He Was My Brother by Peter Dickson
Category: Biography
One phone call, one sudden unexpected tragic event in a distant land. That's all it took to shatter one man's world and his close-knit family into a thousand pieces.The death of Australian football identity, reality TV star and documentary maker Rob Dickson stunned his hundreds of associates and friends ...Show more
The Quinn Story by Monique Story
Category: Biography
A brutally honest account of a teenagers battle with PTSD, peer group pressure, puberty and psychosis and his family’s endless fight to help him. Monique Story, Quinn’s mother: “I have finished my story as best I can. I started writing this a few days after losing Quinny in 2021. I was heavily medicat ...Show more
Farewell My French Love by Nadine Williams
Category: Biography | Series: Mira Ser.
"Whoever has loved knows all that life contains of sorrow and joy." George Sands Journalist Nadine Williams is heart-broken following the untimely death of her French-born husband, Olivier. Long-time friend Jane, alarmed at Nadine's despair, suggests a return to Europe to restore her joie de vivre: endi ...Show more
Greenlights: Raucous stories and outlaw wisdom from the Academy Award-winning actor by Matthew McConaughey
Category: Biography
From the Academy Award -winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.I've been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues ...Show more
Silhouette of Sorrow: A Shared Journey Through Loss and Grief by WYNNE-HUGHES, S J
Category: Biography
Britney Spears - The Woman in Me by Britney Spears
Category: Biography
The Woman in Me is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope. In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice—her truth—was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the ...Show more
Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
Category: Biography
Beginning at a love hotel by Japan's Inland Sea and ending by a river in Tasmania, Question 7 is about the choices we make about love and the chain reaction that follows. By way of H. G. Wells and Rebecca West's affair through 1930s nuclear physics to Flanagan's father working as a slave labourer near ...Show more
My Year Of Living Vulnerably by Rick Morton
Category: Biography
From Rick Morton, the author of the bestselling, critically acclaimed memoir One Hundred Years of Dirt comes a dazzlingly brilliant book about love, trauma and recovery, My Year of Living Vulnerably. 'Wonderfully readable and wide-ranging exploration of the visible and invisible touchstones of our liv ...Show more
Night by Elie Wiesel
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics
Born into a Jewish ghetto in Hungary, as a child, Elie Wiesel was sent to the Nazi concentration camps at Auschwitz and Buchenwald. This is his account of that atrocity - the ever-increasing horrors he endured, the loss of his family and his struggle to survive in a world that stripped him of humanity, ...Show more
Brave by Rose McGowan
Category: Biography
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "One of the greatest tricks that the patriarchy plays on women is to deliberately destabilize them, then use their instability as a reason to disbelieve them. Much of BRAVE reads like the diary of a woman driven half-mad by abusive men who assume no one will listen to her. In t ...Show more