After the Death of a Child - Living with loss through the years by Ann K Finkbeiner
$16.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good
For a parent, losing a child is the most devastating event that can occur. Most books on the subject focus on grieving and recovery, but as most parents agree, there is no recovery from such a loss. This book examines the continued love parents feel for their child and the many poignant and ingenious wa ...Show more
Being a Distance Grandparent - A book for all generations by Helen Ellis
$15.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: near fine
Is your family geographically scattered? Has globalisation made your family a Distance Family? This book tells the candid story of how Distance Parents and Distance Grandparents struggle – and succeed – to adapt to their new reality. This isn’t family life as they had imagined it. If you are a Distance ...Show more
A Good Apology - Four Steps to Make Things Right by Molly Howes
$16.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: near fine
Through its four essential steps, A GOOD APOLOGY gives groundbreaking advice on how best to make an effective apology toward rebuilding any relationship, for readers of The Body Keeps the Score.We've all done something wrong or made a mistake or insulted someone -- even if by accident. We've all been hu ...Show more
How to Think More About Sex by Alain de Botton
$10.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Series: The School of Life | Reading Level: very good
In this rigorous and supremely honest book Alain de Botton helps us navigate the intimate and exciting yet often confusing and difficult experience that is sex. Few of us tend to feel we're entirely normal when it comes to sex, and what we're supposed to be feeling rarely matches up with the reality. Th ...Show more
Mental Fitness - Build Your Mind for Strength and Resilience Every Day by Paul Wood
$14.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good
The bestselling author of How to Escape from Prison, prisoner-turned-psychologist Paul Wood on developing the mental fitness to take on life's challenge. Getting and staying mentally fit, just like getting and maintaining a high level of physical fitness, involves hard work, effort, and consistency. Our ...Show more
Parting Words: An extraordinary 100-year-old man s 9 lessons for living a life to be proud of by Benjamin Ferencz
$10.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: very good
What a century of life experience can teach us about happiness, ambition, courage, love and how to make the most of the lives we've been given. How many people do you know grew up as a poor immigrant in America during the Great Depression, won a scholarship to Harvard Law School, landed on the beaches o ...Show more
Men Making Changes- Breaking the cycle of anger and abuse in family relationships by Kay Douglas
$14.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: near fine
This practical, strength-based book includes information, checklists, strategies for change and self-reflection questions. 30 New Zealand men who have worked at changing destructive behaviour were interviewed for Men Making Changes. Their stories, insights and guidance are woven throughout. There is a s ...Show more
Blink - The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell
$12.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: good-very good
Intuition is not some magical and mysterious property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. It is a product of long hours and intelligent design, of meaningful work environments and particular rules and principles. For too long we have thought of intuition as a kind of black box at the very ...Show more
On Being Nice (The School of Life) by The School of Life
$10.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Series: The\School of Life Library | Reading Level: near fine
Most books that want to change us seek to make us richer or thinner. This book wants to help us to be nicer, that is: less irritable, more patient, readier to listen, warmer, less prickly ...Niceness may not have the immediate allure of money or fame, but it is a hugely important quality nevertheless an ...Show more
Physical Disobedience: An Unruly Guide to Health and Stamina for the Modern Feminist by Sarah Hays Coomer
$15.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: near fine
A manual for activism that begins with our most powerful asset--our bodies Even as a wave of renewed feminism swells, too many women continue to starve, stuff, overwork, or neglect our bodies in pursuit of paper-thin ideals. "Fitness" has been co-opted by the beauty industry. We associate it with appear ...Show more
Open: Why asking for help can save your life by Frankie Bridge; Maleha Khan; Mike Phillips
$16.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: near fine
'OPEN is an intimate, honest and powerful read. So personal you want to jump into the pages.' - Giovanna Fletcher, bestselling author of Happy Mum, Happy Baby 'A beautiful read.' - Zoe Ball, BBC Radio 2 "I lived with it in silence. I tried to conquer it alone. And then I asked for help. It took me hitti ...Show more
How to Keep Your Marriage from Sucking - The Keys to Keep Your Wedlock Out of Deadlock by Greg Behrendt; Amiira Ruotola
$12.00 NZD
Category: Self-help | Reading Level: near fine
A hilarious and hopeful primer to prevent, combat, and eliminate the suckage in modern marriage by doing it right in the early years, from one of the minds behind the series Sex and the City and the New York Times bestselling authors of He's Just Not That Into You, It's Called a Breakup Because It's Bro ...Show more