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Owl

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Owl

by Joanna Orwin
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

A gripping adventure based on an ancient Maori myth is brought to life in this award-winning junior novel. 'A dark shape hurtled out of the fog . . . The bird turned in a curving steep dive, aiming for Tama . . . The boy was being dragged beneath it, his feet barely brushing the tops of tussocks ....
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by Ken Catran
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

**A thrilling young adult historical adventure novel about a boy on a ship forced to survive the elements as well as the ruthless crew.**Set in the 1840s, Seal Boy tells the story of Emmet Tyler, a 14-year-old from the US port of Boston whose privileged upbringing has brought him a life of education...
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by Ken Catran
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

**Poignant YA historical romance between a teen who runs away to fight in World War One, and his sweetheart back at home.**Harry Wainwright is 17, not quite 18, but he can't wait to enlist for the Great War - so instead of going back to boarding school he runs away to war. He does this with the help...
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by Ken Catran
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

**A powerful YA fictional examination of war told through three interlocking stories.**Monsters of Blood & Honour contains three stand-alone stories, each with a related theme. In each story a teenager of 17 or 18 interacts with an elderly person who was their age during World War II. Each of...
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by Stephanie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013

**A brilliant novel about history, the forgetting and rewriting of it, and a satire on a society that has lost compassion in the process.**Smooch is a 'Whistler', a genetically altered lapdog with special talents, including the ability to remember his previous incarnations and to communicate directly...
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by Stephanie Johnson
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010

A powerful novel about friendship, guilt and sex and our changing notions of loyalty and culpability. Friends since childhood, Norman and Lyn grow up as next-door neighbours at the turn of the twentieth century. When Lyn is sent to manage a central North Island timber mill at the tender age of fourteen,...
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by Fiona Kidman
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 1996

A moving novel, with intelligent and compassionate insight into post-natal depression and the complexities of relationships. 'When Roberta falls pregnant her whole family is filled with joy.' Fallen is not exactly how Roberta would describe it, for she and Paul have planned the baby and it has been...
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by Alan Duff
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014

**The second gripping, powerful novel by the author of *Once Were Warriors.***Boys' homes, borstal, jail, stealing, then jail again - and again. That's been life for Jube and Sonny. One Pakeha, the other Maori, only vaguely aware of life beyond pubs and their hopeless cronies . . .Reviewers found...
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by Jack Lasenby
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

A charming novel for young readers by an award-winning writer, based on a young boy's summer in the countryside and the characters - real and imagined - that he meets. Dad has to go to work, so you go down to see Mr Bluenose; there's always something to do there. He tells you stories while you give...
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by Judith White
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011

**Shortlisted for Montana NZ Book of the Year Award, this is a vivid and beautifully drawn novel of love, loss and longing.**A deeply moving novel in which disparate lives are drawn together. Quentin Stanley develops an unexpected connection with his hairdresser; while Matt, a troubled youth, finds...
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by Barbara Else
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014

Accessible, warm and witty, Barbara Else's fifth novel is her most effervescent. Suzie, a thirty-seven-year-old single mother, is the youngest of three sisters and a stubborn misfit. While Lara is now going for a top job in the Ministry of Customs and Philippa runs the charity organisation 'Suite...
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by Anna Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014

An absorbing fantasy for young adult readers. Feisty heroine Risha becomes the rightful heir to her mother's kingdom, but is caught between two armies and her own tangled allegiances. Donnel's Promise is the sequel to Cattra's Legacy - award-winning YA writer Anna Mackenzie's stunning young adult...
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White Shadows

Memories of Marienbad

by Philip Temple
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

**Mysterious and evocative, tantalising and erotic, this unique novel explores the qualities of love and obsession.**Marienbad, the central European spa resort, is immortalised in the romantic imagination for its legendary doomed love affairs - Goethe and Ulrike von Levetzow, Chopin and Marie Wodzinska,...
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by Carolyn McCurdie
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

A gripping fantasy adventure novel for young readers. Over the galaxy, a strange, deafening tide is flooding. The planet Pluto disappears. Creeping in from between star systems is The Unquiet. It stinks like a million burning tyres, and it jabbers and screams as if the sky is in agony. Soon it attacks...
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