The Trauma Cleaner: One Woman's Extraordinary Life in Death, Decay & Disaster by Sarah Krasnostein
$30.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Before she was a trauma cleaner, Sandra Pankhurst was many things: husband and father, drag queen, gender reassignment patient, sex worker, small businesswoman, trophy wife ... But as a little boy, raised in violence and excluded from the family home, she just wanted to belong. Now she believes her clie ...Show more
The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock: An Anatomy of the Master of Suspense by Edward White
$55.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
In The Twelve Lives of Alfred Hitchcock, Edward White explores the Hitchcock phenomenon: what defines it, how it was invented, what it reveals about the man at its core, and how its legacy continues to shape our cultural world. The book's twelve chapters illuminate different aspects of Hitchcock's life ...Show more
The Two Popes by Anthony McCarten
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
On 28 February 2013, a 600-year-old tradition was shattered- Pope Benedict XVI made a startling announcement. He would resign.This story begins with the death of John Paul, through Benedict's election and reign - taking in the controversies that blighted the world's largest church - to his subsequent an ...Show more
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice by Judith Mackrell
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power and wealth of a great Venetian family, but the fortunes of the Veniers waned during construction and the project was abandoned. Empty, unfinished, and decaying, the building was considered an eyesore until the early twentie ...Show more
The Ungrateful Refugee by Dina Nayeri
$34.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
"Dina Nayeri's powerful writing confronts issues that are key to the refugee experience." --Viet Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Sympathizer and The Refugees In her first work of nonfiction, Dina Nayeri raises surprising and provocative questions, recalibrating the conversation aroun ...Show more
The Unmapped Mind - A Memoir of Neurology, Incurable Disease and Learning How to Live by Christian Donlan
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
'Remarkable and revelatory, a dazzling achievement. Quietly electrifying' Sunday Times On the day his daughter takes her first steps Christian Donlan discovers he has an incurable neurological disease, multiple sclerosis. As his young daughter starts to investigate the world around her, he too finds him ...Show more
The Unseen Eric Morecambe : the lost diaries, jokes and photographs by William Cook (ed)
$36.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The Upside (FTI) by Abdel Sellou
$24.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
The story of how Abdel Sellou (a charismatic ex-con) came to be the caretaker of Philippe Pozzo di Borgo (a paralyzed French aristocrat) inspired the award-winning French movie Les Intouchables (2012), which became an international phenomenon and broke records as one of the most successful French movies ...Show more
The Volunteer: The True Story of the Resistance Hero who Infiltrated Auschwitz by Jack Fairweather
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
Would you sacrifice yourself to save thousands of others? In the Summer of 1940, after the Nazi occupation of Poland, an underground operative called Witold Pilecki accepted a mission to uncover the fate of thousands of people being interred at a new concentration camp on the border of the Reich. His mi ...Show more
The Way It Was: My Life with Frank Sinatra by Eliot Weisman; Jennifer Valoppi
$28.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
A candid and eye-opening inside look at the final decades of Sinatra's life told by his longtime manager and friend, Eliot Weisman. By the time Weisman met Sinatra in 1976, he was already the Voice, a man who held sway over popular music and pop culture for forty years, who had risen to the greatest ...Show more
The Way Through the Woods: Of mushrooms and mourning by LONG LITT WOON AND BARBARA HAVELAND
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: 6.5 Wellbeing
A grieving widow discovers a most unexpected form of healing - hunting for mushrooms. Long Litt Woon met Eiolf a month after arriving in Norway from Malaysia as an exchange student. They fell in love, married, and settled into domestic bliss. Then Eiolf's unexpected death at fifty-four left Woon strugg ...Show more
The Woman I Wanted To Be by Diane von Furstenberg
$32.99 NZD
Category: General Biography
One of the most influential, admired, and innovative women of our time: fashion designer, philanthropist, wife, mother, and grandmother, Diane von Furstenberg offers a book about becoming the woman she wanted to be. Diane von Furstenberg started out with a suitcase full of jersey dresses and an idea of ...Show more