Book Review: Stepping Up
This uplifting story from an excellent Kiwi author shows readers that even life-changing challenges can lead to growth and new possibilities.
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Scorpio Books is an independent bookstore with the best range of carefully curated books in Ōtautahi Christchurch. Our staff are friendly, knowledgeable, eclectic readers ready with recommendations. Shop our online store, or come in and browse the shelves where you can settle into a comfy chair, discover our staff favourites, the best new releases in fiction and non-fiction, and all manner of bookish delights.
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Scorpio Books is an independent bookstore with the best range of carefully curated books in Ōtautahi Christchurch.
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Different Kind of Power: A memoir
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Book of Guilt
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Everything But the Medicine: A doctor’s tale
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He Puawai: A Natural History of New Zealand Flowers
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Welcome of Strangers: A History of Southern Maori
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How To Paint A Nude
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Going On and On: Why Our Longevity Threatens the Future
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Let it be Tough: Train your mind to perform under pressure
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To the Edge of the World
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Coming Up Short
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Judy Blume
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Convent Wisdom: How Sixteenth-Century Nuns Could Save Your Twenty-First-Century Life
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Hotel Exile: Paris in the Shadow of War
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Nation of Strangers: Rebuilding Home in the 21st Century
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Death of an Ordinary Man
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Indignity: A Life Reimagined
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Mother Mary Comes To Me
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Finest Hotel in Kabul: A People’s History of Afghanistan
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Alone in the World
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Surviving White Island
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Blood Says Otherwise
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Himmler’s Curtains: A Memoir of Loss and Concealment
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Every Second Counts: A story of deadlines, daring, danger, and what happens when you fall…
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Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!
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Year at Awakino Station
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Aotearoa in Bloom: A history, culture and practical uses of New Zealand’s flowers
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Miso: From Japanese Classics to Everyday Umami
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One Hundred Nights of Hero
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Pretty Dirty: The Life of Flowers, From Creation to Compost
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Quiet Home: House Hushing for Calm and Intentional Living
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She Who Remains
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Witch
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Women Without Men
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News From Dublin
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London Falling
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Eat Your Ice Cream: Six Simple Rules for a Long and Healthy Life
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Grief Is the Thing with Feathers
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Grand Bikepacking Journeys: Riding Iconic Routes around the World
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Pumpkin Spice Cafe (Deluxe)
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I Who Have Never Known Men
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Story of Art
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To Bleed a Crystal Bloom
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Flashlight
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Revolutionists: The Story of the Extremists Who Hijacked the 1970s
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Dust
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Attention: Writing on Life, Art and the World
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Schott’s Significa: An Unexpectedly Essential Guide to Language
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Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future
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Groff’s writing is rich, without becoming floral. She cuts through layers of complexity with a brief sentence.