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Books narrated by Adele Bertei

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  • Sinead O’Connor's Universal Mother

    by Adele Bertei ...
    Series series 33 1/3
    With Universal Mother, Sinead O'Connor explores childhood trauma and her experiences as a woman, mother, target of scorn, and ultimate phoenix.Released in the winter of 1994, Universal Mother was the first recorded work from O'Connor since her duo of protests in 1992 (Saturday Night Live, Madison Square Garden). The sadistic blowback she faced for publicly outing the child abuse of the Catholic ... Read more

    $18.85 NZD

  • Twist

    by Adele Bertei ...
    A ZE BOOK (Hors Série)“The mystery is how I managed to survive, and whether or not Maddie Twist remains alive and well and living like Brel in Paris, or beyond.”Adele Bertei’s memoir Twist threads together the tapestry of her troubled childhood in the 60s and 70s, through the eyes of her alter ego Maddie Twist. Her beautiful mother suffers delusions of grandeur brought on by schizophrenia, ... Read more

    $20.99 NZD

  • No New York

    A Memoir of No Wave and the Women Who Shaped the Scene

    by Adele Bertei ...
    Downtown NYC of the mid-1970s and early 80s was the perfect landscape for reinvention. If the Lost Generation writers telegraphed the death of the American dream, the No Wave era, led by artists including Teenage Jesus & The Jerks, Nan Goldin, Sonic Youth and the Contortions, challenged that dream by howling "NO" while creating a counterculture that brought punk, rock, jazz, funk, the art world, ... Read more

    $33.99 NZD

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  • Dead Blondes and Bad Mothers

    Monstrosity, Patriarchy, and the Fear of Female Power

    by Sady Doyle ...
    A Kirkus Reviews “Best Book of the Year”This “witty, engaging analysis” of female monsters in pop culture offers “provocative and incisive” commentary on society’s fear of female rage and power (Soraya Chemaly, author of Rage Becomes Her).Women have always been seen as monsters. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense destruction.Maybe they ... Read more

    $26.67 NZD

  • For One More Day

    by Mitch Albom ...
    A HEART-BREAKING, HOPEFUL NOVEL FROM THE MASTER STORYTELLER WHOSE BOOKS HAVE TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF OVER 40 MILLION READERS'Mitch Albom sees the magical in the ordinary' Cecilia AhernDon't miss Mitch Albom's new novel, Twice, a beautiful and heartbreaking story about lost loves and second chances__________As a child, Charley Benetto was told by his father, 'You can be a mama's boy or a daddy's boy, ... Read more

    $16.99 NZD

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  • How to Tell When We Will Die

    On Pain, Disability, and Doom

    by Johanna Hedva ...
    “A book for the moment and for the ages. It’s questing, pissed, propulsive, funny, generous, pervy, and original—full of love and pain in all their entwined glory.” —Maggie Nelson, author of The ArgonautsWINNER OF THE AMBER HOLLIBAUGH AWARD FOR LGBTQ+ SOCIAL JUSTICE WRITINGThe long-awaited essay collection from one of the most influential voices in disability activism that detonates a bomb in our ... Read more

    $15.74 NZD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • Summer and the City

    by Candace Bushnell ...
    Series Book 2 - The Carrie Diaries
    Meet teenage Carrie Bradshaw as she hits the bright lights, big city of New York for the very first time! Find out how Carrie transforms from country girl to super-cool fashionista in the second explosive CARRIE DIARIES novel from the globally bestselling author of SEX AND THE CITY.Summer is a magical time in New York City and Carrie is in love with all of it – the crazy characters in her ... Read more

    $17.99 NZD

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  • Veronica's Grave

    A Daughter's Memoir

    by Barbara Bracht Donsky ...
    2017 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award: Silver for Memoir 2017 National Indie Excellence Awards: Finalist 2017 Independent Press Award: Distinguished Favorite for Memoir 2016 Beverly Hills Book Awards: Memoir Finalist 2016 Readers' Favorite:Silver Medal for Non-fiction Memoir New York Public Library Top Pick Summer 2017When Barbara Bracht's mother disappears, she is left a confused child whose blue ... Read more

    $21.68 NZD

  • The Cliff Richard Quiz Book

    100 Questions on the Pop Singer

    by Chris Cowlin ...
    Are you a fan of Cliff Richard? Have you followed every twist and turn in his long and successful career? Do you know all there is to know about the man and his music? Then why not put your knowledge to the test with this tribute to the legendary entertainer?Cliff Richard first appeared on the music scene in the late 1950s and quickly went on to become one of the UK’s best loved stars, producing a ... Read more

    $6.99 NZD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hot Water Music

    by Charles Bukowski ...
    With his characteristic raw and minimalist style, Charles Bukowski takes us on a walk through his side of town in Hot Water Music. He gives us little vignettes of depravity and lasciviousness, bite sized pieces of what is both beautiful and grotesque.The stories in Hot Water Music dash around the worst parts of town – a motel room stinking of sick, a decrepit apartment housing a perpetually ... Read more

    $19.99 NZD

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  • PARKER: A Miscellany

    by John Connolly ...
    PARKER: A Miscellany is a nonfiction companion to John Connolly's bestselling Charlie Parker mysteries that uses music as a jumping-off point. The book includes introductions to each of the Parker novels, through A SONG OF SHADOWS; liner notes for each of the six CDs Connolly has compiled to go with hardcover editions of certain Parker novels; a long essay called “The Music Lover,” about his life ... Read more

    $5.94 NZD

  • The New Yorker Stories

    by Ann Beattie ...
    The perfect book for new fans and decade-long supporters alike, Ann Beattie: The New Yorker provides readers with a lifetime**’s** worth of short stories from one of the most original and celebrated voices of her generation.When Ann Beattie began publishing short stories in The New Yorker in the mid-seventies, she emerged with a voice so original, and so uncannily precise and prescient in its ... Read more

    $15.98 NZD