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I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughter (HB) by David Chariandy
$26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 4 Non Fiction
"Stunning. A precise puncturing of the post-racial bubble." --Nafkote Tamirat For readers of Between the World and Me and We Should All Be Feminists, an intimate and profound meditation on the politics of race today, from prizewinning novelist David Chariandy. I can glimpse, through the lens of my own e ...Show more
One Man's Climb - A Journey of Trauma, Tragedy and Triumph on K2 by Adrian HAYES
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
He was also one of the last people to speak to highly renowned mountaineering guide Marty Schmidt, and his son Denali, who tragically died on K2 in 2013 during Adrian's first attempt. Adrian was the one to break the news of this tragedy to the outside world. The author frankly discusses the true reason ...Show more
The Boy Who Followed His Father into Auschwitz by Jeremy Dronfield
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
In 1939, Gustav Kleinmann, a Jewish upholsterer in Vienna, was seized by the Nazis. Along with his teenage son, Fritz, he was sent to Buchenwald in Germany. There began an unimaginable ordeal that saw the pair beaten, starved and forced to build the very concentration camp they were held in.When Gustav ...Show more
Becoming: Michelle Obama by Michelle Obama
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America--the first African Americ ...Show more
Mama's Boy: The Art of Building Bridges by Dustin Lance Black
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'To outsiders, my mom and I should have been enemies. Our house should have been divided -- North vs South, red vs blue, conservative vs progressive, or however you want to put it. Instead, my mom and I fuelled each other. Her oil lit my lamp, and eventually mine lit hers. The tools I'd learned to ...Show more
Bookworm - A Memoir of Childhood Reading by Lucy Mangan
$28.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Lucy Mangan was little, stories were everything. They opened up different worlds and cast new light on this one. She was whisked away to Narnia - and Kirrin Island - and Wonderland. She ventured down rabbit holes and womble burrows into midnight gardens and chocolate factories. No wonder she only ...Show more
Finding Frances Hodgkins by Mary Kisler
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Frances Hodgkins, our most celebrated artist, first left New Zealand in 1901, location became a key factor in her determination to succeed as an artist. In this engaging book, curator Mary Kisler follows in Hodgkins' footsteps through England, France, Italy, Morocco, Spain and Wales to discover th ...Show more
The Diving-Bell and the Butterfly (4th Estate Matchbook Classics) by Jean-Dominique Bauby
$25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
One of the most remarkable memoirs ever written. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up our Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist. In December 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chi ...Show more
The Note Through the Wire by Doug Gold
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
An extraordinary true story of a love that emerged, against all odds, from the brutal war in Nazi-occupied Europe.
Maid - Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive by Stephanie Land
$34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Educated meets Nickel and Dimed in Stephanie Land's memoir about working as a maid. A beautiful and gritty exploration of poverty in the western world. Includes a foreword by international bestelling author Barbara Ehrenreich. 'My daughter learned to walk in a homeless shelter.' As a struggling single ...Show more
Womankind: New Zealand Women Making a Difference by Margie Thomson
$65.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non Fiction
A landmark book of profiles and portraits celebrating the successes and diversity of New Zealand women across many spheres - politics, arts, science, community development, business innovation and health. These leaders share their views on what it's like to be a woman in New Zealand today- the contribu ...Show more
We Can Make a Life: A Memoir of Family, Earthquakes and Courage by Chessie Henry
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Hours after the 2011 Christchuch Earthquake, Kaikoura-based doctor Chris Henry crawled through the burning CTV building to rescue those who were trapped. Six years later, his daughter Chessie interviews him in an attempt to understand the trauma that led her father to burnout, in the process unravellin ...Show more
