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August 2012 Release

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List of titles published from 26 July to 25 August 2012.

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Serious Fun: The Life and Times of Alan Gibbs
  

Serious Fun: The Life and Times of Alan Gibbs (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Goldsmith, Paul

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A man who in his twenties dared to take on the cosy club of import licence-holders who controlled the New Zealand car industry by building his own car for commercial production was always going to be someone to watch. Who could have picked, however, back in the early 1970s, that ...

ISBN 9781869799298
Published 3 August 2012 by Random House
Interest Age Young Adults
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Bloodied But Not Beaten: The Stories Behind 40 Years of Investigative Journalism
  

Bloodied But Not Beaten: The Stories Behind 40 Years of Investigative Journalism (Paperback)

By Vaughan, Rod

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This is a story about New Zealand's most experienced television journalist, Rod Vaughan, who's been at the forefront of news and current affairs for more than 40 years. His remarkable career has taken him to almost every corner of the world where he has reported on an extraord ...

ISBN 9781877378690
Published 1 August 2012 by David Ling Publishing Limited
Interest Age Young Adults
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The Magical Life of Mr. Renny
 

The Magical Life of Mr. Renny (Paperback)

By Timmers, Leo; Translated by Nagelkerke, Bill; Edited by Todd, Penelope

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A colorful picture book about Mr. Renny, an artist who suddenly finds his paintings coming to life. An imaginative retelling of the King Midas story.

ISBN 9781877467899
Published 3 August 2012 by Gecko Press
Interest Age 2-6 years
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Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush
  

Stag Spooner: Wild Man from the Bush (Hardback)

By Maclean, Chris

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Stag (Neville) Spooner (1917-1946) was a government deer culler in 1939 and 1940, initially in the Tararuas, and then on the South Island's West Coast. While his successful career as a culler was cut short by the Second World War, he did leave behind a remarkable legacy from this ...

ISBN 9781877517686
Published 1 August 2012 by Craig Potton Publishing
Interest Age Young Adults
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An Indescribable Beauty: Letters Home to Germany from Wellington, New Zealand, 1859
  

An Indescribable Beauty: Letters Home to Germany from Wellington, New Zealand, 1859 (Hardback)

By Krull, Friedrich August; Edited by Varnham, Mary; Introduction by Harrison, Oliver

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The translated letters of Friedrich Krull from Wellington back home to Germany in 1859, at the behest of German naturalist and historian Ernst Boll. Krull details people, landscapes and birds of early Wellington, Wairarapa, Kapiti and surrounds. Included are reports on meetings w ...

ISBN 9781877551338
Published 6 August 2012 by Awa Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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Southern Lakes Tracks & Trails: A Walking & Tramping Guide
  

Southern Lakes Tracks & Trails: A Walking & Tramping Guide (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Barrett, Pat

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Essential guide to the many tracks and trails of the beautiful inland regions of the lower half of the South Island, with an emphasis on foothills and forests. Includes the Mackenzie Country, Mount Cook, Lake Wanaka and Matukituki valleys, Mount Aspiring national Park, Makarora/H ...

ISBN 9781877578069
Published 20 August 2012 by Otago University Press
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117 NZ Radio and TV Advertising Jingles
 

117 NZ Radio and TV Advertising Jingles (Audio CD/Audio)

By Daverne, Gary

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Gary Daverne was one on NZ's leading 'jingle' writers, composing over 500 soundtracks for TV and radio. This is an 80 minute collection of some of his more popular soundtracks digitally remastered.

ISBN VISC106
Published 1 August 2012 by Viscount Productions
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My simple Life: Selected Poems 1930-199
  

My simple Life: Selected Poems 1930-199 (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Bartlett, Jean

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Jean Bartlett's collection from a "lifetime's writings of a passionate, sensitive abd articulate author which wonderfully catpures the emotions of growning up between two world wars: living through the Great Depression and subsequent social and political upheaval; the deaths of f ...

ISBN 9780473207298
Published 1 August 2012 by Bankwood Books
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150 Years of New Zealand Shipbuilding (cd Rom)
  

150 Years of New Zealand Shipbuilding (cd Rom) (softcovercd rom/Other)

By Hughes, Miles

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This 837 page book comes as a pdf on CD Rom -it includes; an extensive bibliography and three indices: one for shipbuilders, shipwrights and boatbuilders; one for vessels built by them and thirdly, a general index. It is intended that this book becomes the one-stop definitive re ...

ISBN 9780473222079
Published 23 August 2012
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On Tongan Poetry
 

On Tongan Poetry (Mixed media product/Mixed Media)

By Helu, Futa

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This book collects six of the late Futa Helus essays about Tongan poetry. These essays make a good introduction to traditional Tongan poetry and an equally fine introduction to Futa Helus intellectual methods. He guides the reader through the different periods and genres of Tonga ...

ISBN 9780992245306
Published 9 August 2012 by Atuanui Press Ltd
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