8522 WIL
- Handbook of aviation medicine and inflight medical emergencies, Jurgen Graf, Uwe Stuben 616.9802 HAN
- Life after the diagnosis : expert advice for living well with serious illness for patients and caregivers, Steven Z. Pantilat 616.029 PAN
- Life on the ground floor, James Maskalyk 362.18 MAS
- A celebrated humanitarian doctor's unique perspective on sickness, health and what it is to be alive.
- Mind over meds : know when drugs are necessary, when alternatives are better and when to let your body heal on its own, Andrew Weil 615.5 WEI
- Motor neurone disease (MND): essentials : your fifty key questions answered, Dr Stuart Neilson 616.83 NEI
- Rest : why you get more done when you work less, Alex Soojung-Kim Pang 612.042 PAN
- Should I take...probiotics?, Dr. Shaun Holt 615.329 HOL
- Stay healthy by supplying what's lacking in your diet, David Coory 613.2 COO
- Talk Rx : five steps to honest conversations that create connection, health, and happiness, Neha Sangwan 613 SAN
- The gardener's companion to medicinal plants : an A-Z of healing plants and home remedies, Monique Simmonds, Melanie-Jayne Howes and Jason Irving 581.634
- The gene machine : how genetic technologies are changing the way we have kids and the kids we have, Bonnie Rochman 616.042 ROC
- The shrinking violet : the incredible story of one bloggers massive weight loss journey : how to lose weight and get fit the Paleo way, Elora Harre 613.25 HAR
- The smile stealers : the fine + foul art of dentistry, Richard Barnett 617.6 BAR
- This is not a diet : a user's guide to eating well, Bee Wilson 613.2 WIL
- Unexpected recoveries : seven steps to healing body, mind, & soul when serious illness strikes, Tom Monte 616.029 MON
- When your spouse has a stroke : caring for your partner, yourself, and your relationship, Sara Palmer, and Jeffrey B. Palmer 616.81 PAL
- Which natural therapies should you try? : a simple guide to natural treatments, Dr. Shaun Holt & Emma Dalton 615.5 HOL
History, Geography & Travel
- A crime in the family, Sacha Batthyany 940.5318 BAT
- A Crime in the Family is a moving and revelatory memoir. It uncovers barbarity and tragedy but also a measure of peace and reconciliation.
- A Florence diary, Diana Athill 945.51 ATH
- The charming and vivacious diary of Diana Athill's holiday to Florence in the late 1940s.
- A great place to have a war : America in Laos and the birth of a military CIA, Joshua Kurlantzick 959.7043 KUR
- A revolution undone : Egypt's road beyond revolt, H. A. Hellyer 962.05 HEL
- America's great hiking trails, Karen Berger ; photography by Bart Smith 973 BER
- Auckland : then and now, Jenny Haworth 993.2 HAW
- Austria, Marc Di Duca 943.6 DI
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Beijing, David Eimer, Trent Holden 951.156 EIM
- Lonely Planet guide.
- British Columbia & the Canadian Rockies, John Lee, Korina Miller, Ryan Ver Berkmoes 971.1 LEE
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Cairo inside out, Trevor Naylor 962.1 NAY
- Canada, Korina Miller 971 MIL
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Croatia, Peter Dragicevich 949.72 DRA
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Fateful choices : ten decisions that changed the world, 1940-1941, Ian Kershaw 940.531 KER
- In a mere nineteen months, from May 1940 to December 1941, the leaders of the world's six major powers made a series of related decisions that decided the course and outcome of World War II, cost the lives of millions and reshaped the course of human destiny from that point forward.
- Great Britain, Neil Wilson 941 WIL
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Great expeditions : 50 journeys that changed our world, Mark Steward 910.9 STE
- Havana : a subtropical delirium, Mark Kurlansky 972.91 KUR
- Award-winning author Mark Kurlansky presents an insider's view of Havana: the elegant, tattered city he has come to know over more than thirty years.
- Hong Kong, Emily Matchar, Piera Chen 951.25 MAT
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Ice ghosts : the epic hunt for the lost Franklin Expedition, Paul Watson 998 WAT
- Iceland, Carolyn Bain, Alexis Averbuck 949.12 BAI
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Inside the Third Reich, Albert Speer 943.086 HIT
- Inside the Third Reich is a personal German account to come out of the war and a revealing document on the Hitler phenomenon. It takes the reader inside Nazi Germany on four different levels: Hitler's inner circle, National Socialism as a whole, the area of wartime production and the inner struggle of Albert Speer.
- Island story : journeying through unfamiliar Britain, J.D. Taylor 941 TAY
- Mountain lines : a journey through the French Alps, Jonathan Arlan 944.9 ARL
- New England, Gregor Clark 974 CLA
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Nova Scotia, New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island, Korina Miller 971.5 MIL
- Lonely Planet guide.
- One man and a narrowboat : slowing down time on England's waterways, Steve Haywood 942 HAY
- Out of China : how the Chinese ended the era of Western domination, Robert Bickers 951.05 BIC
- Petrograd 1917 : witnesses to the Russian Revolution, John Pinfold 947.0841 PIN
- Queen Victoria and the European Empires, John Van der Kiste 941.081 VIC
- Red tape and white knuckles : one woman's adventure through Africa, Lois Pryce 960 PRY
- Rick Steves' Germany 2017, 943 STE
- Rick Steves' Prague & the Czech Republic, Rick Steves & Jan Honza Vihan 943.71 STE
- Rick Steves' Vienna Salzburg & Tirol, 943.6 STE
- Seattle, Brendan Sainsbury, Celeste Brash 979.777 SAI
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Shanghai, Kate Morgan, Helen Elfer, Trent Holden 951.132 MOR
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Silly isles, Eric Campbell 910.41 CAM
- From the bestselling author of Absurdistan, a hilarious tour through small but very strange places.
- Sinai : landscape and nature in Egypt's wilderness, Omar Attum 956.94 ATT
- Superfast primetime ultimate nation : the relentless invention of modern India, Adam Roberts 954.053 ROB
- Taiwan, Piera Chen, Dinah Gardner 951.249 CHE
- Lonely Planet guide.
- The Camisard uprising : war and religion in the Cevennes, David Crackanthorpe 944.033 CRA
- The destruction of Protestantism in France succeeded best in the cities where Huguenots were vulnerable and could only remain faithful to their beliefs in secret; but in the mountains of the Cevennes in Languedoc there were hidden sites for unlawful religious assemblies, isolated villages and farms, and a people of Celtic origin passionately devoted to their form of Christianity.
- The journals of Lewis and Clark, Meriwether Lewis and William Clark 978 LEW
- The New Yorker book of the 50s : story of a decade, Henry Finder 909.825 NEW
- The time traveller's guide to Restoration Britain : a handbook for visitors to the years 1660-1700, Ian Mortimer 941.066 MOR
- The transatlantic marriage bureau : husband hunting in the Gilded Age : how American heiresses conquered the aristocracy, Julie Ferry 941.081 FER
- The Venice book : a personal guide to the city's art & culture, Sophie Ullin 945.31 ULL
- The Venice Biennale is one of the world's biggest cultural attractions, growing every year with the 'art tourist' market.
- Too narrow to swing a cat : going nowhere in particular on the English waterways, Steve Haywood 942 HAY
- Tragic shores, Thomas H. Cook 910.4 COO
- With his wife and daughter, Cook travels across the globe in search of darkness - from Lourdes to Ghana, from San Francisco to
Verdun, from the monumental, mechanised horror of Auschwitz to the intimate personal grief of a shrine to dead infants in Kamukura, Japan. Along the way he reflects on what these sites may teach us, not only about human history, but about our own personal histories.
- Vancouver, John Lee 971.133 LEE
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Vienna, Catherine Le Nevez, Kerry Christiani, Donna Wheeler 943.613 LE
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Wales, Peter Dragiecevich, Hugh McNaughtan 942.9 DRA
- Lonely Planet guide.
- Where the line is drawn : crossing boundaries in occupied Palestine, Raja Shehadeh 956.9405 SHE
House & Garden
- At home with plants, Ian Drummond & Kara O'Reilly 635.965 DRU
- Build it yourself : weekend projects for the garden, Frank Perrone 690.89 PER
- Change your home, change your life with color : what's your color story?, Moll Anderson 747.94 AND
- Clay and concrete roof tiles, John Wierenga 695 WIE
- Construction stains, Alide Elkink 667 ELK
- Elemental living : contemporary houses in nature, 720.47 ELE
- Hinges, Alide Elkink 690.18 ELK
- Leaking basement walls, John Wierenga 693.89 WIE
- Living in the landscape : extraordinary rural homes in Australia and New Zealand, Anna Johnson and Richard Blake 728.37 JOH
- Making midcentury modern, Christopher Kennedy 747 KEN
- Masonry veneer, Alide Elkink 698 ELK
- Overlay flooring, Alide Elkink 690.16 ELK
- Rainwater storage systems, John Wierenga 628.13 WIE
- Retrofitting wall insulation, Ann Galloway 693.83 GAL
- Space works : a source book of design and decorating ideas to create your perfect home, Caroline Clifton-Mogg 747 CLI
- Stanley decks : a homeowner's guide, David Toht 690.893 TOH
- The flower book, Rachel Siegfried 745.92 SIE
- Flower farmer and floral designer Rachel Siegfried celebrates, bloom by bloom, the loveliest flowers for your
- The new old house : historic & modern architecture combined, Marc Kristal 724.6 KRI
- The seaside house : living on the water, Nick Voulgaris III 747.88 VOU
- Tiling, Trevor Pringle 693.3 PRI
- Timber cladding, Russell Black 698 BLA
Journalism
- Mail men : the unauthorized story of the Daily Mail, the paper that divided and conquered Britain, Adrian Addison 070.57 ADD
Language
- Arabic English visual bilingual dictionary, 492.7 ARA
- Chinese-English English-Chinese practical dictionary, Yong Ho 495.13 HO
- Dari practical dictionary : Dari-English, English Dari, Carleton Bulkin 491.56 BUL
- French English visual bilingual dictionary, 443 FRE
- Get a grip on your grammar : 250 writing and editing reminders for the curious or confused : a grammar book for those who hate grammar, Kris Spisak 428.2
- How to be good with words, Don LePan, Laura Buzzard, and Maureen Okun 428 LEP
- Modern Brazilian Portuguese grammar : a practical guide, John Whitlam 469 WHI
Library Science
- Reading allowed : true stories and curious incidents from a provincial library, Chris Paling 027.4 PAL
- When novelist Chris Paling went for a job at his local library, he anticipated a quiet life. It took two hours between the stacks to discover that the reality was somewhat different.
Literature
- Alice in space : the sideways Victorian world of Lewis Carroll, Gillian Beer 823.8 CAR
- Charles Brasch : journals, 1945-1957, Selected with an introduction and notes by Peter Simpson 809.92 BRA
- Elizabeth Bishop : a miracle for breakfast, Megan Marshall 811.54 BIS
- From a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, a brilliantly rendered life of one of our most admired
- Jane Austen at home, Lucy Worsley 823.7 AUS
- On the eve of the bi-centenary of Jane Austen's death, step back into the world in which our best-loved novelist
- Molly Keane : a life, Sally Phipps 823.912 KEA
- Molly Keane (1904-96) was an Irish novelist and playwright (born in County Kildare) most famous for Good Behaviour which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
- Somebody with a little hammer, Mary Gaitskill 814.54 GAI
- American essays.
- South and West : from a notebook, Joan Didion 818.54 DID
- The dog's last walk, Howard Jacobson 828.914 JAC
- English essays.
Military
- Army fundamentals : from making soldiers to the limits of the military instrument, B.K. Greener 355.00993 ARM
- Major issues are addressed in this fascinating and compelling book, in which expert authors delve deep into New Zealand's modern-day Army.
- Fighter! : ten killer planes of World War II, Jim Laurier 623.7464 LAU
Music & Musicians
- Classical guitar chops : essential licks and exercises to maximize your technique, Evan Hirschelman 787.87193 HIR
- Gibson Les Paul manual : how to buy, maintain and set up the legendary Les Paul electric guitar (includes Epiphone models), Paul Balmer 787.87 BAL
- Rebel rebel, Chris O'Leary 781.66 BOW
- Catalogues Bowie's songs from 1964-1976, examines them in order of their composition and recording, and digs into what makes them work.
- The beat stops here : lessons on and off the podium for today's conductor, Mark Gibson 781.45 GIB
- The Beatles : all our yesterdays, Jason Quinn 781.66 BEA
- The Martin archives : a scrapbook of treasures from the world's foremost acoustic guitar maker, Jim Washburn with Dick Boak 787.87 WAS
Natural Science
- A sweet, wild note : what we hear when the birds sing, Richard Smyth 598 SMY
- The Australian bird guide, Peter Menkhorst 598.0994 MEN
- The elephant whisperer : learning about life, loyalty and freedom from a remarkable herd of elephants, Lawrence Anthony with Graham Spence 599.67 ANT
- The fox book, Jane Russ 599.77 RUS
- The peregrine, J. A. Baker 598.96 BAK
- J. A. Baker's extraordinary classic of British nature writing was first published in 1967.
- The plant hunters : the adventures of the world's greatest botanical explorers, Carolyn Fry 580.75 FRY
- Vulture : the private life of an unloved bird, Katie Fallon 598.92 FAL
- Wonderland : a year of Britain's wildlife, day by day, Brett Westwood & Stephen Moss 591.941 WES
Occult
- Awakenings from the light : 12 life lessons from a near death experience, Nancy Rynes 133.9013 RYN
- Surrounded by spirit, Kelvin Cruickshank with Donna Fleming 133.91 CRU
Painting
- Beginning oil : tips and techniques for learning to paint in oil, Jan Murphy 751.45 MUR
- Beginning pastel : tips and techniques for learning to paint in pastel, Paul Pigram 741.23 PIG
- Painting perspective, depth & distance in watercolour, Geoff Kersey 751.422 KER
- Pigments of your imagination : creating with alcohol inks, Cathy Taylor 751.425 TAY
Parenting
- How to raise a wild child : the art and science of falling in love with nature, Scott D. Sampson 508 SAM
- Parenting in the eye of the storm : the adoptive parent's guide to navigating the teen years, Katie Naftzger 649.14 NAF
- Stressed out! : solutions to help your child manage and overcome stress, Mary Anne Richey and James W. Forgan 155.418 RIC
- The path to purpose : how young people find their calling in life, William Damon 649.7 DAM
- The princess bitchface syndrome 2.0, Dr Michael Carr-Gregg and Elly Robinson 305.235 CAR
- What do you do when your previously quiet, loving daughter becomes a restless, rebellious stranger who acts like a responsible adult one day and a rude, selfish brat the next?
- What to know before having your baby : an illustrated guide, Peter Jung, M.D 649.122 JUN
Pets & Animals
- Beekeeping for dummies, Howland Blackiston 638.1 BLA
- Dewey : a small-town library cat who touched the world, Vicki Myron, with Bret Witter 636.8 MYR
- Dog training : the gentle modern method, David Weston 636.70887 WES
- Fun & games for a smarter dog, Sophie Collins 636.70887 COL
- Goats of Anarchy, Leanne Lauricella a.k.a. Goat Mama 636.39 LAU
- The real pet detective : true tales of pets lost and found, Tom Watkins with Ruth Kelly 636.0887 WAT
Philosophy & Psychology
- The reality frame : relativity and our place in the universe, Brian Clegg 149 CLE
Photography
- Diane Arbus : in the beginning : 1956-1962, Jeff L. Rosenheim 779 ARB
- Diane Arbus (1923-1971) is one of the most distinctive and provocative artists of the twentieth century. Her photographs of children and eccentrics, couples and circus performers, female impersonators and nudists, are among the most recognizable images of our time.
- Dronescapes : the new aerial photography from Dronestagram, Ayperi Karabuda Ecer 779 DRO
- The drone camera handbook : a complete step-by-step guide to aerial photography and filmmaking : the manual that should have come in the box, Ivo Marloh 771
- Time-lapse photography : art and techniques, Mark Higgins 770 HIG
- You had one job!, Beverly L. Jenkins 779 JEN
- A collection of hilarious pictures features job-related disasters and general ineptitudes.
Poetry
- A Barry Brickell reader : selected 'wrertings', meditations, outbursts, decrees and diversions, Edited & introduced by Gregory O'Brien 821.92 BRI
- NZ poetry.
- Humphrey Bogart's great sacrifice, Kevin Ireland 821.914 IRE
- New Zealand poetry.
- In the palm of your hand : a poet's portable workshop : a lively and illuminating guide for the practicing poet, Steve Kowit 808.1 KOW
Politics & Government
- Failing states, collapsing systems : biophysical triggers of political violence, Nafeez Mosaddeq Afeez 364.131 AHM
- Since the 2008 financial crash, the world has witnessed an unprecedented outbreak of social unrest in every major continent. Beginning with the birth of the Occupy movement and the Arab Spring, the eruption of civil disorder continues to wreak havoc unpredictably from Greece to Ukraine, from China to Thailand, from Brazil to Turkey, and beyond.
- Far-right politics in Europe, Jean-Yves Camus, Nicolas Lebourg 320.533 CAM
- On tyranny : twenty lessons from the twentieth century, Timothy Snyder 321.9 SNY
- The New Zealand project, Max Harris 320.993 HAR
- New Zealand must confront some monumental issues in the years ahead. From the future of work to climate change,
geopolitical upheaval to housing affordability, wealth inequality to new populism. Yet why, as Max Harris argues in this far-sighted book, does New Zealand's political thinking and discussion often seem so diminished?
- The prince, Niccolo Machiavelli 320.1 MCH
- Written during the Italian Renaissance, Niccolo Machiavelli's astute observations on how to read people and situations,
especially for acquiring and maintaining political power, is a classic primer for politicians and business leaders alike.
Pounamu
- The best of e-Tangata, Tapu Misa and Gary Wilson 993 BES
- The celebrated digital magazine e-Tangata is home to some of the most incisive and profound commentary
on life in New Zealand.
Religion & Ethics
- An inner music : living a life in God, Craig Larkin 234.2 LAR
- Bearing false witness : debunking centuries of anti-Catholic history, Rodney Stark 282 STA
- Hallelujah anyway : rediscovering mercy, Anne Lamott 241.4 LAM
- In God's hands : the spiritual diaries 1962-2003, Pope St John Paul II 282.092 JOH
- An intimate insight into the longest-serving pontiff of our time. Ten years after his death, the popularity and devotion towards John Paul II, the pope who helped bring down communism in his native Poland, the great statesman, and the most-travelled pope in history, remains as strong as ever.
- Killing fields, living fields : an unfinished portrait of the Cambodian Church, Don Cormack 280.4 COR
- Mystery Babylon : unlocking the Bible's greatest prophetic mystery, Joel Richardson 228 RIC
- Rational faith : a philosopher's defense of Christianity, Stephen T. Davis 230.01 DAV
- The Evangelicals : the struggle to shape America, Frances FitzGerald 277 FIT
Science
- A question and answer guide to astronomy, Carol Christian, Jean-Rene Roy 520 CHR
- Beyond infinity : an expedition to the outer limits of the mathematical universe, Eugenia Cheng 511.3 CHE
- Chandra's cosmos : dark matter, black holes, and other wonders revealed by NASA's premier X-ray observatory, Wallace H. Tucker 523.1 TUC
- Cracking mathematics : you, this book and 4,000 years of theories, Colin Beveridge 510 BEV
- Curious tales from chemistry : the last alchemist in Paris, and other episodes, Lars Ohrstrom 540 OHR
- DNA : the secret of life, James D. Watson with Andrew Berry 572.8 WAT
- Finding Fibonacci : the quest to rediscover the forgotten mathematical genius who changed the world, Keith Devlin 510.1 DEV
- Genetics? No problem!, Kevin O'Dell 572.86 ODE
- Introducing epigenetics, Cath Ennis & Oliver Pugh 572.8 ENN
- Mask of the sun : the science, history, and forgotten lore of eclipses, John Dvorak 523.7 DVO
- Organic chemistry, Marian DeWane, Thomas J. Greenbowe 547 DEW
- Quantum mechanics, Yoav Peleg 530.12 PEL
- The beauty of numbers in nature : mathematical patterns and principles from the natural world, Ian Stewart 510 STE
- The book that changed America : how Darwin's theory of evolution ignited a nation, Randall Fuller 576.82 FUL
- The elements book : a visual encyclopedia of the periodic table, Tom Jackson 546.8 JAC
- The eternal darkness : a personal history of deep-sea exploration, Robert D. Ballard with Will Hively 551.46 BAL
- The greatest story every told so far : why are we here?, Lawrence M. Krauss 530 KRA
- The quantum world : the disturbing theory at the heart of reality, New Scientist 530.12 QUA
- Time travel : a history, James Gleick 530.11 GLE
- Trigonometry for dummies, Mary Jane Sterling 516.24 STE
Self Development
- A piece of my heart : surviving the death of a son or daughter : stories from a bereaved parents support group, 155.937 PIE
- Algorithms to live by : the computer science of human decisions, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths 153.43 CHR
- A fascinating exploration of how insights from computer algorithms can be applied to our everyday lives, helping to solve common decision-making problems and illuminate the workings of the human mind.
- Anatomy of a secret life : are the people in your life hiding something you should know?, Gail Saltz 155.92 SAL
- Death expands us : an honest account of grief and how to rise above it, Stephanie Harris 155.937 HAR
- Flourish : discover the art of living life in colour, Annah Stretton and Natalie Pearce 158.1 STR
- Grief works : stories of life, death and surviving, Julia Samuel 155.937 SAM
- Heaven and Hell : the psychology of the emotions, Neel Burton 152.4 BUR
- Leap year : how to make big decisions, be more resilient and change your life for good, Helen Russell 158.1 RUS
- Learned optimism, Martin Seligman 155.23 SEL
- Parallel thinking : from Socratic to de Bono thinking, Edward de Bono 153.42 DE
- Stress less, Sarah Laurie 155.9042 LAU
- The 5 love languages : the secret to love that lasts, Gary Chapman 646.78 CHA
- The nature fix : why nature makes us happier, healthier, and more creative, Florence Williams 155.9 WIL
- The rhythm of life : living every day with passion and purpose, Matthew Kelly 158.1 KEL
- Why won't you apologize? : healing big betrayals and everyday hurts, Harriet Lerner 158.2 LER
Social Issues
- Ask Wendy : straight-up advice for all the drama in your life, Wendy Williams 646.7 WIL
- Basic income : a radical proposal for a free society and a sane economy, Philippe Van Parijs, Yannick Vanderborght 362.58 PAR
- Built on bones : 15,000 years of urban life and death, Brenna Hassett 307.76 HAS
- Coming clean : diary of a painkiller addict, Cathryn Kemp 362.29 KEM
- Cultural intelligence : surviving and thriving in the global village, David C. Thomas and Kerr Inkson 306 THO
- Dear Ijeawele ; or, A feminist manifesto in fifteen suggestions, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 305.42 ADI
- A few years ago, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie received a letter from a dear friend from childhood, asking her how to raise her baby girl as a feminist. This is Adichie's letter of response.
- Hit makers : how things become popular, Derek Thompson 306 THO
- How change happens, Duncan Green 303.4 GRE
- In the company of women : inspiration and advice from over 100 makers, artists, and entrepreneurs, Grace Bonney 305.4 BON
- Across the globe, women are embracing the entrepreneurial spirit and starting creative businesses.
- Modern women : 52 pioneers, Kira Cochrane 305.4 COC
- No angel : my undercover journey to the dark heart of the Hells Angels, Jay Dobyns and Nils Johnson-Shelton 302.34 DOB
- In 2001, Jay Dobyns infiltrated a Hells Angels chapter operating in Arizona, in a highly secretive ATF investigation code named Operation Black Biscuit.
- Postcards from the end of America, Linh Dinh 362.5 DIN
- Growing out of a photo and political writing blog Linh Dinh has maintained since 2009, Postcards from the end of America is an unflinching diary of what Dinh sees as the accelerating collapse of America.
- Sensemaking : what makes human intelligence essential in the age of the algorithm, Christian Madsbjerg 658 MAD
- Sex scandal : the drive to abolish male and female, Ashley McGuire 305.3 MCG
- Welcome to the troubling age of sex-denialism the age of gender-neutral labels, rigidly enforced equality, unisex spaces, and the systematic eradication of sexual difference.
- The kingdom of women : life, love and death in China's hidden mountains, Choo WaiHong 305.488 WAI
- This is one of the last matriarchal societies on earth, where the women hold power. They make the major decisions, control household finances, have rightful ownership of land and property and full rights to the children born to them.
- The way we die now, Seamus O'Mahoney 306.9 OMA
- The wild side : true story of betrayal, grief, meth-addiction, paranormal activity and redemption, Janet Balcombe 362.293 BAL
- Theory u : leading from the future as it emerges : the social technology of presencing, C. Otto Scharmer 303.4 SCH
- Turangawaewae : identity & belonging in Aotearoa New Zealand, Trudie Cain, Ella Kahu, Richard Shaw 305.8 TUR
- What is a New Zealander? What does it mean to be a citizen of or a resident in this country? How do we understand what makes New Zealand complex, and unique? And what creates a sense of belonging and identity, both here and in the world?
- Urban water security, Robert C. Brears 363.61 BRE
Sport & Recreation
- Balls, bullets and boots, Clive Akers with Bettina Anderson and Peter Cooke 796.333 AKE
- Balls, Bullets and Boots is a tribute to a generation of New Zealanders affected by World War One. This book explores the lives of a selected number of players and their families who each had a close connection with rugby.
- Bowls : skills, techniques, tactics, John Bell 796.315 BEL
- Mastering jujitsu, Renzo Gracie, John Danaher 796.8152 GRA
- Mental training for runners : no more excuses!, Jeff Galloway 796.42 GAL
- New Zealand's hunting legends, Kevin J. Whitelaw 799.26 WHI
- Once there were giants : the golden age of heavyweight boxing, Jerry Izenberg 796.83 IZE
- Stress-free motorboating : single and short-handed techniques, Duncan Wells 797.125 WEL
- The total bowhunting manual, Scott Bestul & Dave Hurteau 799.21 BES
- Through the hoops : techniques for golf croquet, Greg Bury 796.354 BUR
- Why soccer matters, Pele with Brian Winter 796.334 PEL
Trains, Boats, Planes
- Night trains : the rise and fall of the sleeper, Andrew Martin 385.2 MAR
War
- Churchill and the Dardanelles, Christopher M. Bell 940.42 BEL
- The failure of the Allied fleet to force a passage through the Straits of the Dardanelles in 1915 drove Winston Churchill from office (First Lord of the Admiralty) in disgrace and nearly destroyed his political career.
- Last Hope Island : Britain, occupied Europe, and the brotherhood that helped turn the tide of war, Lynne Olson 940.534 OLS
- Lonely courage : the true story of the SOE heroines who fought to free Nazi-occupied France, Rick Stroud 940.5486 STR
- The Resistance began almost immediately. At first it was made up of small, disorganised groups working in isolation. But by the time of the liberation in 1944 around 400,000 French citizens, nearly 2 per cent of the population, were involved.
- Our darkest day, Patrick Lindsay 940.42 LIN
- The story of Australia's worst military disaster and the resulting international campaign to reclaim the lost soldiers of the Battle
of Fromelles.
- Stalin's favorite : the combat history of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin. Volume 1, January 1943 - June 1944, Igor Nebolsin 940.541 NEB
- Stalin's favorite : the combat history of the 2nd Guards Tank Army from Kursk to Berlin. Volume 2, July 1944 - May 1945, Igor Nebolsin 940.541 NEB
- The German war : a nation under arms, 1939-45, Nicholas Stargardt 943.086 STA
- Drawing on a wealth of first-hand testimony, the German War is the first foray for many decades into how the German people experienced the Second World War.
- The locomotive of war : money, empire, power and guilt, Peter Clarke 909.821 CLA
- A fresh and fascinating reappraisal of the first half of the twentieth century from one of our foremost historians 'War, comrades,' declared Trotsky, 'is a great locomotive of history.'
- The New Zealand experience at Gallipoli and the Western Front, Matthew Wright 940.41 WRI
- The plague of war : Athens, Sparta, and the struggle for ancient Greece, Jennifer T. Roberts 938.05 ROB
- The world remade : America in World War I, G. J. Meyer 940.373 MEY
- War : an enquiry, A. C. Grayling 355.02 GRA
- A renowned philosopher challenges long-held views on just wars, ethical conduct during war, why wars occur, how they alter people and societies, and more.
- War in Val D'Orcia : an Italian war diary, 1943-1944, Iris Origo 945.58 ORI
- With their bare hands : General Pershing, the 79th Division, and the battle for Montfaucon, Gene Fax 940.41 FAX
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