Assisted: A doctor's story of assisting death and embracing life by Stefanie Green
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A transformative and compassionate memoir by a leading pioneer in medically assisted dying who began her career in the maternity ward and now helps patients who are suffering explore and then fulfill their end of life choices. 'A tender and truthful look at the idea whose time has come: assisted dying.' ...Show more
A Kind of Magic by Anna Spargo-Ryan
36.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A memoir about anxiety, our minds, and optimism in spite of it all Where do mental illness stories begin? Anna’s always had too many feelings. Or not enough feelings – she’s never been quite sure. Debilitating panic. Extraordinary melancholy. Paranoia. Ambivalence. Fear. Despair. From anxious chi ...Show more
The Asparagus Wars by Carol Major
27.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A deeply moving memoir about the battles waged against terminal illness and a mother's struggle to comprehend the battlefield in its wake. While some family members wage war against her daughter's disease with natural therapies, and doctors fight on using the latest developments in medical science, she ...Show more
Over the Top: A Raw Journey to Self-Love by Jonathan Van Ness
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Who gave Jonathan Van Ness permission to be the radiant human he is today? No one, honey. The truth is, it hasn't always been gorgeous for this beacon of positivity and joy. Before he stole our hearts as the grooming and self-care expert on Netflix's hit show Queer Eye, Jonathan was growing up in a sm ...Show more
Finding Chika by Mitch Albom
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
Bestselling author Mitch Albom returns to nonfiction for the first time in more than a decade in this poignant memoir that celebrates Chika, a young Haitian orphan whose short life would forever change his heart. Chika Jeune was born three days before the devastating earthquake that decimated Haiti in 2 ...Show more
A Bigger Picture by Malcolm Turnbull
55.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
When Malcolm Turnbull took over the nation’s top job there was a sense of excitement in Australia. Sky-high opinion polls followed as the political outsider with a successful business, legal and media career took charge. The infighting that had dogged politics for the best part of a decade looked to be ...Show more
The Sword and the Shield - The Revolutionary Lives of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr by Peniel E. Joseph
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
This dual biography of Malcolm X and Martin Luther King upends longstanding preconceptions to transform our understanding of the twentieth century's most iconic African American leaders.To most Americans, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr. represent contrasting ideals: self-defense vs. nonviolence, bl ...Show more
The Truths We Hold: An American Journey by Kamala Harris
22.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A New York Times bestseller From Kamala Harris, one of America's most inspiring political leaders and Joe Biden's pick for his 2020 running mate, a book about the core truths that unite us, and the long struggle to discern what those truths are and how best to act upon them, in her own life and across ...Show more
Between Two Kingdoms: What almost dying taught me about living by Suleika Jaouad
32.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
At just twenty-two, as her friends were setting out on the path to adulthood, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukemia. For the next five years, her world comprised four white walls, a hospital bed, fluorescent lights and tubes and wires connecting her to an IV pole. Her dreams of becoming a war corre ...Show more
Golem Girl: A Memoir by Riva Lehrer
45.00 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
The vividly told, gloriously illustrated memoir of an artist born with disabilities who searches for freedom and connection in a society afraid of strange bodies "Golem Girl is luminous; a profound portrait of the artist as a young--and mature--woman; an unflinching social history of disability over ...Show more
Endpapers: A Family Story of Books, War, Escape and Home by Alexander Wolff
34.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A powerful portrait of a Jewish German family divided by exile, abandonment and emigration. In 2017, acclaimed journalist Alexander Wolff moved to Berlin to take up a long-deferred task: learning his family's history. His grandfather Kurt Wolff set up his own publishing firm in 1910 at the age of twent ...Show more
True North: A Memoir by Catherine Deveny
29.99 AUD
Category: Biography & Memoir
An uplifting, heartfelt memoir about surviving life's upheavals - and how to live authentically Breaking up isn't a conscious decision, it's more of a revelation ... In the first few moments after waking each day I needed to remind myself who I was and what had happened. It was like pulling a compass o ...Show more