The Unseen Eric Morecambe : the lost diaries, jokes and photographs by William Cook (ed)
$36.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The Upside (FTI) by Abdel Sellou
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French aristocrat) inspired the award-winning French movie Les Intouchables (2012), which became an international phenomenon and broke records as one of the most successful French movies ...Show more
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mi ...Show more
The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra by Eliot Weisman; Jennifer Valoppi
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra's life told by his longtime manager and friend, Eliot Weisman. By the time Weisman met Sinatra in 1976, he was already the Voice, a man who held sway over popular music and pop culture for forty years, who had risen to the greatest ...Show more
The Way Through the Woods: Of mushrooms and mourning by LONG LITT WOON AND BARBARA HAVELAND
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing - hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon strugg ...Show more
The Woman I Wanted To Be by Diane von Furstenberg
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthropist, wife, mother, and grandmother, Diane von Furstenberg offers a book about becoming the woman she wanted to be. Diane von Furstenberg started out with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of ...Show more
The Writing On The Wall by Juliet Rieden
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1938, as Hitler's troops are marching on Prague, a Jewish couple makes a heartbreaking decision that will save their eight-year-old son's life but destroy their family. Australian journalist Juliet Rieden grew up in England in the 1960s and 70s wondering why she had so few relatives, why her family ...Show more
The Years by Annie Ernaux
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Shortlisted Man Booker International 2019 Winner of the 2017 Marguerite Yourcenar Prize for her entire body of workWinner of the 2016 Strega European Prize Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist's defining work, The Years was a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008, and ...Show more
The Yellow House by Sarah M. Broom
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
In 1961, Sarah M. Broom's mother Ivory Mae bought a shotgun house in the then-promising neighborhood of New Orleans East and built her world inside of it. It was the height of the Space Race and the neighborhood was home to a major NASA plant - the postwar optimism seemed assured. Widowed, Ivory Mae rem ...Show more
The fight of my life by Barbara Clark
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Barbara Clark is a former nurse and mother of three children, two with special needs. She was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer in February 2005. During her treatment, she found that there was a drug existing, Herceptin, that would double survival chances for her particular form of canc ...Show more
Theo Schoon: A Biography by Skinner Damian
$60.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Émigré artist Theo Schoon was fascinating, unorthodox, controversial, pioneering and at times reckless. His life intersected with important cultural periods and places, where what it meant to be modern in New Zealand were being debated andarticulated in art, literature, music and theatre.The art he pion ...Show more
There Are No Grown-Ups by Pamela Druckerman
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
AUTHOR OF THE NO.1 BESTSELLER FRENCH CHILDREN DON'T THROW FOODREVEALS THE THINGS IT TOOK HER FORTY YEARS TO LEARN- There are no grown-ups. Everyone else is winging it too. Does it ever feel like everyone - except you - is a bona-fide adult? Do you wonder how real grown-ups get to be so mysteriously ca ...Show more