A High Country Life: Tales & Recipes from a New Zealand Sheep Station by Philippa CameronRequirements: .ePUB reader, 144 MBOverview: Life on Otematata Station, a 40,000 hectare high country station in Otago, is busy and varied. Philippa Cameron and her husband, Joe, who is the fifth generation to work the farm, help care for this […]
Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan by Howard SounesRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.2 MbOverview: The acclaimed biography substantially updated and revised, Howard Sounes s Down the Highway broke news about Dylan s fiercely guarded personal life and set the standard as the most comprehensive and riveting biography on Bob Dylan. Now, on the occasion […]
Highballer: True Tales from a Treeplanting Life by Greg NolanRequirements: .ePUB reader, 4.7 MBOverview: In 1983, at nineteen, Greg Nolan was hired (reluctantly) by his older sister’s boyfriend—a treeplanting contractor based in Northern British Columbia. His crewmates didn’t know what to think of the wide-eyed kid whose mom drove him the 750 kilometres to hook […]
Upper Cut: Highlights of My Hollywood Life by Carrie WhiteRequirements: .ePUB reader, 2.7 MBOverview: I was living a hairdresser’s dream. I was making my mark in this all-male field. My appointment book was filled with more and more celebrities. And I was becoming competition for my heroes . . Behind the scenes of every Hollywood […]
Groovin’ High: The Life of Dizzy Gillespie by Alyn ShiptonRequirements: .PDF reader, 26.2 MbOverview: I am a voracious reader of jazz biographies. The fact that the name of this book includes the phrase “The Life of Dizzy Gillespie” is a shame, or sham. There is so little of his life in this book and so […]