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Solitude & Company: The Life of Gabriel Garcia Marquez Told with Help from His Friends, Family, Fans, Arguers, Fellow Pranksters, Drunks, and a Few Respectable Souls by Silvana Paternostro
$37.00 NZD
Category: Literary Biography
Prize-winning journalist SILVANA PATERNOSTRO grew up in Barranquilla, Colombia, home to Garcia Marquez's fabled literary group, La Cueva. In 1999, she was selected by Time/CNN as one of "Fifty Latin American Leaders for the Millennium," and is the author of In the Land of God and Man, nominated for the ...Show more
Untamed: Stop Pleasing, Start Living by Glennon Doyle
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
There is a voice of longing inside each woman. We strive so mightily to be good: good partners, daughters, mothers, employees and friends. We hope all this striving will make us feel alive. Instead, it leaves us feeling weary, stuck, overwhelmed and underwhelmed. We look at our lives and wonder: Wasn't ...Show more
Finding Freedom Harry and Meghan and the Making of a Modern Royal Family by Omid Scobie; Carolyn Durand
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
When news of the budding romance between a beloved English prince and an American actress broke, it captured the world's attention and sparked an international media frenzy. But while the Duke and Duchess of Sussex have continued to make headlines – from their engagement, wedding, and birth of their son ...Show more
The Choice: Even in Hell Hope Can Flower by Edith Eger
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
THE AWARDWINNING, INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER'The Choice is a gift to humanity. One of those rare and eternal stories that you don't want to end and that leave you forever changed' DESMOND TUTU, Nobel Peace Prize LaureateIn 1944, sixteen-year-old Edith Eger was sent to Auschwitz. There she endured unimagin ...Show more
Victory in the Kitchen - The Life of Churchill's Cook by Annie Gray
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
This is the story of a woman who was not a royal, not rich, not famous, simply someone who worked hard and enjoyed her life. Beginning in 1882, she ranged through life in the country, life in the town, life in her own house, and in that of others. She travelled, married, had children and a highly succes ...Show more
Unorthodox: The Scandalous Rejection of My Hasidic Roots by Deborah Feldman
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography
Now a Netflix original series! Unorthodox is the bestselling memoir of a young Jewish woman's escape from a religious sect, in the tradition of Ayaan Hirsi Ali's Infidel and Carolyn Jessop's Escape, featuring a new epilogue by the author. As a member of the strictly religious Satmar sect of Hasidic Juda ...Show more
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
David Sedaris plays in the snow with his sisters. He goes on vacation with his family. He gets a job selling drinks. He attends his brother's wedding. He mops his sister's floor. He gives directions to a lost traveller. He eats a hamburger. He has his blood sugar tested. It all sounds so normal, doesn't ...Show more
Frida Kahlo: The Last Interview and Other Conversations by Frida Kahlo; Hayden Herrera (Introduction by)
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: The\Last Interview Ser.
Frida Kahlo is now an icon. In the decades since her death, Kahlo has been celebrated as a proto-feminist, a misunderstood genius, and a leftist hero, but during her lifetime most knew her as ... Diego Rivera's wife. Featuring conversations with American scholar and Marxist, Bertram D. Wolfe, and art cr ...Show more
Aftershocks: Dispatches from the Frontlines of Identity by Nadia Owusu
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
An exceptional memoir about race, family and belonging for a moment when identity and division dominate our global politics I have lived in disaster and disaster has lived in me. Our shared languages are thunder and reverberation. When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her bab ...Show more
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Portrait of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile him for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings but the book had hardly been an immediate success, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknow ...Show more
Chasing the Light by Oliver Stone
$37.99 NZD
Category: Biography
An intimate memoir by the controversial and outspoken, Oscar-winning director and screenwriter about his complicated New York childhood, volunteering for combat, and his struggles and triumphs making such films as Platoon, Midnight Express, and Scarface. Before the international success of Platoon in 1 ...Show more
Clothes... and Other Things That Matter (HB) by Alexandra Shulman
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Chosen by Evening Standard as one of the best books to look forward to in 2020. 'a must-read memoir for even those beyond the fashion set.' - Evening Standard Chosen by Stylist as one of 2020's best non-fiction books. 'In the funny and opinionated Clothes... and other things that matter, former Vogue U ...Show more