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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
The Mirror Book by Charlotte Grimshaw
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Brave, explosive, and thought-provoking, this is a powerful memoir. 'It's material, make a story out of it,' was the mantra Charlotte Grimshaw grew up with in her literary family. But when her life suddenly turned upside-down, she needed to re-examine the reality of that material. The more she delved i ...Show more
Joe Biden American Dreamer by Evan Osnos
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A concise, brilliant and incisive examination of Democratic nominee Joe Biden and his lifelong quest for the presidency This definitive history of Joe Biden tells the poignant story of the man – both his life in politics and the series of personal tragedies that have marked him – drawing on extensive co ...Show more
This Pakeha Life: An Unsettled Memoir by Alison Jones
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
This book is about my making sense here, of my becoming and being Pakeha. Every Pakeha becomes a Pakeha in their own way, finding her or his own meaning for that Maori word. This is the story of what it means to me. I have written this book for Pakeha - and other New Zealanders - curious about their sen ...Show more
Educated: A Memoir by Tara Westover
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
'Educated is a remarkable memoir of a young woman raised in a survivalist family in Idaho who strives for education while still showing great understanding and love for the world she leaves behind.' - BARACK OBAMA Tara Westover grew up preparing for the End of Days, watching for the sun to darken, for t ...Show more
Kamala's Way by Dan Morain
$35.60 NZD
Category: Biography
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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
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
Do You Feel Like I Do? by Peter Frampton; Alan Light (As told to)
$46.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
A revelatory memoir by rock icon and legendary guitarist Peter Frampton.Do You Feel Like I Do? is the incredible story of Peter Frampton's positively resilient life and career told in his own words for the first time. His monu-mental album Frampton Comes Alive spawned three top-twenty singles and sold e ...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
Haben - The Deafblind Woman Who Conquered Harvard Law by Haben Girma
$27.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
"This autobiography by a millennial Helen Keller teems with grace and grit." -- O, The Oprah Magazine"A profoundly important memoir." -- The Times** As featured in The Wall Street Journal, People, and on The TODAY Show ** A New York Times "New & Noteworthy" Pick ** An O Magazine "Book of the Month" ...Show more
Sundowner of the Skies - Oscar Garden, The Forgotten Aviator by Mary Garden
$33.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: new
In the early morning of 16 October 1930, Oscar Garden taxied his tiny open-cockpit Gipsy Moth across London's Croydon aerodrome and, with a wave of his hand to the only person there to farewell him, took off. He had carpet slippers on his feet and a packet of sandwiches on his lap. His plan was to fly t ...Show more