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March 2025

 

Haere mai, welcome to our Biography & Memoir newsletter. Explore true stories about people and their interesting lives.

 

Staff List

New For You - Biographies - March 2025

New biographies and memoirs of the famous, the interesting and everyday people.

New For You Biographies
 

Book Sale coming soon!

Technology programmes for teens and adults

Explore library programmes and sessions designed to help you use technology.

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New in Biography & Memoir

New

"Before Elvis" by Lauterbach, Preston
"Diplomats at War" by Trueheart, Charles, 1951-
"Black Panther Woman" by Phillips, Mary Frances
"Dirtbag Queen" by Corren, Andy, 1969-
"Central Otago Couture" by Malthus, Jane
"Ernest Rutherford" by Foster, Michael Wellington
"Diplomats at War" by Trueheart, Charles, 1951-
New biographies

Aotearoa

"Rounding Tawero Point" by Broomfield, John, 1935-2022
"Tony Fomison" by Forman, Mark, 1972-
"Unveiled" by Pratt, Theophila
"Bloody Minded" by Ferguson, Susie
"Central Otago Couture" by Malthus, Jane
"Hastings" by Frizzell, Dick, 1943-
"Tony Fomison" by Forman, Mark, 1972-
NZ biographies

eAudiobooks

"The Rebel Romanov" by Rappaport, Helen, 1947-
"Iron Hope" by Lawrence, James, 1976-
"Careless People" by Wynn-Williams, Sarah
"The Secret Painter" by Tucker, Joe
"Beyond the Call of Duty" by Moore, Stephen L., 1967-
"The Many Lives of Anne Frank" by Franklin, Ruth
"Iron Hope" by Lawrence, James, 1976-
New eAudiobook biographies
 

National Book Critics Circle Awards (US)

The finalists have been announced in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Biography, Autobiography / Memoir, and Criticism categories.

View autobiography finalists
 

Sexuality Stories

From pioneering feminists and gay icons, to tales of transition and self-discovery - stories to help us understand and celebrate who we are.

More biography & memoir picks
 

Coming soon

Gutsy girls by Josie McSkimming

Josie McSkimming watched her sister Dorothy Porter become an award-winning poet, There's was a family of complex dynamics. With access to Porter's personal diaries and letters, Gutsy Girls is an intimate story of sisterhood, finding creative power and blazing your own trail.

 

Source code: My beginnings by Bill Gates

Bil Gates tells the story of his life from his childhood in Seattle until the late 1970s when Microsoft signed its first deal with Apple.

 
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