Love Can Build a Bridge by Naomi Judd
17.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Half of the popular mother-daughter team of country singers recounts their rags-to-riches story, their successful career, their relationship, and their struggle with the illness that forced her premature retirement.
No One Gets out of Here Alive by Jerry Hopkins
18.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
A portrait of Jim Morrison is based on seven years of research and tells the story behind his musical genius, worship of darkness, rejection of all forms of authority, and tragic death when his life spun out of control.
Undress Me In the Temple of Heaven by Susan Jane Gilman
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1986, Susie and her friend Chloe, fresh-faced graduates from Brown University, were inspired by a placemat entitled "Pancakes of Many Nations" to depart on an epic trip around the world, starting with Hong Kong and the People's Republic of China, then only recently opened to the rest of the world. As ...Show more
The Gift of an Ordinary Day: A Mother's Memoir by Katrina Kenison
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Gift of an Ordinary Day is an intimate memoir of a family in transition-boys becoming teenagers, careers ending and new ones opening up, an attempt to find a deeper sense of place and a slower pace, in a small New England town. It is a story of mid-life longings and discoveries, of lessons learned i ...Show more
The Good Daughter: A Memoir of My Mother's Hidden Life by Jasmin Darznik
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
When Jasmin Darznik finds a photo among her father’s possessions shortly after his death, she recognises the child in the veil and bride’s clothes as her mother, but the groom is unfamiliar. Who had her mother married all those years before? Getting direct answers proves difficult, but a few months late ...Show more
Unbowed : A memoir by Wangari Maathai
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Born in a rural Kenyan village in 1940, Wangari Maathai was already an iconoclast as a child, determined to get an education even though most African girls then were uneducated. In her remarkable and inspiring autobiography, she tells of her studies with Catholic missionaries, earning bachelors and mast ...Show more
The Joke's Over : Bruised Memories : Gonz, Hunter Thompson and me by Ralph Steadman
59.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In spring 1970, the artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for. He met an ex-Hell's Angel, called Hunter S. Thompson who had just shaved his head. Their working relationship resulted in Gonzo and a friendship that lasted for more than thirty years. ...Show more
How Life Imitates Chess by Garry Kasparov
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The most successful chess player of our time - indeed of all time - shares his insights into life as a game of strategy, drawing on his own story as well as the worlds of business and politics.'In this book, chess is a teacher, and I aim to show it is a great one.?- Garry KasparovWorld Chess Champion Ga ...Show more
Myself and Other More Important Matters by Charles B. Handy
37.99 NZD
39.99 (5% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Charles Handy is perhaps best known outside the business world as a wise and warm presenter of Radio 4's Thought for the Day. Long recognised as one of the world's leading business thinkers (over a million copies of his books have been sold around the world), in Myself and Other Important Matters he l ...Show more
Things I've Been Silent About: Memories by Azar Nafisi
37.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Azar Nafisi's bestselling Reading Lolita in Tehran offered a vibrant portrait of womenÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂâÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂÃÂs lives in Iran. In this s ...Show more