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The Random Reader

New Zealand Children's Stories Volume One

by Penguin Random House New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011

Wonderful selection of funny and touching stories written by top New Zealand authors, such as Margaret Mahy, Joy Cowley, Kate de Goldi, David Hill and many other stars of children's literature. It's perfect for children from 5 to 105, with its focus on fun, good writing, cheekiness and word play....
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Serious Fun

The Life and Times of Alan Gibbs

by Paul Goldsmith
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2012

Biography of Alan Gibbs, one of New Zealand's most influential and controversial businessmen and Aquada amphibious car developer. When Sir Richard Branson drove the Aquada high speed amphibious car across the English Channel it was a watershed moment. At last, had the holy grail of amphibious transport...
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by Alan Duff
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

A New Zealand classic, this novel is a raw and powerful portrayal of Maori in New Zealand society. Alan Duff's groundbreaking first novel is one of the most talked-about books ever published in New Zealand and is the basis of a major New Zealand film. This hard hitting story is a frank and uncompromising...
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The Random Reader

New Zealand Short Stories Volume One

by Various Authors
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2011

From fifteen of New Zealand's finest short-fiction practitioners come stories to delight, amuse and move. These stories have been gathered from a range of titles, published in recent years by Vintage New Zealand and commended by readers and reviewers alike.Owen Marshall is regularly described as New...
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by Fiona Kidman
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

A classic, prize-winning novel about an epic migration and a lone woman haunted by the past in frontier Waipu.In the 1850s, a group of settlers established a community at Waipu in the northern part of New Zealand. They were led there by a stern preacher, Norman McLeod. The community had followed him...
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by Geoff Chapple
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2015

**New Zealand's many distinctive landforms are packed into a small space.**Geoff Chapple, author of Te Araroa: The New Zealand Trail, set out on a year-long journey to find out why, and to seek out the shifting forces that shape them. For company, he chose to walk with geologists and the artisans...
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Sins of the Father

The Long Shadow of a Religious Cult

by Fleur Beale
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

The disturbing story of the ruthless exercise of power in a New Zealand religious cult.Charismatic, driven and self-righteous, Neville Cooper set up his own brand of Christian utopia on earth: a reclusive community on the West Coast of New Zealand. For the 400 inhabitants of Gloriavale, his word is...
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by Owen Marshall
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011

Based on a real love triangle, this fascinating novel is by one of New Zealand's most-loved respected authors.'Dougie's story and mine is not told in the history of William Larnach. It is our private journey, and only we understand how it came about; only we know the fitness and the wonder of it.'...
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by Fiona Kidman
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

When Betty Guard steps ashore in Sydney, in 1834, she meets with a heroine's welcome. Her survival during a four-month kidnapping ordeal amongst Taranaki Maori is hailed as nothing short of a miracle. But questions about what really happened slowly surface within the ,lite governing circles of the...
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Loves Me Not

How to Keep Relationships Safe

by William J. O'Brien, Lesley Elliott
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2014

An essential guide for keeping relationships safe. In 2008, the horrific murder of Sophie Elliott by her former boyfriend and university lecturer, Clayton Weatherston, shocked New Zealand. During the police investigation it became clear Sophie's murderer was a typical abuser who had a track record...
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by Jenny Pattrick
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010

A number one bestseller, this favourite New Zealand novel captures a real 19th century community.The bleak coal-mining settlement of Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. At the time of this novel - the1880s - the...
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by Catherine Stewart
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2012

Life with New Zealand's remotest family in a follow-on from the bestselling A Life on Gorge River by Robert Long. In 2010, New Zealand met its remotest family, through the writing of Robert Long - aka Beansprout - and we were intrigued. Now Beansprout's wife, Catherine Stewart, tells her story, and...
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by Penguin Random House New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014

**Especially chosen for 6 year olds, this is a light and fun collection of excellent children's stories.**These 25 stories are written by some of New Zealand's leading writers for children such as Margaret Mahy, David Hill, Patricia Grace and Barbara Else, as well as other seasoned and up-and-coming...
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by Penguin Random House New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014

Chosen with 7 year olds in minds, this is an energetic collection of wonderful children's stories. These 25 stories are written by some of New Zealand's leading writers for children such as Kate de Goldi, Barbara Else, Sandy McKay and Jane Buxton, as well as other seasoned and up-and-coming writers....
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