My Grandfather Would Have Shot Me: A Black Woman Discovers Her Family's Nazi Past by Jennifer Teege; Carolin Sommer (Translator); Nikola Sellmair; Adjoa Andoh (Read by)
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Now in paperback: The New York Times bestselling memoir hailed as "unforgettable" (Publishers Weekly) and "a stunning memoir of cultural trauma and personal identity" (Booklist).At age 38, Jennifer Teege happened to pluck a library book from the shelf--and discovered a horrifying fact: Her grandfather w ...Show more
The Strength of Hope: A Holocaust Survivor's Guide to Love and Life by Abram Goldberg, Fiona Harris
$23.00 AUD
Category: Biography
97-year-old Abram Goldberg is a beacon of positivity, and lives with a joy and optimism that could not more starkly contrast with his experience in the Holocaust. One of the most uplifting stories you will ever read. Abram Goldberg is a beacon of joy and optimism, and a master of keeping perspective. ...Show more
Remembering Nazareth House - God and the Devil Wore the Same Robes by Tess Rowley
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography
'Do our mothers think of us?' The Shameful History of a Catholic Orphanage told through the eyes of the children who were there. Bobbie is two years old when her French Grandmother leaves her at Nazareth House, Brisbane, in 1942. In the following years Bobbie experiences and witnesses horrific abuse b ...Show more
The Match by Mark Frost
$28.00 AUD
Category: Biography
The year: 1956. Eddie Lowery, once caddie to Francis Ouimet, now a wealthy car dealer and avid supporter of amateur golf, boasts to fellow millionaire George Coleman that two of his salesmen - US amateur champion Harvie Ward and up-and-coming star Ken Venturi - could beat any golfers in the world in a b ...Show more
Rasputin: The Biography by Douglas Smith
$50.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A hundred years after his murder, Rasputin continues to excite the popular imagination as the personification of evil. The spectre of the lustful Siberian holy man and peasant still casts its eerie shadow over Russia's bloody twentieth century. Numerous biographies, novels, and films recount his mysteri ...Show more
Never Fear the Spills by David Wilson
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1973, facing prosecution for dangerous driving following a high-speed motorcycle collision, a young civil engineer accepted a short-term job offer in Singapore. That twist of fate catapulted him into a global oil and gas industry fuelled by fallout from the Yom Kippur War, which saw crude oil jump fr ...Show more
Stronger by Dinesh Palipana
$37.00 AUD
Category: Biography
A puddle of water on a highway changed Dinesh Palipana's life forever. Halfway through medical school, Dinesh was involved in a catastrophic car accident that caused a cervical spinal cord injury. After his accident, his strength and determination saw him return to complete medical school - now with qua ...Show more
The Happiest Refugee: My Journey from Tragedy to Comedy by Anh Do
$33.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Anh Do nearly didn't make it to Australia. His entire family came close to losing their lives on the sea as they escaped from war-torn Vietnam in an overcrowded boat. But nothing - not murderous pirates, nor the imminent threat of death by hunger, disease or dehydration as they drifted for days - could ...Show more
Elon Musk: How the Billionaire CEO of SpaceX and Tesla is Shaping our Future by Ashlee Vance
$25.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
South African born Elon Musk is the renowned entrepreneur and innovator behind PayPal, SpaceX, Tesla, and SolarCity. Musk wants to save our planet; he wants to send citizens into space, to form a colony on Mars; he wants to make money while doing these things; and he wants us all to know about it. He is ...Show more
Just Tyrus: A Memoir by Tyrus
$49.00 AUD
Category: Biography
Pro wrestler and political commentator Tyrus goes deep into his wild but triumphant life story, from his painfully dysfunctional upbringing to bodyguarding for Snoop Dogg, to becoming a wrestling icon and one of the most provocative on-air voices today. The product of a 1970s mixed marriage, George ...Show more
The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak - Lessons on Faith from Nine Biblical Families by Shannon Bream
$45.45 AUD
Category: Biography
God always keeps His promises, but not always in the way we expect.... "Have faith" is a phrase we hear all the time. But what does it actually look like to live it out? In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, Shannon Bream examines the lives of biblical women to see how God's plans can turn ou ...Show more
Lies My Mother Told Me - Tall Tales from a Short Woman by Melissa Rivers
$45.00 AUD
Category: Biography
If you think Joan Rivers said funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things ONSTAGE, wait 'til you read the funny, outrageous, and ridiculous things she said OFFSTAGE...things that will make you laugh out loud...and keep Melissa in therapy for the foreseeable future. The only thing my mother loved more than ...Show more