Adult imprint: 1806 books
The Muse Is In
An Owner's Manual to Your Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013
Following her perennial-seller The Awe-Manac: A Daily Dose of Wonder, Jill Badonsky returns with a fun new book that will help her readers get their creativity working like a well-oiled machine. As a creativity-coaching pioneer, Jill knows that many people feel distracted, blocked, and overwhelmed.
The...
by Brian Turner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
**Honest and insightful, this memoir is a revealing picture of our recent past, of sport and poetry, the spirit of New Zealand's south and its distinctive people.**This is the story of a typical Dunedin childhood, surrounded by 'nobies' - an extended family of eccentric grandparents and uncles, cousins...
by Vincent O'Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
**A new and generous selection from New Zealand's foremost writer of short stories.**Peter Simpson in reviewing Owen Marshall's stories in the New Zealand Listener wrote: 'Marshall is held in uncommon affection by New Zealand readers - generally we admire and respect rather than love our writers.'...
by David Grant
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
A major biography of arguably New Zealand's greatest modern political leaderAs Norman Kirk's body lay in state near the steps of Parliament on the day after his death on 31 August 1974, a kaumatua wailed 'the mighty totara has fallen'. The lament reflected what many New Zealanders felt about this...
Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business
Shocking Declassified Details from the FBI's Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2008
When FBI Special Agent Joe Pistone began a six-month” operation infiltrating New York's Bonanno crime family in 1975, he had no idea what was about to happen. Posing as jewel thief Donnie Brasco,” Pistone spent the next six years undercover in the Family, witnessing-and sometimes participating...
by Stevan Eldred-Grigg
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
**An entirely new look at the shocking impact of the First World War on New Zealand.**For New Zealand, World War One was wholly avoidable, wholly unnecessary - and almost wholly disastrous. Stevan Eldred-Grigg believes that the enormous cost of the war to our people was way too high - and that we...
Mafia Prince
Inside America's Most Violent Crime Family and the Bloody Fall of La Cosa Nostra
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
CONTAINS A NEW EPILOGUE!"
Mafia Prince is the first-person account of one of the most violent eras in Mafia history -Little” Nicky Scarfo's reign as boss of the Philly family in the 1980s-written by Scarfo's underboss and nephew, Crazy” Phil Leonetti.
The youngest-ever underboss...
by Dave Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
From the author of Healthy Bastards, the man known as the 'Flying Doctor' is back, this time with his misadventures, escapades and high jinks from a life of medicine, aviation and hunting. For the first time, Dave Baldwin, known throughout the backcountry as the Flying Doctor, shares his tales from...
Emergency Response
Life, Death and Helicopters
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
Stories from a life spent in the emergency services - true tales of rescue and adventure. When Dave Greenberg was just 13 years old, he saved a life for the first time, using CPR. He already knew that he wanted to spend his life helping others in times of crisis, and that harrowing event on a city...
Born to Fly
Three Generations of Kiwi Helicopter Pilots
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014
**The thrilling and entertaining lives of New Zealand's helicopter dynasty.**Three generations of Reids have flown helicopters. It's in their blood. First there was John, a World War Two fighter pilot. After the war he used helicopters for things no one dreamed possible, carrying out 300 rescue missions...
Sleeps Standing
A Story of the Battle of Orakau
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2017
Both fiction and fact, this fascinating book is a kaleidoscopic exploration of the Battle of Orakau. During three days in 1864, 300 Maori men, women and children fought an Imperial army and captured the imagination of the world. The battle marked the end of the Land Wars in the Waikato and resulted...
You're Never too Old to Laugh
A laugh-out-loud collection of cartoons, quotes, jokes, and trivia on growing older
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2012
INSPIRING QUOTES, JOKES, and CARTOONS FOR THE YOUNG AT HEART!
Being "old" isn't what it used to be. Elders today are active, fun, and ready for something new. Stay young at heart with the wit, wisdom, and inspiration you'll find in this book by Ed Fischer.
It's time to be the new you.
Live it up.
Laugh often.
Love life like never before.
The Cutting Edge
The Story of Kiwi Motorsport Legend Rod Millen
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
**One of New Zealand's greatest rally drivers and a hill-climbing superstar tells his inspiring story for the very first time.**Rod Millen was a hero of New Zealand rallying in the 1970s. Having won several championships he quickly established himself as New Zealand's number one driver. But thereafter...
Harry the K
The Remarkable Life of Harry Kalas
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2010
In a profile of one of the best-known and best-loved sports announcers ever, Harry Kalas, reporter Miller's deeply researched biography is "unvarnished and unsparing, but also straightforward and balanced.... will strike chords of recognition among Phillies followers" (Philadelphia Inquirer).
To...