Jackie: Life and Style of Jaqueline Kennedy Onassis by CHIARA PASQUALETTI JOHNSON
$79.99 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
I want to live, not be a witness of my life. Beautiful. Cultured. Refined. Enviable. Admirable. Adored. Journalist. Philanthropist. Publisher. Jackie Kennedy was many things amongst them, she was and remains the most iconic First Lady the United States has ever seen. Discreet and seductive, she lived a ...Show more
Jean Cocteau: A Life by Claude Arnaud
$45.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Unevenly respected, easily hated, almost always suspected of being inferior to his reputation, Jean Cocteau has often been thought of as a jack-of-all-trades, master of none. In this landmark biography, Claude Arnaud thoroughly contests this characterization, as he celebrates Cocteau's "fragile genius-a ...Show more
Jefferson - Architect of American Liberty by John B Boles
$35.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Reading Level: very good
Secondhand. From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson’s Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, Joh ...Show more
Keneti - South Seas Adventures of Kenneth Emory by Bob Krauss
$55.00 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands
King Richard - Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy by Michael Dobbs
$51.95 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
"Rich and kaleidoscopic... Dobbs has carved out something intimate and extraordinary, skillfully chiseling out the details to bring the story to lurid life."--Jennifer Szalai, New York Times From the best-selling author of One Minute to Midnight: a riveting account of the crucial days, hours, and momen ...Show more
Lee Boo of Belau - A Prince in London by Daniel J. Peacock
$32.50 NZD
Category: Pacific Islands | Series: South Sea Bks.
This is the story of the adventures of a Pacific island prince, Lee Boo, one of the first of the "noble savages" to be feted by London society. Within six months of his arrival in England he fell victim to small pox and died, far from his island home. How he came to spend his last days in London beside ...Show more
Lincoln's Autocrat - The Life of Edwin Stanton by William Marvel
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs | Series: Civil War America Ser.
Secondhand. Edwin M. Stanton (1814-1869), one of the nineteenth century's most impressive legal and political minds, wielded enormous influence and power as Lincoln's secretary of war during most of the Civil War and under Johnson during the early years of Reconstruction. In the first full biography of ...Show more
Love, Kurt - The Vonnegut Love Letters, 1941-1945 by Kurt Vonnegut; Edith Vonnegut (Editor)
$70.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
A never-before-seen collection of deeply intimate love letters from Kurt Vonnegut to his first wife, Jane, compiled and edited by their daughter and reproduced in gorgeous full color."If ever I do write anything of length--good or bad--it will be written with you in mind."Kurt Vonnegut's oldest daughter ...Show more
Love from Nancy - The Letters of Nancy Mitford by Nancy Mitford; Charlotte Mosley
$30.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
Secondhand. Contains Nancy Mitford's humorous letters to her family and friends. Mitford never wrote an autobiography, but this collection of letters provides a portrayal of her life and the times in which she lived.
Low Life by J. Bernard
$12.50 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The complete collection of 'the Tony Hancock of journalism' Jeffrey Bernard s first 'Low Life' Spectator series, with all the original illustrations"
MAGIC: The Life of Earvin Magic Johnson by Roland Lazenby
$40.00 NZD
Category: World Biography & Memoirs
The definitive biography of the basketball legend Earvin 'Magic' Johnson, from the author of Michael Jordan: the Life. Magic Johnson is one of the most beloved, and also controversial, athletes in history. He lifted the dowdy sport of American pro basketball into the global spotlight, a transformation d ...Show more