Franci's War by Franci Epstein
37.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In the summer of 1942, twenty-two year-old Franci Rabinek Epstein arrived at Terezin, a concentration camp and ghetto forty miles north of her home in Prague. It would be the beginning of her six-year journey through several camps during the Second World War, from Terezin to Auschwitz-Birkenau, to force ...Show more
When Time Stopped by Ariana Neumann
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In this remarkably moving memoir Ariana Neumann dives into the secrets of her father's past: years spent hiding in plain sight in wartorn Berlin, the annihilation of dozens of family members in the Holocaust, and the courageous choice to build anew. In 1941, the first Neumann family member was taken by ...Show more
The Attachment: Letters from a most unlikely friendship by Ailsa Piper, Tony Doherty
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Dear Ailsa, Sometimes I wonder whether the friendship that has caught us both-a most unlikely friendship I must confess-might find an echo in a far off Irish village somewhere in the wild, windy hills of old Donegal. Or am I allowing that uncontrollable imagination of mine too much slack? This is the st ...Show more
The School of Restoration: The Story of One Ugandan Woman Who Has Given Hope to Hundreds of Female Survivors of War and Violence by Alice Achan; Philippa Tyndale
36.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The powerful and uplifting story of one Ugandan woman who has given hope to hundreds of female victims of war and violence. Alice Achan was just thirteen when the Lord's Resistance Army first terrorised her village in northern Uganda in 1987. She spent five years on the run from the brutal LRA, and then ...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
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
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