Recreation

New Titles Non-Fiction November 2019 (arrived in October)

Art & Architecture

30,000 years of art: the story of human creativity across time & space. 709 THI
50 contemporary women artists, John Gosslee. 704.042 FIF
This book features a selection of women artists and architects who have made groundbreaking contributions to contemporary art. Profiling an international cross-section of artists using a variety of mediums, they address themes of social, cultural, political, environmental, and psychological issues.
Big ideas for small houses, Catherine Foster. 728.37 FOS
A look at a range of small houses around New Zealand, and the strategies the owners used to get a toehold in the tight housing market. From building a secondary dwelling on an existing family section, to tiny houses on pocket handkerchief pieces of land, these approaches to housing will give ideas and inspiration to all.
Boom: mad money, mega dealers, and the rise of contemporary art, Michael Shnayerson. 701.03 SHN
Colin McCahon: there is only one direction, Peter Simpson. 759.993 MCC
The extraordinary two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by our most important artist, Colin McCahon. Colin McCahon (1919-1987) was New Zealand's greatest twentieth-century artist. Through landscapes, biblical paintings and abstraction, the introduction of words and M?ori motifs, McCahon's work came to define a distinctly New Zealand modernist idiom.
Del Kathryn Barton, Natalie King. 709.94 BAR
The new Mini Monographs series is a celebration of Australia's most captivating female artists, featuring a collection of their best loved works.
Don't forget to feed the cat: the travel letters and sketches of Stewart Bell Maclennan, Mary Bell Thornton. 709.93 MCL
Stewart Bell Maclennan was the first Director of New Zealand's National Art Gallery, and the first full-time professional director of a public art gallery in New Zealand. In 1958 he spent six months in Europe and America, visiting galleries and museums to gather ideas. His daughter, Mary Bell Thornton, has now put together a delightful collection of the letters to and from Stewart and his family – including some of the sketches he made while travelling. A frank and intimate record of the art world of the 1950s, and packed with humour.
Keith Haring, Darren Pih. 709.73 HAR
Keith Haring (1958 -1990) is widely recognised for his colourful paintings, drawings, sculptures and murals. Haring exploded onto the early 1980s New York art scene with his vivid graffiti-inspired drawings, Haring's instantly recognisable "cartoon-like" imagery not only drew on the iconography of contemporary pop and club culture but also looked back to the patterns and rhythms of Islamic and Japanese art, and primitive wall-paintings.
Michael Shepherd: reinventing history painting, Elizabeth Rankin. 759.993 SHE
Michael Shepherd is one of our country's most distinguished contemporary artists. Born in Hamilton in 1950, Shepherd spent his early years in Ngaruawahia. This Waikato upbringing has played a key role in Shepherd's artistic career. Since the 1980s, Shepherd has been producing intricate, painterly works, often in series, that engage with history and memory, mining connections between past and present, frequently on his Waikato home-turf.
Neo Rauch: Dromos: painting 1993-2017, Neo Rauch. 759.3 RAU
When Neo Rauch was a student of Arno Rink's at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst in Leipzig, Germany was still a divided country. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, his large, cryptic paintings conquered the art world by storm and Rauch became a trailblazer for the New Leipzig School, as well as its most famous representative. His paintings added elements of Pop Art, comics, and advertising graphics to figural painting.
Olafur Eliasson: in real life, Mark Godfrey. 709.489 OLA
Published to accompany the first UK retrospective of Olafur Eliasson's work, it features a substantial conversation between the artist and the Tate curator Mark Godfrey, as well as a range of short dialogues with a strikingly varied range of people working both inside and outside the arts - from anthropology, economics, political science, and biology to architecture and urbanism, dance, music, and food and provides a "compass" to Eliasson's thinking.
Paula Rego: the art of story, Deryn Rees-Jones. 759.69 REG
Taking its cues from the artist, this fascinating study invites us to reflect on the complexities of storytelling on which Rego's work draws, emphasizing both the stories the pictures tell, and how it is that they are told. 0Deryn Rees-Jones sets interpretations of the pictures in the context of Rego's personal and artistic development across sixty years.
Pop trash: the amazing art of Jason Mecier., Jason Mecier. 709.04 MEC
Pop artist Jason Mecier creates playful, insanely detailed portraits of celebrities using trash candy, and other items, making sculptural celebrations of his subjects and our fascination with fame.
Suggestivism: resonance, Nathan Spoor. 709.051 SUG
Rendered in a variety of media, each artist has a distinct approach and style while maintaining commonality through painstaking details and phantasmagoric scenes.
The art of place: architecture and interiors, Lee Ledbetter. 728 LED
The work of architect and interior designer Lee Ledbetter represents a one-of-a-kind combination of traditional details and chic Modernism.
The country house: past, present, future, David Cannadine. 728.8 CAN
Toward a global Middle Ages: encountering the world through illuminated manuscripts, Bryan C. Keene. 745.67 TOW
This scholarly, edited volume addresses decorated books from around the world produced during the period of 500 to 1500.
Women's work is never done: an anthology, Catherine de Zegher. 704.042 ZEG
'Women's Work is Never Done' brings together the twenty most important essays by internationally acclaimed art critic and curator Catherine de Zegher and cover a period of thirteen years. These essays launched and consolidated the careers of such artists as Joelle Tuerlinckx, Ann Veronica Janssens, Eva Hesse and Bracha L. Ettinger.

Biographies

26 marathons: what I learned about faith, identity, running, and life from my marathon career, Meb Keflezighi. 796.425 KEF
When four-time Olympian Meb Keflezighi ran his final marathon in New York City on November 5, 2017, it marked the end of an extraordinary distance-running career. Meb is the only person in history to win both the Boston and New York City marathons as well as an Olympic marathon silver medal. Meb describes key moments and triumphs that made each marathon a unique learning experience and shows runners how to apply the lessons he's learned to their own running and lives.
A better ambition: confessions of a faithful Liberal, Tim Farron. 941.086 FAR
This book traces Tim Farron's rise to leadership of the Liberal Democrats - from his childhood in Preston and his teenage decisions to join the Liberals and to become a Christian to his central role during the Conservative-Lib Dem coalition of 2010-15. He speaks openly about his role as Party President, and implications of the scrutiny he received because of his religious beliefs, and his subsequent choice to step aside as leader.
A cold war fighter pilot in peacetime and war, Derek J. Sharp. 358.43 SHA
This fascinating book follows the adventures of Sharp from schoolboy to highly respect aviator. He flew everything from fighters to heavy transport, wise old navigators and Her Majesty The Queen. He joined a flying club called the Royal Air Force and unexpectedly found himself at war.
A sharp left turn: notes on a life in music, from Split Enz to Play It Strange, Mike Chunn. 781.66 CHU
A rollercoaster yarn about Mike Chunn's years in the ground-breaking band Split Enz, but also the powerful story of how he dealt with a crippling mental health issue and went on to become one of our most influential music identities.
A Spitfire girl: one of the world's greatest female ATA ferry pilots tells her story, Mary Ellis. 358.4 ELL
amongst the pilots of the Second World War, was Mary Ellis (nee Wilkins) who flew no less than 400 Spitfires and seventy-six different types of aircraft. Serving as a ferry pilot with the Air Transport Auxiliary, she transported aircraft for the RAF, including fast fighter planes and huge four-engine bombers. After the war she accepted a secondment to the RAF, being chosen as one of the first pilots, and one of only three women, to take the controls of the new Meteor fast jet.
Alexander the Great: his life and his mysterious death, Anthony Everitt. 938.07 ALE
The life of Alexander the Great took him to every corner of the ancient world. His memory and glamour persist, and his early death at thirty-three has kept him evergreen in our imaginations. But who was he in his own time? Naturally inquisitive, fascinated by science and exploration, Alexander exhibited respect for traditions as his empire grew yet glorified war and was known to commit acts of great cruelty.
An adventurous life, Valerie Taylor. 333.72 TAY
Valerie Taylor was born in Australia, and spent a great deal of her childhood in New Zealand. A talented artist, she dropped out of school when she contracted polio and was saved by Sister Elizabeth Kenny's treatment plan; it was two years before she could walk unaided. When Valerie was fifteen, she found work as an animator. From trainee animator to Spielberg, from Jaws to Blue Lagoon, this is the remarkable story of an incredible woman.
Bagehot: the life and times of the greatest Victorian, James Grant. 330 BAG
The definitive biography of a banker, essayist, and editor of the Economist, by an acclaimed financial historian. Walter Bagehot. Banker, man of letters, inventor of the Treasury bill, and author of Lombard Street, he prescribed the doctrines that decades later inspired the radical responses to the world's worst financial crises.
Becoming Beauvoir: a life, Kate Kirkpatrick. 848.914 BEA
Simone de Beauvoir's unconventional relationships inspired and scandalised her generation. A philosopher, writer, and feminist icon, she won prestigious literary prizes and transformed the way we think about gender with The Second Sex. But despite her successes, she wondered if she had sold herself short. Her liaison with Jean-Paul Sartre has been billed as one of the most legendary love affairs of the twentieth century. but for Beauvoir it came at a cost: for decades she was dismissed as an unoriginal thinker who 'applied' Sartre's ideas.
Behind closed doors, Gary Lineker. 796.334 LIN
Inspired by the stories of what life in football is really like in the dressing room, in the commentary box, and on the pitch. It's a world of secrets, superstitions, laughs and personalities. A look back on the playing days from England to Leicester, Everton to Barcelona, Tottenham to Nagoya Grampus Eight.
Beth Chatto: a life with plants, Catherine Horwood. 635 CHA
Tells the story of the most influential British plantswoman of the past hundred years. Beth Chatto was the inspiration behind the 'right plant, right place' ethos that lies at the heart of modern gardening. She also wrote some of the best-loved gardening books of the twentieth century, among them The Dry Garden, The Damp Garden, and Beth Chatto's Gravel Garden. Some years before her death in May 2018, aged ninety-four, Beth authorised Catherine Horwood to write her biography, with exclusive access to her archive.
Boudica, Vanessa Collingridge. 936.2 BOA
Brock at Bathurst: Peter Brock's unrivaled racing career at Mount Panorama, Bec Brock. 796.72 BRO
No driver is as connected to a track as the legendary Peter Brock is to Bathurst. October 2019 marks half a century since Brock first took on the turns of Mount Panorama, the track he was destined to dominate with a record nine wins, earning him the mantle 'King of the Mountain'. That uncanny relationship between driver and track is the focus of this book, a 360-degree look at every race of Brock's glorious Bathurst career.
Charles Ulm: the untold story of one of Australia's greatest aviation pioneers, Rick Searle. 629.13 ULM
Charles Ulm and Charles Kingsford Smith were the original pioneers of Australian aviation. Together they succeeded in a number of record-breaking flights that made them instant celebrities in Australia and around the world: the first east-to-west crossing of the Pacific, the first trans-Tasman flight, Australia to New Zealand, the first flight from NZ to Australia.
Condé Nast: the man and his empire, Susan Ronald. 070.5 NAS
The first biography in over thirty years of Condé Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst.
Des Townson: a sailing legacy, Brian Peet. 623.822 TOW
Des Townson was a yacht designer and boatbuilder who possessed an analytical mind, an innate feel for sailing boats and a wonderful eye for their visual balance. During a five decade long design career he produced some of the most eye-catching, easily handled and well performing maritime craft to ever grace New Zealand waters. The fact he was self-taught and worked almost his entire career alone only intensifies the achievements of this remarkable man.
Diamonds and scoundrels: my life in the jewelry business, Adrienne Rubin. 382.4 RUB
When Adrienne Rubin enters into the jewelry business in 1970s Los Angeles, she is a maverick in a world dominated by men. We follow her experiences in the jewelry industry through the '70s, '80s, and '90s--with the ups and downs, good guys and bad this is a tale of personal growth, of how to overcome challenges with courage and resilience.
Diana Vreeland: empress of fashion, Amanda Mackenzie Stuart. 746.92 VRE
This rare glimpse into the life of the innovative fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar and the legendary editor-in-chief of Vogue who, redefining women's sense of beauty and style, launched the careers of such timeless beauties as Lauren Bacall and Lauren Hutton, explores her originality, her tenacity and her inimitable sensibility.
Driven by the wind: the memoir of Captain Henry Rose, Karen Stade. 387.5 ROS
Captain Henry Rose went to sea as a 14-year-old apprentice and rose through the ranks to command some of the fastest clipper ships in the world. He sailed the trade routes between England and China, the West Indies and the American seaboard, carrying soldiers and horses to the Crimea, slaves and coolies to American plantations and convicts to Australia. Based on a memoir Captain Rose wrote for his family in 1911, extensively researched and expanded by Nelson author Karen Stade and published at the behest of Henry's great grandson Alastair Rose.
Escape from Saddam: the incredible true story of one man's journey to freedom, Lewis Alsamari. 956.7044 ALS
An Iraqi-born actor raised in England describes how a visit to his homeland led to his being conscripted into the Iraqi army and selected for Saddam's elite intelligence service, driving him to make a desperate escape from his native land.
Eyes to the wind: a memoir of love and death, hope and resistance, Ady Barkan. 362.19683 BAR
At thirty-two, Ady Barkawas diagnosed with ALS, a neurological disease that would probably paralyze and kill him quickly.This book is a rousing memoir featuring intertwining narratives about determination, perseverance, and how to live a life of purpose. It traces Ady's battle with ALS and also shows his journey from a goofy political nerd to a prominent figure in the progressive movement, becoming one of today's most vocal advocates for social justice.
Face it, Debbie Harry. 781.66 HAR
Harry recounts her path from glorious commercial success to heroin addiction, the near-death of partner Chris Stein, a heart-wrenching bankruptcy, and Blondie's breakup as a band to her multifaceted acting career in more than thirty films, a stunning solo career and the triumphant return of her band, and her tireless advocacy for the environment and LGBTQ rights.
Finding my place, Anne Aly. 324.294 ALY
In 2016, Anne Aly was the first Australian Muslim woman, the first Egyptian-born woman and the first counter-terrorism expert to be elected to Federal Parliament. Told with warmth, humour and insight, Anne's book is an irresistible story by an irrepressible Australian woman who has already made her mark internationally and in public life.
Frederick Douglass: prophet of freedom, David W. Blight. 973.7 DOU
Frederick Douglass, the escaped slave who became the greatest orator of his day and one of the leading abolitionists and writers of the era. As a young man Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) escaped from slavery in Baltimore, Maryland. He was fortunate to have been taught to read by his slave owner mistress, and he would go on to become one of the major literary figures of his time.
Hard to handle: the life and death of the Black Crowes: a memoir, Steve Gorman. 781.66 BLA
For over two decades, The Black Crowes topped the charts and reigned supreme over the radio waves, even as hair bands, grunge, and hip-hop threatened to dethrone them. Their massive success launched them to stardom in the early '90s, earning them a place among rock royalty. Hard To Handle is the first ever account of this great American rock band's beginning, middle,and end and Gorman tells the tale with great insight, candor, and humor.
Hawking, Jim Ottaviani. 530.092 HAW
From his early days at the St Albans School and Oxford, Stephen Hawking's brilliance and good humor were obvious to everyone he met. At twenty- one he was diagnosed with ALS, a degenerative neuromuscular disease. Though the disease weakened his muscles and limited his ability to move and speak, it did nothing to limit his mind. He went on to do groundbreaking work in cosmology and theoretical physics for decades. An intricate portrait of the great thinker, the public figure, and the man behind both identities.
Hitler: only the world was enough, Brendan Simms. 943.086 HIT
Brendan Simms' attempts to fully get to grips with the true origins of Hitler's ideas themselves. Simms focuses on what those ideas really were and how they emerged. He highlights both how deeply Hitler had always reflected wider paranoid geopolitical German concepts, as well as what was original, particularly Hitler's obsession with the United States.
I just can't stop it: my life in The beat, Ranking Roger. 781.64 RAN
An honest and compelling autobiography from British Music Legend, Ranking Roger. As the enigmatic frontman of the multicultural band The Beat, Ranking Roger represented the sound of the post-punk 2 Tone movement. This absorbing book explores Roger's upbringing as a child of the Windrush generation, touring America and his outstanding collaborations with artists such as The Clash, The Police and The Specials.
I never said I loved you, Rhik Samadder. 791.45028 SAM
On an unlikely backpacking trip, Rhik and his mother find themselves speaking openly for the first time in years. Afterwards, the depression that has weighed down on Rhik begins to loosen its grip for a moment - so he seizes the opportunity: to own it, to understand it, and to find out where it came from. This is the story of how Rhik learned to let go, and then keep going.
Karl Wolfskehl: a poet in exile, Friedrich Voit. 831.912 WOL
This first biography in English has been written with a particular focus on Wolfskehl's life in New Zealand
King and emperor: a new life of Charlemagne, Janet L. Nelson. 944.014 CHA
Driven by unremitting physical energy and intellectual curiosity, Charlemagne was a man of many parts, a warlord and conqueror, a judge who promised 'for each their law and justice', a defender of the Latin Church, a man of flesh-and-blood. Janet Nelson brings together everything we know about Charles, sifting through the available evidence, literary and material, to paint a vivid portrait of the man and his motives.
Let the good times roll: the autobiography, Kenney Jones. 781.66 JON
As drummer with the Small Faces, Faces and The Who, Kenney Jones' unique sense of rhythm was the heartbeat that powered three of the most influential rock bands of all time. Beginning in London's post-war East End, Kenney's story takes us through the birth of the Mod revolution, the mind-bending days of the late-1960s and the excesses of the '70s and '80s.
Life to the extreme: how a chaotic kid became America's favorite carpenter, Ty Pennington. 791.45028 PEN
The star of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition and Trading Spaces, Ty Pennington, shares his life story; lessons he's learned while serving others, random acts of kindness, battling ADHD in a busy career, and anecdotes from behind the scenes of America's favorite home shows.
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. This autobiography describes how he led expeditions all over the world and became the first person to travel to both poles on land.
Maybe you should talk to someone: a therapist, her therapist, and our lives revealed, Lori Gottlieb. 616.8914 GOT
This book is revolutionary in its candor, offering a deeply personal yet universal tour of our hearts and minds and providing the rarest of gifts: a boldly revealing portrait of what it means to be human, and a disarmingly funny and illuminating account of our own mysterious lives and our power to transform them.
Meghan: Royal Duchess and mother, Halima Sadat. 941.085 MEG
Following her marriage to Prince Harry, American Meghan Markle has come to represent the changing face of the modern Royal Family. This book charts Meghan's extraordinary life so far, following her journey from the suburbs of Los Angeles where she grew up in a single-parent household to her life as a modern-day princess within one of the world's most important royal families.
More than likely: a memoir, Dick Clement. 791.450941 CLE
Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais are the creators of some of British television's most beloved comedies. Essex-born Clement teamed up with Geordie insurance salesman La Frenais in the early 1960s and scripted a series about two young pals from Newcastle, The Likely Lads, which became one of BBC Two's first hits. The duo went on to create the classic sitcoms Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, Porridge starring Ronnie Barker, and Auf Wiedersehen, Pet. This is their story.
Mud, sweat and tears, Bear Grylls. 910.92 GRY
Grylls' autobiography details his life before his career as the host of Man vs. Wild, focusing on his childhood, growing up on the Isle of Wight, and other times in Grylls' early life.
My own devices: true stories from the road on music, science, and senseless love, Dessa. 781.66 DES
Dessa defies category she is an intellectual with an international rap career and an inhaler in her backpack; a creative writer fascinated by philosophy and behavioral science; and a funny, charismatic performer dogged by blue moods and heartache. She's ferocious on stage and endearingly neurotic in the tour van. Her stunning debut memoir stitches together poignant insights on love, science, and language a demonstration of just how far the mind can travel while the body is on a six-hour ride to the next gig.
No barriers: a blind man's journey to kayak the Grand Canyon, Erik Weihenmayer. 797.122 WEI
No Barriers is about Erik Weihenmayer's journey since coming down from Mt. Everest in 2001, and the path to where she is today. It is the story of her own life, the personal and professional struggles in the pursuit of growth, learning, and family, as well as a dream to kayak one of the world's great rivers as a blind athlete.
No room for small dreams: courage, imagination, and the making of modern Israel, Shimon Peres. 956.94 PER
In his final work, Peres offers a long-awaited examination of the crucial turning points in Israeli history through the prism of having been a decision-maker and eyewitness.
Noel, Tallulah, Cole, and me: a memoir of Broadway's golden age, John C. Wilson. 792.023 WIL
An important figure during the golden age of Broadway, John C. Wilson staged such famous productions as Kiss Me, Kate and Gentlemen Prefer Blondes. He also worked with many of the greatest actors, playwrights, producers, and other artists from the 1920s through the 1950s, including Alfred Lunt, Lynn Fontanne, Laurence Olivier, Vivien Leigh, Carol Channing, and Tennessee Williams. An engaging account of one of the most important periods in Broadway's history, and a fascinating look into the lives of the glamorous men and women of the era.
One soul at a time: the story of Billy Graham, Grant Wacker. 269.2 GRA
This compact narrative biography of Billy Graham shows how Graham--more than any other individual helped create and shape the powerful post-World War II evangelical movement in the United States and in many other parts of the world.
One year drawn, Pete Bossley. 720.222 BOS
A colourful illustrated memoir recording a young New Zealand architect's watershed year spent travelling, and observing and drawing buildings, places and everyday life
Open side, Sam Warburton. 796.333 WAR
Sam Warburton is an icon of Welsh rugby. He was the youngest ever captain of Wales for the Rugby World Cup and was named the Lions' captain for the extraordinary 2013 tour to Australia and also for the New Zealand tour four years later. Warburton's edge never came with his size, but with his depth of thought, and his reading of movement.
Our house is definitely not in Paris, Susan Cutsforth. 944.36 CUT
The French countryside has again been poetically evoked in this delightful, charming and captivating memoir. The renovee adventures continue to enchant the reader and draw them further into the unfolding account of the Cutsforths' other life. This memoir allows us to travel side by side with Susan and Stuart as they fling open the shutters each day in their petite maison in a small French village.
Our royal baby, Robert Jobson. 941.085 HAR
A year on from their wedding, Harry and Meghan have gone from strength to strength and are now celebrating the birth of their first child.
Passion: living, feasting and writing deep in the Marlborough Sounds, Marion Day. 993.75 DAY
Passion revolves around three themes: Living - A superb insight into life away from the hustle and bustle of cities, noise, and traffic; Feasting - Allows the reader to enjoy Marion's favourite dishes using local natural foods caught or grown on her doorstep, and to learn how to use some unusual ingredients; Writing - Marion's narrative, interspersed with her wonderful anecdotes, short stories and poems, draws the reader into her remarkable life.
Perfect sound whatever, James Acaster. 792.7 ACA
January, 2017 James Acaster wakes up heartbroken and alone in New York, his relationship over, a day of disastrous meetings leading him to wonder if comedy is really what he wants to be doing any more. James finds himself desperately seeking solace in the music of 2016, setting himself the task of only listening to music released that year, ending up with 500 albums in his collection.
Robert Rauschenberg: an oral history, Sara Sinclair. 709.73 RAU
Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) was a breaker of boundaries and a consummate collaborator. He used silk-screen prints to reflect on American promise and failure, melded sculpture and painting in works called combines, and collaborated with engineers and scientists to challenge our thinking about art.
Rommel: the end of a legend, Ralf Georg Reuth. 940.53 ROM
Known as the Desert Fox, Rommel was considered invincible. That is the story told in the history books. Ralf Georg Reuth paints a different portrait of Erwin Rommel: a picture of a man who owed his fame in part to Nazi propaganda and whose role in the resistance is still unclear; the image of a soldier, who was promoted by Hitler and who continued to stay true to him until the end, when he committed suicide at the behest of his Führer.
Skins in the game: a musical memoir, Terry Collier. 781.66 COL
From the Levin Memorial Hall in the early 1960s to the Main Stage at the Montreux Jazz Festival, Terry Collier was a part time rock and jazz musician who was fortunate enough to be around when music was a key element in rapidly changing social attitudes, both in New Zealand and internationally. A founding member on percussion of the Rodger Fox Big Band, this book is a personal history of this time and tells some of the stories and experiences from both New Zealand and overseas that were encountered along the way.
Sontag: her life and work, Benjamin Moser. 818.54 SON
Benjamin Moser's Sontag, a biography of Susan Sontag, is a portrait of the iconoclastic and prolific essayist, novelist, and critic and her role in the history of American intellectualism.
Straight outta Crawley: memoirs of a distinctly average human being, Romesh Ranganathan. 792.7 RAN
Straight Outta Crawley is the hilarious and irreverent autobiography from comedian Romesh Ranganathan. At the age of 9, Romesh Ranganathan delivered his first ever stand-up set at a Pontin's holiday camp talent competition. In 2010, Ranganathan staged his epic comeback gig to an almost silent room, and has since gone on to earn his place as the most in-demand overweight vegan Sri Lankan comedian in Britain. Now, for the first time, he tells the full story of how he got here.
Texas flood: the inside story of Stevie Ray Vaughan, Alan Paul. 787.87 VAU
The first definitive biography of guitar legend Stevie Ray Vaughan, with an Epilogue by Jimmie Vaughan, Foreword by drummer Chris Layton, and Aterword by bassist Tommy Shannon. Despite the cinematic scope of Vaughan's life and death, there has never been a truly proper accounting of his story until now.
The education of an idealist, Samantha Power. 323 POW
Traces Samantha Power's journey from childhood growing up in a pub in Ireland to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official. In 2005, her critiques of US foreign policy caught the eye of newly elected Senator Barack Obama, who invited her to work with him on Capitol Hill and then on his presidential campaign. After Obama was elected president, Power went from being an activist outsider to a government insider, navigating the halls of power while trying to put her ideals into practice. An account of the world-changing power of idealism and of one person's fierce determination to make a difference.
The great successor: the divinely perfect destiny of brilliant Comrade Kim Jong Un, Anna Fifield. 951.93 KIM
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly to the grimly bloody stories of the ways his enemies and rival family members have perished at his command.
The matriarch: the story of 'Granny Evil' Kathy Pettingill, Adrian Tame. 364.106 TAM
Kathy Pettingill is the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian criminal history. Her life has revolved around murder, drugs, prison, prostitution and bent coppers and the intrigue and horror that surround such crimes. Pettingill reveals the chilling truth behind many of the myths and legends that surround her family.
The Mountbattens, Andrew Lownie. 942.084 MOU
A major figure behind his nephew Philip's marriage to Queen Elizabeth II, Dickie Mountbatten's career included being Supreme Allied Commander of South East Asia during World War Two and the last Viceroy of India. Once the richest woman in Britain and a playgirl who enjoyed numerous affairs, Edwina Mountbatten emerged from World War Two as a magnetic and talented charity worker loved around the world.
The pleasant profession of Robert A. Heinlein, Farah Mendlesohn. 813.54 HEI
Robert A. Heinlein began publishing in the 1940s at the dawn of the Golden Age of science fiction, and today he is considered one of the genre's 'big three' alongside Arthur C. Clarke and Isaac Asimov. His short stories were instrumental in developing its structure and rhetoric, while novels such as Stranger in a Strange Land and Starship Troopers demonstrated that such writing could be a vehicle for political argument.
The salt path, Raynor Winn. 796.51 WIN
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, their home is taken away and they lose their livelihood. With nothing left and little time, they make the brave and impulsive decision to walk the 630 miles of the sea-swept South West Coast Path, from Somerset to Dorset, via Devon and Cornwall. Carrying only the essentials for survival on their backs, they live wild in the ancient, weathered landscape of cliffs, sea and sky.
The tailor of Inverness, Matthew Zajac. 687 ZAJ
This is a story of journeys, of how a boy who grew up on a farm in Galicia (Eastern Poland, now Western Ukraine) came to be a tailor in Inverness. His life spanned most of the 20th century. Taken prisoner by the Soviets in 1939, he was freed in an amnesty in 1941. He then joined the thousands of Poles who travelled to Tehran then Egypt to be integrated into the British Army, and was resettled in Britain in 1948.
The United States of Trump: how the President really sees America, Bill O'Reilly. 973.933 TRU
O'Reilly blends primary, never-before-released interview material with a history that recounts Trump's childhood and family, and the factors from his life and career that forged the worldview that the president of the United States has taken to the White House. Having known Trump for thirty years, he shows how Trump's view of America was formed, and how it has changed since he became president.
The writing on the wall: how one boy, my father, survived the holocaust, Juliet Rieden. 940.5318 RIE
In 1939, a Jewish Czech couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight- year-old son's life but change their family forever. This is the moving story of a woman's quest to piece together the hidden parts of her father's life and the unimaginable losses he was determined to protect his children from.
The yellow house, Sarah M. Broom. 814.6 BRO
This is the story of a mother's struggle against a house's entropy, and that of a prodigal daughter who left home only to reckon with the pull that home exerts, even after the Yellow House was wiped off the map after Hurricane Katrina.
To war with the Walkers: one family's extraordinary story of survival in the Second World War, Annabel Venning. 940.53 WAL
How would it feel if all your sons and daughters were caught up in war? What would it be like to spend six years fearing what a telegram might bring? That was the heart-wrenching reality faced by so many families throughout the Second World War, including the parents of the Walker children. From the Blitz to the battlefields of Europe and the Far East, this is the remarkable story of four brothers and two sisters who were swept along by the momentous events of the war.
Traces, Professor Patricia Wiltshire. 363.25 WIL
Wonderfully empirical in her pursuit of the facts, Patricia breaks down a crime scene into the minute components, eliminating theories flower by flower and microbe by microbe, until she comes to a realistic and compelling thesis on how a crime was committed and how a crime scene came to be. This brilliant and original memoir will out-grow its true crime roots, connecting with those interested a unique life in a fascinating field, and those interested our inherent connections with the outside world.
Travel light, move fast, Alexandra Fuller. 960.3 FUL
When her father becomes gravely ill on holiday in Budapest, Alexandra Fuller rushes to join her mother at his bedside. Together they see out his last days, and then they must navigate the bleak comedy of organising a cremation and the transport of ashes back to their family home in Africa. As they make this journey and begin to grieve together, Fuller realises that if she is going to weather her father's loss, she will need to become the parts of him that she misses most. A master of time and memory,
Up jumped the devil: the real life of Robert Johnson, Bruce Conforth. 781.643 JOH
Robert Johnson is the subject of the most famous myth about the blues: he allegedly sold his soul at the crossroads in exchange for his incredible talent, and this deal led to his death at age 27. But the actual story of his life remains unknown save for a few inaccurate anecdotes. Up Jumped the Devil is the result of over 50 years of research.
Valentin Berlinsky: a quartet for life, Maria Matalaev. 787.4 BER
Valentin Berlinsky (1925-2008), was a founding member of the Borodin Quartet and its cellist and mainstay for more than six decades. A proud Russian but also a man of compromise, his was a life lived for and through the Borodin Quartet. This book tells his story in his own words, compiled and edited by his grand-daughter, Maria Matalaev, from his diaries, correspondence and interviews, and his accounts of his close friendships with the likes of Shostakovich and Richter, Rostropovich and Oistrakh.
Walking towards thunder, Peter Fox. 364.153 FOX
Former Australian Detective Chief Inspector Peter Fox in many with 36 years' police service in the Hunter region, rose to national prominence in 2012 for his major role in speaking out for the victims of abuse within the church. This book reveals the cover ups, the destroyed evidence, and the way sexual predators were moved around. It shows the backlash he faced and the lengths those in power will go to avoid facing the truth. Confronting and inspiring, this is an unforgettable story.
White American youth: my descent into America's most violent hate movement and how I got out, Christian Picciolini. 320.56 PIC
As he stumbled through high school, struggling to find a community among other fans of punk rock music, Christian Picciolini was recruited by a now notorious white power skinhead leader and encouraged to fight with the movement to "protect the white race from extinction." Soon, he had become an expert in racist philosophies, a terror who roamed the neighborhood.

Business & Management

Be a free range human: escape the 9-5, create a life you love and still pay the bills, Marianne Cantwell. 650.1 CAN
Choose: the single most important decision when starting your business, Ryan Levesque. 658.022 LEV
Choose the right market so you can find the right who needs to be served and ultimately decide what business to start.
Content marketing for nonprofits: a communications map for engaging your community, becoming a favorite cause, and raising more money, Kivi Leroux Miller. 658.8 LER
Find your why: a practical guide to discovering purpose for you or your team, Simon Sinek. 658.409 SIN
Flip the script: getting people to think your idea is their idea, Oren Klaff. 658.452 KLA
Focus on them: become the manager your people need you to be, Ryan Changcoco. 658 FOC
Influence: how social media influencers are shaping our digital future, Sara McCorquodale. 658.872 MCC
Leadership: the multiplier effect, Andy Cope. 658.409 COP
The leader's job is to squeeze more from less, but most leaders feel they can't work any harder and are sick to death with being told to work smarter. So where next? Use the multiplier effect to transform your leadership style.
Nick Bowmast's userpalooza: a field researcher's guide, Nick Bowmast. 658.57 BOW
Userpalooza is a guide to conducting field research to meet and understand the people you're designing for, to bring their voices, experiences and realities to bear on the way you bring a product or service into their world.
Nine lies about work: a freethinking leader's guide to the real world, Marcus Buckingham. 658.314 BUC
Performance management, Herman Aguinis. 658.3125 AGU
Small business, Eric Tyson. 658.022 TYS
The connector manager: why some leaders build exceptional talent and others don't., Jaime Roca. 658.409 ROC
The good the bad and the downright ugly side of New Zealand business, Ralph J. Bathurst. 658.403 BAT
The one thing: the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results, Gary Keller. 650.1 KEL
A guide to help you obtain less of what you don't want, and more of what you do, and "cut through the clutter, achieve better results in less time, overcome that overwhelmed feeling, stay on track, and master what matters to you.
The out-ward mind set: how to change lives and transform organizations, The Arbinger Institute. 658.406 OUT

Cartoons

DC Comics covergirls, Louise Simonson. 741.5 SIM
Masters of comics: inside the studios of the world's premier graphic storytellers, Joel Meadows. 741.5 MEA

Computing & Digital

A human's guide to machine intelligence: how algorithms are shaping our lives and how we can stay in control, Kartik Hosanagar. 006.31 HOS
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom Classic, Rob Sylvan. 006.68 SYL
Deep learning, John Paul Mueller. 006.31 MUE
Deep learning provides the means for discerning patterns in the data that drive online business, medicine, research, social media outlets, and many elements of daily life.
Email, Randy Malamud. 004.69 MAL
GitHub, Sarah Guthals. 005.3 GUT
Written by a GitHub engineer, this book is packed with insight on how GitHub works and how you can use it to become a more effective, efficient, and valuable member of any team.
MacBook, Guy Hart-Davis. 004.165 MCI
MacBook is your ultimate guide to getting up and running quickly with your new MacBook, MacBook Pro, or MacBook Air.
Mastering Swift 5: deep dive into the latest edition of the Swift programming language, Jon Hoffman. 005.26 HOF
My Google Chromebook, Michael Miller. 005.43 MIL
Python for data science, John Paul Mueller. 005.133 PYT
Written for people who are new to data analysis, and discusses the basics of Python data analysis programming and statistics. The book also discusses Google Colab, which makes it possible to write Python code in the cloud.
So you want to start a podcast: finding your voice, telling your story, and building a community that will listen, Kristen Meinzer. 621.3893 MEI
WordPress in easy steps, Darryl Bartlett. 006.7 BAR
YouTube world records, Adrian Besley. 032 BES

Crafts, Hobbies & Collecting

Cable knits from Nordic lands: beauty and ingenuity in over 20 unique patterns, Ivar Asplund. 746.432 ASP
Crochet in a day: 42 fast & fun projects, Salena Baca. 746.434 BAC
Crochet with London Kaye: projects and ideas to yarn bomb your life., Kaye London. 746.434 KAY
Handmade animal dolls: 20 simple sewing patterns for stylish toys, Melissa Lowry. 745.5924 LOW
Handmade art: explorations in contemporary craft. 745.5 HAN
Handmade Art explores the art and artists who exemplify the handmade movement through the skill of their craftsmanship and their creative vision. With forty material experts working with embroidery and felt, paper cutting or folding, linocut stamps, clay or wood to revive old crafts or seek new ones, they provide helpful tips and techniques as they share the inspiration for their work.
Japanese knitting stitches from Tokyo's Kazekobo Studio: a dictionary of 200 stitch patterns by Yoko Hatta, Yoko Hatta. 746.432 HAT
Living with Coco Chanel: the homes and landscapes that shaped the designer, Caroline Young. 746.92 CHA
Macramé for home décor: 40 stunning projects for stylish decorating, Samantha Grenier. 746.422 GRE
Mode at Rowan: big wool textures: 6 projects., Rowan Yarns. 746.432 MOD
Mode at Rowan: cashmere tweed: 4 projects., Rowan Yarns. 746.432 MOD
Pocket pompoms: 35 little woolly creatures to make, Sachiyo Ishii. 745.5924 ISH
Saltwater mittens: from the island of Newfoundland, Christine Legrow. 746.432 LEG
The Indian textile sourcebook: patterns and techniques, Avalon Fotheringham. 746.0954 FOT
The knitting book, Vikki Haffenden. 746.432 HAF
Each step-by-step technique is shown with clear, easy-to-follow photography and explained with helpful annotations and arrows, so you can progress from basic casting on to confidently tackling intricate Fair Isle and cable patterns.
The ultimate kogin collection: projects and patterns for counted sashiko embroidery, Susan Briscoe. 746.44 BRI
Tunisian dishcloths: learn pattern stitches and make useful gifts!, Becky Stevens. 746.434 STE
Vitamin T: threads & textiles in contemporary art, Rebecca Morrill. 746 VIT
A global survey of more than 100 artists, chosen by art-world professionals for their work with threads, stitching, and textiles. Celebrating tapestry, embroidery, stitching, textiles, knitting, and knotting as used by visual artists worldwide,
Wild wool & colorful cotton quilts: patchwork & appliqué houses, flowers, vines & more, Erica Kaprow. 746.46 KAP
Zoomigurumi. 8, Amigurumipatterns.net. 746.434 ZOO
With 15 new patterns, this volume features designers from all over the world, providing a batch of fresh inspiration to keep crafters crocheting.

Crime & Espionage

Dopeworld: adventures in drug lands, Niko Vorobyov. 364.177 VOR
This book trace the emergence of psychoactive substances and our relationship with them. Exploring the murky criminal underworld, the author has unparalleled access to drug lords, cartel leaders, hitmen and government officials. This is a deeply personal journey into the heartland of the war on drugs and the devastating effect it's having on humanity.
Fallen: the inside story of the secret trial and conviction of Cardinal George Pell, Lucie Morris-Marr. 364.1555 MOR
The third most senior Catholic cleric in the world had been found guilty of sex crimes against children. Investigative journalist Lucie Morris-Marr was the first to break the story for the Herald Sun that Cardinal George Pell was being investigated by the police. She attended every day of his secret trial, and she now tells the full story of the fall of a prince of the church.
Genuine fakes: how phony things teach us about real stuff, Lydia Pyne. 364.163 PYN
Scam me if you can: simple strategies to outsmart today's rip-off artists, Frank Abagnale. 364.163 ABA
The outlaw ocean: crime and survival in the last untamed frontier, Ian Urbina. 364.164 URB
The world's oceans: too big to police, and under no clear international authority, these immense regions of treacherous water play host to the unbridled extremes of human behaviour and activity. Drawing on five years of perilous and intrepid reporting, often hundreds of miles from shore, Urbina introduces us to the inhabitants of this hidden world and their risk-fraught lives.

Customs & Etiquette

50 essential etiquette lessons: how to eat lunch with your boss, handle happy hour like a pro, and write a thank you note in the age of texting and tweeting, Katherine Flannery. 395.5 FLA
The Christmas story: a short history from Solstice to Santa, Andy Thomas. 394.266 THO

Education

An observation survey of early literacy achievement, Marie M. Clay. 372.4 CLA
The call of the wild + free: reclaiming wonder in your child's education, Ainsley Arment. 371.04 ARM
Speaking to the growing national trend, The Call of the Wild and Free equips families to provide quality homeschool education, and encourages all parents and caregivers to raise kids to experience the adventure, freedom, and wonder of childhood.
The natural laws of children: why children thrive when we understand how their brains are wired, Céline Alvarez. 372.21 ALV

Environment

On fire: the burning case for a green new deal, Naomi Klein. 333.7 KLE
Naomi Klein shows us how the only way forward out of a polluted world of our own making is only through policy reform and a concrete set of actions to combat the mounting threat of total environmental catastrophe.
Sludge: disaster on Victoria's goldfields, Susan Lawrence. 622.342 LAW
This book is the compelling story of the forgotten filth that plagued nineteenth-century Victoria. It exposes the big dirty secret of Victoria's mining history; the way it transformed the state's water and land, and how the battle against sludge helped lay the ground for the modern environmental movement.
Zealandia: the valley that changed a nation, James Lynch. 333.95 LYN
The book describes the 30 year journey of Zealandia eco-sanctuary in Wellington, from conception to its success as a biodiversity, community and business enterprise. The worlds first predator fenced community sanctuary, Zealandia has helped transform the city of Wellington from a biological 'cot-case' to a world renowned biodiversity 'hotspot'.

Farming

Farming on the wild side: the evolution of a regenerative organic farm and nursery, Nancy J. Hayden. 631.584 HAY
Kauri: witness to a nation's history, Joanna Orwin. 634.975 ORW
New Zealand's conifer, the kauri, once dominated the northern landscape. This remarkable tree which grows up to 50m with trunk diameters of over 5m can live for over 1000 years, so it has played a part in the lives of all inhabitants, celebrated in Māori Myth and integral to early colonial history. Over the centuries, kauri's high-quality timber has yielded war canoes, ships' spars, furniture and houses. Today though, the kauri forests are a shadow of their former selves facing a new threat with kauri dieback and providing challenges for conservationists, botanists and scientists working to protect this unique trees' future.
Orchard: growing and cooking fruit from your garden, Jane McMorland Hunter. 634 HUN
The Kew gardener's guide to growing fruit: the art and science to grow your own fruit, Kay Maguire. 634 MAG

Fashion & Beauty

Plant-based beauty: the essential guide to detoxing your beauty routine, Jess Arnaudin. 646.72 ARN
 
 

Film, Television & Theatre

Alien: the blueprints, Graham J. Langridge. 791.437 LAN
Technical drawings of all the major ships and vehicles from the Alien movies, presented in incredible detail. Artist Graham Langridge delves deep into the concept art, set designs and photography to recreate full and accurate blueprints of the drop ship, the Sulaco, the Nostromo and many more.
Generation Friends: an inside look at the show that defined a television era, Saul Austerlitz. 791.457 AUS
A fascinating behind-the-scenes look at Friends, published for the 15th anniversary of the show's premiere, including brand-new interviews with the series creators.
Howard Stern comes again., Howard Stern. 791.44028 STE
Over his unrivaled four-decade career in radio, Howard Stern has interviewed thousands of personalities-discussing sex, relationships, money, fame, spirituality, and success with the boldest of bold-faced names. But which interviews are his favorites? It's one of the questions he gets asked most frequently. Howard Stern Comes Again delivers his answer.
Scum and villainy: case files on the galaxy's most notorious, Pablo Hidalgo. 791.437 HID
Star Wars: Scum and Villainy profiles the misdeeds of infamous smugglers, pirates, gamblers, bounty hunters, and thieves throughout galactic history.
That will never work: the birth of Netflix and the amazing life of an idea, Marc Randolph. 384.55 RAN
The Simpsons: a cultural history, Moritz Fink. 791.457 FIN
This book looks at The Simpsons place in the pop culture firmament, from inspirations like Mad magazine to its critical role in the renaissance of animated television. The author recounts the birth of the show, discusses its remarkable merchandising success, and examines the show's popularity as the longest running episodic program in TV history.

Finance & Economics

Another economy is possible: culture and economy in a time of crisis, Manuel Castells. 338.54 ANO
Fashionopolis: the price of fast fashion & the future of clothes, Dana Thomas. 338.4768 THO
Go fund yourself: what money means in the 21st century, how to be good at it and live your best life, Alice Tapper. 332.024 TAP
Millionaire teacher: the nine rules of wealth you should have learned in school, Andrew Hallam. 332.6 HAL
Race, work, and leadership: new perspectives on the black experience, Laura Morgan Roberts. 331.6 RAC
Schism: China, America and the fracturing of the global trading system, Paul Blustein. 382 BLU
Socialism sucks: two economists drink their way through the unfree world, Robert Lawson. 335 LAW
Free market economists Robert Lawson and Benjamin Powell travel to countries like Venezuela, Cuba, Russia, and Sweden to investigate the dangers and idiocies of socialism-while drinking a lot of beer.
Tales from a financial hot mess: the realest guide to money... and how to have more of it, Frances Cook. 332.024 COO
The ethical investor's handbook: how to grow your money without wrecking the earth, Morten Strange. 332.6 STR
The railway navvies: a history of the men who made the railways, Terry Coleman. 331.76 COL
Transaction man: the rise of the deal and the decline of the American dream, Nicholas Lemann. 330.973 LEM

Folklore

A complete guide to fairies & magical beings, Cassandra Eason. 398.21 EAS
Fairies: a dangerous history, Richard Sugg. 398.45 SUG
How dangerous were fairies? In the late seventeenth century, they could still scare people to death. Little wonder, as they were thought to be descended from fallen angels, and to have the power to destroy the world itself. Despite their modern image as gauzy playmates, the fairies feared by ordinary people caused them to flee their homes, to revere fairy trees and paths, and to abuse or even kill infants or adults held to be fairy changelings.
Seafaring lore & legend: a miscellany of maritime myth, superstition, fable, and fact, Peter D. Jeans. 398.27 JEA
Superstition: Light side ; Dark side, Sally Coulthard. 398.41 COU
Ever wondered why we touch wood, salute magpies, skip over cracks and throw salt over our shoulders? Sally Coulthard has the answer as she gets under the skin of these peculiar pastimes in her new book Superstition. Exploring the history and background of fifty of these fascinating cultural behaviours, discover how they affected our everyday life and why many of these beliefs are still pertinent today.

Food & Drink

200 pies & tarts, Sara Lewis. 641.8652 LEW
Copenhagen cult recipes, Christine Rudolph. 641.59489 RUD
Dishoom: "from Bombay with love", Shamil Thakrar. 641.5954 THA
An eccentric and charming cookbook from Dishoom, with over 100 recipes from the much-loved restaurants, sharing secrets to their much sought-after Bombay comfort food.
East: 120 vegan and vegetarian recipes from Bangalore to Beijing, Meera Sodha. 641.5636 SOD
Fresh from Akaroa: recipes from the Akaroa Cooking School, Lou Bentley. 641.5 BEN
Green kitchen at home: quick and healthy vegetarian food for every day, David Frankiel. 641.5636 FRE
Pies & tarts, Angela Nilsen. 641.815 NIL
Pok Pok noodles: recipes from Thailand and beyond, Andy Ricker. 641.59593 RIC
Sababa: fresh, sunny flavors from my Israeli kitchen, Adeena Sussman. 641.595694 SUS
The Jewish cookbook, Leah Koenig. 641.567 KOE
Veg, Jamie Oliver. 641.5636 OLI
Vegan Christmas feasts: inspired meat-free recipes for the festive season, Jackie Kearney. 641.56362 KEA
Week light: super-fast meals to make you feel good, Donna Hay. 641.555 HAY
Zaika: vegan recipes from India, Romy Gill. 641.56362 GIL

Gardens & Gardening

A beautiful obsession: Jimi Blake's world of plants at Hunting Brook Gardens, Jimi Blake. 712.609415 BLA
Jimi Blake has spent the last 25 years discovering stand-out plants which he grows in dynamic and innovative ways at the fabulous Hunting Brook Gardens. A Beautiful Obsession inspires new garden projects, rewrites the rule book about combining plants and changes the way you think about plants and gardens.
A history of gardening in 50 objects, George Drower. 635 DRO
Here George Drower takes 50 objects that have helped create the gardening scene we know today, exploring the history of beautiful, fruitful outside spaces in a truly unique way.
Cambridge college gardens, Tim Richardson. 712.70942 RIC
Tim Richardson's book on the most exquisite gardens in and around the university of Cambridge's colleges combines brilliant research and elegant prose with stunning photography by Clive Boursnell.
Container succulents: creative ideas for beginners, Kentaro Kuroda. 635.952 KUR
Cut flowers, Bridget Elworthy. 635.966 ELW

Health

1950s TV stars memory lane, Hugh Morrison. 616.83 NIN
This 40 page book is aimed at patients with early stage dementia who like reading but find it hard to follow 'normal' books. The book looks at the famous US TV stars and shows of the 1950s, including 'I Love Lucy', 'The Phil Silvers Show', 'Dragnet' and 'The Twilight Zone'. The book is intended to help stimulate long-term memories and promote conversations with relatives or carers.
An elegant defense: the extraordinary new science of the immune system: a tale in four lives, Matt Richtel. 616.079 RIC
Beating osteoporosis: the facts, the treatments, the exercises, Diana Moran. 616.71 MOR
Bitten: the secret history of Lyme disease and biological weapons, Kris Newby. 616.92 NEW
Complete massage, Victoria Plum. 615.822 PLU
Crisis in the red zone: the story of the deadliest Ebola outbreak in history, and of the outbreaks to come, Richard Preston. 614.58 PRE
Critical: science and stories from the brink of human life, Dr Matt Morgan. 616.028 MOR
Eat yourself healthy: an easy-to-digest guide to health and happiness from the inside out, Dr Megan Rossi. 616.3 ROS
Give birth like a feminist: your body, your baby, your choice, Milli Hill. 618.4 HIL
Hand reflexology & acupressure: a natural way to health through traditional Chinese medicine, Chen Feisong. 615.822 FEI
Health revolution: finding happiness and health through an anti-inflammatory lifestyle: wholeness, food, research, exercise, beauty, insight, Maria Borelius. 616.047 BOR
Heart health: a guide to the tests and treatments you really need, J Shah. 616.12 SHA
Homeopathy: the complete guide to natural remedies, Albert-Claude Quemoun. 615.532 QUE
How healing works: get well and stay well using your hidden power to heal, Wayne Jonas. 615.852 JON
Is butter a carb?, Rosie Saunt. 613.2 SAU
In this book, everything from the danger of anecdotal evidence and unsubstantiated 'facts' about food to the real science behind the nutrients we consume every day is explored. Why there's nothing to be feared from fat or carbs, or - for the vast majority of us - the much-maligned gluten is explained, as well as probing the murky depths of the diet industry to explore the latest links between diet culture and weight stigma.
Lifespan: why we age--and why we don't have to, David A. Sinclair. 612.68 SIN
Lithium: a doctor, a drug, and a breakthrough, Walter A. Brown. 616.895 BRO
Recently described by the New York Times as the 'Cinderella' of psychiatric drugs, lithium has saved countless of lives and billions of dollars in healthcare costs. In this revelatory biography of a drug and the man who fought for its discovery, Brown crafts a captivating picture of modern medical history revealing just how close we came to passing over this extraordinary cure.
Managing cancer symptoms, Dr Cheryl Rezek. 616.994 REZ
Neal's Yard Remedies complete massage., Neal's Yard Remedies. 615.822 COM
Parent handbook on childhood and teen depression, Erika's Lighthouse. 618.9289 PAR
Period., Emma Barnett. 612.662 BAR
Emma Barnett draws on female experiences that will make you laugh, weep, (and, most probably squirm), in a fierce and funny rallying cry to smash this ridiculous taboo once and for all.
Pretty unhealthy: why our obsession with looking healthy is making us sick, Dr Nikki Stamp. 613 STA
Seven minutes to fit: 50 anytime, anywhere interval workouts, Brett Klika. 613.71 KLI
Solution-focused brief therapy with clients managing trauma, Adam S. Froerer. 616.8914 SOL
Stop smoking with Allen Carr., Allen Carr. 613.85 CAR
The abstinence myth: a new approach for overcoming addiction without shame, judgment, or rules, Adi Jaffe. 616.86 JAF
The art of dying well: a practical guide to a good end of life, Katy Butler. 616.029 BUT
The complete guide to yin yoga: philosophy + practice, Bernie Clark. 613.7046 CLA
The dialectical behavior therapy skills workbook: practical DBT exercises for learning mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance, Matthew McKay. 616.8914 MCK
The essential oils hormone solution: reclaim your energy and focus and lose weight naturally, Dr. Mariza Snyder. 615.321 SNY
The healing power of Reiki: how the restorative power of Reiki can help you live a balanced life. 615.851 HEA
The little book of autism FAQs: how to talk with your child about their diagnosis & other conversations, Davida Hartman. 618.9289 HAR
The shape of things to come: future lives, future bodies, Druin Burch. 610 BUR
A vision of what the future holds for our bodies and the medicine used to treat them. In this humane and important exploration of modern medicine, Druin Burch examines the future of medicine, our changing physicalities and the implications of longer life.
They were still born: personal stories about stillbirth, Janel C. Atlas. 618.3 THE
Understanding mental illness: a comprehensive guide to mental health disorders for family and friends, Carlin Barnes. 616.89 BAR
Understanding nutrition, Eleanor Whitney. 613.2 WHI
Understanding teenage anxiety: a parent's guide to improving your teen's mental health, Jennifer Brown. 618.9285 BRO
We are the weather: saving the planet begins at breakfast, Jonathan Safran Foer. 613.262 FOE
Just changing our dinners cutting out meat for one meal per day is enough to change the world. With his distinctive wit, insight and humanity, Foer frames this essential debate as no one else could, bringing it to vivid and urgent life.
Your brain, explained: what neuroscience reveals about our brain and its quirks, Marc Dingman. 612.82 DIN

History, Geography & Travel

A chip Shop in Pozna?: my unlikely year in Poland, Ben Aitken. 943.849 AIT
Not many Brits move to Poland to work in a fish and chip shop. Fewer still come back wanting to be a Member of the European Parliament. Travel writer Ben Aitken moved to Poland in 2016 to understand why the Poles were leaving. This candid, funny and off-beat book is the account of his year in Poland, as an unlikely immigrant.
A history of archaeological thought, Bruce G. Trigger. 930.1 TRI
A special place: the story of the Boleyn family and the Bank Peninsula over the last 200 years, Lois Anderson. 993.84 BOL
The Bullions came from Logiealmond in Scotland to Canterbury on the Duke of Bronte and on arrival they changed their name to Boleyn. This book focuses on one branch of the Boleyn family tree, those who have lived on Banks Peninsula since 1851 and in particular those who have lived at Stoney Bay West (now officially known as Stoney Beach).
Australia, Patrick Kinsella.. 994 KIN
Insight Guide.
Bullets and opium: real-life stories of China after the Tiananmen Square Massacre, Liao Yiwu. 951.058 LIA
Charles I's killers in America: the lives & afterlives of Edward Whalley & William Goffe, Matthew Jenkinson. 941.06 JEN
When the British monarchy was restored in 1660, King Charles II was faced with the conundrum of what to do with those who had been involved in the execution of his father eleven years earlier. Facing a grisly fate at the gallows, some of the men who had signed Charles I's death warrant fled to America. 'Charles I's Killers in America' traces the gripping story of two of these men Edward Whalley and William Goffe and their lives in America, from their welcome in New England until their deaths there.
Dear Hong Kong: an elegy for a city, Xu Xi. 951.25 XU
Xu Xi's body of work witnesses her turbulent love affair with her home-city of Hong Kong. In this probing memoir, she unravels her recently finalised decision to leave the city for good. She critiques a Hong Kong that has, in her eyes, lost its way. And yet, it is only out of the city's enduring presence in her life, both in the form of memory and periodic homecomings, that she has carved out a personal and literary identity.
Eastern Europe, Mark Baker. 947 BAK
Lonely Planet Guide.
El Norte: the epic and forgotten story of Hispanic North America, Carrie Gibson. 978 GIB
End of the road, Mark Pickering. 993 PIC
This book is an attempt to understand why landscapes move us by walking into fifteen semi-wild areas. They range all over New Zealand and include mountains, coasts, deserts and forests.
Erdoǧan rising: the battle for the soul of Turkey, Hannah Lucinda Smith. 956.104 SMI
Hannah Smith has been living in Turkey as the Times correspondent for nearly a decade, reporting on the ground from the onset of the Arab Spring through terrorist attacks, mass protests, civil war, unprecedented refugee influx and the explosive, bloody 2016 coup attempt that threatened to topple and kill Erdogan.
Expeditions unpacked: what the great explorers took into the unknown, Ed Stafford. 910.92 STA
Fifteen million years in Antarctica, Rebecca Priestley. 998.9 PRI
Goa & Mumbai, Paul Harding. 954.78 HAR
Lonely Planet Guide.
Going home: a walk through fifty years of occupation, Raja Shehadeh. 956.95 SHE
Orwell Prize winning author Raja Shehadeh travels Ramallah and records the changing face of the city. Walking along the streets he grew up in, he tells the stories of the people, the relationships, the houses, and the businesses that were and now are cornerstones of the city and his community.
How to trace your Irish ancestors, Ian Maxwell. 929.1 MAX
In Jerusalem: three generations of an Israeli family and a Palestinian family, Lis Harris. 956.944 HAR
In Jerusalem is a portrait based on ten years of scrupulous research and historical narrative of three generations of two families living in Jerusalem one Israeli, the other Palestinian whose vividly personal account of day to day life amidst extreme historical pressures provides an account of the conflict unlike any we have read before.
India, Paul Stafford. 954 STA
Insight Guide.
India, Joe Bindloss. 954 BIN
Lonely Planet Guide.
India: a short history, Andrew Robinson. 954 ROB
Informally royal: Studio Lisa and the royal family: 1936-1966, Rodney Laredo. 941.082 LAR
A chance meeting in 1936 gave Lisa and Jimmy Sheridan the opportunity of a lifetime. Keen amateur photographers, their company, Studio Lisa, were engaged by the then Duke and Duchess of York to take informal, casual photographs of them and their young daughters, the Princesses Elizabeth and Margaret, at their home in Piccadilly.
Israel and Palestine: the complete history, Ian Carroll. 956.94 CAR
Lost girls: love, war and literature 1939-51, D. J. Taylor. 941.082 TAY
Lost Girls concentrates on just four girls: Lys Lubbock, Sonia Brownell, Barbara Skelton and Janetta Parlade. Chic, glamorous and bohemian, they cut a swathe through English literary and artistic life in the 1940s. Three of them had affairs with Lucian Freud. One of them married George Orwell. Another became the mistress of the King of Egypt and was flogged by him on the steps of the Royal Palace.
Making China modern: from the Great Qing to Xi Jinping, Klaus Mühlhahn. 951 MUH
Marine A: 'my toughest battle', Alexander Blackman. 958.1 BLA
For the first time, a blistering, highly charged account from the man known as 'Marine A' who was at the centre of the controversial murder of a wounded Taliban fighter. His case led to an unprecedented wave of public support which raised over GBP800,000 to fund his appeal. The nerve-shredding situations Sgt. Blackman operated within, under sustained attack for long periods, living in the unrelenting horror of a theatre of war, took their toll mentally and physically.
Mindful travelling: journeying the world, discovering yourself, Sarah Samuel. 910.2 SAM
New Zealand (Aotearoa), Charles Rawlings-Way. 993 RAW
Lonely Planet Guide.
New Zealand's North Island (Te Ika-a-M?ui), Peter Dragicevic. 993.1 DRA
Lonely Planet Guide.
Noah's land: did the great patriarch colonise New Zealand in 2,225 BC?, John Dudley Aldworth. 993.01 ALD
Was Noah the first to find and settle this country? The Patupaiarehe call him Ue- Nuku (the bow of Noah) and knew him as the 'rainbow god. The ancient name for New Zealand was Nuku-Roa, i.e. the 'Long Land of Noah' or'Noah Long, Long ago.
Normandy & D-Day beaches: road trips, Damian Harper. 944.2 HAR
Lonely Planet Guide.
North Korea journal, Michael Palin. 951.93 PAL
In May 2018, former Monty Python stalwart and intrepid globetrotter Michael Palin spent two weeks in the notoriously secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea. Now he shares his day-by-day diary of his visit, in which he describes not only what he saw - and his fleeting views of what the authorities didn't want him to see - but recounts the conversations he had with the country's inhabitants, talks candidly about his encounters with officialdom, and records his musings about a land wholly unlike any other he has ever visited.
Rajasthan, Delhi & Agra, Lindsay Brown. 954 BRO
Lonely Planet Guide.
Rise and fall: a history of the world in ten empires, Paul Strathern. 909 STR
Sailors, settlers & sinners: the Hall family in Hull and New Zealand, 1795-1907, Moira Taylor. 929.2 HAL
Beginning in the port of Hull in East Yorkshire during the French Revolution, it traces the life of George Hall, a mariner captured during the Napoleonic Wars, the maritime careers of his two sons, George and Thomas, at the highpoint of Britain's expansion as a world power and, finally, life in the new colony of New Zealand, where his youngest son, John, becomes prime minister.
South America, Regis St Louis. 980 ST
Lonely Planet Guide.
Staring at God: Britain in the Great War, Simon Heffer. 941.083 HEF
The anarchy: the relentless rise of the East India Company, William Dalrymple. 954.031 DAL
The ancient guide to modern life, Natalie Haynes. 930 HAY
However different and unique we believe we are, over and over again we can be seen to be living very much like people did 2,000 or more years ago. Whether political, social or cultural, there are endless parallels between the ancient and modern worlds.
The big loop: biking coastal New Zealand, Dunc Wilson. 993 WIL
In August 2015, Dunc Wilson became the first person to circumnavigate New Zealand on a bike. This 10,940 km journey followed one rule: cycle the closest available route to the coastline. The Big Loop candidly details Wilson's 240-day cycling adventure, through native bush, ragged coastlines, farm stations and more.
The Europeans: three lives and the making of a cosmopolitan culture, Orlando Figes. 940.28 FIG
The Europeans is both a highly original, panoramic account of how in the 19th century huge aesthetic, economic, technological and legal changes created, for the first time, a genuinely pan-European culture and an intimate story of a great singer, Pauline Viardot, a great writer, Ivan Turgenev, and a great connoisseur, Pauline's husband Louis.
The Fens: discovering England's ancient depths, Francis Pryor. 936.2 PRY
The heartbeat of Wounded Knee: native America from 1890 to the present, David Treuer. 970 TRE
The history of Chile, John L. Rector. 983 REC
The Point: a history of Point Chevalier and its people, Debra Millar. 993.24 MIL
The rough guide to Argentina, Stephen Keeling. 982 KEE
Rough Guide.
The rough guide to Canada, Stephen Keeling. 971 KEE
Rough Guide.
The rough guide to Jordan, Matthew Teller. 956.95 TEL
Rough Guide.
They will have to die now: Mosul and the fall of the caliphate, James Verini. 956.7044 VER
Top 10 Rome, Reid Bramblett. 945.632 BRA
DK Eyewitness Guide.
Washington, DC, Paul Franklin. 975.3 FRA
DK Eyewitness Guide.
We are here: an atlas of Aotearoa, Chris McDowall. 993 MCD
Wedlock: how Georgian Britain's worst husband met his match, Wendy Moore. 941.07 STR
Tells the remarkable true story of Mary Eleanor Bowes, Countess of Strathmore, who became Britain's richest heiress on the death of her entrepreneur father when she was 11. After an unhappy first marriage to John Lyon, the 9th Earl of Strathmore, she was lured into marrying an Irish fortune-hunter named Andrew Robinson Stoney. Squandering her money and laying waste her vast estate, Stoney reduced Mary to a wretched, starved, petrified shadow of her former self.
Western Europe, Catherine Le Nevez. 940 LE
Lonely Planet Guide.
Winds of change: Britain in the early sixties, Peter Hennessy. 941.0856 HEN

House & DIY

But where do I put the couch?, Melissa Michael. 747 MIC
When you have a home decorating question, do you wish you had a team to consult? Michaels and Wood answer actual queries from their readers. With a little bit of humour and a whole lot of how-to, they provide solutions to everyday decorating dilemmas.
Country Brocante style, Lucy Haywood. 747.0941 HAY
In Country Brocante Style, Lucy Haywood presents a pretty and accessible signature look into the home, fusing two classic and enduring decorating traditions English country style and French-inspired vintage styling.
Create with cork fabric: sew 17 upscale projects: bags, accessories & home decor, Jessica Sallie Kapitanski. 646.2 KAP
Creating the French look: inspirational ideas and 25 step-by-step projects, Annie Sloan. 747.0944 SLO
Dad hacks, Rob Palmer. 640.41 PAL
A fast, fun book of easy handyman skills and cool fatherhood tricks for dads. Rob Palmer is a third-generation builder and father-of-three on a mission to pass on the sort of no-nonsense tips we used to get from our parents and grandparents. This book is brimming with ingenious household hacks that are easy to learn and will save your family time and money.
For the love of white: the white & neutral home, Chrissie Rucker. 747.94 RUC
Kenneth D. King's Smart fitting solutions: foolproof techniques to fit any figure: read the wrinkles, decipher the message, fix the fit., Kenneth King. 646.404 KIN
No matter your size or shape, Kenneth D. King will teach you how to make perfect-fitting garments every time. In this comprehensive resource, Kenneth shows the home sewer how to understand shape and fitting options, as well as how to identify bad fit by reading the wrinkles in the garment.
Magical rooms: elements of interior design, Fawn Galli. 747 GAL
Nordic style: warm & welcoming Scandinavian interiors, Chris van Uffelen. 747.0948 UFF
Simply spaced: clear the clutter and style your life, Monica Leed. 648.8 LEE
The repair shop: a make do and mend guide to caring for the things you love, Karen Farrington. 643.7 FAR

Journalism

The broken estate: journalism and democracy in a post-truth world, Mel Bunce. 070.4 BUN
New Zealander Mel Bunce researches and teaches journalism at the acclaimed Department of Journalism at City University of London. Drawing upon the latest international research, Bunce provides a fresh analysis and assessment of the future for New Zealand journalism in a troubled world.

Language

Practical English usage, Michael Swan. 428.2 SWA
Semicolon: how a misunderstood punctuation mark can improve your writing, enrich your reading and even change your life, Cecelia Watson. 421.1 WAT
Understanding hieroglyphs: a quick and simple guide, Hilary Wilson. 493.1 WIL

Law

Campbell on caveats, Neil Campbell QC. 346.043 CAM
Including commentary on significant case-law and updated to take into account the recent Land Transfer Act 2017, the topics covered within the text include a consideration of the various classes of caveats that are available, the nature of a caveat against dealings, rights and transactions that will (or will not) support a caveat, methods of clearing caveats off the title, and Registrar's caveats, among many others.
Mental capacity law in New Zealand, Iris Reuvecamp. 346.013 MEN
The hidden history of guns and the Second Amendment, Thom Hartmann. 344.053 HAR

Literature

Blackened white: writings, Brian W. Foster. 818.6 FOS
Brian W. Foster makes his entrance into the literary world with "Blackened White," a first person account of life, love, faith, and pain. In this collection of poems, essays, and short stories, Foster offers a series of brutally honest, often humorous, and profoundly ironic writings chronicling a journey into his own human condition.
Contemporary Kazakh literature. Prose. 894.345 CON
An anthology of Kazakh prose from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Coventry: essays, Rachel Cusk. 824.914 CUS
The author's first collection of essays about motherhood, marriage, feminism, and art both offers new insights on the themes at the heart of her fiction and forges a startling critical voice on some of our most urgent personal, social, and artistic questions.
Elements of fiction, Walter Mosley. 808.3 MOS
Mosley guides the reader through the fundamental building blocks of fiction to deliver a master class on the writer's craft. In a series of conversational and instructive chapters, Mosley breaks down the art of fiction to its most essential elements: character and character development, plot and story, voice and narrative, context and description. The result is a detailed depiction of the writing process, from the blank page to the first draft to rewriting, and rewriting again.
Make it scream, make it burn: essays, Leslie Jamison. 814.6 JAM
With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Jamison offers 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise.
Monster, she wrote: the women who pioneered horror & speculative fiction, Lisa Kröger. 809.91 KRO
Scottish jokes: a wee book of clean Caledonian chuckles, Hugh Morrison. 808.88 SCO
Someone's wife: a memoir of sorts, Linda Burgess. 824.914 BUR
These pieces read like the freshest of recent novels: clever, restrained and wittily observant. They range across the personal and the observational. There are essays on her lifetime of being an All Black wife (once an AB, always an AB); her love of teaching, education and the young; and a powerful essay on the death of her baby,
The Penguin book of migration literature: departures, arrivals, generations, returns, Dohra Ahmad. 808.80355 PEN
Why you should read children's books, even though you are so old and wise, Katherine Rundell. 809.89282 RUN
Katherine Rundell explores how children's books ignite, and can re-ignite, the imagination; how children's fiction, with its unabashed emotion and playfulness, can awaken old hungers and create new perspectives on the world. This delightful and persuasive essay is for adult readers.

Music & Musicians

Billie Holiday: the last interview and other conversations, Khanya Mtshali. 781.65 HOL
Legendary singer Billie Holiday comes alive in this first-ever collection of interviews from throughout her career. The book is more than a look at just the famously tragic side of her life. In other conversations, drawn from music magazines, late-night radio programs, and newspapers across the US and Canada, she discusses her childhood, musicians who influenced her, her friendship and falling out with the influential sax player Lester Young and more.
Come from away: welcome to the rock, Irene Sankoff. 782.14 SAN
A fully illustrated companion volume to the hit Tony Award-winning Broadway musical, featuring the book and lyrics for the first time in print, backstage stories and the real history behind the show's events, character design sketches, and songs that ended up on the cutting room floor.
Dust & grooves: adventures in record collecting, Eilon Paz. 780.266 PAZ
Elvis in Vegas: how the King reinvented the Las Vegas show, Richard Zoglin. 781.66 PRE
Guitar amps & effects for dummies, Dave Hunter. 787.8719 HUN
La bohème, Giacomo Puccini. 782.1 PUC
Puccini's La bohème is one of the most beloved and enduring operas of all time. In this guide, William Ashbrook evaluates the opera's initial reception, the reasons for its wide appeal and Verdi's influence on the composition.
Look, I made a hat: collected lyrics (1981-2011) with attendant comments, amplifications, dogmas, harangues, wafflings, anecdotes and miscellany, Stephen Sondheim. 782.14 SON
Filled with behind-the-scenes photographs and illustrations from original manuscripts, and with the same elegant design as the earlier book, 'Look, I Made A Hat' will be devoured by Sondheim's passionate fans today and for years to come.
Mixing secrets for the small studio, Mike Senior. 781.49 SEN
Nightingales in Berlin: searching for the perfect sound, David Rothenberg. 781.1 ROT
As philosopher and musician David Rothenberg seeks the nightingales out, clarinet in tow, and makes a new sound with them. He takes us to the urban landscape of Berlin; longtime home to nightingale colonies where the birds sing ever louder in order to be heard and invites us to listen in on their remarkable collaboration as birds and instruments riff off of each other's sounds.

Parenting

Being at your best when your kids are at their worst: practical compassion in parenting, Kim John Payne. 649.1 PAY
 
 

Pasifika

We are the ocean: selected works, Epeli Hauofa. 899.4 HAU
A collection of essays, fiction, and poetry by Epeli Hau'ofa, whose writing over the past three decades has consistently challenged prevailing notions about Oceania and prescriptions for its development. He highlights major problems confronted by the region and suggests alternative perspectives and ways in which its people might reorganize to relate effectively to the changing world.

Personal Development

A biography of loneliness: the history of an emotion, Fay Bound Alberti. 155.92 ALB
Beautiful ashes, Natasha Whitewood. 158.1 WHI
Beautiful Ashes tells the true stories of three New Zealand women who boldly share the traumatic experiences of their past and the resulting scars.Through divine intervention they are brought together and in faith they find their voice.
Daring greatly: how the courage to be vulnerable transforms the way we live, love, parent, and lead, Brené Brown. 158.1 BRO
Everything is figureoutable, Marie Forleo. 158.1 FOR
Everything is figureoutable is an attitudinal discipline that activates spiritual and emotional strength to tackle- impossible tasks heart- breaking challenges and daring dreams.
How to survive and thrive when bad things happen: 9 steps to cultivating an opportunity mindset in a crisis, Jim Taylor. 155.24 TAY
How we learn: the surprising truth about when, where and why it happens, Benedict Carey. 153.15 CAR
Award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey sifts through decades of education research and landmark studies to uncover the truth about how our brains absorb and retain information.
It's not always depression: a new theory of listening to your body, discovering core emotions and reconnecting with your authentic self, Hilary Jacobs Hendel. 152.4 JAC
Live it great: 12 real life lessons to help you create your own happy and meaningful life as a migrant, Joyce Roa. 158.1 ROA
Live It Great traces the journey of Joyce and her husband from their home country the Philippines to New Zealand and the lessons she learned in the process of moving and living in a new land.
McMindfulness: how mindfulness became the new capitalist spirituality, Ronald E. Purser. 158.12 PUR
Ronald Purser debunks the so-called "mindfulness revolution," exposing how corporations, schools, governments and the military have co-opted it as technique for social control and self-pacification challenging the narrative that stress is self-imposed and mindfulness is the cure-all.
Range: how generalists triumph in a specialized world, David Epstein. 153.9 EPS
David Epstein shows you that the way to succeed is by sampling widely, gaining a breadth of experiences, juggling many interests; in other words, by developing range.
Scatterbrain: how the mind's mistakes make humans creative, innovative, and successful, Henning Beck. 153.4 BEC
Stop self-sabotage: six steps to unlock your true motivation, harness your willpower, and get out of your own way, Judy Ho. 158.1 HO
The atlas of happiness: the global secrets of how to be happy, Helen Russell. 152.42 RUS
The optimist's telescope: thinking ahead in a reckless age, Bina Venkataraman. 153.83 VEN
The passion paradox: a guide to going all in, finding success, and discovering the benefits of an unbalanced life, Brad Stulberg. 153.8 STU
The power of nunchi: the Korean secret to happiness and success, Euny Hong. 158.1 HON
The School of Life: an emotional education, Alain de Botton. 152.4 SCH
One decade ago, Alain de Botton founded The School of Life, an institute dedicated to understanding and improving our emotional intelligence.
Waking up in winter: in search of what really matters at midlife, Cheryl Richardson. 155.66 RIC
When the body says no: exploring the stress-disease connection, Gabor Maté. 155.9042 MAT
Why do I feel like an imposter?: how to understand and cope with imposter syndrome, Dr Sandi Mann. 158.1 MAN
Imposter Syndrome (also known as imposter phenomenon, fraud syndrome, or the imposter experience) is a concept describing individuals who are marked by an inability to internalize their accomplishments and a persistent fear of being exposed as a 'fraud'.
You already know: how to access your intuition & find your divine life path, Helen Jacobs. 153.44 JAC

Pets & Animals

Adventures of the Yorkshire shepherdess, Amanda Owen. 636.301 OWE
As busy as she is with her family and flock though, an exciting new project soon catches Amanda Owen's eye. Ravenseat is a tenant farm and may not stay in the family, so when Amanda discovers a nearby farmhouse up for sale, she knows it is her chance to create roots for her children. It's fair to say things do not go according to plan! Funny, evocative and set in a remote and beautiful landscape, this book will delight anyone who has hankered after a new life in the country.
Dewey's nine lives: the legacy of the small-town library cat who inspired millions, Vicki Myron. 636.8 MYR
Goldfish, Anna Marie Roos. 639.3748 ROO
The cat personality test: how well do you really know your cat?, Dr Lauren Finka. 636.8 FIN
The lean dairy farm: eliminate waste, save time, cut costs: creating a more productive, profitable and higher quality farm, Jana Hocken. 636.21 HOC
The rescue dog: a practical guide to adopting, training & living with a dog with emotional baggage, Laura Vissaritis. 636.70887 VIS
Wild horses of the summer sun: a memoir of Iceland, Tory Bilski. 636.16 BIL
Each June, Tory Bilski meets up with fellow women travelers in Reykjavik where they head to northern Iceland, near the Greenland Sea. They escape their ordinary lives to live an extraordinary one at a horse farm perched at the edge of the world if only for a short while.

Philosophy & Psychology

Lessons in stoicism, John Sellars. 188 SEL
Man's search for meaning: the classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust, Viktor E. Frankl. 150.195 FRA
A prominent Viennese psychiatrist before the war, Viktor Frankl was uniquely able to observe the way that both he and others in Auschwitz coped (or didn't) with the experience.experiences. Frankl came to believe man's deepest desire is to search for meaning and purpose. This outstanding work offers us all a way to transcend suffering and find significance in the art of living.
Philosophers: their lives and works, Tony Allan. 100 ALL
The stoic challenge: a philosopher's guide to becoming tougher, calmer, and more resilient, William B. Irvine. 188 IRV
This life: why mortality makes us free, Martin Hägglund. 110 HAG
A profound, original, and accessible book that argues that a faith not in God or eternal life, but in the finite, temporal life we lead here on earth is one that gives that life far greater depth of meaning.

Photography

Bill Cunningham on the street: five decades of iconic photography, Tiina Loite. 779 CUN
This official book of photographs houses the 50-year collection of the most iconic and beloved photographs taken by prolific fashion photographer Bill Cunningham, the King of Street Style. He took pictures for The New York Times from 1978 until his death in 2016 and wrote the beloved columns "On the Street" and "Evening Hours," which began in 1989.
Making it up: photographic fictions, Marta Weiss. 779 WEI
'Making it Up' shows how, throughout its history, photography has been used to depict fiction as well as fact.
Photography: history, art, technique, Tom Ang. 770 ANG
The swimming pool in photography, Francis Hodgson. 779 HOD

Plays & Screenplays

Antipodal Shakespeare: remembering and forgetting in Britain, Australia and New Zealand, 1916-2016, Gordon McMullan. 822.33 MCM
In this collaborative monograph, five scholars from Britain, Australia and New Zealand reflect on the modes of commemoration of Shakespeare in and after the Tercentenary year, 1916, in two hemispheres. They argue that it was at this moment of remembering that 'global Shakespeare' first emerged in recognizable, if embryonic form.
Rebel writers: the accidental feminists: Shelagh Delaney, Edna O'Brien, Lynne Reid-Banks, Charlotte Bingham, Nell Dunn, Virginia Ironside, Margaret Forster, Celia Brayfield. 822.914 DEL
In London in 1958, a play by a 19-year-old redefined women's writing in Britain. It also began a movement that would change women's lives forever. The play was A Taste of Honey and the author, Shelagh Delaney, was the first in a succession of young women who wrote about their lives with an honesty that dazzled the world. They rebelled against sexism, inequality and prejudice and in doing so challenged the existing definitions of what writing and writers should be.

Poetry

Contemporary Kazakh literature. Poetry. 894.345 CON
An anthology of Kazakh poetry from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Craven, Jane Arthur. 821.92 ART
Jane Arthur delights, unnerves and challenges in poems that circle both the everyday and the ineffable - piano practice, past lives, being forced onto dancefloors. This is a smart and disarming collection that traces the ever-changing forms of light and dark in our lives, and how our eyes adjust, despite ourselves, as we go along.
Dancing by the light of the moon, Gyles Brandreth. 821.008 DAN
In this book Gyles Brandreth shares over 250 poems to read, relish and recite. Whether you are nine, nineteen or ninety, the poems and advice in this book provide the most enjoyable, moving and inspiring way to ensure a lifetime of dancing by the light of the moon - one joyous poem at a time.
Gilgamesh: the life of a poem, Michael Schmidt. 892.1 SCH
Reflections on a lost poem and its rediscovery by contemporary poets. Gilgamesh is the most ancient long poem known to exist. It is also the newest classic in the canon of world literature. Lost for centuries to the sands of the Middle East but found again in the 1850s, it tells the story of a great king, his heroism, and his eventual defeat.
Lost and somewhere else, Jenny Bornholdt. 821.914 BOR
In Lost and Somewhere Else, Jenny Bornholdt finds many places to stand: at home, in memories of places and people, and in the Ernst Plischke-designed Henderson House in Alexandra, Central Otago, in which she lived while writing these poems. This graceful, witty and unsettling book is Bornholdt at her very best: her language at once bold and subtle, and even her smallest insights profound.
Moth hour, Anne Kennedy. 821.914 KEN
In 1973, Anne Kennedy's brother Philip was partying on a hillside when he accidentally fell to his death. Among books and records, Philip left a poem typed in Courier on thick, cream, letter-sized paper ... In 'Moth hour, ' Anne Kennedy returns to the death of her brother and the world he inhabited, writing 'Thirty-three transformations on a theme of Philip' and concluding with a longer poem, 'The Thé'.
The track, Paula Green. 821.914 GRE
In the spring of 2015 Paula Green walked Queen Charlotte Track, her poet's eye taking in the beauty of her surroundings and the history of the land. Early on the final day she slipped and injured herself, and had to walk out for nine hours on her broken foot, a journey made more dramatic by the ongoing storm. To get through, and alleviate the pain, she composed poems in her head.
Uncollected poems, R.A.K. Mason. 821.91 MAS
Allen Curnow called R. A. K. Mason (1905-71) New Zealand's `first wholly original, unmistakably gifted poet'. His Collected Poems, first published in 1962, was a rigorous selection made before Mason's `late flowering' of 1962-65. Some of the excluded poems and some of the late poems have since seen the light of day in two biographies, but many are published here for the first time, drawn mostly from the papers of the Mason archive at the Hocken Collections, University of Otago, in Dunedin.

Politics & Government

House of Trump House of Putin: the untold story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia, Craig Unger. 327.73 UNG
How to be a dictator: the cult of personality in the twentieth century, Frank Dikötter. 321.9 DIK
Frank Dikötter returns to eight of the most chillingly effective personality cults of the twentieth century. From carefully choreographed parades to the deliberate cultivation of a shroud of mystery through iron censorship, these dictators ceaselessly worked on their own image and encouraged the population at large to glorify them. At a time when democracy is in retreat, are we seeing a revival of the same techniques among some of today's world leaders?
Oceania: an important part of the Pacific, Dariusz Zdziech. 320.995 OCE
Permanent record, Edward Snowden. 327.12 SNO
In 2013, twenty-nine-year-old Edward Snowden shocked the world when he broke with the American intelligence establishment and revealed that the United States government was secretly pursuing the means to collect every single phone call, text message, and email. Six years later, Snowden reveals for the very first time how he helped to build this system and why he was moved to expose it.
Promises, promises: 80 years of wooing New Zealand voters, Claire Robinson. 324.7 ROB
A lively history of political advertising in New Zealand, from the first election of the modern era in 1939 to today. Brimming with 80 years of political advertisements that can truly be said to have made New Zealand history the authors analysis is penetrating and original and visual material is abundant and revealing.
Proof of conspiracy: how Trump's international collusion is threatening American democracy, Seth Abramson. 327.73 ABR
Small states and the changing global order: New Zealand faces the future, Anne-Marie Brady. 327.93 SMA
Provides a critical examination of the foreign policy choices of one typical small state, New Zealand, as it faces the changing global balance of power and analyses how a small state such as New Zealand is adjusting to the changing geopolitical, geo-economic, environment.
Student political action in New Zealand, Sylvia Nissen. 378.198 NIS
Exploring the terrain between activism and apathy, Sylvia Nissen considers what it means to be a political actor from the perspective of students today. Drawing on in-depth interviews with New Zealand tertiary students, she traces their 'desires' for different types of politics, the 'demands' they experience at university, and the 'doubts' that underscore their political engagement.

Pounamu

Ngā aro-takaro: 100 Māori games artefacts, Harko Brown. 790.089 BRO
Aro-takaro are the 'face' of traditional Māori games. They are the iconic implements associated with indigenous games practices, rituals and protocols. A testament to their prolific ancient uses are the numerous games artefacts, vividly etched in millennia-old cave paintings, all over Aotearoa/NZ. Aro-takaro were spiritually conceived from the environment by villagers and perfected as social and educational tools by tohunga, the intellectual giants of the day, known as Hohou-Rongo – revered games artisans and peace-makers.
Tā moko: Māori markings, Crispin Howarth. 391.65 HOW
The practice of tā moko, and the wearing of moko, was considered an art form of a bygone day for the most part of the twentieth century, as casualty of Aotearoa New Zealand's colonial past. However, this unique Pacific art is enjoying a revival. Its embers fanned back to life by modern practitioners in the 1980s, it has once again become a powerful form of Māori cultural expression, identity and unity. In a first for Australia, 'Māori markings: tā moko' looks at not only the history of this living, breathing art of our region but also shares stories of today's proud moko wearers and practitioners

Religion & Ethics

A love letter life: pursue creatively, date intentionally, love faithfully, Jeremy Roloff. 248.84 ROL
The former co-stars of TLC's show Little People, Big World share their imperfect, resilient, and inspiring love story, their relatable struggles, hard-learned lessons, practical tips, and devout commitment.
Abandoned sacred places, Lawrence Joffe. 203.5 JOF
Dear Joan Chittister: conversations with women in the church, Jessie Bazan. 248.4 DEA
Ten young women active in ministry share their thoughts, aspirations, questions and desires with Sister Joan Chittister, a spiritual master and prophetic visionary who has long encouraged the gifts and voices of those too easily dismissed.
Finding sisu: in search of courage, strength and happiness the Finnish way, Katja Pantzar. 179.6 PAN
Why Finnish people don't give up: harnessing the magic of sisu. Defined as a particular kind of resilience and bravery, sisu is the Finnish approach to well-being that is turning lives around.
Human kindness, Renée Hollis. 177 HUM
Sourced from around the world, these are stories of the everyday and the extraordinary. Interspersed between the stories are quotes about kindness by people as diverse as Audrey Hepburn, Lao Tzu, Ellen DeGeneres and Ralph Waldo Emerson. The result is a book that explores all that is best about human nature.
In the name of God: a history of Christian & Muslim intolerance, Selina O'Grady. 291.17 OGR
Metahuman: unleashing your infinite potential, Deepak Chopra, M.D. 204.4 CHO
Outgrowing God: a beginner's guide, Richard Dawkins. 211.8 DAW
Should we believe in God? Do we need God in order to explain the existence of the universe? Do we need God in order to be good? Dawkins addresses some of the most profound questions human beings confront.
Stones of remembrance: healing Scriptures for your mind, body, and soul, Daniel G. Amen. 248.3 AME
The Bible in Australia: a cultural history, Meredith Lake. 220 LAK
The Bible in Australia explores how in the hands of Bible-bashers, immigrants, suffragists, evangelists, unionists, writers, artists and Indigenous Australians, the Bible has played a contested but defining role in this country.
The seat of the soul, Gary Zukav. 299.93 ZUK
Zukav explains that we are evolving from a species that pursues power based upon the perceptions of the five senses external power into a species that pursues authentic power that is based upon the perceptions and values of the spirit.
The thirst of God: contemplating God's love with three women mystics, Wendy Farley. 248.22 FAR
The universal Christ: how a forgotten reality can change everything we see, hope for, and believe, Richard Rohr. 232 ROH
Too often, Rohr writes, our understandings have been limited by culture, religious squabbling, and the human tendency to put ourselves at the center. Drawing on scripture, history, and spiritual practice, Rohr articulates a transformative view of Jesus Christ as a portrait of God's constant, unfolding work in the world.
The Vatican conspiracy: intrigue in St. Peter's Square, Peter Kross. 282.45634 KRO
Tells the untold story of the secret Vatican-US connection from World War II to the 1980s under President Reagan.
Unashamed: a coming-out guide for LGBTQ Christians, Amber Cantorna. 261.835 CAN
What it means to be moral: why religion is not necessary for living an ethical life, Phil Zuckerman. 170 ZUC

Science

Almost human: the story of Julius, the chimpanzee caught between two worlds, Alfred Fidjestøl. 599.885 FID
Julius was as famous as a hollywood celebrity in Norway. He was featured in numerous news articles and on television programs, inspired a pop song and even became a character in best-selling books Uniquely told using the same method and style of a contemporary biography, but to explore the life of an animal and not a human being. Explores the ramifications of turning animals into celebrities.
Circadian rhythms: a very short introduction, Russell G. Foster. 571.7 FOS
This volume explains how organisms can 'know' the time and reveals what we now understand of the nature and operation of chronobiological processes. Covering variables such as light, the metabolism, human health, and the seasons, can impact on the human being.
Cosmic chronicles: a user's guide to the universe, Fred Watson. 523.1 WAT
Dancing with bees: a journey back to nature, Brigit Strawbridge Howard. 595.79 STR
With special care and attention to the plight of pollinators, including honeybees, bumblebees, and solitary bees, the author shares fascinating details of the lives of flora and fauna.
Dinosaurs & prehistoric life., Dorling Kindersley. 567.91 DIN
Hauturu: the history, flora and fauna of Te Hauturu-o-Toi Little Barrier Island, Lyn Wade. 508.93 HAU
Often described as the most intact native ecosystem in the country, Te Hauturu-o- Toi/Little Barrier Island holds a special place in the minds of all New Zealanders interested in preserving our country's unique natural heritage. Written by experts across a range of fields, there are detailed chapters on the islands plant and animal species, and the efforts to protect them, its geology and the seas around it, along with comprehensive species lists, all helping to convey the immense biodiversity of the island.
Help your kids with maths: a unique step-by-step visual guide., Dorling Kindersley. 510 HEL
Imagined life: a speculative scientific journey among the exoplanets in search of intelligent aliens, ice creatures, and supergravity animals, James Trefil. 576.839 TRE
Jungle gems: a naturalist's tale, Yikai Zhang. 595.76 ZHA
When the amateur naturalist Yikai Zhang chanced upon a box of beetle specimens collected by the insect dealer Hakamoto, he discovered among them what seemed to be evidence of a new species a sinister-looking Carabus from Hainan Island. Yikai was sent on an expedition to the jungles of Hainan in search of the elusive Carabus where he encountered some of the most bizarre and wonderful creatures imaginable.
Maths on the back of an envelope: clever ways to (roughly) calculate anything, Rob Eastaway. 510 EAS
Nature's giants: the biology and evolution of the world's largest lifeforms, Graeme D. Ruxton. 591.4 RUX
Pleased to meet me: genes, germs, and the curious forces that make us who we are, Bill Sullivan. 572.8 SUL
Proof!: how the world became geometrical, Amir Alexander. 516 ALE
Scientists who changed history., Dorling Kindersley. 509.2 SCI
Shell life on the seashore, Philip Street. 594 STR
Something deeply hidden: quantum worlds and the emergence of spacetime, Sean Carroll. 530.12 CAR
The brilliance of birds: a New Zealand birdventure, Skye Wishart. 598.0993 WIS
The maths of life and death: why maths is (almost) everything, Kit Yates. 510 YAT
The science of animals, Jamie Ambrose. 590 AMB
Wildhood: the epic journey from adolescence to adulthood in humans and other animals, Barbara Natterson-Horowitz. 591.39 NAT

Social Issues

1 way 2 C the world: writings 1984-2006, Marilyn Waring. 305.42 WAR
Assembling some of her most thought-provoking writings, 1 Way 2 C the World is a compelling collection of essays and reflections on many important issues of our time. Marilyn Waring provides illuminating commentary on topics such as gay marriage, human rights, globalization, the environment, and international relations and development.
A world divided: the global struggle for human rights in the age of nation-states, Eric D. Weitz. 323 WEI
Angola Janga: kingdom of runaway slaves, Marcelo D'Salete. 305.896 SAL
An independent kingdom of runaway slaves founded in the late 16th century, Angola Janga was a beacon of freedom in a land plagued with oppression. In this graphic novel D'Salete brings history to life: the painful stories of fugitive slaves on the run, the brutal raids by Portuguese colonists, and the tense power struggles within this precarious kingdom.
Behind the screen: content moderation in the shadows of social media, Sarah T. Roberts. 302.23 ROB
Sarah T. Roberts, an award-winning social media scholar, offers the first extensive ethnographic study of the commercial content moderation industry. Based on interviews with workers from Silicon Valley to the Philippines, at boutique firms and at major social media companies, she contextualizes this hidden industry and examines the emotional toll it takes on its workers.
Believers: faith in human nature, Melvin Konner. 306.6 KON
An anthropologist examines the nature of religiosity, and how it shapes and benefits humankind. Believers is a scientist's answer to attacks on faith by some well-meaning scientists and philosophers a firm rebuke of the "Four Horsemen": Richard Dawkins, Daniel Dennett, Sam Harris, and Christopher Hitchens, known for writing about religion as something irrational and ultimately harmful.
Cold case investigations, Dr Xanthé Mallett. 363.25 MAL
Don't believe a word: the surprising truth about language, David Shariatmadari. 306.44 SHA
David Shariatmadari takes us on a journey through the science of language, urging us to abandon our prejudices in a bid to uncover the (far more interesting) truth about what we do with words.
Don't look back in anger: the rise and fall of Cool Britannia, told by those who were there, Daniel Rachel. 306.0941 RAC
The nineties was the decade when British culture reclaimed its position at the artistic centre of the world. Don't Look Back In Anger chronicles the Cool Britannia age when the country united through a resurgence of patriotism and a celebration of all things British. But it was also an era of false promises and misplaced trust, when the weight of substance was based on the airlessness of branding, spin and the first stirrings of celebrity culture.
Elderhood: redefining aging, transforming medicine, reimagining life, Louise Aronson. 362.6 ARO
Extreme economies: survival, failure, future: lessons from the world's limits, Richard Davies. 306.3 DAV
Fentanyl, Inc.: how rogue chemists are creating the deadliest wave of the opioid epidemic, Ben Westhoff. 362.29 WES
Fixed it: violence and the representation of women in the media, Jane Gilmore. 362.88 GIL
How to go plastic free: eco tips for busy people, Caroline Jones. 363.728 JON
If you forget everything else remember this: building a great marriage, Katharine Hill. 306.81 HIL
Innocent: the true story of siblings struggling to survive, Cathy Glass. 362.733 GLA
Innocent is the shocking true story of little Molly and Kit, siblings, aged 3 years and 18 months, who are brought into care as an emergency after suffering non-accidental injuries. Aneta and Filip, the children's parents, are distraught when their children are taken into care. Aneta maintains she is innocent of harming them, while Filip appears bewildered and out of his depth.
Invisible women: exposing data bias in a world designed for men, Caroline Criado Perez. 305.42 CRI
Award-winning campaigner and writer Caroline Criado Perez shows us how, in a world largely built for and by men, we are systematically ignoring half the population. She exposes the gender data gap; a gap in our knowledge that is at the root of perpetual, systemic discrimination against women, and that has created a pervasive but invisible bias with a profound effect on women's lives.
Lead yourself first: inspiring leadership through solitude, Raymond M. Kethledge. 303.34 KET
Learning from the Germans: confronting race and the memory of evil, Susan Neiman. 305.8 NEI
As the western world struggles with its legacies of racism and colonialism, what can we learn from the past in order to move forward? Susan Neiman delivers an urgently needed perspective on how a country can come to terms with its historical wrongdoings.
Mid-century living: the Butterfly House collection, Christine Fernyhough. 306 FER
Christine Fernyhough has built an extraordinary collection of over 4000 everyday objects of mid century New Zealand craft, design and folk art. From furniture to toys and games, tableware to ornamental objects, Royal Family memorabilia to Kiwiana, Crown Lynn to hand-coloured scenic posters, together these objects are a gloriously nostalgic, colourful and tangible record of the way we lived and the things we surrounded ourselves with.
Primal screams: how the sexual revolution created identity politics, Mary Eberstadt. 323.1 EBE
Rage inside the machine: the prejudice of algorithms, and how to stop the internet making bigots of us all, Robert Elliott Smith. 303.385 SMI
This book demonstrates how non-scientific ideas have been encoded deep into our technological infrastructure. Offering a rigorous, fresh perspective on how technology has brought us to this place, Smith challenges the long-held assumption that technology is an apolitical and amoral force.
Sexts, texts & selfies, Susan McLean. 302.343 MCL
Cyber-safety expert Susan McLean helps you understand and connect with your child's online world, and guide them safely through it in this revised and updated edition of her bestselling book. She shows you how to establish good online habits, set time restrictions and boundaries, identify good apps and bad apps, deal with cyber bullying, work out who to 'friend' and 'unfriend', and manage your child's digital reputation.
Shot down: the powerful story of what happened to MH17 over Ukraine and the lives of those who were on board, Marianne van Velzen. 363.12465 VEL
Strangers at our door, Zygmunt Bauman. 304.8 BAU
Refugees from the violence of wars and the brutality of famished lives have knocked on other people's doors since the beginning of time. Bauman analyses the origins, contours and impact of moral panic, and shows how politicians have exploited fears and anxieties that have become widespread. He argues that the policy of mutual separation, of building walls rather than bridges, is misguided.
Talking to strangers: what we should know about the people we don't know, Malcolm Gladwell. 302 GLA
The madness of crowds: gender, race and identity, Douglas Murray. 323.443 MUR
Douglas Murray examines the twenty-first century's most divisive issues: sexuality, gender, technology and race. He reveals the astonishing new culture wars playing out in our workplaces, universities, schools and homes in the names of social justice, identity politics and 'intersectionality'.
The seven necessary sins for women and girls, Mona Eltahawy. 305.42 ELT
In seven essays that combine memoir, polemic and cultural criticism, Mona Eltahawy explains how we must seize what she calls the feminist revolutionary moment that has galvanized women and queer people across the world.
The step-parents' parachute: the four cornerstones of good step-parenting, Flora McEvedy. 306.874 MCE
The unsettling of Europe: the great migration, 1945 to the present, Peter Gatrell. 304.8 GAT
The world's most prestigious prize: the inside story of the Nobel Peace Prize, Geir Lundestad. 303.66 LUN
Three women, Lisa Taddeo. 305.42 TAD
Three Women is a record of unmet needs, unspoken thoughts, disappointments, hopes and unrelenting obsessions.
Tools and weapons: the promise and the peril of the digital age, Brad Smith. 303.483 SMI
Tools and Weapons brings a captivating narrative from the cockpit of one of the world's largest and most powerful tech companies as it finds itself in the middle of some of the thorniest emerging issues of our time. These are challenges that come with no pre-existing playbook, including privacy, cybercrime and cyberwar, social media, the moral conundrums of artificial intelligence, big tech's relationship to inequality, and the challenges for democracy.
Turning point Auckland: radical policy to prepare Auckland for two million people, Owen Gill. 307.1 GIL
We need new stories: challenging the toxic myths behind our age of discontent, Nesrine Malik. 306.0941 MAL
Has freedom of speech become a cover for promoting prejudice? Has the concept of political correctness been weaponised to avoid ceding space to those excluded from power? Does white identity politics pose an urgent danger? These are some of the questions at the centre of Nesrine Malik's radical and compelling analysis that challenges us to find new narrators whose stories can fill the void and unite us behind a shared vision.
Whiteshift: populism, immigration and the future of white majorities, Eric Kaufmann. 305.8 KAU
Working daughter: a guide to caring for your aging parents while making a living, Liz O'Donnell. 305.26 ODO

Sport & Recreation

101 best jump rope workouts, Buddy Lee. 796.2 LEE
Building a better runner: science-based training for peak performance, Terry Hamlin. 796.42 HAM
Epic: a 30-year search for the soul of sport, Simon Barnes. 796 BAR
'Epic' is a mosaic of some of the greatest sporting moments in recent years, which build up to provide the reader with a better idea of what sport is for, what differentiates winners from losers, and reveals how sport teaches us how better to enjoy life. This is sport unplugged.
European soccer leagues 2019: everything you need to know about the 2019/20 season., Shane Stay. 796.334 STA
Going to the match: the passion for football, Duncan Hamilton. 796.334 HAM
Hiking & tramping in New Zealand, Andrew Bain. 796.51 BAI
Lonely Planet Guide.
Hoop dreams down under, Matt Logue. 796.323 LOG
Hoop dreams down under documents the behind-the-scenes stories of twenty Australian men and five women who have played on basketball's greatest stage.
Mount Panorama: Bathurst, the stories behind the legend, John Smailes. 796.72 SMA
In Mount Panorama, John Smailes gives us the definitive account of the Mountain, taking us into the pits, the workshops and the boardrooms to reveal the stories behind the circuit's conception and the champions and legendary races that have made it so famous. It's the Mountain brought to life.
My greatest defeat: stories of hardship and hope from motor racing's finest heroes, Will Buxton. 796.72 BUX
A collection of honest and revealing insights into 20 of the greatest living racing drivers, legends of the worlds of Formula 1, Indycar, NASCAR, Le Mans and Rally.
Paddling north: a solo adventure along the Inside Passage, Audrey Sutherland. 797.122 SUT
At age 60, Audrey Sutherland, a seasoned kayaker in Hawaii, decides to undertake a solo, summer-long voyage along the southeast coast of Alaska in an inflatable kayak. In this memoir, a compilation of her first two annual trips, she describes her journey through the Inside Passage from Ketchikan to Skagway.
Road to redemption: a championship journey, Scott McLaughlin. 796.72 MCL
Scott McLaughlin is the new young gun of Australian and New Zealand motorsport. He is a star on the rise, and was recently voted the most popular driver in the sport. Road to Redemption: A Championship Journey is the inside story of McLaughlin's remarkable journey from losing the seemingly unloseable in the 2017 Supercars Championship to winning the title in 2018.
Running your first ultra: customizable training plans for your first 50k to 100-mile race, Krissy Moehl. 796.425 MOE
The age of football: the global game in the twenty-first century, David Goldblatt. 796.334 GOL
The oarsmen: the remarkable story of the men who rowed from the Great War to peace, Scott Patterson. 797.123 PAT
At the end of the First World War, there were 270,000 demobilised Australian soldiers in Europe. Getting them home after the Armistice was a task of epic proportions that would take more than two years. In the meantime, how to keep these disgruntled, damaged men with guns occupied? In a word: sport. The Oarsmen tells the story of the servicemen who survived the war to row for the coveted King's Cup at the 1919 Royal Henley Peace Regatta.

Supernatural

10-minute feng shui: hundreds of easy tips and techniques for prosperity, health, and happiness, Skye Alexander. 133.33 ALE
Crystals, Jennie Harding. 133.25 HAR
Past lives unveiled: discover how consciousness moves between lives, Barry Eaton. 133.9013 EAT
Takes a fresh, new look at past lives and reincarnation. It features some highly unusual case studies, including two intriguing hypnotic regressions by eminent psychologist, author and past life expert Dr Michael Newton.
Where did you go?: a life-changing journey to connect with those we've lost, Christina Rasmussen. 133.9 RAS
An internationally recognized grief educator reveals how to connect with loved ones who have passed on and provides practical exercises and a step-by-step guide to travel to the other side to find answers and discover peace.

Transport

100 years of Bentley, Andrew Noakes. 629.2222 BEN
A photographic history of the Orient Line, Chris Frame. 387.243 FRA
An easy pedal: convert your bicycle to a low-cost pedal assist electric, Richard Jakl. 629.2272 JAK
Aston Martin DB: 70 years, Andrew Noakes. 629.2222 AST
Auto repair, Deanna Sclar. 629.2872 SCL
A reference guide covering the many parts of a vehicle provides step-by-step instructions for automotive repair and maintenance, as well as a list of the ten most common problems.
Going by train: the complete New Zealand Railways story, Graham Hutchins. 385.0993 HUT
How to build a bike: a simple guide to making your own ride, Jenni Gwiazdowski. 629.2272 GWI
Mountain bike maintenance, Peter Ballin. 629.28772 BAL
The grand tour a-z of the car. 629.222 GRA
The official Tour de France bike maintenance book: how to prep your bike like the pros, Luke Edwards-Evans. 629.28772 EDW
Windrush: a ship through time, Paul Arnott. 387.243 ARN
For three decades the Windrush was the maritime Zelig of the twentieth century, playing different roles in the most turbulent years in modern times. Designed in 1930 in the Hamburg boatyard of a Jewish shipbuilder to ferry Germans to a new life in South America, it wasn't long before Goebbels requisitioned her as one of his 'Strength Through Joy' vessels. However, her duties soon darkened: she became a Nazi troop carrier, a support vessel for the pocket battleship Tirpitz and a prison ship transporting Jews to Auschwitz.

War & Defence

Brothers down: Pearl Harbor and the fate of the many brothers aboard the USS Arizona, Walter R. Borneman. 940.5426 BOR
Carrier aviation in the 21st century: aircraft carriers and their units in detail, Thomas Newdick. 623.8255 CAR
Chastise: the Dambusters story, 1943, Max Hastings. 940.544 HAS
Operation Chastise, the overnight destruction of the Moehne and Eder dams in north-west Germany by the RAF's 617 Squadron, was an epic that has passed into Britain's national legend. Max Hastings grew up embracing the story, the classic 1955 movie and the memory of Guy Gibson, the 24-year-old wing-commander who won the VC leading the raid. In the 21st Century, however, Hastings urges that we should review the Dambusters in much more complex shades.
Churchill infantry tank, David Fletcher. 623.747 FLE
Crucible: the long end of the Great War and the birth of a New World, 1917-1924, Charles Emmerson. 940.51 EMM
Gone the dark night: the story of 488 (NZ) Squadron, RAF, New Zealand's first night fighter unit in the UK and Europe, June 1942 to April 1945, Graham Clayton. 940.544 CLA
Jet prototypes of World War II: Gloster, Heinkel, and Caproni Campini's wartime jet programmes, Tony Buttler. 623.7464 BUT
Lancaster: the Second World War's greatest bomber, Leo McKinstry. 940.544 MCK
MacArthur's air force: American airpower over the Pacific and the Far East, 1941-51, Bill Yenne. 940.5426 YEN
Operation Lusty: the race for Hitler's secret technology, Graham M Simons. 940.548 SIM
Our man in New York: the British plot to bring America into the Second World War, Henry Hemming. 940.5486 HEM
When William Stephenson "our man in New York" arrived in the United States towards the end of June 1940 with instructions from the head of MI6 to 'organise' American public opinion, Britain was on the verge of defeat. But soon that began to change.
Renia's diary: a young girl's life in the shadow of the Holocaust, Renia Spiegel. 940.5318 SPI
The long-hidden diary of a young Polish woman's last days during the Holocaust, translated for the first time into English, with a foreword from American Holocaust historian Deborah Lipstadt.
Scapa 1919: the archaeology of a scuttled fleet, Innes McCartney. 940.45 MCC
The German High Seas Fleet was one of the most powerful naval forces in the world, and had fought the pride of the Royal Navy to a stalemate at the battle of Jutland in 1916. After the armistice was signed, ending fighting in World War I, it surrendered to the British and was interned in Scapa Flow pending the outcome of the Treaty of Versailles. In June 1919, the entire fleet attempted to sink itself in the Flow to prevent it being broken up as war prizes.
Sudden courage: youth in France confront the Germans, 1940-1945, Ronald C. Rosbottom. 940.5344 ROS
The Curtiss P-40 from 1939 t0 1945, Anis El Bied. 623.7464 P
The First World War in 100 objects: the story of the Great War told through the objects that shaped it, Gary Sheffield. 940.4 SHE
The resistance in Western Europe, 1940-1945, Olivier Wieviorka. 940.534 WIE
The walls have ears: the greatest intelligence operation of World War II, Helen Fry. 940.5486 FRY
A history of the elaborate and brilliantly sustained World War II intelligence operation by which Hitler's generals were tricked into giving away vital Nazi secrets At the outbreak of World War II, MI6 spymaster Thomas Kendrick arrived at the Tower of London to set up a top secret operation.
Waiting for war: Britain 1939-1940, Barry Turner. 940.5341 TUR
World War II map by map, Peter Snow. 940.53 WOR