Girl Boy Girl: how I became JT Leroy by Savannah Knoop
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In Girl Boy Girl, Knoop tells her side of the story, revealing how she came to portray the young trans hustler turned literary wunderkind - a persona created by her sister-in-law, Laura Albert, to help sell her books. Much more than an inside look at one of the most famous literary hoaxes of all time, t ...Show more
Girls Who Run the World by Diana Kapp
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Part biography, part business how-to, and fully empowering, this book is the perfect gift for future entrepenuers! With colorful portraits, fun interviews and DIY tips, Girls Who Run the World features the success stories of 30 leading ladies today of companies like Rent the Runway, PopSugar, and Soul C ...Show more
Gold Rush: How I Made, Lost and Made a Fortune by Jim Richards
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Jim Richards left the British army to join a modern-day gold rush, he had no language skills, no money and no idea. Jim has prospected and mined in some of the maddest, most dangerous places on earth, where isolation, disease and violent criminals come with the territory. He has struck gold and dia ...Show more
Grace Hopper - the Woman Behind Computer Programming (Little Inventor) by Nancy Loewen
$13.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Little Inventor Ser.
Computers touch our lives everyday, in countless ways, but how do they know what to do? How do we communicate with them and they with each other? Language Grace Hopper was a pioneer in computer programming, a woman whose scientific research led to computer-language tools and technology still in use tod ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Cleopatra by BUTTON BOOKS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
The 'Great Lives in Graphics' series is a new way of looking at the lives of famous and influential people. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person's life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia and uses infographics to show them in a fresh, visual way that is genuinely engag ...Show more
Great Lives in Graphics: Leonardo Da Vinci by BUTTON BOOKS
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Great Lives in Graphics Ser.
The Great Lives in Graphics series is a new way of looking at the lives of famous and influential people. It takes the essential dates and achievements of each person's life, mixes them with lesser-known facts and trivia, and uses infographics to show them in a fresh visual way that is genuinely engagin ...Show more
Greta's Story: The Schoolgirl who went on Strike to Save the Planet by Valentina Camerini
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: 8.5 Kids Non Fiction
The story of Greta Thunberg, the schoolgirl who inspired a worldwide climate change movement.It's 20 August 2018, late summer in Stockholm, and it feels incredibly hot in the city. The TV news reports rising temperatures, and there have been numerous fires throughout Sweden. Fifteen-year-old Greta Thunb ...Show more
Harriet Tubman (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 incredible life of Harriet Tubman, the Underground Railroad conductor who "never lost a single passenger." Little Harriet was born into slavery on a plantation in Maryland. Though life was hard, Harriet persisted. She used al ...Show more
Her Kind of Luck: Violin Prodigy, a Guinness-World Record Holder, a Suspected Spy, a Grandmother by Michelle Balogh
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
In her mid-twenties, rudderless and unsure, Michelle moved into her step- great-grandmother Shan-Yi's Sydney apartment just after her passing. Shan-Yi had been part of Michelle's family since long before she was born and staying at the glamourous art deco apartment was meant to help Michelle back on her ...Show more
Hope, Never Fear: A Personal Portrait of the Obamas by Callie Shell
$35.00 AUD
Category: Biography | Series: Personal Portrait of the Obamas
Award-winning photographer Callie Shell presents an intimate and moving portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama and the presidency that made history.
I Am Coco - The Life of Coco Chanel by Isabel Pin
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This portrait of a fiercely independent creative thinker is filled with whimsical pictures and informative texts to depict the entire arc of Coco's life and career, from schoolgirl rebel to haute couture icon. Young Gabrielle came from a poor family, was orphaned at age 12, and learned to sew in a c ...Show more
I Saw a Beautiful Woodpecker by Michal Skibinski; Ala Bankroft (Illustrator); Eliza Marciniak (Translator)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
This award-winning children's book is one eight-year-old Polish boy's evocative diary of the summer of 1939 when World War Two was tragically approaching his country. It is the summer of 1939 in Warsaw, Poland and Michal is an eight- year-old boy just finishing his school year. In order to improve h ...Show more