The Independent Member for Lyne by Rob Oakeshott
$9.95 AUD
Category: Biography
From deep inside the last Parliament, Rob Oakeshott reveals the real story of being an independent during the Gillard government.
Bringing Up Bébé One American Mother Discovers the Wisdom of French Parenting by Pamela Druckerman
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Category: Biography
The runaway New York Times bestseller that shows American parents the secrets behind France's amazingly well-behaved childrenWhen American journalist Pamela Druckerman had a baby in Paris, she didn't aspire to become a "French parent." But she noticed that French children slept through the night by two ...Show more
Snake Dancing by Roberta Sykes
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Category: Biography
Snake Dancing is the second volume of Roberta Sykes' three volume autobiography, Snake Dreaming.This second volume of Sykes' three-volume autobiography covers her increasing politicization and involvement in the Black movement through to an invitation from Harvard to postgraduate study. Events include h ...Show more
Return from Exile - One Woman's Journey Back to Judaism by Carol M. Orsborn
$12.00 AUD
Category: Biography
At midlife, a spiritually hungry author of self-help books leaves behind her professional life to enrol in divinity school and emerges unexpectedly reconnected to the Judaism she thought she had left behind. In this book Carol Matzkin Orsborn discusses her first year at divinity school, the year that tr ...Show more
The Footy Lady The Trailblazing Story of Susan Alberti by Stephanie Asher
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Category: Biography
No tragedy, no challenge, has proved too hard for Susan Alberti. The woman from the working-class suburbs has battled boardrooms, courts, lymphoma and adult diabetes;and was one of the driving forces behind the AFL's move into women's football. When her first husband was killed by a truck, Susan took ...Show more
Life Beyond Measure: Letters to My Great-Granddaughter by Sidney Poitier
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Category: Biography
M - The Man Who Became Caravaggio by Peter Robb
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Category: Biography
A New York Times Notable Book of the YearAs vividly and unflinchingly presented herein with "blood and bone and sinew" (Times Literary Supplement) by Peter Robb, Caravaggio's wild and tempestuous life was a provocation to a culture in a state of siege. The end of the sixteenth century was marked by the ...Show more
Snake Hips : Belly dancing and how I found true love by Anne Thomas Soffee
$6.50 AUD
Category: Biography
Snake Hips follows an Arab- American woman's life as she shimmies her way from getting dumped by her tattoo- artist boyfriend to coming to grips with being single, ample, and 30. Her heart broken, Soffee moves back home to wallow in self- pity. There she comes across a flier advertising the usual classe ...Show more
I am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced by Nujood Ali with Delphine Minoui
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Category: Biography
The true story of a 10-year-old girl who won a divorce from the man she was forced to marry, courageously defying both Yemeni customs and her own family. Nujood's childhood came to an abrupt end when her father arranged for her to be married to a man three times her age. With harrowing directness, Nujoo ...Show more
The Bolter by Frances Osborne
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Category: Biography
On Friday 25th May, 1934, a forty-one-year-old woman walked into the lobby of Claridge's Hotel to meet the nineteen-year-old son whose face she did not know.Fifteen years earlier, as the First World War ended, Idina Sackville shocked high society by leaving his multimillionaire father to run off to Afri ...Show more
Memoirs by Mike Willesee
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Category: Biography
"After thousands of stories, a legend finally tells his own. Mike Willesee has been Australia's most revered television journalist for over fifty years. And behind the lens, a businessman, powerbroker, trailblazer and enduring enigma. Son of a minister in the Whitlam cabinet, Willesee was a football sta ...Show more
Miss Kwa Kwa II - The Dark Side of the Braai by Stephen Simm
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Category: Biography
MK, the lady usually causing all the trouble, faces it from all sides--political fanatics, Hollywood party girls, a secret agent, and local television--in this rollicking sequel to Miss Kwa Kwa. Upon waking up a week after she remembers going to bed, MK realizes sinister plots are afoot in Johannesburg ...Show more