Worthy by Jada Pinkett Smith
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A gripping, painfully honest, and ultimately inspirational memoir from global superstar and creator of the Red Table Talk series Jada Pinkett Smith. Along the way, she explores her path to accepting her power as a woman, and her discovery that a strong sense of self is every woman’s right and saving gr ...Show more
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
$20.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Part memoir, part 'missive-from-the-middle', Yes Please is a hilarious collection of stories, thoughts, ideas, haikus and words-to-live-by drawn from the life and mind of acclaimed actress, writer and comedian Amy Poehler. Yes Please finds Amy riffing on everything from sex and love to motherhood, famil ...Show more
You Are Always with Me: Letters to Mama by Frida Kahlo by Frida Kahlo; Héctor Jaimes (Translator)
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Frida Kahlo is regarded as one of Mexico's greatest painters: her extraordinary personal style, her tragic story, her relationship with Diego Rivera (the more famous painter in their day) alongside her passionate paintings have made her a cult figure since she died over sixty years ago. But beyond the ...Show more
You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire by Walter Marsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputati ...Show more
Zarifa - A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights.I am one of the lucky ones.I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not - they are now living under one of the world's most repressive regimes, with any ...Show more
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: 4
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting h ...Show more
a Memoir Palemia: Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi of Samoa by Swain Peter
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Palemia tells the story of how a boy from an isolated village grew up to become Prime Minister of Samoa. It follows his journey from Lepa to Apia, Wellington, Brussels, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, London, New York and many other international destinations, always returning to Lepa and the Fa'asamoa that ...Show more