The Maybelline Story: And the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind it by Alan Andrews Ragland
$43.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Stories of the-great-man-and-how-he-did-it serve as a traditional mainstay of biographies, but memoirs that focus on relationships are more likely to be discussed in women’s groups. THE MAYBELLINE STORY combines the best of both approaches: a man whose vision rocketed him to successs along with the wom ...Show more
The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own by Veronica Chambers
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Even after eight years of watching them daily in the press, the fact that the most powerful man in the world is a Black man is still breathtaking to me. The fact that he goes home to a tight-knit, loving family headed by a Black woman is soul-stirring. That woman is Michelle. Michelle. That name now ca ...Show more
The Middlepause: On Turning Fifty by Marina Benjamin
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience? The Middlepause offers hope, and heart. Cutting through society's clamorous demands to work longer and stay ...Show more
The Mighty Franks: A Memoir by Michael Frank
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar - about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforgettable memoir is a classic in the making. 'My aunt called our two families the Mighty Franks. But, she said, you and I, Lovey, are a thing apart. The two of us have pu ...Show more
The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk by David Malcolm Grant
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
A major biography of arguably New Zealand's greatest modern political leader As Norman Kirk's body lay in state near the steps of Parliament on the day after his death on 31 August 1974, a kaumatua wailed 'the mighty totara has fallen'. The lament reflected what many New Zealanders felt about this big, ...Show more
The Mighty and the Almighty by Madeleine K. Albright
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America and the West deal with violent Islamist extremists? Traditionally, poli ...Show more
The Mistress's Daughter - A Memoir by A. M. Homes
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
On the day that Homes was born in 1961, she was given up for adoption. Her birth parents were a twenty-two year old woman and an older married man with whom she was having an affair. Thirty years later, out of the blue, Homes was contacted by a lawyer on behalf of her birth mother, and they began to cor ...Show more
The Mitford Girls - The Biography of an Extraordinary Family by Mary S. Lovell
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
This biography tells the true story behind the gaiety and frivolity of the six Mitford daughters - and the facts are as sensational as a novel. There is Nancy, whose bright social existence masked a doomed obsessional love, which soured her success; Pam, a countrywoman maried to one of the best brains i ...Show more
The Mitfords : Letters Between Six Sisters by Charlotte Mosley (ed.)
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: good-very good
The never-before published letters of the legendary Mitford sisters, alive with wit, affection, tragedy and gossip: a charismatic history of the century's signal events played out in the lives of a controversial and uniquely gifted family. Nancy, the scalding wit who parlayed her family life into bestse ...Show more
The Mockingbird Next Door - Life with Harper Lee by Marja Mills
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
Journalists have trekked to Harper Lee's hometown of Monroeville, Alabama, where she has lived with her sister Alice for decades, trying and failing to get an interview with the author. But in 2001, the Lee sisters opened their door to Chicago Tribune journalist Marja Mills. It was the beginning of a lo ...Show more