Dreamer of Dune: The Biography of Frank Herbert by Brian Herbert
Category: Biography/Memoir
Everyone knows Frank Herbert's Dune. This science fiction epic combines politics human evolution and ecology and has captured the imagination of generations of readers. It is one of the most popular science fiction novels ever written, has won awards, sold millions of copies around the world and spawned ...Show more
Love, Pamela: Her new memoir, taking control of her own narrative for the first time by Pamela Anderson
Category: Biography/Memoir
ACTRESS. ICON. ACTIVIST. Her story, in her voice, for the first time. In this honest, layered and unforgettable book that alternates between storytelling and her own poetry, Pamela Anderson breaks the mould of the celebrity memoir while taking back the tale that has been crafted about her.Her blond bomb ...Show more
All You Need Is Love: The End of the Beatles - An Oral History by Those Who Were There by Steven Gaines, Peter Brown
Category: New Arrivals
All You Need is Love is a ground-breaking oral history of the Beatles and how it all came to an end. Based on never-before-published or heard interviews with Paul McCartney, Yoko Ono, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, and their families, friends, and business associates, this is a landmark book, containing ...Show more
Long Road - Pearl Jam and the Soundtrack of a Generation by Steven Hyden
Category: Biography/Memoir
A leading music journalist's riveting chronicle of how beloved band Pearl Jam shaped the times, and how their legacy and longevity have transcended generations. Ever since Pearl Jam first blasted onto the Seattle grunge scene three decades ago with their debut album, Ten, they have sold 85M+ albums, pe ...Show more
Eagles - Dark Desert Highway by Mick Wall
Category: Biography/Memoir
'This could be heaven or this could be hell...' So sings Don Henley on their biggest hit, 'Hotel California', and it is true that the Eagles story was one that blurred the ultimate Hollywood highs and subterranean LA lows beyond recognition.The band that embodied the American dream with globe-straddlin ...Show more
Love From Venice: A golden summer on the Grand Canal by Gill Johnson
Category: Biography/Memoir
In the summer of 1957, anxious to impress an admirer who had moved to Paris, while rebelling against her family, Gill Johnson, aged twenty-five, gave up her comfortable job at the National Gallery in London and travelled to Venice to take up a job teaching English to an aristocratic Italian family. Lov ...Show more
Enzo Ferrari: The definitive biography of an icon by Luca Dal Monte
Category: Biography/Memoir | Reading Level: near fine
Soon to be an AppleTV+ series, Enzo uncovers a wealth of new facts about the origins, ambitions, and private life of Enzo Ferrari.Drawing on years of original research conducted in Italy and abroad, this book lays bare the hidden aspects of Ferrari's career. From his earliest failed business ventures, t ...Show more
Bernardine's Shanghai Salon - The Story of the Doyenne of Old China by Susan Blumberg-Kason
Category: Biography/Memoir
Meet the Jewish salon host in 1930s Shanghai who brought together Chinese and expats around the arts as civil war erupted and World War II loomed on the horizon.Bernardine Szold Fritz arrived in Shanghai in 1929 to marry her fourth husband. Only thirty-three years old, she found herself in a time and pl ...Show more
The Promised Party - Kahlo, Basquiat and Me by Jennifer Clement
Category: Biography/Memoir
Growing up in '60s Mexico City, Jennifer Clement lived next door to Frida Kahlo's house. It was an unorthodox and bohemian childhood, living alongside artists, communists, revolutionaries and poets, and one that allowed an awakening of creative freedom and curiosity about the world. Leaving behind the ...Show more
Do You Still Have Time For Chaos? by Lynn Davidson
Category: Biography/Memoir
Do You Still Have Time for Chaos? tells the story of poet and teacher Lynn Davidson’s late-life decision to leave Aotearoa New Zealand, with scant resources, to build a life in Scotland. In 2020, in the frightening quiet of a Covid-emptied Edinburgh, she begins her memoir; temporarily at home at the Ra ...Show more
Life Done Differently: One Woman's Journey on the Road Less Travelled by Lisa Jansen
Category: NZ Non-Fiction
What do you do when everyone around you is embracing parenthood or focused on their careers, and you're not sure either path is right for you? Lisa Jansen decided to find out. At 33, Lisa had everything she ever wanted; A successful career in marketing, amazing friends, and the great outdoors of New Ze ...Show more
Seven Cats I Have Loved by Anat Levit
Category: Biography/Memoir
Anat Levit never considered herself a cat lover, but when her life was thrown into upheaval, she found herself adopting one cat at the suggestion of her daughters, and then six more in quick succession. Anat falls in love with the furry creatures, whose escapades and tribulations lead her into deep frie ...Show more