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The Misadventures of Polly Gillespie - Reports from a Riotous Life by Polly Gillespie
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
With a great deal of humour and honesty Polly Gillespie walks the reader through some of the ups and downs of life, with advice, warnings, and stories simply involving the awkwardness of being Polly. (She says that at the very least these will make you feel normal.) She has been on radio and in magazine ...Show more
Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness by Bill Bailey
$40.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
In Bill Bailey's Remarkable Guide to Happiness, Bill explores the nature of happiness and ways to be, well, happy. Being Bill Bailey however, he does so in his own, remarkable, Bill Bailey way. From paddle-boarding down the Thames in a Santa hat, to wild swimming in a glacial river, Bill considers the e ...Show more
Memoirs of a Kamikaze - A World War II Pilot's Story of Survival, Honor and Reconciliation by Kazuo Odachi; Alexander Bennett (Translator); Shigeru Ota; Hiroyoshi Nishijima
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
An incredible, untold story of survival and acceptance that sheds light on one of the darkest chapters in Japanese history. This book tells the story of Kazuo Odachi who--in 1943, when he was just 16 years-old--joined the Imperial Japanese Navy to become a pilot. A year later, he was unknowingly assigne ...Show more
The Vagabonds - The Story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison's Ten-Year Road Trip by Jeff Guinn
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A "fascinating slice of rarely considered American history" (Booklist)--the story of Henry Ford and Thomas Edison--whose annual summer sojourns introduced the road trip to our culture and made the automobile an essential part of modern life. In 1914 Henry Ford and naturalist John Burroughs visited T ...Show more
All the Young Men by Ruth Coker Burks
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
'If I have one message with this book it's that we all have to care for one another. Today, not just in 1986. Life is about caring for each other, and I learned more about life from the dying than I ever learned from the living. It's in an elephant ride, it's in those wildflowers dancing on their way to ...Show more
Becoming (PB) by Michelle Obama
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Now in paperback featuring a new introduction by Michelle Obama, a letter from the author to her younger self, and a book club guide with 20 discussion questions and a 5-question Q&A, the intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United StatesThe No. 1 BestsellerBritis ...Show more
Yearbook by Seth Rogen
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
A collection of funny personal essays from one of the writers of Superbad and Pineapple Express and one of the producers of The Disaster Artist, Neighbors, and The Boys. (All of these words have been added to help this book show up in people's searches using the wonders of algorithmic technology. Thanks ...Show more
Where We Swim: VUP Classic by Ingrid Horrocks
$35.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
‘I’d wanted to remember why it was we swam in the first place – to remember the pleasure of immersing in an element other than air.’ Ingrid Horrocks had few aspirations to swimming mastery, but she had always loved being in the water. She set out on a solo swimming journey, then abandoned it for a diff ...Show more
The Happiest Man on Earth by Eddie Jaku
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
Life can be beautiful if you make it beautiful. It is up to you. Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie fa ...Show more
Elizabeth & Margaret: The Intimate World of the Windsor Sisters by Andrew Morton
$33.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
They were the closest of sisters and the best of friends. But when, in a quixotic twist of fate, their uncle Edward VIII decided to abdicate the throne, the dynamic between Elizabeth and Margaret was dramatically altered. Forever more, Margaret would have to curtsey to the sister she called ‘Lillibet’. ...Show more
Time to Remember by Janna Ruth
$37.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
When the Canterbury Earthquakes destroyed their city, Natalie and her friends were only ten years old. Too old to forget, but too young to be heard, they have never told their stories. Until now. Ten years after the earthquakes, Natalie returns to her home town with a plan. To show how the earthquakes ...Show more
Farm for Life by Tangaroa Walker
$38.00 NZD
Category: Biography/Memoir
The awesomely inspiring true story of how Tangaroa Walker turned his life around through farming - and how what he learned can help anyone succeed. Tangaroa Walker's early years weren't easy. Born into a gang family, he was adopted out twice and attended six different schools before he was six. He only ...Show more
