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Biography and Memoir April 2025 |
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High Heels and Gumboots : A City Girl and a Lot to Learn
by Rebecca Hayter
Rebecca Hayter was a high-profile yachting journalist based in Auckland, when she followed a whim to buy a lifestyle block on the beach at Golden Bay at the top of the South Island - but she didn't know what she didn't know. Unexpectedly in charge of chickens, sheep and an orchard, Rebecca shamelessly exploited local knowledge as she tackled drought, isolation and the mysteries of her Massey Ferguson 135.
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The Dark Dad : War and Trauma - a Daughter's Tale
by Mary Kisler
Art historian Mary Kisler grew up in the early 1950s with a father who talked little, whose affection she cherished and whose anger she feared. She later came to understand the trauma that lay behind his dark moods: rejection and violence in his childhood and the brutal experience of being a prisoner of war in Italy and then Germany from late 1941 to 1945.
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Forty Days in the Jungle : Behind the Extraordinary Survival and Rescue of Four Children Lost in the Amazon
by Mat Youkee
In June 2023, four Indigenous children were found alive in the Colombian Amazon, forty days after the light aircraft they had been travelling in crashed into deep jungle, killing the three adults on board. For weeks the Colombian public had been transfixed by clues of the children's survival, of Indigenous tales of malign forest spirits, and of the unconventional tactics of the huge search team. But most now despaired of ever finding the children. Thirteen-year-old Lesly Jacobombaire Mucuty never gave up hope. Forty Days in the Jungle tells the story of how the eldest child kept her siblings safe and fed during their time in the wilderness.
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Yoko : a Biography
by David Sheff
An intimate and revelatory biography of Yoko Ono from bestselling author of Beautiful Boy. David Sheff met Yoko Ono and John Lennon in 1980 when conducting an in-depth interview with them just months before John's murder. In the aftermath, Sheff and Yoko became close friends as she rebuilt her life, survived threats and continued creating groundbreaking art and music. Drawing from their decades-long friendship and interviews with Yoko, her family, close friends and collaborators, Sheff shares the story of one of the most unlikely and remarkable lives ever lived.
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Together We Roared : Alongside Tiger for his Epic Twelve-year, Thirteen-majors Run
by Steve Williams
When Tiger Woods went on an extraordinary majors run between 1999 and 2008, one man stood at his side: his caddie Steve Williams. Together Steve and Tiger dominated the PGA Tour and won an astonishing thirteen major championships, their sights set on breaking Jack Nicklaus's record eighteen majors. Before they could overtake Nicklaus, however, their partnership ended abruptly, and a twelve-year period without talking began. Years later, the two reconnected.
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Vatican Spies : From the Second World War to Pope Francis
by Yvonnick Denoël
'Officially' the Vatican has no espionage service; but does no one carry out intelligence operations on its behalf? During the Second World War and Cold War, Rome was teeming with spies. A band of undercover monsignors and priests hunted for Vatican 'moles', led clandestine diplomacy, investigated assassinations of priests and other scandals threatening the Church, and conducted high-risk missions behind the Iron Curtain.Drawing on freshly released archives of foreign services that worked with or against the Holy See,Vatican Spies reveals eighty years of shadow wars and dirty tricks
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Dogs and Their Humans : Stories of Healing and Hope from the Supervet's Surgery
by Noel Fitzpatrick
When people come to see Supervet Noel Fitzpatrick at his referral hospital, they are in desperate need of his help. No matter who they are - a serving member of the military, a young boy whose dog is his best friend, a couple at a crossroads - they all have one thing in common: hope that Noel may be able to heal their animal companion.
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