Brilliant Ideas from Wonderful Women by Aitziber Lopez
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Discover the stories behind 14 of the twentieth century's key inventions in this fun and informative treasury of trailblazing women, who each made a unique contribution to the history of science and technology. Car heaters...Monopoly...Disposable diapers...The dishwasher...Kevlar...Maritime flares... A ...Show more
Me by Katharine Hepburn
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
2 cassettes / 3 hoursRead by Katharine HepburnListen to Katharine Hepburn, in her own unmistakable voice, tell you her story of her life. This is a truly once-in-a-lifetime AudioBook to share with generations to come.
We Are Displaced: My Journey and Stories from Refugee Girls Around the World by Malala Yousafzai
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Nobel Peace Prize winner and bestselling author Malala Yousafzai introduces some of the faces behind the statistics and news stories we read or hear every day about the millions of people displaced worldwide. Malala's experiences travelling the world and visiting refugee camps caused her to reconsider h ...Show more
The Pianist of Yarmouk by Aeham Ahmad
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
One morning on the outskirts of Damascus, two starving friends are walking through their desolate city and come across a familiar street that has been turned to rubble, concrete bridges towering above them like tombs and houses turned inside out. Aeham turns to the only comfort he has left and sits at h ...Show more
The Hard Stuff - Dope, Crime, the MC5, and My Life of Impossibilities by Wayne Kramer
$32.99 AUD
Category: Entertainment
The first memoir by Wayne Kramer, legendary guitarist and cofounder of quintessential Detroit proto-punk legends The MC5 In January 1969, before the world heard a note of their music, The MC5 was on the cover of Rolling Stone. The missing link between free jazz and punk rock, they were raw, primal, and ...Show more
Women's Work: A Reckoning with Home and Help by Megan Stack
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
When Megan Stack left her prestigious job as a foreign correspondent to have a baby and to work from her home in Beijing writing a book, she quickly realised that childcare and housework would consume the time she needed to write. This dilemma was resolved in the manner of many upper-class families and ...Show more
The Magnolia Story by Chip Gaines; Joanna Gaines
$23.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
National Bestseller--New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, Publishers Weekly Are you ready to see your fixer upper? These famous words are now synonymous with the dynamic husband-and-wife team Chip and Joanna Gaines, stars of HGTV's Fixer Upper. As this question fills the airwaves with anticip ...Show more
Anne Frank (Little Guide to Great Lives) by Isabel Thomas; Paola Escobar (Illustrator)
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives Ser.
Anne Frank was an ordinary girl living in extraordinary times. Forced to go into hiding to escape the Nazis' persecution of Jews in World War II, Anne kept a diary that would become one of the most famous books in the world. Meet one of history's most inspiring figures in this beautifully-illustrate ...Show more
Ferdinand Magellan (Little Guides to Great Lives) (HB) by Isabel Thomas
$16.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Little Guides to Great Lives
Explorer, sailor and navigator, Ferdinand Magellan led the first expedition to sail all the way around the world. He encountered lands and creatures that he could never have imagined, and the journey was fraught with danger and difficulty...Join Magellan's amazing adventure in this colourful guide, enco ...Show more
Living in Hope by Frank Byrne; Frances Coughlan; Gerard Waterford
$15.00 AUD
Category: Australian
Book one in the Inland Writers-short reads from the Centre of Australia. The killing times were barely over in the Kimberley. What I knew, even as a small boy, was that no-one argued with a whitefella. People talked in whispers. I was still so small. This is the story of the early years of my life. The ...Show more
My Twenty-Five Years in Provence - Reflections on Then and Now by Peter Mayle
$27.99 AUD
Category: General | Series: Vintage Departures Ser.
Twenty-five years ago, Peter Mayle and his wife, Jennie, were rained out of a planned two weeks on the C te d'Azur. In search of sunlight, they set off for Aix-en-Provence; enchanted by the world and life they found there, they soon decided to uproot their lives in England and settle in Provence. They h ...Show more
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: 4
This is the dramatic story of how a noted tech venture capitalist, an early mentor to Mark Zuckerberg and investor in his company, woke up to the serious damage Facebook was doing to our society and set out to try to stop it. If you had told Roger McNamee three years ago that he would soon be devoting h ...Show more