The Girl Who Wanted to Belong - The Powerful True Story of a Devastated Little Girl and the Foster Carer Who Healed Her Broken Heart by Angela Hart
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: Angela Hart Ser.
Lucy is eight-years-old and ends up in foster care after being abandoned by her mum and kicked out by her new stepmother. Two aunties and then her elderly grandmother take her in but it seems nobody can cope with Lucy's disruptive behaviour. Social Services hope a stay with experienced foster carer Ange ...Show more
The Best of Us - A Memoir by Joyce Maynard
$21.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The San Francisco Chronicle's Best of the Year List From New York Times bestselling author Joyce Maynard, a memoir about discovering strength in the midst of great loss--"heart wrenching, inspiring, full of joy and tears and life." (Anne Lamott)In 2011, when she was in her late fifties, beloved author a ...Show more
The Girl Who Climbed Everest - Lessons Learned Facing up to the World's Toughest Mountains by Bonita Norris
$27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'What I've learned from climbing mountains is that we can push ourselves far beyond what we think we are capable of, and it's outside of our comfort zones that the most amazing things happen.' What drives us to go to our limits and beyond? What does it take to make dreams come true over all else? An ...Show more
The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World by Michael Lewis
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Bestselling author Michael Lewis examines how a Nobel Prize-winning theory of the mind altered our perception of reality--now available at a great value Forty years ago, Israeli psychologists Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky wrote a series of breathtakingly original studies undoing our assumptions abo ...Show more
Behind the Throne - Five Centuries of Life in the Royal Household by Adrian Tinniswood
$65.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Behind the Throneis a history of family life. The families concerned were royal families. But they still had to get up in the morning. They ate and entertained their friends and worried about money. Henry VIII kept tripping over his dogs. George II threw his son out of the house. James I had to cut back ...Show more
At Home with Muhammad Ali: A Personal Memoir by Hana Yasmeen Ali
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At Home with Muhammad Aliis an intimate, behind-the-scenes portrait of a legend, a man admired and respected as the greatest sporting icon of our age, written by Ali's daughter Hana. As Muhammad Ali approached the end of his astonishing boxing career, he strove to embrace a new purpose and role in life ...Show more
The Heart of Jesus Valentino by Emma Gilkison
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
During a routine 12-week scan, Emma Gilkison thinks it looks as though her unborn baby has a marble rolling on his chest. In fact, it is his heart growing outside his body - an extremely rare and fatal condition called ectopia cordis. Emma and her partner Roy now face two heartbreaking options. Should t ...Show more
Collecting the World - The Life and Curiosity of Hans Sloane by James Delbourgo
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Hans Sloane was the greatest collector of his time, and one of the greatest of all time. His name is familiar today through the London streets and squares named after him, but the man himself, and his achievements, are almost forgotten. Born in the north of Ireland, Sloane made his fortune as a physici ...Show more
SALE - Steve Jobs - A Biographic Portrait by Kevin Lynch
$45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a stunning visual guide to the life and works of entrepreneur Steve Jobs. Easily one of the most influential innovators of the twenty-first century, Steve Jobs has fundamentally shaped the way in which we communicate and, even more broadly, live our lives.In this information-packed graphic biogr ...Show more
Eddie Jones - Rugby Maverick by Mike Colman
$36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
The first biography of the enigmatic coach who has completely transformed the England rugby team. After Eddie Jones began coaching England's rugby team in November 2015, they won 22 of their next 23 matches. The side that limped out of the last World Cup was thoroughly revitalised. But who is the uncon ...Show more
Germaine: The Life of Germaine Greer by Elizabeth Kleinhenz
$48.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
As a student in Melbourne, Elizabeth Kleinhenz heard frequent talk of this almost mythical figure, Germaine Greer. Urged on by her mother, a first wave feminist, she read The Female Eunuch, a clarion call that rallied women to assert their female power,and, like her mother and millions of others across ...Show more
In Extremis - The Life of War Correspondent Marie Colvin by Lindsey Hilsum
$55.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
** BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK ** 'It has always seemed to me that what I write about is humanity in extremis, pushed to the unendurable, and that it is important to tell people what really happens in wars.' Marie Colvin, 2001 Marie Colvin was glamorous, hard-drinking, braver than the boys, with a trou ...Show more