Deceived with Kindness - A Bloomsbury Childhood by A. Garnett
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: good
Crossing - A Memoir by Deirdre N McCloskey
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
We have read the stories of those who have "crossed" lines of race and class and culture. But few have written of crossing--completely and entirely--the gender line. Crossing is the story of Deirdre McCloskey (formerly Donald), once a golden boy of conservative economics and a child of 1950s and 1960s p ...Show more
The Storyteller's Daughter - Return to a Lost Homeland by Saira Shah
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Growing up in Tunbridge Wells, Saira Shah learned from her father that she came from a land of heroes and conquerors, princesses and villains. Here she interweaves the stories she first heard in childhood with her experiences of going
Daughters of the Samurai - A journey from East to West and back by Janice P Nimura
$14.00 NZD
Category: Asia | Reading Level: very good
In 1871, five young girls were sent by the Japanese government to the United States. Their mission: learn Western ways and return to help nurture a new generation of enlightened men to lead Japan. Raised in traditional samurai households during the turmoil of civil war, three of these unusual ambassador ...Show more
Prince of the Church - Patrick Francis Moran 1830-1911 by Philip Ayres
$25.00 NZD
Category: Australia | Reading Level: very good
A biography of Patrick Francis Moran (1830-1911), cardinal archbishop of Sydney, based on research in Australia, Italy and Ireland. It places Moran within the historical contexts of his life's work: Rome of the 1848 revolution, Italy of the risorgimento, Ireland in the age of rebellion, and Australia in ...Show more
Conundrum by Jan Morris
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
One of the first-ever books on gender transition, this poignant memoir by a trans woman is "the best first-hand account ever written by a traveler across the boundaries of sex" (Newsweek). "A profoundly poetic story." --The New York Times"An exquisite read." --Maria Popova, The MarginalianThe great trav ...Show more
Vulnerable in Hearts - A memoir of fathers, sons and contract bridge by Sandy Balfour
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
My Innocent Absence - Tales From a Nomadic Life by Miriam Frank
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
When five-year-old Miriam boards the Serpia Pinto in 1941, she is unaware that she and her mother Kate are escaping the round-ups, separations extermination camps of Nazi Germany. By the age of 12, Miriam has fled two wars and lived on three continents. Gradually understanding her own history, she begin ...Show more
The Last King of Poland by Adam Zamoyski
$30.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
An enthralling life of the young and dashing King of Poland by one of Britains most exceptional young historians.
Russian at Heart - Sonechka's Story by Olga Hawkes; John Hawkes
$14.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
In freezing mid-winter Moscow, 1924, Sonechka Balk queues to view Lenin's body. She is not there to pay homage, but to see the man whose revolution has stolen her youth. The revolution left the orphaned Sonechka destitute and destroyed her idyllic life in the Crimea. Forced to work for Lenin's secret po ...Show more
John Calvin, Student of Church Fathe by Anthony N S Lane
$18.00 NZD
Category: Religion | Reading Level: very good
A fine study of John Calvin and his relationships with the fathers and medieval scholars, by one of the leading present-day experts in Calvin studies. Specific themes explored include, for example, Calvin's knowledge of the Greek fathers, his use and sources of Bernard of Clairvaux, his use of the fathe ...Show more
A Leap of Faith - Memoirs of an unexpected life by Queen Noor of Jordan (Lisa Halaby)
$12.00 NZD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
The dramatic and inspiring story of an American woman's incredible journey into the heart, and hearts, of a man and his nation.Born into a distinguished Arab-American family and raised amid privilege, Lisa Halaby was in the first co-ed freshman class at Princeton, graduating in 1974 with a degree in arc ...Show more