A Life of Beautiful Uncertainty - New Biographies in the Collection
Take a look at these new biographies and memoirs in the collection.
- Audrey Hepburn : a life of beautiful uncertainty / Santopietro, Tom
Academy Award-winning actress, fashion icon, ethereal beauty, wife, mother, World War II resistance activist, UNICEF champion-- Audrey Hepburn transcended her era and became a global idol whose appeal continues to soar in the twenty-first century. Packed with beautiful photographs of the star at her most captivating and supplemented with incisive fashion commentary from award-winning designer Jeffrey Banks, Audrey Hepburn: A Beautiful Uncertainty is a one-of-a-kind exploration of Audrey's glamorous image and remarkable life. - Unforgetting : a memoir / Robinson, Belinda, 1949-
A gripping memoir of the daughter of the late playwright and "father of New Zealand theatre" Bruce Mason, and his wife Diana, who had a brilliant career as an obstetrician, Belinda Robinson. Starting with the early years dominated by an abusive nanny, through to her growing relationships with her complex parents. Unforgetting is a personal reckoning with the trauma and harm suffered in childhood and the effects on adult life. - Finding Private Webber / Fitchett, Angela
Is it possible to discover exactly what happened to a New Zealand soldier in World War II? Can his steps be retraced 80 years later and his experiences reimagined? Finding Private Webber is Angela Fitchett's effort to do just that and to gain a deeper understanding of her father than was possible when he was alive. It's the story of one young New Zealander's World War II service and his struggle with its consequences. Gordon Webber's war story will resonate with all New Zealanders whose family includes a returned serviceman. - Things become other things : a walking memoir / Mod, Craig
Tracing a 300-mile-long journey, Things Become Other Things folds together history, literature, poetry, Shinto and Buddhist spirituality, and contemporary rural life in Japan via dozens of conversations with aging fishermen, multi-generational inn owners, farmers, and kissaten cafe "mamas." Along the way, Mod communes with mountain fauna, marvels over evidence of bears and boars, and hopscotches around leeches. He encounters whispering priests and foul-mouthed little kids who ask him, "Just what the heck are you, anyway?" Through sharp prose and his curious archive of photographs, he records evidence of floods and tsunamis, the disappearance of village life on the peninsula, and the capricious fecundity of nature. - The art spy : the extraordinary untold tale of WWII resistance hero Rose Valland / Young, Michelle (Michelle T.)
Based on troves of previously undiscovered documents, The Art Spy chronicles the brave actions of the key Resistance spy in the heart of the Nazi's art looting headquarters in the French capital. Vivid and atmospheric, The Art Spy moves from the glittering days of pre-War Paris, home to geniuses of modern culture, including Picasso, Josephine Baker, Coco Chanel, Le Corbusier, and Frida Kahlo, through the tension-riddled cities and resorts of Europe on the eve of war, to the harrowing years of the Nazi occupation of France when brave people such as Valland and Rosenberg risked everything to fight monstrous evil. - Seaglass : essays, moments and reflections / Tann, Kathryn
A collection of essays that blend creative nonfiction with nature writing and memoir to portray the journey of a young woman through modern adulthood. Traversing from Manchester to the coast of South Wales to the Saint Lawrence River in Canada, "Seaglass" explores through wilderness and human experience to create a map of Tann's life.
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