The Light of Days: Women Fighters of the Jewish Resistance by Judy Batalion
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Series: Language Acts and Worldm Ser.
Judy Batalion, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors, discovered an extraordinary story of women who fought the Nazis. The "ghetto girls" paid off Gestapo guards, hid revolvers in loaves of bread and jars of marmalade, helped build systems of underground bunkers. They flirted with Nazis, bought them ...Show more
Perfection: The Life and Times of Sir William Manchester by Earle Brown
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
From country boy to internationally renowned plastic surgeon, from junior medical officer to Lieutenant Colonel in just four years, "Perfection: the life and times of Sir William Manchester" covers a life of achievement and service. Hailing from small beginnings in rural Waimate, William Manchester beca ...Show more
A Drinking Life by Jack London
$17.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
"Come. Your glass is empty. Fill and forget." In one of the great works of American literature, Jack London tells a poignant tale of the power of addiction through his alter-ego, John Barleycorn. With alcohol as his sole companion, John travels across North America, living as a sailor, gold prospecto ...Show more
Into the Unknown: The Secret WWI Diary of Kiwi Alick Trafford No. 25/469 by Ian Trafford
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
Secondhand. A personal account of WWI from the diaries of a Gisborne farm boy, shaped into a gripping narrative by the diarist's grandson 100 years later. Follow Alick as he moves from his last night on the farm in early 1916, through enshipment and training, then off to the battle fields of France and ...Show more
Impossible: My Story - Stan Walker by Stan Walker
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Reading Level: near fine
An extraordinary memoir about family, love, belief, redemption and the power of forgiveness. Everything has a reason. Everything has a purpose. Stan Walker is one of the finest singers to emerge from Australia and New Zealand Aotearoa in a generation. When Stan won Australian Idol in 2009, he was thrown ...Show more
Janis - Her Life and Music by Holly George-Warren
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
It's been said Janis Joplin was second only to Bob Dylan as the 'creator-recorder-embodiment of her generation's mythology'. But how did a middle-class girl from Texas become a '60s countercultural icon? Janis' parents doted on her and promoted her early talent for art. But the arrival of a brother shat ...Show more
Accidental Tour Guide: Adventures in Life and Death by Mary Moody
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Eat, Pray, Love meets The Year of Magical Thinking in this powerful memoir of love, loss and taking risks from a true adventurer The irrepressible Mary Moody knows better than anyone the joy of breaking new ground and discovering new frontiers. She is the bestselling author of Au Revoir and Last Tango I ...Show more
Cranford (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Elizabeth Gaskell; Josie Billington (Introduction by); Hugh Thomson (Illustrator)
$19.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, (29 September 1810 - 12 November 1865), was an English novelist, biographer, and short story writer. Her novels offer a detailed portrait of the lives of many strata of Victorian society, including the very poor, and are of interest to social historians as well as lovers of l ...Show more
The Riviera Set by Mary S. Lovell
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
The Riviera Set is the story of the group of people who lived, partied, bed-hopped and politicked at the Ch�teau de l'Horizon near Cannes, over the course of forty years from the time when Coco Chanel made southern French tans fashionable in the twenties to the death of the playboy Prince Aly Khan in 19 ...Show more
Nigel: my family and other dogs by Monty Don
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
THE TOP 3 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER NIGEL - One of Britain's favourite dogs! When Monty Don's golden retriever Nigel became the surprise star of BBC Gardeners' World inspiring huge interest, fan mail and his own social media accounts, Monty Don wanted to explore what makes us connect with animals quite so ...Show more
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
Written after his wife's tragic death as a way of surviving the "mad midnight moments," A Grief Observed is C. S. Lewis' honest reflection on the fundamental issues of life, death, and faith in the midst of loss. This work contains his concise, genuine reflections on that period: "Nothing will shake a m ...Show more
An Ordinary Man, an Extraordinary Life by Malcolm Linsell
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography Memoirs
An unfortunate accident as a toddler left both of Malcolm Linsell's hands burned. At the age of 13, a Plastic surgeon released a burns scar contracture on his right hand, and it was from this day on that unknowingly inspired Malcolm to become a plastic surgeon.