Tisha: Story of a Young Teacher in the Alaska Wilderness by Robert Specht
17.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The beloved real-life story of a woman in the Alaskan wilderness, the children she taught, and the man she loved. "From the time I'd been a girl, I'd been thrilled with the idea of living on a frontier. So when I was offered the job of teaching school in a gold-mining settlement called Chicken, I accep ...Show more
I Remember Nothing and Other Reflections by Nora Ephron
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: good
If there is any solace in growing older, it is that you will find yourself guffawing in hysterical recognition at the situations Nora Ephron describes, from the impossibility of trying to remember people's names at parties,to struggling with the new technology. You will find yourself rolling off th ...Show more
Slumgirl Dreaming: My Journey to the Stars by Rubina Ali
24.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
My name is Rubina Ali. I don't know when my birthday is, and nor does my father, but I do know that I am nine years old. Rubina is a one-in-a-million-star. After being plucked from among the five-hundred slum children who auditioned for Danny Boyle's multi-Oscar-winning film SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE, she saw ...Show more
Fairway to Hell by Carl Hiaasen
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'Every weekend, thousands of otherwise rational men and women are cursing, kicking at divots and smashing expensively milled putters against the trunks of immovable hardwood trees. These players go home in a toxic funk to inflict gloom upon their loved ones until the following Saturday, when they rush b ...Show more
I Want to Live: The Diary of a Young Girl in Stalin's Russia by Nina Lugovskaya (tr from Russian Andrew Bromfield)
27.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Does that boy like me? Why are my sisters so mean? Does anyone think I'm pretty? Will my father be arrested? These were the everyday concerns of thirteen-year-old Moscow schoolgirl Nina Lugovskaya, who began to write a diary in 1932. Her indignant outbursts against the brutal raids and purges of Stalin' ...Show more
Forever Today by Deborah Wearing
26.95 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Clive Wearing has one of the most extreme cases of amnesia ever known. In 1985, a virus completely destroyed a part of his brain essential for memory, leaving him trapped in a limbo of the constant present. Every conscious moment is for him as if he has just come round from a long coma, an endlessly rep ...Show more
The Sexual Life of Catherine M. (trans Adriana Hunter) by Catherine Millet
26.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Written in spare, elegant prose, The Sexual Life of Catherine M. is the autobiography of a well-known Parisian art critic who likes to spend nights in the singles clubs of Paris and in the Bois de Boulogne where she has sex with a succession of anonymous men. Unlike many contemporary women writers, ther ...Show more
The Woman I Was Born to be by Susan Boyle
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In April 2009, a modest middle-aged woman from a village in Scotland was catapulted to global fame when the YouTube video of her audition for "Britain's Got Talent" touched the hearts of millions all over the world. From singing karaoke in local pubs to live performance with an eighty-piece orchestra in ...Show more
Eight Lives Down by Chris Hunter
29.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
'If fate is against me and I'm killed, so be it, but make it quick and painless. If I'm wounded, don't let me be crippled. But above all don't let me fuck up the task.'So goes the bomb technician's prayer before every bomb he defuses.For Chris Hunter, it is a prayer he says many times over his four mont ...Show more
The Lemon Tree by Sandy Tolan
29.99 NZD
39.99 (25% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In the summer of 1967, not long after the Six Day War, three young Palestinian men ventured into the town of Ramla in Israel. They were cousins, on a pilgrimage to see their childhood homes, from which they and their families had been driven out nearly twenty years earlier. One cousin had the door slamm ...Show more
Out of Iraq by Lewis Alsamari
27.99 NZD
29.99 (6% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Aged 17, Lewis Alsamari was conscripted into the Iraqi army. Things went from bad to worse once his superiors discovered his ability to speak English, and Lewis was selected for Saddam's elite, top secret intelligence service, an offer he literally could not refuse. This left him with only one option - ...Show more