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Several generations after volcanic eruptions and tsunamis caused the onset of the Dark, the descendants of the few survivors are struggling to maintain their tenuous communities in swamplands at the far northern end of New Zealand. A gripping quest that pushes the boundaries of e ...
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Jasmine is out to shock - anything to get approval from the cool kids at school, and to force her parents, who are preoccupied with their own problems, to take notice. Her only real support is from her great-grandmother, who gives Jaz the diary of their ancestor, Maggie who emigr ...
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The boys cross backwards and forwards in time, tracing the path of the bone carving from pre-European times to the musket wars and the sealing and whaling era of colonisation before they are finally able to solve the puzzle of the taonga?s whereabouts in their own time, and resto ...
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In a superb retelling of a collision of cultures doomed to end in tragedy, Joanna Orwin cleverly interweaves Maori and European perspectives, providing a vivid and compelling tale of loyalty, friendship, bloodshed and revenge from the age of encounter - when European and Polynesi ...
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Contains fishing tales by Syd Cormack, who was a commercial fisherman in Moeraki and Kaikoura for much of his adult life. He describes himself as being 'four generations from Maoridom' because he was descended from an influential Moeraki woman and a European whaler.
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Luara Ann Findlay lives on the Coromandel Penninsula. It's 1921 and Laura's family are living under canvas following the timber men as they cut down the huge kauri trees in the dense forest. Laura confides in her diary about the difficulties of her life, and her longing to go to ...
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From commodity for exploitation to object of awe, the kauri and its story lie at the heart of New Zealand's own story." Joanna Orwin has a background in plant ecology, and in this book she takes us back to the ancient origins of the Kauri, going on through history to tell of the ...
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A book for young children about a boy's encounter with a tar truck on a road construction site.
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