Eden's Outcasts: The Story of Louisa May Alcott & Her Father by John Matteson
37.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Winner of the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for Biography "An amazing story told with clarity and intelligence ... colorful and insightful." --Martin Rubin, Los Angeles Times Louisa May Alcott is known universally. Yet during Louisa's youth, the famous Alcott was her father, Bronson--an eminent teacher a ...Show more
Michelle Obama: The First Lady in Photographs by Deborah Willis
50.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This stunning visual biography of Michelle Obama puts her fame into cultural and historical context. With nearly 200 compelling photographs, two noted scholars capture Obama's dramatic transformation from working mother to First Lady; from her first tentative steps on the campaign trail to her spontaneo ...Show more
Dylan by Bob Spitz
45.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In "Dylan", Bob Spitz provides a dramatic yet clear-eyed view of the enigmatic guru of modern music. Drawing on hundreds of interviews with Dylan's family, friends, lovers and fellow musicians. Spitz presents the true Bob Dylan in a vast array of guises: the early years in small-town Minnesota, when Bob ...Show more
For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen Child by Jean Sasson
35.54 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Set against a landscape littered with tragic tales of horrific suffering, the author chronicles the story of one resolute but tormented Afghan woman determined to achieve freedom and equality with men.
Jacky Daydream - Jacqueline Wilson, The Story of her Childhood by Jacqueline Wilson
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Everybody knows Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline WilsonâÃÂÃÂs best-loved character. But what do they know about Jacqueline herself In this fascinating book, you will discover. . . How Jacky played with paper dolls like April in Dustbin Baby. How she dealt with an unpredictable father like Prue in Love Le ...Show more
The Life And Times of the Thunderbolt Kid by Bill Bryson
55.00 NZD
59.99 (8% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
From one of the world's most beloved writers and New York Times bestselling author of A Walk in the Woods and The Body, a vivid, nostalgic, and utterly hilarious memoir of growing up in the 1950s.Bill Bryson was born in the middle of the American century--1951--in the middle of the United States--Des Mo ...Show more
Red China Blues : My Long March from Mao to Now by Jan Wong
36.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Jan Wong, a Canadian of Chinese descent, went to China as a starry-eyed Maoist in 1972 at the height of the Cultural Revolution. A true believer--and one of only two Westerners permitted to enroll at Beijing University--her education included wielding a pneumatic drill at the Number One Machine Tool Fac ...Show more
Broken Music (US PB) by Sting
26.99 NZD
30.00 (10% off)
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
Having been a songwriter most of my life, condensing my ideas and emotions into short rhyming couplets and setting them to music, I had never really considered writing a book. But upon arriving at the reflective age of fifty, I found myself drawn, for the first time, to write long passages that were as ...Show more
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J Gaines
28.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
""Miss Jane Pittman. She is one of the most unforgettable heroines in American fiction, a woman whose life has come to symbolize the struggle for freedom, dignity, and justice. Ernest J. Gaines's now-classic novel--written as an autobiography--spans one hundred years of Miss Jane's remarkable life, from ...Show more
Soros: Life & Timesof a Messianic by Michael T. Kaufman
35.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
32.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
In 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby was the editor-in-chief of French Elle, the father of two young childen, a 44-year-old man known and loved for his wit, his style, and his impassioned approach to life. By the end of the year he was also the victim of a rare kind of stroke to the brainstem. After 20 days in ...Show more