Scott Dixon: A Tribute to the Indy 500 Legend by John Matheson
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Scott Dixon's triumph at the Indy 500 in 2008 was the climax of a career that had played out in front of the country since he first appeared on our television sets as a 13-year-old car-racing phenomenon. Scott Dixon: A tribute to the Indy 500 legend charts Dixon's career from those early days through to ...Show more
The Most Revolutionary Act : Memoir of an American Refugee by Stuart Jeanne Bramhall
25.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Intense government harassment between 1987 and 2002 led a 54-year old psychiatrist, single mother and social activist to close her 25-year Seattle practice to begin a new, safe life in New Zealand In her memoir, author Dr. Stuart Bramhall describes events that are totally out of the range of experienc ...Show more
Batista Unleashed WWE by Dave Batista & Jeremy Roberts
44.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
People around the world know Dave Batista as World Wrestling Entertainment's "the Animal," the rope-shaking, spine-busting World Heavyweight Champion, one of the most popular Superstars in recent years. The crowd turned Batista from heel to babyface after they were electrified by his awesome physique an ...Show more
A Year by the Sea: Thoughts of an Unfinished Woman by Joan Anderson
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Life is a work in progress, as ever-changing as a sandy shoreline along the beach. During the years Joan Anderson was a loving wife and supportive mother, she had slowly and unconsciously replaced her own dreams with the needs of her family. With her sons grown, however, she realized that the family no ...Show more
The Freedom Writers Diary by The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Shocked by the teenage violence she witnessed during the Rodney King riots in Los Angeles, Erin Gruwell became a teacher at a high school rampant with hostility and racial intolerance. For many of these students-whose ranks included substance abusers, gang members, the homeless, and victims of abuse-Gru ...Show more
Riding with the Devil: Me and P : The Lisa Cropp story by Mike Dillon
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The tragic story of one of the world's best jockeys. Lisa Cropp's descent into drug use ruined her career. Cropp climbed her way to the top of the horse riding industry using sheer talent and grit but everything came crashing down following a postive drug test for methamphetamine in May 2005.
After Romulus by Raimond Gaita
40.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1998, Raimond Gaita's Romulus, My Father was first published - the story of his father, who came to Australia from Europe with his young wife Christine and their four-year-old son after the end of the Second World War. In the isolated landscape of country Victoria, Christine succumbed to mental illne ...Show more
Sweet As by Garth Cartwright
39.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
"I come from Mt Roskill. Somebody has to." So says Garth Cartwright of growing up in New Zealand's largest suburb. It had acres of rugby fields and more churches than anywhere else in the country - but there were no cinemas, music venues or pubs. In search of a little more culture, a young Garth up ...Show more
Her Father's Daughter by Alice Pung
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
At twenty-something, Alice is hungry for the milestones of young womanhood: leaving home, choosing a career, finding friendship and love on her own terms. But with each step she takes away from home, she feels the sharp tug of invisible threads: the love and worry of her Chinese-Cambodian parents, who w ...Show more
Ernest Rutherford by BOON, Kevin
12.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Series: People in New Zealand history
Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh
75.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a definitive biography, based on new materials, by the bestselling, prize-winning authors of "Pollock". Vincent van Gogh created some of the best loved - and most expensive - works of art ever made, from the early "The Potato Eaters" to his late masterpieces "Sunflowers" and "The Starry Night". ...Show more