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Moses - A Human Life by Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
$42.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, an unprecedented portrait of Moses's inner world and perplexing character, by a distinguished biblical scholar No figure looms larger in Jewish culture than Moses, and few have stories more enigmatic. Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg, acclaimed for her many books on Je ...Show more
Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern by Francine Prose
$32.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Jewish Lives Ser.
A spirited portrait of the colorful, irrepressible, and iconoclastic American collector who fearlessly advanced the cause of modern art. One of twentieth-century America's most influential patrons of the arts, Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) brought to wide public attention the work of such modern masters ...Show more
Pieter Bruegel and the Idea of Human Nature by Elizabeth Alice Honig
$44.99 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Renaissance Lives Ser.
A fresh account of the life, ideas, and art of the beloved Northern Renaissance master. In sixteenth-century Northern Europe, during a time of increasing religious and political conflict, Flemish painter Pieter Bruegel explored how people perceived human nature. Bruegel turned his critical eye and peerl ...Show more
Railway Cat (The Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat) by Philip Ardagh
$15.99 NZD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: The\Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat Ser.
Meet Furry Purry Beancat - one extraordinary cat with nine extraordinary lives! Just like every other cat, Furry Purry Beancat loves a catnap. But unlike other cats, when Beancat wakes she finds herself about to embark on a whole new adventure! All aboard! There's a mystery on the railway! Join Beancat ...Show more
Shakespeare by Bill Bryson
$22.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: good
William Shakespeare, the most celebrated poet in the English language, left behind nearly a million words of text, but his biography has long been a thicket of wild supposition arranged around scant facts. With a steady hand and his trademark wit, Bill Bryson sorts through this colorful muddle to reveal ...Show more
Shakespeare: The World as a Stage by Bill Bryson
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Eminent Lives Ser. | Reading Level: very good
In this much anticipated addition to the Eminent Lives series, Bill Bryson's biography of William Shakespeare unravels the superstitions, academic discoveries and myths surrounding the life of our greatest poet and playwright. Shakespeare's life, despite the scrutiny of generations of biographers and sc ...Show more
Simone Biles Gymnast Remark by Burns Kylie
$0.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult | Series: Remarkable Lives Revealed Ser.
American gymnast Simone Biles wowed the world at the 2016 Rio Olympics by winning four gold medals. The first female gymnast to earn three consecutive all-around titles, Biles has been listed on TIME magazine's list of 100 Most Influential People, authored a book on her life, and won an ESPY award for b ...Show more
Stephen Hawking - Remarkable Lives by Kitty Ferguson
$15.00 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Remarkable Lives Ser.
Stephen Hawking was diagnosed with motor neurone disease at the age of 21 and was expected to live for only another two years. He went on to write books and deliver public lectures right up until his death at the age of 76 in 2018. Hawking achieved commercial success with several works of popular scienc ...Show more
The Bletchley Girls: War, secrecy, love and loss: the women of Bletchley Park tell their story by Tessa Dunlop
$27.99 NZD
Category: History | Series: Extraordinary Lives, Extraordinary Stories Ser.
'Lively...in giving us the daily details of their lives in the women's own voices Dunlop does them and us a fine service' New Statesman 'Dunlop is engaging in her personal approach. Her obvious feminine empathy with the venerable ladies she spoke to gives her book an immediacy and intimacy.' Daily Mail ...Show more
The Extraordinary Life of Steve Jobs by PUFFIN
$17.99 NZD
Category: Children's Non-fiction | Series: Extraordinary Lives Ser.
The story of a modern creative genius. Ever heard of the iPhone? STEVE JOBS, raised in California, was the co-founder of Apple, creator of the iPhone. He also played a major role in making Pixar what it is today. His technology transformed the way we live, and gave us objects we now cannot imagine livi ...Show more
The Fantastic Jungles of Henri Rousseau by Michelle Markel
$27.00 NZD
Category: No Category | Series: Incredible Lives for Young Readers Ser.
Henri Rousseau wanted to be an artist. But he had no formal training. Instead, he taught himself to paint. He painted until the jungles and animals and distant lands in his head came alive on the space of his canvases. Henri Rousseau endured the harsh critics of his day and created the brilliant paintin ...Show more
The Library Cat (The Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat) by Philip Ardagh
$14.24 NZD
Category: Chapter Books | Series: The\Nine Lives of Furry Purry Beancat Ser.
A funny and charming NEW young fiction series from Philip Ardagh, bestselling author of The Grunts series and Eddie Dickens adventures, and illustrated by Rob Biddulph, award-winning creator of Draw With Rob. Puuurfect for fans of Alex T. Smith, Pamela Butchart and Laura James. Meet Furry Purry Beancat ...Show more