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An independent bookstore offering an edit of titles with a focus on art and culture based in Auckland, New Zealand. Nationwide delivery. Tell us what youre reading
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    Unspeakable: Stories of Survival and Transformation After Trauma
    The Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Devil You Know return with a life-affirming exploration of trauma and healing.The Sunday Times bestselling authors of The Devil You Know return with a life-affirming myth busting exploration of trauma, resilience and healing.What does a traumatic event do...
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    The Meaning of Your Life
    A powerful guide to finding meaning in a rapidly changing world, from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of From Strength to Strength'As I follow the principles that Arthur Brooks presents, I am becoming happier. I'm actually having fun, too - a word that previously didn't exist in my vocabula...
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    The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of…
    An astonishing new science called neuroplasticity is overthrowing the centuries-old notion that the human brain is immutable. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Norman Doidge, M.D., traveled the country to meet both the brilliant scientists championing neuroplasticity and the people whose lives they've...
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    How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk
    Here is the bestselling book that will give you the know-how you need to be effective with your children. Enthusiastically praised by parents and professionals around the world, the down--to--earth, respectful approach of Faber and Mazlish makes relationships with children of all ages less stressful...
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    How Will I Ever Get Through This?: A practical guide to navigating life's t…
    A practical guide to navigating life's toughest times.'Dr Lucy's unpacking of the grief that comes with living losses was a lightbulb moment for me.' Ellidy Pullin'The best work I know on positive psychology and grief is Lucy Hone's.' Martin Seligman'Lucy's insights are practical, wise, and deeply h...
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    Resilient Grieving
    is a practical, research-based guide to finding your own path to recovery from devastating loss. Updated and revised edition, including new research. 'Hone shows us how to harness the (thankfully common) power of our own resilience to work our way through a horrible loss.' The New York Times'A recom...
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    Hour of the Heart: empathy and connection in the here-and-now
    'After some six decades of therapeutic practice and writing, I learned in a new and meaningful way how we humans - whether we're in the cool, distanced medium of Zoom, or in the heat of real life - can create a startlingly honest and heartfelt connection that in a single hour can change one's life.'...
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    The Life You Want
    From acclaimed psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, a meditation on how to achieve the lives we wantWhere do we get ideas about the lives we want? And, what do we do - and fail to do - about actually getting them?In Adam Phillips uses psychoanalytic and literary approaches to show that we are obsessed by th...
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    Habits of High Performers
    'A powerful book that decodes how the very best do it.' - Robin Sharma, #1 worldwide bestselling author of The 5AM ClubIn , renowned strategist, mental skills coach, and award-winning podcaster James Laughlin uncovers the seven musts of a high-performing life.This collection of principles is a game-...
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    10 to 25: The Science of Motivating Young People
    'One of the most fascinating and important books of the past decade. It will change millions of lives.' Carol DweckAcclaimed developmental psychologist David Yeager reveals the new science of motivating young people in this groundbreaking book.'Required reading for anyone who aspires to be a wise in...
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    Inside of a Dog
    THE NEW EDITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER, FULLY REVISED AND UPDATED‘Causes one’s dog-loving heart to flutter with astonishment and gratitude' NEW YORK TIMES What might it be like to be a dog? What's it like to be able to smell not just every bit of food in the house, but also to smell sad...
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    The Book You Want Everyone You Love* To Read *(and maybe a few you don't)
    The new book from the million-copy bestselling author of The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read , to help you with the most important relationships in your lifeLife is all about relationships and the quality of those connections, whether that's with family, partners, friends, colleagues or most imp...
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    Ask Yourself This
    A shadow work journal to uncover your ideal self and unlock your higher purpose, by self-help queen Flex MamiThis journal is a place for everything you're too afraid to say out loud. Flex Mami provides the questions, you provide the answers.Your shadow self hides from you, like a dream you can't hol...
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    The Knowing: 11 Lessons to Understand the Quiet Urges of Your Soul
    The daughters of beloved teacher Wayne Dyer share their ever-evolving understanding of their father’s timeless teachings.“This book is our song for our father and for everyone, because we’re all born with a Knowing―an inner compass, the quiet urgings of our soul that guide us. It is through...
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    A World Appears: A Journey Into Consciousness
    From the best-selling author of How to Change Your Mind, a pioneering search for consciousness in the brain and beyondWhen it comes to consciousness, there is one point scientists, philosophers and artists all agree on- that it feels like something to be ourselves. And yet, the fact that each and ev...
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    An Almanac of Birds: 100 Divinations for Uncertain Days
    A gorgeous and inspiring book of cards: one hundred 'divinations' for daily living, partway between poem and koan yet neither, collaged from the texts and illustrations of 19th-century ornithological books.How do we live with uncertainty? Maria Popova was navigating a challenging season, longing for...
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    Letter From Japan
    The brand new lifestyle guide from Marie Kondo, explaining her principles to life, drawn from Japanese culture.In 2014, Marie Kondo became famous around the world, changed how we live, the relationship we have with the objects around us and taught us how to seek out the joy in our daily lives. Five...
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    Why Brains Need Friends: The neuroscience of social connection - and why we all need more
    'An exquisite book that reminds us our minds aren't soloists but symphony players: we are wired for connection.'."-David Eagleman, PhD, author of Incognito and Livewired'A must-read for anyone who wants to feel better and live longer, one conversation at a time!' - Dr. Karan Rajan, author of This Bo...
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    Strong Ground: The Lessons of Daring Leadership, the Tenacity of Paradox and the…
    #1 New York Times bestselling author Brene Brown with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership#1 New York Times bestselling author Brene Brown with an urgent call to reimagine the essentials of courageous leadership. In a time when uncertainty runs deep and bluster, hubris...
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    Sound Affects: How Sound Shapes Our Lives, Our Wellbeing and Our Planet
    'Transformative and a fascinating read; this book will open your ears to the world of sound and change your life' Steven Bartlett, bestselling author of The Diary of a CEO'A fascinating insight into the power of sound' Susan Cain, No. 1 New York Times bestselling author of QUIETEvery day, the sounds...
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    In Defence of Leisure: Experiments in Living with Marion Milner
    Two women ninety years apart ask themselves the same question- What is the difference between living, and feeling truly alive?We all want more free time. But do we know how to use it?'Illuminating and thought-provoking' Darian Leader, author of Is It Ever Just Sex?'Astounding, generous, and quietly...
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    Love in Exile
    ‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her own unworthiness penetrated every aspect and corner of her life. It w...
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    Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times
    An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves in the difficult times of life.THE NO. 1 BESTSELLING, LIFE-CHANGING PHENOMENON - SUNDAY TIMES and NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A beautiful, gentle exploration of the dark season of life and the light of spring that eve...
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    Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference
    'The rare read that might actually help you become a better person' ADAM GRANT'A fierce and brilliant call to arms for anyone who has been wondering whether there's more to life. (There is.)' TIM HARFORD'Gives us hope, humour and guidance at a time when all are in short supply' TIMOTHY SNYDER'Clear...
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