More Than Enough by Elaine Welteroth
50.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In this part-manifesto, part-memoir, the revolutionary editor who infused social consciousness into the pages of Teen Vogue explores what it means to come into your own--on your own terms Throughout her life, Elaine Welteroth has climbed the ranks of media and fashion, shattering ceilings along the way ...Show more
No Walls and the Recurring Dream: A Memoir by Ani DiFranco
50.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In her new memoir, No Walls and the Recurring Dream, Ani DiFranco recounts her early life from a place of hard-won wisdom, combining personal expression, the power of music, feminism, political activism, storytelling, philanthropy, entrepreneurship, and much more into an inspiring whole. In these frank, ...Show more
Bookworm - A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan
28.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one.She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. No wonder she only le ...Show more
Stephen Hawking: A Life Well Lived (revised & updated 2019) by Kitty Ferguson
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
In 1963 Stephen Hawking was given two years to live. Defying all the odds, he died in March 2018 at age seventy-six as the most celebrated scientist in the world. This carefully researched, and now newly updated, up-to-the-minute biography and tribute gives a rich picture of Hawking's remarkable life - ...Show more
Furious Hours - Murder, Fraud and the Last Trial of Harper Lee by Casey Cep
38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
Alabama, 1972. Reverend Willie Maxwell, a charismatic, authoritative black preacher, is suspected of murder. His past two wives, brother, nephew and stepdaughter have all died in suspicious circumstances. There are whispers of secret voodoo practices, and suspicion of life insurance fraud. Despite the m ...Show more
One Man's Climb - A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2 by Adrian HAYES
19.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
He was also one of the last people to speak to highly renowned mountaineering guide Marty Schmidt, and his son Denali, who tragically died on K2 in 2013 during Adrian's first attempt. Adrian was the one to break the news of this tragedy to the outside world. The author frankly discusses the true reason ...Show more
The Moth: Occasional Magic - True Stories of Defying the Impossible by Catherine Burns, and The Moth
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
Before television and radio, people would gather on porches, on the steps outside their homes, and tell stories. Their bewitched listeners would sit and listen long into the night as moths flitted around overhead. Storytelling phenomenon The Moth recaptures this lost each week in cities across America, ...Show more
How to Build a Car: The Autobiography of the World's Greatest Formula 1 Designer by Adrian Newey
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
'Adrian has a unique gift for understanding drivers and racing cars. He is ultra competitive but never forgets to have fun. An immensely likeable man.' Damon HillThe world's foremost designer in Formula One, Adrian Newey OBE is arguably one of Britain's greatest engineers and this is his fascinating, po ...Show more
Wise Guy: Lessons from a Life by Guy Kawasaki
50.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Silicon Valley icon and bestselling author Guy Kawasaki shares the unlikely stories of his life and the lessons we can draw from them. Guy Kawasaki has been a fixture in the tech world since he was part of Apple's original Macintosh team in the 1980s. He's widely respected as a source of wisdom abou ...Show more
Island Home by Tim Winton
30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies
I grew up on the world's largest island.' This apparently simple fact is the starting point for Tim Winton's beautiful, evocative and sometimes provocative memoir of how this unique landscape has shaped him and his writing. For over thirty years, Winton has written novels in which the natural world is a ...Show more
The Cut Out Girl - A Story of War and Family, Lost and Found by Bart van Es
28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies | Reading Level: very good
The last time Lien saw her parents was in the Hague when she was collected at the door by a stranger and taken to a city far away to be hidden from the Nazis. She was raised by her foster family as one of their own, but a falling out well after the war meant they were no longer in touch. What was her si ...Show more
Mad Bad and Dangerous to Know by Ranulph Fiennes
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies
'Even readers with a broadly low tolerance for macho heroism will find themselves gripped . . . compelling' - Time Out Sir Ranulph Fiennes has travelled to the most dangerous and inaccessible places on earth, almost died countless times, lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite, raised millions of poun ...Show more