Biography & Memoir

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Champions Are Made In The Dark
Tui Katene
Biography & Memoir
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Champions Are Made in the Dark is an inspiring story of loss, strength and becoming. Through sport, adversity and life’s toughest moments, Tui Katene shares a deeply personal journey of resilience, self-belief and finding the courage to keep moving forward, even when the path ahead is uncertain.

Where Stories Lie Buried: a memoir of a genealogist turned author
Vicky Adin
Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
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The story behind thirty years of genealogy research and ten published novels. It explores the hows and whys of a writing life — the constant desire to write, to share a story, to make sure it is never lost.

Sacred and Sane: Six pillars for keeping your faith without losing your mind
Rose Stanley
Biography & Memoir, Nonfiction
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Sacred and Sane is both creative memoir and social commentary from a woman of faith reading about church controversies in Aotearoa and reflecting on these controversies in the light of her own lived experience. Rose presents six pillars for a healthier view on spirituality and mental health which helped to improve her own well-being.

Desperate Times
Lindy Kato
Biography & Memoir
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A true story in three parts covering 1979-2013. Through Lindy’s eyes we learn the history and reality of psychiatric nursing in the 1980s and 1990s, Then as a patient in the early 2000s and ultimately the fight to reclaim a life from an out of control situation.

Black Butterfly - a memoir
Tony Hopkins
Memoir

Tony Hopkins, Black Cherokee actor, storyteller and poet, has interwoven personal stories and poems to create a fascinating account of his 80 years of life.

Excess Baggage
Sarah Jane Dunwoody
Biography & Memoir
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A memoir with soul.

Seventy Years Worth of Travels: Snippets From a Colourful and Interesting Life
Pat Backley
Nonfiction
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A travel memoir – snippets of the authors life and travel adventures.

From There To Here (With An Awful Lot In Between)
Pat Backley
Nonfiction

A memoir – a tale with many twists and turns along the way.