Rebel Women by Rosalind Miles
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
More than twenty-five years ago The Women's History of the World, by the brilliant historian, journalist and academic, Rosalind Miles, burst upon the world. It was instantly lauded and applauded by everyone from A.S. Byatt ('Witty, balanced, inexorable . . . and splendid') to the Washington Post ('an in ...Show more
Rust - One woman's story of finding hope across the divide by Eliese Goldbach
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
When Eliese Goldbach was nine years old, she decided to become a Catholic nun. Twenty years later, with a Master's degree, she found herself making steel in the Rust Belt during the 2016 US election season. A small part of her wondered if she'd got stuck inside a dream that had gone horribly wrong. Trum ...Show more
Things I Learned from Falling by Claire Nelson
29.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
An inspirational and gripping first-person account of determination, adversity and survival against the odds. Last year, Claire Nelson made international headlines. She was in her thirties and was beginning to burn out - her hectic London life of work and social activity and striving to do more and do b ...Show more
My Family and the Galapagos by Monty Halls
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The Galapagos Islands have captured hearts and captivated imaginations for centuries. Such is their ecological importance that in 1978 the archipelago was declared the first ever World Heritage Site, a testament to our collective desire to preserve the magic and diversity that inspired Darwin. Monty Hal ...Show more
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae rem ...Show more
The Most Dangerous Man in America - Timothy Leary, Richard Nixon and the Hunt for the Fugitive King of LSD by Bill Minutaglio & Steven L Davis
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
'It's a rollicking tale that brings to life the antic atmosphere of America in the 'Me' Decade' Wall Street Journal On the moonlit evening of September 12, 1970, an ex-Harvard professor with a genius IQ studies a twelve-foot high fence topped with barbed wire. A few months earlier, Dr. Timothy Leary, th ...Show more
Time Song - In Search of Doggerland by Julia Blackburn
65.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Julia Blackburn has always collected things that hold stories about the past, especially the very distant past- mammoth bones, little shells that happen to be two million years old, a flint shaped as a weapon long ago. Time Songbrings many such stories together as it tells of the creation, the existence ...Show more
Tarantino by Tom Shone
55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Quentin Tarantino is one of the most influential and distinctive filmmakers at work in the world today. His films are so admired that nearly every one he makes becomes an instant cult classic. Here, Tom Shone presents in-depth commentaries on each of the ten films Tarantino has directed, from Reservoir ...Show more
Dinner With Edward : A Story of an Unexpected Friendship by Isabel Vincent
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: General Adult
When Isabel meets Edward, both are at a crossroads: he wants to follow his late wife to the grave, and she is ready to give up on love. Thinking she is merely helping Edward's daughter who lives faraway and has asked her to check in on her nonagenarian dad in New York - -Isabel has no idea that the man ...Show more
Little Weirds by Jenny Slate
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'Magical' - Mindy Kaling 'Delicious' - Amy Sedaris 'Funny and poignant and beautiful' - John Mulaney 'It made me remember I was alive' - George Saunders To see the world through Jenny Slate's eyes is to see it as though for the first time, shimmering with strangeness and possibility. As she will remind ...Show more
Kika and Me: How One Guide Dog Changed My Life by Amit Patel
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The moving true story of Dr Amit Patel, who lost his sight in just thirty-six hours and Kika, the guide dog who changed his life.In 2013, Amit was training to be a trauma surgeon when a condition called keratoconus caused him to lose his sight within thirty-six hours. His life changed forever. Strugglin ...Show more
The Book of Gutsy Women by Hilary and Chelsea Clinton
49.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
She couldn't have been more than seven or eight years old. "Go ahead, ask your question," her father urged, nudging her forward. She smiled shyly and said, "You're my hero. Who's yours?" Many people--especially girls--have asked us that same question over the years. It's one of our favorite topics. HIL ...Show more