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Life is very different now in the rambling Gilbreth house.When the youngest was two and the oldest eighteen, Dad died and Mother bravely took over his business. Now, to keep the family together, everyone has to pitch in and pinch pennies. The resourceful clan rises to every crisis with a marvelous sense of fun - whether it's battling chicken pox, giving the boot to an unwelcome boyfriend, or even meeting the President. And the few distasteful things they can't overcome - like castor oil - they swallow with good humor and good grace. Belles on Their Toes is the entertaining sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen. -
Innings Of Grace: Janet West
$15.00A life of Bishop W.G. Hilliard. ‘The Bishop’, as he was known in the media, was a household name in the Sydney of the forties and fifties. Poet, orator and headmaster, he excelled in many fields of endeavour, not least in his ministry to men. He rose from the humblest of origins by sheer force of personality, unremitting dedication to his work and depth of faith. He was equally at home with the leaders of the land and the man in the street. He loved cricket, once describing it as his ‘second religion.’ To play the game in life, according to God’s rules, was his aim at all times. He left an imperishable mark on the Australian and New Zealand Church and on the boys of Trinity Grammar School. This biography published on the centenary of his birth and the 75 th anniversary of the school.
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Mary Kay: Mary Kay Ash
$120.00This is the success story of the spirited and indomitable woman who founded Mary Kay Cosmetics with a $5000 investment and turned it into a multi-million dollar business. Sharing her feelings, philosophies, disappointments, joys and hopes, Mary Kay revealed how she developed a tiny store front business into a company whose products are sold around the world by over 100,000 saleswomen. She tells the story of her childhood, her struggles to support her three children after she was widowed; and how she invested her life savings in Mary Kay Cosmetics, against the advice of her accountant and attorney. But her gamble paid off and she became a living legend to her army of independent representatives. -
Eight centuries of women's correspondence: from Eloise to Abelard, Elizabeth I to Erik of Sweden, Mary Wollstonecraft to Talleyrand; Jane Austen, George Sand, Louisa May Alcott, Virginia Woolf, Anais Nin and many others. All the topics of interest to women are covered and organised by subject matter, covering various topics from politics, work and war, childhood, love and sexual passion. This volume reveals the depth, breadth and diversity of women's lives through the ages. It provides an opportunity to read the real words of real women, in their own intimate language. A fascinating overview of eight hundred years demonstrating what has changed -and what has not.
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The stories of our very own, very real heroes as told by themselves. Their childhoods, their dreams, how they lived, their disappointments and their triumphs. In this volume : Ian Abdulla, artist; Stephen Page, artistic director of the Bangarra Dance Theatre; Cathy Freeman, Olympic winner; Roger Bennett, playwright, Lorraine Liddell, bush lawyer; Lana Abbott, co-ordinator of the Alcohol Treatment Programme; Rosalie Kunoth-Monks, former actress and crusader for the Aboriginal people; Yami Lester, stockman and Community liaison between government authorities and Aboriginal communities; Mandawuy Yunupingu, teacher and leader of the band Yothu Yindi; Galarrwuy Yunupingu, Chairman, Northern Land Council. -
Known in Australia for his iconic role in To The Manor Born, Peter Bowles has had a very rich and lively acting career, also playing in such well known series as The Saint, The Avengers and The Prisoner. His autobiography is full of entertaining stories featuring Rex Harrison, Richard Burton, Albert Finney, Marlon Brando, Alfred Hitchcock and many other names of the stage and screen. Illustrated with black and white and colour photographs. -
Powell's books of her life 'in service' were so successful she was invited to tour and speak in America. Here she gives her impressions of America and Americans in her forthright style:. "It's expensive to use a 'loo in America. We grumble at having to use a one-pence piece to get in. here I had to use a ten-cent piece, which is eight pence..." Her account of the tour is uproariously funny, from Boston to Chicago, from Disneyland to the Grand Canyon, from Jack from Ottowa to lee from Texas, it's a rampage through the US of A. -
Bill Scott became a 'battler' after his hilarious discharge from the Royal Australian Navy in 1949, after which he sets off round Queensland to try his hand at many occupations: 'fail-safe' gold prospecting with his mate Johnny (not much gold but lots of fun and experience) ; copper mining in Mount Isa, described as a kind of 'Foreign Legion' existence where men didn't speak about their pasts; cane cutting, one of the hardest labour jobs at that time and finally becoming 'fireman' on the little steam locomotives that help collect the cane harvest and take it to the mills for crushing. And throughout, he meets a swag of colourful characters and intriguing adventures. A real life adventure. Apparently, this is not a book for the 'politically correct' reader. -
This is the first book in which Michael Palin has agreed to be interviewed. He talks about his life as a Python and his subsequent work. He lets the reader in on his favourite Python sketch; reveals why he is fascinated with Hemingway; tells which places have affected him the most on his globetrotting journeys and whether or not he was really expecting the Spanish Inquisition. With colour and black and white photographs.
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