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The story of a kuia and a spider, and their argument over whose weaving was the best. Illust. in colour.
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A reprint of the old classic about the tuna (eel) who leaves his creek and ends up with the children on Champion Street.
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Playing by the sea one day, little Areta is spirited away by some kahawai. Her whanau looks everywhere for her, but the kahawai have persuaded Areta to stay with them. One day her people spy Areta's poi beneath the sea and draw her back, but a compromise has to be found before ev ...
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A new collection of short stories from Patricia Grace. The setting for the stories is widely varied, as are the characters. Running through all the stories though is the common thread of Grace's sympathy for the underdog and the perspective of the outsider.
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The whanau of Ned and Katina approached writer Patricia Grace to compile their parents' story. Ned & Katina is the result. This warm, beautifully written true story is impossible to put down.
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Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction Award. This compelling novel highlights one community's response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols provides moving affirmation of the relationship between land and the people who live on it.
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A novel of tradition and change, of the whanau and its struggle to survive, of the place of women in a changing world.
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Baby No-eyes is Te Paania's first child, killed in a car crash before she even leaves the womb. Baby's ghost returns to comfort Te Paania, and when Baby's brother Tawera is born he takes her place in the world although she is always by his side.
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Mutuwhenua 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 from her whanau, that the old ways are too strong.
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Tells the story of Maraea, an elderly Maori woman living in a coastal community. The site of the kainga is also next to an albatross colony, and there are close (and fabulously illustrated) links between the people and the birds. But people are drifting to the cities, and the com ...
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