Life as a Casketeer - What the Business of Death Can Teach the Living by Francis Tipene; Kaiora Tipene; Paul Little
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Stars of the hit television series The Casketeers, Francis and Kaiora Tipene aren't your typical funeral directors. With their famous humour and big-hearted personalities, the TVNZ and Netflix reality TV stars are changing the way we think about death and grief. Life As A Casketeer reveals how Francis a ...Show more
Life in Lashes: The Story of a Drag Superstar by Kita Mean
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
There is a man in your future who is going to love you like nobody's business ... and that man is you! Quirky, kitsch and delightfully camp, Kita Mean - Nick Nash by day - inspires fans around the world to live life as their authentic selves, inside and out. From wild nights partying to oblivion to ma ...Show more
Life in Motion by Misty Copeland
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
When Misty Copeland first placed her hands on the ballet barre at an after-school community centre, no one expected the undersized, underprivileged and anxious thirteen-year-old to become one of America's most groundbreaking dancers. A true prodigy, she was attempting in months roles that take most danc ...Show more
Life in Pieces by Dawn O'Porter
$27.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dear 2020 - can we just start over? Dawn O'Porter has been thinking about life. In lockdown. Mostly from a cupboard. From reflections on grief and identity, bad hair and parenting, sleep and spirituality, to the things we can control and the things we cannot, Dawn's daily diaries track the journey ...Show more
Life in Pieces by Dawn O'Porter
$19.99 AUD
Category: Biography
*The Sunday Times bestseller* *Updated edition including new bonus chapters from Dawn* 'Funny, intimate and honest' Louis Theroux 'Moving and funny. I absolutely loved it' Claudia Winkleman 'Heartbreaking, hilarious, comforting' Marie Claire Dawn O'Porter has been thinking a lot about life. Mostly ...Show more
Life with Birds by Bronwyn Rennex
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A luminous account of largely unrecognised experiences in the aftermath of war.This is not a war story about heroism or healing trauma, but an attempt to fill the gaps in a family story in the wake of the Vietnam War and re-animate a father never really known.Life with Birds invests in the small scale, ...Show more
Life with Picasso by Francoise Gilot
$26.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: very good
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Pasis when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she was twenty-one. During the following ten years they were lovers, worked closely together and she became mother to two of his children, Claude and Paloma. LIFE WITH PICASSO, her account of those extraordina ...Show more
Light and Shadow Updated Edition: Memoirs of a Spy's son by Mark Colvin
$24.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Light and Shadowis the incredible story of a father waging a secret war against communism during the Cold War, while his son comes of age as a journalist and embarks on the risky career of a foreign correspondent. Mark covered local and global events for the ABC for more than four decades, reporting on ...Show more
Lily's Promise: How I Survived Auschwitz and Found the Strength to Live by Lily Ebert
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A heart-wrenching and ultimately life-affirming Holocaust survivor story that demonstrates the power of love to see us through the darkest of times. When Holocaust survivor Lily Ebert was liberated in 1945, a Jewish-American soldier gave her a banknote on which he’d written ‘Good luck and happiness’. A ...Show more
Limitless - The Power of Hope and Resilience to Overcome Circumstance by Mallory Weggemann; Tiffany Yecke Brooks (As told to)
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Meet Mallory Weggemann: a Paralympic gold-medalist, world champion swimmer, ESPY winner, and NBC Sports commentator whose extraordinary story will give you the encouragement you need to rise up to meet any challenge you face in life.On January 21, 2008, a routine medical procedure left Mallory paralyzed ...Show more
Line in the Sand by Dean Yates
$36.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Dean Yates was the ideal warzone correspondent: courageous, compassionate, dedicated. After years of facing the worst, though, including the Bali bombings and the Boxing Day tsunami, one final incident undid him. In July 2007, two of his staff members were brutally gunned down by an American helicopter ...Show more
Line of Blood: The Truth of Alfred Howitt by Craig Horne
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'In reading the book, parts of Howitt's character made my skin crawl, but the uncovering of his life was revelatory ... I believe the publication of Line of Blood will be at a very pertinent time' -Bruce PascoeLine of Blood- The Truth of Alfred Howitt tells the full story of Australia's so-called 'ables ...Show more