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
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
Let Me Finish by Chris Christie
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
The famously candid two-term governor of New Jersey, Chris Christie was the first major official to endorse Trump for president. Christie quickly became one of Trump's most trusted advisors, tapped with running Trump's transition team and nearly being named vice president. Within days of Trump's surpris ...Show more
A Farmer's Diary - A Year at High House Farm by Sally Urwin
32.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
'It's beautiful weather today - I sit down outside the lambing shed with my back up against a pen and savour the spring sunshine. All the sheep are bedded up and everyone is fed and watered. No ewe is lambing, and I have half an hour to myself. I stretch out my feet in my wellies and push them into the ...Show more
Heida: A Shepherd at the Edge of the World by Steinunn Siguroardottir
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs | Series: Icelandic Sheep Farmer fighting an energy company | Reading Level: very good
I'm not on my own because I've been sitting crying into a handkerchief or apron over a lack of interested men. I've been made every offer imaginable over the years. Men offer themselves, their sons...drunk fathers sometimes call me up and say things like: "Do you need a farmhand?" "I can lift the hay ba ...Show more
Amazing Fantastic Incredible: A Marvelous Memoir by Stan Lee
37.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
In this gorgeously illustrated, full-color graphic memoir, Stan Lee--comic book legend and cocreator of Spider-Man, the X-Men, the Avengers, the Incredible Hulk, and a legion of other Marvel superheroes--shares his iconic legacy and the story of how modern comics came to be. Stan Lee is a man who need ...Show more
The Wind at My Back by Josh Komen
30.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
`I was a lost little boy, trapped in a world where I didn't belong, one that would tear me apart and build me back into someone new . . .' Twenty-three-year-old Josh Komen is on track to represent New Zealand in running at the next Commonwealth Games when he is diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia. In ...Show more
Team of Vipers - My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House by Cliff Sims
44.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
The first honest insider's account of the Trump administration. After standing at Donald Trump's side on Election Night, Cliff Sims joined him in the West Wing as Special Assistant to the President and Director of White House Message Strategy. He soon found himself pulled into the President's inner ci ...Show more
Parallel Lives: Four Seasons in the French Pyrenees by Jennifer Andrewes
34.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Increasingly dissatisfied with the humdrum routine of corporate life, Jennifer Andrewes does what many of us can only dream about when in 2014 she and her family pack up and spend two seasons living in a village in the south-west region of France. But it’s not just any region as Jennifer discovers – the ...Show more
The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
45.00 NZD
Category: Memoirs
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WAINWRIGHT GOLDEN BEER BOOK PRIZE 2018 The uplifting true tale of the couple who lost everything and embarked on a journey of salvation across the windswept South West coastline. Now a Top Ten Sunday Times Bestseller 'The landscape is magical: shape-shifting seas and smugglers' coves ...Show more
Swell: A Sailing Surfer's Voyage of Awakening by Liz Clark; Serena Mitnik-Miller (Illustrator); Jimmy Buffett (Foreword by); Daniella Manini (Illustrator); Jimmy Buffett (Foreword by)
72.99 NZD
Category: Memoirs
Chasing a dream is never easy, but if you go far enough, it will set you free. Captain Liz Clark spent her youth dreaming of traveling the world by sailboat and surfing remote waves. When she was 22, she met a mentor who helped turn her desire into reality. Embarking on an adventure that most only fant ...Show more