Condé Nast - The Man and His Empire -- a Biography by Susan Ronald
$44.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The first biography in over thirty years of Conde Nast, the pioneering publisher of Vogue and Vanity Fair and main rival to media magnate William Randolph Hearst. Conde Nast's life and career was as high profile and glamourous as his magazines. Moving to New York in the early twentieth century with jus ...Show more
Consumed by Hate, Redeemed by Love - How a Violent Klansman Became a Champion of Racial Reconciliation by Thomas A. Tarrants
$38.99 AUD
Category: Biography
"Riveting, inspiring, at times hard to believe but utterly true...it gives some measure of hope in these rancorous times." -- John Grisham As an ordinary high school student in the 1960s, Tom Tarrants became deeply unsettled by the social upheaval of the era. In response, he turned for answers to extrem ...Show more
Crescendo - The True Story of a Musical Genius Who Forever Changed a Southern Town by Allen Cheney; Julie Cantrell (As told to)
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A hidden story of human triumph, Crescendo takes you on the rare journey of a musical prodigy who changed an entire community forever.More than eighty years ago, a musical prodigy with a brilliant mind was born into a poor, uneducated, and abusive family in rural South Georgia. At three years of age, Fr ...Show more
Crossing - A Transgender Memoir by Deirdre N. McCloskey
$43.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year "I visited womanhood and stayed. It was not for the pleasures, though I discovered many I had not imagined, and many pains too. But calculating pleasures and pains was not the point. The point was who I am." Once a golden boy of conservative econom ...Show more
DK Life Stories Queen Elizabeth II - Amazing People Who Have Shaped Our World by DK
$12.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Life Stories Ser.
Discover the inspiring story of Queen Elizabeth II, the longest-reigning monarch in British history, in this fascinating kids' biography.At just 25 years of age, Princess Elizabeth succeeded King George VI to the British throne. This compelling book looks at Elizabeth's life, both as a public and privat ...Show more
Damaged by Cathy Glass
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The Sunday Times and New York Times Bestseller. Although Jodie is only eight years old, she is violent, aggressive, and has already been through numerous foster families. Her last hope is Cathy Glass... Cathy, an experienced foster carer, is pressured into taking Jodie as a new placement. Jodie's chall ...Show more
David Attenborough (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams | Reading Level: near fine
In this book from the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of David Attenborough, the inspiring broadcaster and conservationist. Little David grew up in Leicester on the campus of a university, where his father was a professor. As a child, he spent hours in the scien ...Show more
David Bowie (Little People, Big Dreams) by Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of David Bowie, the starman who dazzled audiences with his music. As a child, young David had a head full of songs and ideas. He was inspired by the pop and mod scenes in Britain to pick up the saxophone. After earning h ...Show more
Dolly Parton (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
New in the critically acclaimed Little People, BIG DREAMS series, discover the life of Dolly Parton, the singer-songwriter and businesswoman.Little Dolly grew up in Tennessee in a family "as poor as dirt." She started performing at an early age, singing on local radio and television. After graduating hi ...Show more
Eat Like a Fish: My Adventures As a Fisherman Turned Restorative Ocean Farmer by Bren Smith
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
From the aquatic world's Anthony Bourdain, Eat Like a Fish is a former fisherman's memoir, manifesto and vision for the future of food: restorative ocean farming.
Elizabeth Macarthur: A Life at the Edge of the World by Michelle Scott Tucker
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In 1788 a young gentlewoman raised in the vicarage of an English village married a handsome, haughty and penniless army officer. In any Austen novel that would be the end of the story, but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur, it was just the beginning.John Macarthur too ...Show more
Ella Fitzgerald (Little People, Big Dreams) by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Little People, Big Dreams
Meet Ella Fitzgerald, one of the most influential jazz singers of all time! Part of the beloved Little People, BIG DREAMS series, this inspiring and informative little biography follows the inspirational life of the First Lady of Song, from her early singing days on the streets of Harlem to her success ...Show more