I, Steve: Steve Jobs in His Own Words by George Beahm
$17.95 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Fortune magazine proclaimed Jobs 'the CEO of the decade'. Harvard Business Review called him 'the world's best-performing CEO'. And the Wall Street Journal praised him as a 'Person of the Decade'. The longtime CEO of Apple, Inc., which he co-founded in 1976, Steve Jobs stepped down from that role in Aug ...Show more
Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Life and Love From Someone Who's Been There by Cheryl Strayed
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Series: Advice on love & life from someone who's been there
This bestselling book from the author of Wild collects the best of The Rumpus's Dear Sugar advice columns plus never-before-published pieces. Rich with humor, insight, compassion--and absolute honesty--this bookis a balm for everything life throws our way. Life can be hard: your lover cheats on you; y ...Show more
Stalin's Daughter: The Extraordinary and Tumultuous Life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan
$39.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 A painstakingly researched, revelatory biography of Svetlana Stalin, a woman fated to live her life in the shadow of one of history's most monstrous dictators - her father, Josef Stalin. Born in the ea ...Show more
Looking for Madeleine by Anthony Summers
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
The 2007 disappearance of a three-year-old Madeleine McCann from her bed in Portugal proved an instant, worldwide sensation. There's been nothing like it since America's Lindbergh kidnapping eighty years ago. Award-winning authors Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan have produced the first independent, obje ...Show more
Daughter of Gloriavale - My Life in a Religious Cult by Lilia Tarawa
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography | Reading Level: good-very good
When Lilia's parents fled the cult and its dreadful secrets, Lilia and her many siblings were wrenched away from the only life they knew. Lilia struggled to adapt to life on the outside. Would she be damned to Hell for leaving? How could she learn to navigate this strange place called 'the world'? And w ...Show more
When Women Were Birds: Fifty-four Variations on Voice by Terry Tempest Williams
$30.00 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
NATIONAL BESTSELLERA Kansas City Star Best Book of the Year"Brilliant, meditative, and full of surprises, wisdom, and wonder."--Ann Lamott, author of Imperfect Birds "I am leaving you all my journals, but you must promise me you won't look at them until after I'm gone." This is what Terry Tempest Willia ...Show more
Bossypants by Tina Fey (Read by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV. She has seen both ...Show more
Mountains Beyond Mountains: One Doctor's Quest to Heal the World by Tracy Kidder
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
Profound and powerful, Mountains Beyond Mountains takes us from Harvard to Haiti, Peru, Cuba and Russia, as the charismatic but flawed genius Dr Paul Farmer challenges widely-held preconceptions about poverty and healthcare. As a medical student, Farmer found his life's calling: to cure infectious disea ...Show more
Down the Dirt Roads by Rachael Treasure
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
'For me, being in a paddock means anything is possible . . .' Country girl and bestselling novelist Rachael Treasure had worked hard to build a long-dreamed-of lifestyle on her own patch of dirt in Tasmania's rugged and beautiful wilderness. But through the breakdown of her marriage, Rachael lost her fa ...Show more
Madeleine - A Life of Madeleine St John by Helen Trinca
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
At the age of fifteen Madeleine saw herself as a painter and pianist, but Ms Medway peereddown at Madeleine during her entrance interview in 1957 and announced: 'You know dear, I thinkyou might write.' Madeleine would write. But not for some time. The Women in Black, a sparkling gem that beliedthe diff ...Show more
El Infierno: Drugs, Gangs, Riots and Murder: My Time Inside Ecuador's Toughest Prisons by Pieter Tritton
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography, Memoir & Autobiography
"Gato's head snapped back...We could make out the shots of several 9mms, a couple of 38s and one or two 45s. I hurled myself through the doorway and into the room. I didn't look back." Caught in an Ecuador hotel room with 8kg of cocaine, Pieter Tritton was no mule or dupe. He had planned and organised e ...Show more