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Hudson & Halls: The food of love is more than just a love story. It is a tale of two television chefs who helped change the bedrock attitudes of a nation in the 1970s and 80s towards homosexuality. In this riveting book, New York Times bestselling author Joanne Drayton celebrates the legacy of the unforgettable Hudson and Halls.

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Originally published with title: I shock myself: the autobiography of Beatrice Wood. Ojai, CA: Dillingham Press, 1985.

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Ideals Are Like Stars is the remarkable true story of Yvette Williams, a trailblazing young athlete who defied the odds to win gold in the long jump at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. This is a long overdue celebration of an extraordinary sporting life and a highly engaging chronicle of a young womans quest for excellence.

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A monograph on the great Pop Art master, James Rosenquist, this book shows how the artist's large-scale works and their source materials remain powerful and relevant as cultural and political commentary.

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These private recollections of longtime Japan resident and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie capture the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor.

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Celebrated artist, activist and humanitarian, Keith Haring is the perfect subject for this graphic novel. Focused on three colors, this comic-book tells the fascinating life story of a man who lived his truth on all kinds of canvases.

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Davey Gunn lived 30 years in Fiordland's rugged Hollyford Valley, where he had one of the most isolated cattle runs in New Zealand. Although quiet and modest by nature, Davey became known throughout New Zealand. The Land of Doing Without brings to life the memories of many of Davey's contemporaries, and explores the man behind the legend: his quir

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The desire to protect a cultural icon led Eve Poole into politics and she was elected as Invercargill's first woman mayor in 1983, joining Cath Tizard in Auckland as trailblazers at both ends of the country. She was equally at home on TV shows such as Beauty and the Beast and retained the mayoralty for four terms until her untimely death in 1992.

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Learn about the fascinating origin of the rock and roll band Led Zeppelin. This amazingly detailed peek into their lives features an explanation of the impetus and development of each album released along with in-depth interviews with the band members, their manager, fans, friends, and insiders on what the band and the music meant to them.

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This is the first full English translation of the surviving Mangakhia journals and letters of French Marist priest Father Antoine Garin. Frank, open-minded and often humorous, Garins diary is a major contribution to the early history of European settlement in Aotearoa and a compelling insight into Mori customs, values and beliefs of the time.

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Illustrated with more than 200 photographs, including newly commissioned images of Summers works, Llew Summers: Body and Soul is a joyful record of a life in sculpture and a testimony to the value of public art.

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In this insightful and compelling biography, Maureen Birchfield peels back the layers of the public firebrand to find an ordinary woman who negotiated enormous personal obstacles to raise four children while striving tirelessly to improve the world around her.

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Within weeks of war being declared, Wolfgang Fischer had volunteered to join the Luftwaffe and spent nearly five of the succeeding six years of hostilities in uniform.

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Megan Boyd spent her life in an isolated Scottish cottage without electricity or running water, tying beautiful salmon flies for anglers who flocked to Brora to buy them from all over the world. She died in 2001 and is the subject of the film Kiss the Water.

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Richly illustrated and deeply researched, 'Merchant, Miner, Mandarin' is both the compelling biography of one of the most distinguished figures of New Zealand business and an intriguing account of late 19th-century society, industry and race relations.

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Fourteen migrant taxi drivers talk about their lives - where they came from and why they came here, what it was like to settle in New Zealand, how they got into the taxi business, and how they see this country and its people.

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miss adventure: healing with music is the account of a life being lived following medical accidents. Trapped in a body tormented by pain, Pauline Grogan depends on both music and her spiritual practice to find the light in such darkness.