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by Leigh Marsden
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2011

An addictive tale of love, lust and betrayal. George is captivated by Cass, and who can blame her? Cass is beautiful, sexy and outgoing, and she and George run riot through the bars and beds of night-time Auckland. But are George and Cass just girls having fun, or is there something more going on?...
by Charlotte Randall
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2011

'I always been a coin boy . . .' � Hokitika, 1865, at the height of the Gold Rush. In a town with a hundred pubs, young Halfie - aka Harvey, Thumbsucker, Bedwetter, Cocoa and Pipsqueak - gets by as best he can. � Most of the time he hangs around the Bathsheba pub, washing dishes, running errands...
by Patricia Grace
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2004

This is the story of Ripeka, who leaves her extended family and its traditional lifestyle to marry Graeme, a Pakeha schoolteacher. In the strange world of the city, Ripeka discovers that she cannot make the break with her whanau and that the old ways are too strong. Patricia Grace s first novel is...
by Juliet Jacka
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017

Book 3 in Juliet Jacka's addictive new Frankie Potts series for readers ages 7-10. Meet Frankie Potts, the village of Tring's number one girl detective. She has flaming red hair, a questioning mind and a very clever dog named Sparkplug. And she is REALLY good at solving mysteries. Frankie's list of...
by Laurence Fearnley
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2014

One of the reasons she was attracted to etchings was the deep, rich, black of the oily ink. A good layer of black ink was fathomless, like the sky or the sea at night. It was black as the unconscious mind, full of life but beyond reach. Quinn is a successful artist creating new works for an upcoming...
by Ruth Pettis
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2009

A POWERFUL STORY ABOUT THE DEVASTATING IMPACT OF WAR ON ONE NEW ZEALAND FAMILY. 1940. George does his duty and enlists.� The day before his departure he marries his sweetheart, Ellen.� But four years of separation and the pressures of war create devastating changes.� Ellen has had an affair...
by David Hill
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2016

Simon is a typical teenager - in every way except one. Simon likes girls, weekends and enjoys mucking about and playing practical jokes. But what s different is that Simon has muscular dystrophy - he is in a wheelchair and doesn t have long to live. See Ya, Simon is told by Simon's best friend, Nathan....
by Kelly Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018

In the third Showtym Adventure, Vicki takes on a dangerously bad-tempered Arabian. Will she be able to uncover his potential? When Vicki hears about a difficult Arabian that no one wants, she will stop at nothing to save him. Years of misunderstanding have left the pony wayward and mistrustful, but...
by Maxine Alterio
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2012

In July 1915 the hospital ship Maheno leaves Wellington with seventy New Zealand nurses on board. Addie Harrington and Meg Dutton are assigned to the same cabin. Quiet and cautious, Addie is taken aback by her impetuous, fun-loving roommate. The two women seem to have little in common other than a...
by Mary McCallum
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2007

Lilian lives in an isolated island community at the mouth of Tory Channel trying to make the best of a life that has at its core a secret grief. It is 1938 and for three months of every year the men take to the sea to hunt whales with fast boats and explosive harpoons. This year, the whales aren't...
by Jeff Hopkins-Weise
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2007

By the middle of the nineteenth century, the very existence of European colonial settlement in New Zealand was under threat. With Queen Victoria's British forces stretched thinly across the globe, the New Zealand colony had to look to its sister colonial states in Australia for support. This ground-breaking...

No.8 Re-charged

202 World-changing Innovations from New Zealand

by David Downs, Dr Michelle Dickinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2018

Take notice, world, New Zealand is undergoing a re-charge. The 'No. 8 wire' thinking we have been so proud of is being expanded and improved. No. 8 Re-charged tells a compelling and accessible story of modern New Zealand and its world-beating products and ideas. From drone technology to electric farm...
by Juliet Jacka
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2016

Book 1 in Juliet Jacka's addictive new Frankie Potts series for readers ages 7-10. Meet Frankie Potts, the village of Tring's number one girl detective. She has flaming red hair, a questioning mind and an addiction to gobstoppers. And she is REALLY good at solving mysteries. When Frankie is adopted...
by Kelly Ana Morey
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2003

Constant Spry, newly liberated of her waitressing job, is summoned home by her grandmother, the irrepressible Mrs Angela Spry. Accompanied by Nanny Smack, the ghost who crochets tomorrow's sky, Connie journeys south to Goshen - a crossroads caught between the mountain and the sea. And, slowly but...
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