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Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living by Glennon Doyle
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't ...Show more
Too Much And Never Enough: How My Family Created The World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In this revelatory, authoritative portrait of Donald J. Trump and the toxic family that made him, Mary L. Trump, a trained clinical psychologist and Donald's only niece, shines a bright light on the dark history of their family in order to explain how her uncle became the man who now threatens the world ...Show more
I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
AS SELECTED FOR THE ZOE BALL BOOKCLUB, A BOOK OF THE YEAR IN THE SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, GUARDIAN, IRISH TIMES, OBSERVER, RED and THE TELEGRAPH. *SHORTLISTED FOR THE PEN ACKERLEY PRIZE FOR MEMOIR AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY 2018* I AM, I AM, I AM is a memoir with a difference - the unputdownable story of an ext ...Show more
The Choice: Even in Hell Hope Can Flower by Edith Eger
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold
$24.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Polly, Annie, Elizabeth, Catherine and Mary-Jane are famous for the same thing, though they never met. They came from Fleet Street, Knightsbridge, Wolverhampton, Sweden and Wales. They wrote ballads, ran coffee houses, lived on country estates, they breathed ink-dust from printing presses and escaped pe ...Show more
The Great Successor: The Secret Rise and Rule Kim Jong Un by Anna Fifield
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
The Great Successor is an irreverent yet insightful quest to understand the life of Kim Jong Un, one of the world's most secretive dictators. Kim's life is swathed in myth and propaganda, from the plainly silly--he supposedly ate so much Swiss cheese that his ankles gave way--to the grimly bloody storie ...Show more
A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings by Helen Jukes
$27.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
''This book has found a special place in my heart. It''s as strange, beautiful and unexpected, as precise and exquisite in its movings, as bees in a hive. I loved it'' Helen Macdonald, author of H IS FOR HAWK ''Everyone should own A Honeybee Heart Has Five Openings, which moved and delighted me more tha ...Show more
All at Sea by Decca Aitkenhead
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'The thing to remember about this story is that every word is true. If I never told it to a soul, and this book did not exist, it would not cease to be true. I don't mind at all if you forget this. The important thing is that I don't.' On a hot still morning on a beautiful beach in Jamaica, Decca Aitken ...Show more
Believe Me: A Memoir of Love, Death and Jazz Chickens by Eddie Izzard
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "Izzard is one of the funniest people alive, a talented actor, a sharp cross-dresser, an experienced marathon runner, and a great writer. You will have to read this if only to find out what a jazz chicken is."--The Philadelphia Inquirer With his brand of keenly inte ...Show more
Daughters of Chivalry: The Forgotten Children of Edward I by Kelcey Wilson-Lee
$25.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Virginal, chaste, humble, patiently waiting for rescue by brave knights and handsome princes: this idealized - and largely mythical - notion of the medieval noblewoman still lingers. Yet the reality was very different, as Kelcey Wilson-Lee shows in this vibrant account of the five daughters of the great ...Show more
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't ...Show more
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Educated is a remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho who strives for education while still showing great understanding and love for the world she leaves behind.' - BARACK OBAMA Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for t ...Show more