Random House New Zealand: 495 books

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by Carl Nixon
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

**Much more than a murder mystery, this powerful novel is about coming of age and loss of innocence.**The body of a teenage girl is found on the beach in the days leading up to Christmas, 1980. It's an event that makes a huge impact on all those who live along Rocking Horse Road, which runs through...
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Acid Song

A Novel

by Bernard Beckett
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012

Forty-eight hours in the lives of characters headed for a showdown, grippingly told by an award-winning novelist. It�s election day in contemporary New Zealand. A young father confronts a teenage burglar. A psychologist�s political stand threatens to see him driven from the university community....
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by Anna Mackenzie
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012

Riveting post-apocalyptic YA fantasy, this is an award-winning thriller you can't put down. Winner of the Honour Award at the 2008 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards, joint winner of the 2008 Sir Julius Vogel Awards and awarded the prestigious White Raven Award for outstanding children's literature.Ness...
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by Jack Lasenby
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014

**The fourth and final volume in Jack Lasenby's award-winning Travellers fantasy series for young adult readers.**Ish is introduced to Lutha's society; a cruel and primitive society driven by fear and superstition. He quickly distrusts a quality in Lutha and her beautiful, elegant friend and lieutenant,...
Cover of Travellers #1: Because We Were The Travellers
by Jack Lasenby
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014

The first novel in the exciting *Travellers* series - a young adult fantasy story of survival against the odds in a fearful futuristic world.**In a land called the Whykatto, south of the city of Orklun, the sun rises angry in the sky, eats the winter grass and flames towards the western horizon. As...

Sil

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Sil

A Novel

by Jill Harris
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012

A**Watership Down of a tale for junior readers based around New Zealand's native bird, the tui.**Sil: adolescent tui and rising star. His startling song compositions arouse admiration and jealousy among his age-mates as he prepares for the annual competitions. Bron: fearless, daredevil flier, a tomboy...
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by Lorraine Orman
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

A gripping young adult novel that sweeps from the pioneer past to the present.In the late 1820s, Lizzie Dawson, only sixteen, was forced to be the child bride of a notorious whaler in the remote Marlborough Sounds of New Zealand. There began a living hell - until she met Matthew, a young Maori preacher,...
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by Chris Else
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010

From one of New Zealand's most thoughtful writers, not just a finely crafted novel but a whole country, complete with dark undertones. Kit Wallace has spent his whole life running away. Through luck and lack of purpose he has finally washed up in the Pacific nation of Ventiak. Here, on the top floor...
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by Alan Duff
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014

The prize-winning, passionate and uncompromising sequel to the blistering classic novel, Once Were Warriors*'She always came the following day for a second visit on this yearly remembering; in fact, Polly Heke came several times a year and had done for the last two, from when she herself hit the same...
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by David Hill
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2014

The plane bucked sideways, flinging Darryl against the cabin wall. It plunged vertically, jolted so hard that his teeth clacked together, then started skidding downwards through the sky. The screams rose to a frenzy. Then Darryl felt the aircraft turning, swinging towards the right. They were heading...
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by Maggie Rainey-Smith
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

**This novel, with its humorous insights into New Zealand women and their allegiances, will have you and your friends laughing in unison.**Irene has a secret. It slips out inadvertently during book club when the wine has been flowing too freely. Her teenage years as a marching girl are not something...
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by Phil Smith
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012

**A powerful, gripping and passionate award winning young adult novel of land rights, Maori spirituality, coming-of-age and love.**The Unknown Zone begins with the story of fifteen-year-old Hemi Ratana who, traumatised by a humiliating incident, climbs a giant kauri on the Coromandel Peninsula in...
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by Kevin Ireland
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2012

**A lyrically written memoir showing the growth of a writer and his unique perceptions of the 1950s, 60s and beyond.**Echoing the erratic shape of remembrance, Kevin Ireland's second volume of memoirs is 'derived from impressions, conversations, anecdotes and poems, and its vague focus is a trip to...
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Buck Up: The Real Bloke's Guide to Getting Healthy and Living Longer

The Real Bloke's Guide to Getting Healthy and Living Longer

by Buck Shelford
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2012

All Black legend Buck Shelford was the epitome of brute strength, determination and athletic prowess. It was a shock to New Zealand sports fans, then, when he was diagnosed with lymphatic cancer in 2005, which he subsequently overcame with treatment. More recently, after a public battle with his weight,...
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