The Little Book of the Rolling Stones: Wisdom and Wit from Rock 'n' Roll Legends by Malcolm Croft
$15.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography | Series: The\Little Book Of Ser.
The Little Book of the Rolling Stones is a superb book of quotations by, and about, the greatest rock 'n' roll band in history. A perfect companion for Stones fans everywhere, this collection of bite-sized quips helps capture exactly what has made the band so legendary across more than 50 years in the s ...Show more
The Little Ghost Girl:Abused Starved and Neglected. A Little Girl Desperate for Someone to Love Her by Maggie Hartley
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Series: A\Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story Ser.
Kayleigh was a ghost of a girl when she arrived into foster mother Maggie Hartley's care. Pale, frail and withdrawn, it was clear to Maggie that Kayleigh had seen and experienced things that no ten-year-old should have to, that she's been conditioned to 'see no evil, speak no evil'. Kayleigh is in despe ...Show more
The Little Girl Who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America by John F. Kasson
$45.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Amid the deprivation and despair of the Great Depression, Shirley Temple radiated a spirit of optimism and plucky good cheer. Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements daily; she rivalled Franklin D. Roosevelt and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. For four consecutive ...Show more
The Locust and the Bird: My Mother's Story by Hanan Al-Shaykh
$38.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
New York, 2001 As Hanan al-Shaykh travels through the streets of Manhattan to her daughter's wedding her mind is elsewhere. Remembering own secret ceremony some thirty years ago, her thoughts turn to her mother, Kamila, who was sacrificed into marriage: her absent mother who, in recent, reconciled year ...Show more
The Lone Ranger Story : From Salvage Tug to Superyacht by John Julian
$60.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Lone Ranger worked as a salvage tug (then named Simson) and towed some of the largest oil installations ever built during twenty of the most challenging years in the history of the business. During the mid-1990s she embarked on a second career and has become the world's pre-eminent exploration yacht. As ...Show more
The Lonely Sea by Yvette Allum
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
This is the extraordinary true adventure story of how Sue Dockar survived for two days and two nights lost alone at sea after being swept away during a spearfishing contest in the shark-infested waters off the Queensland coast. The Lonely Sea shows how a series of small and individually avoidable errors ...Show more
The Longest Day: Standing up to Depression and Tackling the Coast to Coast by Matt Calman
$33.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
What do you do when you reach rock bottom? Matt Calman's most consistent tool for dealing with problems throughout his life was alcohol. But it got to the stage where he was no longer willing to put up with the dark side of his drinking. So he quit. But the problems that had been simmering away for most ...Show more
The Longest Trip Home : A Memoir by John Grogan
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In this book, John writes with honesty, openness and humour about relationship between a boy and his parents. As a 'bad' boy in a good family, John didn't always live up to his parents expectations, but as a man he came to understand the love they gave him every day of his life.
The Lost Boy: Tales of a Child Soldier by Ayik Chut Deng
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography
In episode 1 of the Ray Martin fronted SBS series Look me in the eye two South Sudanese migrants now resident in Brisbane sat across from each other and looked into each other's eyes. One of them, Ayik, was once a ten-year-old boy soldier training in the junior forces of the SPLA and like many of the yo ...Show more
The Lost Executioner : A story of the Khmer Rouge by Nic Dunlop
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A real-life detective story, tracking down the man responsible for some of the worst atrocities of the killing fieldsIn Cambodia, between 1975 and 1979, nearly two million people died at the hands of the Khmer Rouge. As head of the Khmer Rouge secret police, Comrade Duch was responsible for the murder o ...Show more
The Lost German Slave Girl by John Bailey
$27.90 NZD
Category: General Biography
One spring morning in New Orleans, in 1843, a middle-aged German immigrant was walking through the city's Spanish Quarter when she came across a woman she recognized, a beautiful young German who had disappeared over 20 years before as a young child. Yet the woman in front of her was a slave, with no me ...Show more