Southern View: December 03, 2020
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8 Thursday <strong>December</strong> 3 <strong>2020</strong><br />
Latest Canterbury news at starnews.co.nz<br />
SOUTHERN VIEW<br />
CAN YOU BELIEVE IT?!<br />
Only 21 days<br />
till Christmas<br />
NEW RELEASES<br />
GREAT NEW READS INSTORE<br />
Meghan Misunderstood<br />
by Sean Smith<br />
Meghan Misunderstood is a pioneering book that sets the<br />
record straight on the most talked about, unfairly vilified and<br />
misrepresented woman in the world. Meghan was eleven when she<br />
first advocated for women’s rights; a teenager when she worked in<br />
a soup kitchen feeding the homeless; a popular actress when she<br />
campaigned for clean water in Africa and passionately championed<br />
gender equality in a speech to a United Nations Women’s<br />
Conference. Even before she met Prince Harry, hers was an<br />
extraordinarily accomplished life. Now, Sean Smith, the UK’s leading<br />
celebrity biographer, pulls no punches as he reveals the remarkable<br />
and powerful story of this self-made, intelligent American woman<br />
with a strong social conscience who has made such an impact on<br />
our lives.<br />
Shoemaker<br />
The Untold Story of the British Family Firm that Became<br />
a Global Brand - reebok<br />
By Joe Foster<br />
The remarkable story of how Joe Foster developed Reebok into one of<br />
the world’s most famous sports brands, having started from a small<br />
factory in Bolton.<br />
Since the late 19th century, the Foster family had been hand-making<br />
running shoes, supplying the likes of Eric Liddell and Harold<br />
Abrahams - later immortalised in the film Chariots of Fire - as well<br />
as providing boots to most Football League clubs. But a family feud<br />
between Foster’s father and uncle about the direction of their business<br />
led to Joe and his brother Jeff setting up a new company, inspired by<br />
the success of Adidas and Puma, and so Reebok was born.<br />
No Time Like The Future<br />
An Optimist Considers Mortality<br />
By Michael J Fox<br />
The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage<br />
sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in<br />
Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in Spin City; and through numerous other<br />
movie roles and guest appearances on shows such as The Good Wife<br />
and Curb Your Enthusiasm. Diagnosed at age 29, Michael is equally<br />
engaged in Parkinson’s advocacy work, raising global awareness of the<br />
disease and helping find a cure through The Michael J. Fox Foundation<br />
for Parkinson’s Research, the world’s leading non-profit funder of PD<br />
science. His two previous bestselling memoirs, Lucky Man and Always<br />
Looking Up, dealt with how he came to terms with the illness, all the<br />
while exhibiting his iconic optimism. His new memoir reassesses this<br />
outlook, as events in the past decade presented additional challenges.<br />
Down South<br />
In Search of the Great <strong>Southern</strong> Land<br />
by Bruce Ansley<br />
In Down South, writer Bruce Ansley goes on a journey back to his<br />
beloved South Island.<br />
From Curio Bay to Golden Bay, in Down South writer Bruce Ansley<br />
sets off on a vast expedition across the South Island, Te Waipounamu,<br />
visiting the places and people who hold clues to the south’s famous<br />
character. Not so very long ago, the South Island had most of New<br />
Zealand’s people and just about all of the money. Gold miners found<br />
fortunes in the hills and rivers, sheep barons straddled mountains,<br />
valleys and plains. Wealthy southerners ruled the government. Where<br />
now lies the South Island’s golden fleece? And what is its future.<br />
Speed Kings<br />
Australia and New Zealand’s quest to win the Indy 500,<br />
the world’s greatest motor race. By John Smailes<br />
The fascinating, definitive story of Australia and New Zealand’s quest to<br />
win the world’s greatest motor race. Winning the Indianapolis 500, the<br />
greatest spectacle in motorsport, has been a quest for Australians and<br />
New Zealanders since the first race in 1911. Seventeen have tried and two<br />
have succeeded: Scott Dixon in 2008 and Will Power in 2018. Rupert<br />
Jeffkins, Australia’s original speed king, entered the first Indy 500 and on<br />
his second attempt in 1912 came within five kilometres of victory. He and<br />
Italian Ralph De Palma created legend when they pushed their car to the<br />
finish line after it blew up while leading. Speed Kings tells Jeffkins’ full story<br />
for the first time. it tells the story of the Australian and New Zealand drivers,<br />
team owners, engineers, even commentators who’ve made the Brickyard<br />
their quest.<br />
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