Biographies
46 books available.
Find biographies and autobiographies detailing the personal lives of literary figures, politicians, movie stars and military leaders, as well as fascinating memoirs written by everyday people.
"It should've been the happiest time of Lee Barnett's life. She was married to a man she loved and trusted, Harris Todd, and she was pregnant with her first child....
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Dan Carter: My Story - with Duncan Greive
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Tana Umaga could have been just another statistic - the son of immigrant parents, born on the wrong side of town, with no hope of success, let alone greatness. But...
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148 tests, 131 wins, 110 times captain of the All Blacks, 2 Rugby World Cup triumphs, 12 successful Bledisloe Cup campaigns, 7 Tri-Nations titles, 3 Rugby Championship titles A career...
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The author, an experienced yachting writer and a close friend, traces Blake's extraordinary life--from the small boy crazy about the sea to the rigors of ocean racing and the high...
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Here for the first time is this controversial writers real childhood and early adulthood. The mixed feelings of an intelligent, sensitive child talented but tormented; the eventual separation from his...
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Iconic Kiwi comic, country music, yodelling, lesbian duo: in their own wordsThe incredible story of how a couple of country kids from Huntly became much-loved Kiwi icons and TV stars,...
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Using as a springboard a real literary hoax that transfixed Australia in his boyhood, Peter Carey wickedly and ruefully explores how a phantom poet taunts, haunts and otherwise destroys his...
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A sister is for life: your best friend, or your worst enemy. She is the yardstick by which you measure how well you're doing and the keeper of your family...
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