Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: very good
In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has be ...Show more
Stranger Country by Monica Tan
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Tracks meets Wild in this account of Chinese Australian journalist Monica Tan's 6 month odyssey though outback Australia. 'Will I ever really belong to this country? As a Chinese Australian? As a non-Indigenous Australian? . . . I was 32 years old and barely knew the country of my birth. It was time to ...Show more
If You'd Just Let Me Finish by Jeremy Clarkson
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In November 2016 we woke up to the news that the forthright presenter of a popular television programme had become the most powerful man on the planet. His name, sadly, was not Jeremy Clarkson, but we might not have been any more surprised if it had been. Because the world seems to have taken a decidedl ...Show more
The Joy of High Places by Patti Miller
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
They didn't know it, but Patti Miller and herbrother, Barney, shared something in common -- a passion for the illuminating joy of wild nature -- with all its challenges and dangers. In this extraordinaryand unexpected book, Patti tells the story of her own long-distance walkingover hundreds of kilometre ...Show more
Loving Pablo, Hating Escobar by Virginia Vallejo
$29.99 AUD
Category: True Crime
Now a major motion picture Pablo Escobar was one of the most terrifying criminal minds of the last century. In the decade before his death in 1993, he reigned as the head of a multinational cocaine industry and brought the Colombian state to its knees, killing thousands of politicians, media person ...Show more
Wham, George and Me by Andrew Ridgeley
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Wham! were the band that never underestimated the power of pop, nor the healing powers it possessed. In 1981, what started out as a boyhood friendship, catapulted two suburban adolescents to worldwide pop domination, becoming icons of their era. While Andrew Ridgeley may have appeared to have stood in G ...Show more
Inside Out by Demi Moore
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir | Reading Level: 3 Biography
Famed American actress Demi Moore at last tells her own story in a surprisingly intimate and emotionally charged memoir. For decades, Demi Moore has been synonymous with celebrity. From iconic film roles to high-profile relationships, Moore has never been far from the spotlight--or the headlines.Even a ...Show more
Blue - The Color of Noise by Steve Aoki; Daniel Paisner
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
The music. The mix. His life. "[A] passionate, introspective memoir." --Publishers Weekly "Sometimes I think my whole life can be seen through shades of blue..." --Steve Aoki Blue is the remarkable story--in pictures and words--of Steve Aoki, the superstar DJ/producer who started his career as a vega ...Show more
25 Years of Grace: An Anniversary Tribute to Jeff Buckley's Classic Album by Jeff Apter; Merri Cyr
$59.99 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
Jeff Buckley made only one album, but the one he made has proved to be seminal. His talent awed industry giants and moved the hearts of fans spanning generations. But Buckley's untimely death in 1997 left his fans to wonder about all the sonic magic that could have been.Photographer Merri Cyr was there ...Show more
Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina by Misty Copeland
$55.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
From her childhood spent moving around to escape her mother's string of boyfriends and husbands to pressures to mold her body to a dancer's ideal, every challenge Misty faced was met with the same perseverance, passion, and drive that brought her dreams to life. A true prodigy, Misty was dancing en poin ...Show more
Home Work: A Memoir of My Years in Hollywood (HB) by Julie Andrews
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography and Memoir
In this follow-up to her critically acclaimed and bestselling memoir Home, the enchanting Julie Andrews picks up her story with her arrival in Hollywood, sharing the career highlights, personal experiences and reflections behind her astonishing career, including such classics as Mary Poppins, The Sound ...Show more