You Don't Belong Here: How Three Women Rewrote the Story of War by Elizabeth Becker
$37.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
The never-before-told story of three women who courageously reported from the frontlines of the Vietnam War. One spent twenty-three days in captivity. Another jumped off planes to get the perfect aerial shot. The other reported from war-torn slums and villages. Catherine Leroy, Frankie Fitzgerald and Ka ...Show more
Young Queen by Parris Goebel
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography
Crazy. Bold. Fearless. Parris Goebel was destined to make her mark. Young Queen is the autobiography of a dancer with a dream . . . a young Polynesian girl who grew up in New Zealand and went on to conquer the hip hop world. In this honest memoir, Parris Goebel shares the extraordinary story of how s ...Show more
Young Rupert: the making of the Murdoch empire by Walter Marsh
$40.00 NZD
Category: General Biography
For half a century, the Murdoch media empire and its polarising patriarch have swept across the globe, shaking up markets and democracies in their wake. But how did it all start? In September 1953, 22-year-old Rupert Murdoch landed in Adelaide, South Australia. Fresh from Oxford with a radical reputati ...Show more
You're History - The Twelve Strangest Women in Music by Lesley Chow
$30.00 NZD
Category: Music Biography
Raucous, sensual and sublime: how twelve pioneering female artists rewrote the rules of pop. From Kate Bush to Nicki Minaj, from Janet Jackson to TLC and Taylor Swift, pop's greatest female pioneers are simply strange smashing notions of taste and decorum, and replacing them with new ideals of pleasure. ...Show more
Zarifa - A Woman's Battle in a Man's World by Zarifa Ghafari, Hannah Lucinda Smith
$37.99 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A moving and inspiring memoir by Afghanistan's youngest female mayor and campaigner for human rights.I am one of the lucky ones.I got out of Afghanistan alive when the Taliban retook the country. Millions of others did not - they are now living under one of the world's most repressive regimes, with any ...Show more
Zigzags and Leapfrogs - A Memoir by Maris O'Rourke
$35.00 NZD
Category: NZ biography | Reading Level: near fine
Born on a small island in Scotland to a local girl and an Australian serviceman, raised in a working class, dysfunctional, often violent, itinerant household around the UK and Europe, O'Rourke rose to become the Secretary for Education for New Zealand, the Director of Education at the World Bank, an Int ...Show more
Zucked: Waking Up to the Facebook Catastrophe by Roger McNamee
$35.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | 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
a Memoir Palemia: Prime Minister Tuila'epa Sa'ilele Malielegaoi of Samoa by Swain Peter
$50.00 NZD
Category: General Biography | Reading Level: near fine
Palemia tells the story of how a boy from an isolated village grew up to become Prime Minister of Samoa. It follows his journey from Lepa to Apia, Wellington, Brussels, Singapore, Beijing, Tokyo, London, New York and many other international destinations, always returning to Lepa and the Fa'asamoa that ...Show more