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You're On, Cowboy! - Lessons Learned from Taking Risks, Taking Names and Knowing When to Fold. (Hardcover): Jerry Hodge You're On, Cowboy! - Lessons Learned from Taking Risks, Taking Names and Knowing When to Fold. (Hardcover)
Jerry Hodge
R738 R614 Discovery Miles 6 140 Save R124 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Zephany - Two Mothers. One Daughter. An Astonishing True Story (Paperback): Joanne Jowell Zephany - Two Mothers. One Daughter. An Astonishing True Story (Paperback)
Joanne Jowell 1
R315 R271 Discovery Miles 2 710 Save R44 (14%) In Stock

“I saw my mommy walking to the court with a hoodie on and a scarf covering her face. She looked almost like someone that was poor. People were cursing at her… and that broke me. This is the woman who was there for me every day, making lunch for me and my friends when we came from school, and now here she is on television being called a criminal.”

The kidnapping of baby Zephany Nurse from the cot beside her mother’s hospital bed made headline news. Desperate pleas from her parents to return her safely went unanswered. There was no trace of the baby. For 17 years, on her birthday, the Nurse family lit candles and hoped and prayed.

Living not far away from the Nurses, 17-year-old Miché Solomon had just started Matric. She had a boyfriend. She had devoted parents. She was thinking about the upcoming school dance and the dress her mother was going to make for her. She had no idea that a new girl at her school, who bore an uncanny resemblance to her, and a DNA test would shake her world to its foundations.

Miché is now 22. This is her story – for the first time in her own words. Told with astonishing maturity, honesty and compassion, it is also a story of what it means to love and be loved, and of claiming your identity.

Trejo - My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood (Paperback): Danny Trejo, Donal Logue Trejo - My Life of Crime, Redemption, and Hollywood (Paperback)
Danny Trejo, Donal Logue
R466 R385 Discovery Miles 3 850 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Reflections - Lessons for Life from the Man You Are Becoming (Paperback): Spencer Geswein Reflections - Lessons for Life from the Man You Are Becoming (Paperback)
Spencer Geswein; Foreword by Andrea Brackett; Illustrated by Tekoa
R533 R445 Discovery Miles 4 450 Save R88 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Bourdain - In Stories (Paperback): Laurie Woolever Bourdain - In Stories (Paperback)
Laurie Woolever
R395 R316 Discovery Miles 3 160 Save R79 (20%) In Stock

When Anthony Bourdain died in 2018, fans around the globe came together to celebrate the life of an inimitable man.

Laurie Woolever, Bourdain's longtime assistant and confidante, has interviewed nearly a hundred of the people who shared Tony's orbit in order to piece together a remarkably full, vivid, and nuanced vision of Tony's life and work.

From his childhood and teenage days, to his early years in New York, through the genesis of his game-changing memoir Kitchen Confidential to his emergence into fame and notoriety, and in the words of friends and colleagues including Eric Ripert, José Andrés and Nigella Lawson, as well as his family, we see the many sides of Tony - his motivations, his ambivalence, his vulnerability, his blind spots, and his brilliance.

Deeply intimate, featuring a treasure trove of photos, Bourdain: In Stories is a testament to the life of a remarkable man in the words of the people who shared his world.

The World Deserves My Children (Hardcover): Natasha Leggero The World Deserves My Children (Hardcover)
Natasha Leggero
R379 Discovery Miles 3 790 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

A laugh-out-loud funny collection of insightful and razor-sharp essays on motherhood in our post-apocalyptic world from comedian Natasha Leggero. When Natasha Leggero got pregnant at forty-two after embarking on the grueling IVF process, she was over the moon. But once her feelings of bliss dissipated, she couldn't help but shake the lingering question: Am I doing this right? And then, Should I be doing this if the world is about to end? In The World Deserves My Children, Natasha explores themes like "geriatric" motherhood, parenting in an environmental panic, fear and love, discipline (and conflicting schools of thought on how not to raise a brat), and more. Ultimately, Natasha determines that motherhood is worth it. After all, where do you think the next five generations of humans will be if the only people who are having kids don't believe in science? The world deserves my children.

When Secrets Become Stories - Women Speak Out (Paperback): Sue Nyathi When Secrets Become Stories - Women Speak Out (Paperback)
Sue Nyathi
R295 R236 Discovery Miles 2 360 Save R59 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

A young girl on the Cape Flats is gifted in exchange for a bottle of alcohol, a woman is beaten by her boyfriend and told to bezekela (persevere), a businesswoman is asked for sexual favours to secure a contract, while a child rapist is released on bail after three years...

South Africa is a country at war with its women. Rarely a woman can be found who has not been the victim of some kind of abuse or does not know a friend or a family member who has. Gender-based violence takes many different forms – emotional, financial, physical, sexual and structural – and it can be meted out by strangers, intimate partners or a family member.

Many women are overcome by a sense of shame when they are sexually or emotionally abused but sharing what was once a secret, helps to break shame’s hold. ‘I am not defined by the abuse I have suffered,’ writes Sue Nyathi. ‘I am not a victim; I am a survivor.’

In When Secrets Become Stories, women from all walks of life, across racial lines, age and income demographics, boldly speak out. With contributions by Lorraine Sithole, Desiree-Anne Martin, Mamokgethi Phakeng, Shafinaaz Hassim, Cathy Park Kelly and Olivia Jasriel, who as a child was sexually abused by tennis star Bob Hewitt.

Glorifying Christ - The Life of Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I. (Paperback): Michael R. Heinlein Glorifying Christ - The Life of Cardinal Francis E. George, O.M.I. (Paperback)
Michael R. Heinlein
R832 R699 Discovery Miles 6 990 Save R133 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Soundings - Journeys in the Company of Whales: A Memoir (Paperback): Doreen Cunningham Soundings - Journeys in the Company of Whales: A Memoir (Paperback)
Doreen Cunningham
R468 R387 Discovery Miles 3 870 Save R81 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Kansvatter - Die Rustelose Lewe van Ben Viljoen (Afrikaans, Paperback): Carel van der Merwe Kansvatter - Die Rustelose Lewe van Ben Viljoen (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Carel van der Merwe
R349 Discovery Miles 3 490 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Ben Viljoen (1868–1917) was ’n prominente jonger generaal in die Anglo-Boereoorlog, maar ná die oorlog is hy nie opgeneem in die nuwe politieke elite van die Afrikaners nie. Nadat hy die eed van getrouheid op St. Helena onderteken het, het hy noot weer permanent na Suid-Afrika teruggekeer nie.

Carel van der Merwe het besluit om Viljoen se spore te volg na Brittanje, Nederland, Mexiko en Amerika en te gaan uitvind hoe dit gebeur het dat dié Boereoorloggeneraal burgerskap van vier verskillende lande gehad het, die ster was van ’n Boereoorlogskouspel, aan ’n Mexikaanse revolusie deelgeneem het, as vredeskommissaris tussen die Yaqui-Indiane opgetree het en voor sy dood op die punt was om ’n film in Hollywood te vervaardig.

’n Prentjie van ’n komplekse persoonlikheid kom na vore wat herinner aan ’n deel van die huidige generasie Afrikaners – minder godvresend, gemaklik in verskillende kulture, en bereid om te emigreer wanneer hulle dink dit tot hul voordeel is.

The Real Interior (Paperback): Nthabi Taukobong The Real Interior (Paperback)
Nthabi Taukobong
R275 R220 Discovery Miles 2 200 Save R55 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

The Real Interior not only allows the reader a behind-the-scenes peek into the glitz and glamour of design and décor, but into a career once never considered an option for a young girl, born in Soweto.

As one of the first black and very recognisable faces of Interior Design in Africa, Nthabi Taukobong was thrust into the limelight from the very start of her profession. Spanning a career of more than 23 years she has worked on esteemed residential and leisure projects for presidents, African royalty, captains of industry and five-star hotels, to name but a few. Through the rough and often very challenging terrain of her chosen career, sprinkled generously with the high-end glamour of prestigious interiors that Nthabi has been privileged to work on, she learned that she, in fact, had to be seated right within her own interior before she could offer anything further to those in search of her creative gift.

And as she searched and explored the greater world of design, trying to grasp what it really took to be an esteemed designer, the journey unexpectedly brought her right back into her own home. Not only Nthabi’s physical home, but also to her inner-home, the place that she refers to as her ‘real interior’. It was in writing a letter one evening, congratulating herself on reaching the milestone of 21 years in her career, that Nthabi discovered she was not only writing to herself, but to every creative.

Her letter ended up being an entire book and Nthabi finally understood how her unique story could inspire and encourage others.

Steeds Mathys - Mathys Roets - my storie. Soos vertel aan Alita Vorster (Afrikaans, Paperback): Mathys Roets Steeds Mathys - Mathys Roets - my storie. Soos vertel aan Alita Vorster (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Mathys Roets
R10 R8 Discovery Miles 80 Save R2 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

In die verlede, was ek baie keer onseker oor myself, veral as ek in 'n moeilike situasie beland het of 'n krisis moes hanteer. Noudat ek vierkantig daarmee gekonfronteer word, is dit vir my lekker om te weet ek het nie moed opgegee nie. Mathys Roets het sy musiekloopbaan in 1989 begin toe hy met sy kitaar in die hand, in 'n winkelsentrum in Pretoria, vir fooitjies gesing het. In 1996 maak hy 'n belangrike deurbraak met sy debuutproduksie op die KKNK. In hierdie vertoning, Nokturne, sing hy die musiek van Koos du Plessis. Met sy donker fluweelstem het die musiek van Koos du Plessis, Mathys soos 'n handskoen gepas. Deur sy loopbaan het Mathys bekendheid verwerf vir sy sielvolle vertolkings van die wereld se mooiste ballades, veral die musiek van Leonard Cohen, Roger Whittaker en Neil Diamond. Die pad wat hy gestap het was nie maklik nie. Hy het harde bene gekou, self luidsprekers rondgedra en van restaurant na restaurant gegaan om daar te sing, maar toe hy uiteindelik raakgesien word, het dinge behoorlik vir hom vlam gevat. Op 6 April 2009, op pad na die KKNK in Oudtshoorn, ry Mathys met sy geel BMW motorfiets van die pad af. Vir dae lank hang sy lewe aan ? draadjie en uiteindelik reik die Rosepark Hospitaal ? verklaring uit: Mathys is verlam. Ten spyte van hierdie terugslag, besluit Mathys om vorentoe te kyk en steeds voluit te leef. Steeds Mathys is die inspirerende lewensverhaal van Mathys Roets, soos vertel aan Alita Vorster. Dis 'n verhaal wat lesers sal laat glimlag, maar ook aangryp en besiel. Na die lees van hierdie boek moet 'n mens wonder hoe jy enige uitdaging as te groot kan beskou!

Through the Fire - Traveling the Broken Road to Hope and Healing (Hardcover): Lucy Dickens Through the Fire - Traveling the Broken Road to Hope and Healing (Hardcover)
Lucy Dickens
R787 R653 Discovery Miles 6 530 Save R134 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Rebel: Die Lewe Van Kommandant Hans Lötter 1873-1901 (Afrikaans, Paperback): Chris Schoeman Rebel: Die Lewe Van Kommandant Hans Lötter 1873-1901 (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Chris Schoeman
R225 Discovery Miles 2 250 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

Van al die gebeure in die Kaapkolonie gedurende die Tweede Vryheidsoorlog het die teregstelling van Hans Lötter, asook dié van kmdt. Gideon Scheepers, die meeste emosie onder Afrikaners ontketen. Lötter en sy mederebelle in die Kolonie het die verbeelding van die plaaslike bevolking aangegryp en die Britte maande lank hoofbrekens besorg. Sy gevangeneming, verhoor en teregstelling deur ’n Britse vuurpeloton op Middelburg, Kaap, het groot woede en verontwaardiging veroorsaak en hom verewig as Boeremartelaar in die Afrikaner-volksoorleweringe. Nou word sy boeiende verhaal vir die eerste keer volledig vertel.

Exploding Hushpuppies - More Stories from Home (Paperback): Leslie Anne Tarabella Exploding Hushpuppies - More Stories from Home (Paperback)
Leslie Anne Tarabella
R426 R348 Discovery Miles 3 480 Save R78 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Statues And Storms - Leading A University Through Change (Paperback): Max Price Statues And Storms - Leading A University Through Change (Paperback)
Max Price
R350 R301 Discovery Miles 3 010 Save R49 (14%) In Stock

A captivating and insightful account of Dr Max Price’s journey at the helm of a major South African university during a period of immense upheaval.

As Vice-Chancellor of the University of Cape Town for two terms from 2008 to 2018, he offers a candid look at the challenges he faced during his time including transformation, rights of artistic expression, institutional culture, clemencies and amnesties, restorative justice and ethical decision, and of course, #FeesMustFall protests – which shook the country's higher education sector to its core.

Drawing on his experiences, Price delves into the complexities of multi-stakeholder decision-making, crisis management, and the importance of values such as academic freedom in an increasingly polarised world. Part memoir, part insider's view of history, and part leadership guide, Statues and Storms is a must-read for anyone interested in higher education, South African history, or the art of leadership during times of crisis.

The Storyteller - Tales of Life and Music (Paperback): Dave Grohl The Storyteller - Tales of Life and Music (Paperback)
Dave Grohl
R300 R240 Discovery Miles 2 400 Save R60 (20%) Ships in 5 - 10 working days

THE SUNDAY TIMES NO 1 BESTSELLER * ONE OF NME's BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * ONE OF VARIETY'S BEST MUSIC BOOKS OF 2021 * INCLUDED IN AUDIBLE'S BEST OF THE YEAR LIST So, I've written a book. Having entertained the idea for years, and even offered a few questionable opportunities ('It's a piece of cake! Just do four hours of interviews, find someone else to write it, put your face on the cover, and voila!'), I have decided to write these stories just as I have always done, in my own hand. The joy that I have felt from chronicling these tales is not unlike listening back to a song that I've recorded and can't wait to share with the world, or reading a primitive journal entry from a stained notebook, or even hearing my voice bounce between the Kiss posters on my wall as a child. This certainly doesn't mean that I'm quitting my day job, but it does give me a place to shed a little light on what it's like to be a kid from Springfield, Virginia, walking through life while living out the crazy dreams I had as young musician. From hitting the road with Scream at 18 years old, to my time in Nirvana and the Foo Fighters, jamming with Iggy Pop or playing at the Academy Awards or dancing with AC/DC and the Preservation Hall Jazz Band, drumming for Tom Petty or meeting Sir Paul McCartney at Royal Albert Hall, bedtime stories with Joan Jett or a chance meeting with Little Richard, to flying halfway around the world for one epic night with my daughters...the list goes on. I look forward to focusing the lens through which I see these memories a little sharper for you with much excitement.

My Adventure: An Encounter with Life (Hardcover): William Millard My Adventure: An Encounter with Life (Hardcover)
William Millard
R750 R626 Discovery Miles 6 260 Save R124 (17%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
God, Guts, and Gallantry - The Faith, Courage, and Accomplishments of Major James Lide Coker (Hardcover): Will Joslin God, Guts, and Gallantry - The Faith, Courage, and Accomplishments of Major James Lide Coker (Hardcover)
Will Joslin
R835 R702 Discovery Miles 7 020 Save R133 (16%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
The Last Dance - A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Love (Paperback): Fr Eddie Martin The Last Dance - A True Story of Courage, Faith, and Love (Paperback)
Fr Eddie Martin
R319 R273 Discovery Miles 2 730 Save R46 (14%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Our Darkest Hours - New York County Leadership?& the Covid Pandemic (Paperback): Stephen Acquario, Peter Golden, Mark LaVigne Our Darkest Hours - New York County Leadership?& the Covid Pandemic (Paperback)
Stephen Acquario, Peter Golden, Mark LaVigne
R557 R471 Discovery Miles 4 710 Save R86 (15%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
La - 'n Reis Na Die Lig (Afrikaans, Paperback): Ansja Ferreira La - 'n Reis Na Die Lig (Afrikaans, Paperback)
Ansja Ferreira 4
R229 Discovery Miles 2 290 Ships in 4 - 8 working days

13 Augustus 2017. Ansja vat haar twee dogtertjies kerk toe. Heeldag het sy ʼn naar gevoel op die krop van haar maag, asof iemand haar wind uitgeskop het. Sy hou by ʼn stopstraat naby hul huis stil en ʼn motor jaag van agter in hulle vas. Haar jongste dogtertjie, Larissa, se kop word met die impak vergruis soos ʼn waatlemoen.

Met bomenslike krag sleep sy haar dogters uit die kar en sit hulle op die sypaadjie neer. Dan verloor sy haar bewussyn en sien haarself en haar kinders van bo. Alles word lig. Daar is lieflike musiek en reënboogkleure. Vrede en liefde heers en niks maak meer saak nie. Sy dryf weg.

Maar dan hoor sy haar oudste dogtertjie na haar roep. En sy moet terug. Na die pyn van ʼn gebreekte lyf en gebroke hart. Hoe hervat sy haar lewe?

Born a Crime - Stories from a South African Childhood (Paperback): Trevor Noah Born a Crime - Stories from a South African Childhood (Paperback)
Trevor Noah 1
R300 R260 Discovery Miles 2 600 Save R40 (13%) In Stock
Aiming To Save - A Vet's Life In Conservation (Paperback): Larry Patterson Aiming To Save - A Vet's Life In Conservation (Paperback)
Larry Patterson
R325 R254 Discovery Miles 2 540 Save R71 (22%) In Stock

Pursuing a dream instilled by early David Attenborough television adventures, a young man from the industrial northwest of England is advised at school to become a veterinary surgeon as a first step towards a career working with wild animals in Africa.

His misgivings about the values and justification of domestic veterinary practice are contrasted with a passion for wilderness and wildlife conservation. Early experiences in the vivid Uganda of Idi Amin are juxtaposed with life in a grey Pennines veterinary practice.

Eventually arriving as a veterinary officer in newly independent Botswana he finds adventure with wild animals as a veterinarian and later as an ecologist, survey pilot, game capture operator and even a safari hunter, becoming a passionate conservationist... all while starting the first veterinary practice in the country.

Mind.Body.Soul. (Paperback): Kendra Leonard Mind.Body.Soul. (Paperback)
Kendra Leonard
R255 R209 Discovery Miles 2 090 Save R46 (18%) Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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