Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
A Year at the Chateau by Dick Strawbridge; Angel Strawbridge
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
Like many couples, Dick and Angel had long dreamed of living in France, but where others might settle for a modest bolthole in the French countryside, the Strawbridges fell in love with a 19th-century fairytale chateau, complete with 45 rooms, seven outbuildings, 12 acres of land and its own moat. Thro ...Show more
From a Mountain in Tibet: A Monk's Journey by Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Lama Yeshe didn't see a car until he was fifteen years old. In his quiet village, he and other children ran through fields with yaks and mastiffs. The rhythm of life was anchored by the pastoral cycles. The arrival of Chinese army cars in 1959 changed everything. In the wake of the deadly Tibetan Upris ...Show more
Diary of an Apprentice Astronaut by Samantha Cristoforetti
48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
'Today I woke up on Earth. And I will fall asleep in space' In space the sun rises and sets 16 times a day. You fly over every sea, every mountain and desert, every city and every port. The most ordinary things -- eating, sleeping, brushing your teeth or cutting your hair -- have to be relearned, until ...Show more
Conundrum by Jan Morris
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
As one of Britain's best and most-loved travel writers, Jan Morris has led an extraordinary life. Perhaps her most remarkable work is this grippingly honest account of her ten-year transition from man to woman - its pains and joys, its frustrations and discoveries. On first publication in 1974, the book ...Show more
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: good-very good
From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction. 'I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues ...Show more
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: near fine
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in ...Show more
Dolly Parton: Songteller - My Life in Lyrics by Dolly Parton, Robert K. Oermann
69.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
Dolly Parton, Songteller: My Life in Lyrics is a landmark celebration of the remarkable life and career of a country music and pop culture legend. As told by Dolly Parton in her own inimitable words, explore the songs that have defined her journey. Illustrated throughout with previously unpublished imag ...Show more
The Japanese: A History in Twenty Lives by Christopher Harding
70.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
From the acclaimed author of Japan Story, this is the history of Japan, distilled into the stories of twenty remarkable individuals. The vivid and entertaining portraits in Chris Harding's enormously enjoyable new book take the reader from the earliest written accounts of Japan right through to the life ...Show more
The Dead Are Arising by Payne Les & Payne Tamara
70.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
Les Payne, the renowned Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist, embarked in 1990 on a nearly thirty-year-long quest to interview anyone he could find who had actually known Malcolm X – all living siblings of the Malcolm Little family, classmates, street friends, cellmates, Nation of Islam figur ...Show more
The Truths We Hold - An American Journey by Kamala Harris
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
A New York Times bestseller From one of America's most inspiring political leaders, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across the life of our country. Senator Kamala Harris's commitment to ...Show more
Beethoven - A Life in Nine Pieces by Laura Tunbridge
48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
2020 marks 250 years since Beethoven's birth Ludwig van Beethoven: to some, simply the greatest ever composer of Western classical music. Yet his life remains shrouded in myths, and the image persists of him as an eccentric genius shaking his fist at heaven. Beethoven by Oxford professor Laura Tunbridge ...Show more