The Mapmaker's Wife : A true tale of love, murder and survival in the Amazon by Robert Whitaker
$27.90 NZD
Category: General Biography
In the early 18th Century a group of scientists set off from France to discover the unknown land of South America in a trip that nearly ended in disaster. Scaling the 16,000 foot Peruvian Andes, the scientists faced the depravations and dangers of the rain forest wild cats, insects and vampire bats and ...Show more
The Mascot (O/P 23/4/09) by Mark Kurzem
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Hiding in a tree, 5 year old Jewish boy Alex Kurzman witnesses his family murdered by a German execution squad. He escapes and after many harsh months falls into the hands of a Latvian police battalion. These soldiers adopt him as a mascot and he becomes a part of the Nazi propaganda machine.<br& ...Show more
The Master Pearler's Daughter : Memories of my Broome Childhood by Rosemary Hemphill
$27.90 NZD
Category: General Biography
A rare view of a place that has changed and a time that will never be repeated - Broome in the 1920s and 30s - told by Rosemary Hemphill, whose father owned one of the largest fleets of pearling luggers in the state and whose mother longed for the genteel life she had left behind in England. Now in her ...Show more
The Matriarch: The Story of 'Granny Evil' Kathy Pettingill by Adrian Tame
$23.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Kathy Pettingill is a name that's both respected and feared, not only by Australia's criminal underworld, but by many in the Victorian police force. As the matriarch at the head of the most notorious and violent family of habitual offenders in Australian criminal history, her life has revolved around mu ...Show more
The Mauritanian by Mohamedou Ould Slahi
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
Previously published as Guantánamo Diary, this momentous account and international bestseller is soon to be a major motion pictureThe first and only diary written by a Guantánamo detainee during his imprisonment, now with previously censored material restored.Mohamedou Ould Slahi was imprisoned in Guant ...Show more
The Maybelline Story: And the Spirited Family Dynasty Behind it by Alan Andrews Ragland
$43.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Stories of the-great-man-and-how-he-did-it serve as a traditional mainstay of biographies, but memoirs that focus on relationships are more likely to be discussed in women’s groups. THE MAYBELLINE STORY combines the best of both approaches: a man whose vision rocketed him to successs along with the wom ...Show more
The Meaning of Michelle: 16 Writers on the Iconic First Lady and How Her Journey Inspires Our Own by Veronica Chambers
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Even after eight years of watching them daily in the press, the fact that the most powerful man in the world is a Black man is still breathtaking to me. The fact that he goes home to a tight-knit, loving family headed by a Black woman is soul-stirring. That woman is Michelle. Michelle. That name now ca ...Show more
The Middlepause: On Turning Fifty by Marina Benjamin
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In a society obsessed with living longer and looking younger, what does middle age nowadays mean? How should a fifty-something be in a world ceaselessly redefining ageing, youth, and experience? The Middlepause offers hope, and heart. Cutting through society's clamorous demands to work longer and stay ...Show more
The Mighty Franks: A Memoir by Michael Frank
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: very good
A story at once extremely strange and entirely familiar - about families, innocence, art and love. This hugely enjoyable, totally unforgettable memoir is a classic in the making. 'My aunt called our two families the Mighty Franks. But, she said, you and I, Lovey, are a thing apart. The two of us have pu ...Show more
The Mighty Totara: The Life and Times of Norman Kirk by David Malcolm Grant
$45.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: Very Good
A major biography of arguably New Zealand's greatest modern political leader As Norman Kirk's body lay in state near the steps of Parliament on the day after his death on 31 August 1974, a kaumatua wailed 'the mighty totara has fallen'. The lament reflected what many New Zealanders felt about this big, ...Show more
The Mighty and the Almighty by Madeleine K. Albright
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Does America, as George W. Bush has proclaimed, have a special mission, derived from God, to bring liberty and democracy to the world? How much influence does the Christian right have over U.S. foreign policy? And how should America and the West deal with violent Islamist extremists? Traditionally, poli ...Show more