No Country Woman: A memoir of not belonging by Zoya Patel
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'I was born in a hospital in Suva, Fiji. I can't recall ever seeing the building on my trips back to the city, first as a child or later as an adult. I imagine it in shades of blue and brown, the plastic waiting room chairs covered in the fine film of moisture that creeps over everything there. It is no ...Show more
No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies by Julian Aguon
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'A powerful, beautiful book. Its fierce love - of the land, the ocean, the elders and the ancestors - warms the heart and moves the spirit.' - Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple Part memoir, part manifesto, Chamorro climate activist Julian Aguon's No Country for Eight-Spot Butterflies is a coming- ...Show more
No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani ; Omid Tofighian (Translator)
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Category: Biography | Series: Writings from Manus Prison
Where have I come from? From the land of rivers, the land of waterfalls, the land of ancient chants, the land of mountains... In 2013, Kurdish journalist Behrouz Boochani was illegally detained on Manus Island. He has been there ever since. People would run to the mountains to escape the warplanes and f ...Show more
No Man's Land: The Untold Story of Automation on QF72 by Kevin Sullivan
$34.99 AUD
Category: Biography
nstinctively, I release my pressure on the sidestick. Out of my subconscious, a survival technique from a previous life emerges: Neutralise! I'm not in control so I must neutralise controls. I never imagined I'd use this part of my military experience in a commercial airliner ... On routine flight QF72 ...Show more
No Matter Our Wreckage: A Memoir about Grooming, Betrayal, Trauma and Love by Gemma Carey
$29.99 AUD
Category: Biography
A ground-breaking, uncompromising and unflinching memoir about grooming, intergenerational trauma, grief and love. My mother knew I was abused as a child. She had read letters sent from my abuser to me…But she never spoke to me about them, or what they described. And she never intervened to stop the ab ...Show more
No Place to Lay One's Head: With a Preface from Patrick Modiano by Francoise Frenkel
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Category: Biography
A bitter, beautiful and important bookRobert Fisk, THE INDEPENDENTThe French sensation, now in English translation.Fran oise Frenkel was a Jewish woman born in Poland and enamoured of all things literary and French. In 1921 she set up the first French-language bookshop in Berlin, recognising the craving ...Show more
No Safe Place - Murdered by Our Father by Bekhal Mahmod; Hannana Siddiqui (As told to)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
Bekhal Mahmod was one of six siblings from a Sunni Muslim family in Iraqi Kurdistan who sought a new life as asylum seekers and arrived in London in 1998.When Bekhal's father tried to force her into an arranged marriage at 15, she ran away. This caused her father to 'lose respect' within the Kurdish com ...Show more
No Shame - A Queer Life in Suburbia by Tom Allen
$22.99 AUD
Category: Biography
'Wonderfully funny, utterly charming and sharp as all Hell'SARAH MILLICAN'Tom Allen is one of the funniest comedians in the UK, the best dressed man I know and now it turns out he is a superb writer. I hate him'JOSH WIDDICOMBE'A delightful, touching side-splitter'JO BRAND'An absolute joy! Funny, witty a ...Show more
No Time Like the Future: An Optimist Considers Mortality by Michael J. Fox
$32.99 AUD
Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
A moving account of resilience, hope, fear and mortality, and how these things resonate in our lives, by actor and advocate Michael J. Fox. The entire world knows Michael J. Fox as Marty McFly, the teenage sidekick of Doc Brown in Back to the Future; as Alex P. Keaton in Family Ties; as Mike Flaherty in ...Show more
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen - The Emotional Lives of Black Women by Inger Burnett-Zeigler
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Category: Biography
Black women are beautiful, intelligent and capable --but mostly they embrace strong. Esteemed clinical psychologist, Dr. Inger Burnett-Zeigler, praises the strength of women, while exploring how trauma and adversity have led to deep emotional pain and shaped how they walk through the world. Black women' ...Show more
Nobody Will Tell You This but Me: A True (as told to me) Story by Bess Kalb
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Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
"When I stop crying, I'm calling my mother immediately and making her read it." --Jodi Picoult "Comic lines as good as in any movie, and pathos as deep as in any novel" --Mike Birbiglia Bess Kalb, Emmy-nominated TV writer and New Yorker contributor, saved every voicemail her grandmother Bobby Bell ever ...Show more
Nobody's Victim: The Fight Against Psychos, Pervs and Trolls by Carrie Goldberg
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Category: Biography | Reading Level: near fine
An unflinching look at a hidden world most people don't know exists-one of stalking, blackmail, and sexual violence, online and off-and the incredible story of how one lawyer turned her own hell into a revolution. "We are all a moment away from having our life overtaken by somebody hell-bent on our dest ...Show more