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Trade Me: The Inside Story

Few companies have captured the hearts and minds of New Zealanders like Trade Me. Originally built by university drop-out Sam Morgan on a borrowed laptop, Trade Me was to change the face of retailing in New Zealand, destroying newspapers’ classifieds businesses and going on to become part of the vernacular as some 2.5 million Kiwis ..  More

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Tranquillity and Ruin

Danyl McLauchlan wanted to get closer to the hidden truth of things. But it was starting to look like the hidden truth of things was that nothing was real, everything was suffering, and he didn’t really exist.In these essays Danyl explores ideas and paths that he hopes will make him freer and happier – or, at least, less trapped, less medicated and..  More

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Tutira: The Story of a New Zealand Sheep Station

Originally published 1926, by William Blackwood & Sons Ltd. ..  More

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Up the Andes: Jo & Gareth Morgan Traverse the Andes from North to South and Top to Bottom

Through a land of contrasts - mountains and lowlands, deserts and glaciers, wealth and poverty, speakers of Spanish and us with our phrasebooks, tourist traps and lands that time forgot. Join Gareth and Joanne Morgan and their motorcycling companions as they travel to South America on the latest leg of their quest to ride the world by bike. ..  More

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Virginia Zeani: My Memories of an Operatic Golden Age

Virginia Zeani had three lives.  She was born and lived in Romania in the heart of Dracula country in Transylvania and lived there until the close of the Second World War.   She fled to Italy on a student visa with very little money and soon made a great name for herself as one of Italy's leading opera singers.  Singers such as ..  More

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We Can Make a Life

Hours after the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake, Kaikōura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravelling stories and memories from her own remarkable..  More

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What Love is This?

Foreword by Brian Jenkins: When Mary became a follower of Jesus in 1974 at the age of 44 years, she gave Him her all.  No half measures.  That’s not Mary’s style.  She put everything into her new life in Christ.  She was as open and honest with Him, and herself, as she could possibly be. While she embraced..  More

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Where We Swim

‘I’d wanted to remember why it was we swam in the first place – to remember the pleasure of immersing in an element other than air.’Ingrid Horrocks had few aspirations to swimming mastery, but she had always loved being in the water. She set out on a solo swimming journey, then abandoned it for a different kind of swimming altogether – one which le..  More

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Which Way is Starboard Again?

When sailing novice Anna Kirtlan takes to the high seas, expect the unexpected. Not many people have the courage to sail the South Pacific with as little experience as Anna, who not only has to learn to sail, from scratch, but also to overcome the severe anxiety and panic attacks that have plagued her since her teens. She is upfront about living wi..  More

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Wild Seas to Greenland

When 1994 Whitbread Race winner Ross Field refitted his 20-year-old, aluminium yacht Rosemary for high latitude cruising, he applied Kiwi DIY, latest technology and 35 years of ocean racing experience. Rebecca Hayter followed his refit in detail. Then she signed on as crew for one of the world's most dangerous oceans.As former editor of Boating New..  More

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Wild South: Hunting and Fly Fishing the Southern Hemisphere

While based in New Zealand’s stunning South Island, Peter Ryan’s writing and images have been published in books and magazines around the world. In Wild South he reaches out to the great hunting and angling destinations of southern Africa, New Zealand, Australia, South America and more. These are big places and Peter Ryan covers big ground — from s..  More

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Wiremu Pere: The Life and Times of a Maori Leader

The ebook version of the biography of Wiremu Pere (Wi Pere), the Māori leader who lived from 1837 to 1915, taking his tribes of Rongowhakaata and Te Aitanga a Mahaki through some of the most turbulent chapters of New Zealand history. He stood resolute against colonialism and entered parliament to stand up for his East Coast people, yet was astut..  More

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Yesterdays in Maoriland

Originally published 1930, by Wilson & Horton Ltd. ..  More

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You Probably Think This Song Is About You

In these disarming true stories, Kate Camp moves back and forth through the smoke-filled rooms of her life: from a nostalgic childhood of the Seventies and Eighties, through the boozy pothead years of the Nineties, and into the sobering reality of a world in which Hillary Clinton did not win.‘Never apologise, never explain’, Kate’s mother used to s..  More

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