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Once Upon a Cowpat: Stories from the Back Country
  

Once Upon a Cowpat: Stories from the Back Country (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Hutchins, Graham

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These days farming is a highly mechanised industry, and farmers have to be trained in a range of skills from animal husbandry to accountancy in order to survive. However, animals are much the same as they have always been, the weather is as unpredictable as ever, and country folk ...

ISBN 9781927147511
Published 4 May 2012 by Exisle Publishing
Interest Age Young Adults
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Trial by Ambush: The Prosecutions of David Bain
  

Trial by Ambush: The Prosecutions of David Bain (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Karam, Joe

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A fresh look at the trials of David Bain, presenting a fair and objective appraisal of the facts that led to his release from prison in 2009. At 7.09 a.m. on 20 June 1994, David Bain called emergency services and reported finding his entire family of five dead. A year later he wa ...

ISBN 9781869508340
Published 15 February 2012 by HarperCollins
Interest Age Young Adults
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The Quake Year
  

The Quake Year (Paperback)

By Farrell, Fiona; Photographs by Nicholas, Juliet

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It was interesting what people in the checkout line were buying: it was all comfort food. The man in front of me had eggs, bacon, cigarettes, beer. And here we were buying pink buns. No one was buying sensible emergency rations like baked beans..." "It was just the most wonderful ...

ISBN 9781927145296
Published 9 May 2012
Interest Age Young Adults
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Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake
  

Trapped: Remarkable Stories of Survival from the 2011 Canterbury Earthquake (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Van Beynen, Martin

'It was all so sudden. Twenty seconds and then silence. I started calling out, 'Can anyone hear me?' - nothing but silence. Over the next few hours I heard hysterical sobbing and people clapping as others were rescued. I could hear engines, drilling and what sounded like sledgeha ...

ISBN 9780143567233
Published 25 January 2012 by Penguin
Interest Age Young Adults
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Refugee Stories: Former Refugees Living in New Zealand Share Stories of Their Lives and Journeys
 

Refugee Stories: Former Refugees Living in New Zealand Share Stories of Their Lives and Journeys (Paperback)

Edited by Hayward, Maria

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The stories in this book are all personal accounts of refugee displacement, journeys, survival and, eventually, resettlement in New Zealand.

ISBN 9781927184035
Published 24 January 2012 by Aut Centre for Refugee Educato
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So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder That Shocked the World
  

So Brilliantly Clever: Parker, Hulme and the Murder That Shocked the World (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Graham, Peter

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The brutal, premeditated murder of Honorah Parker in 1954 in a lonely park by her 16-year-old daughter Pauline and Pauline's 15-year-old friend Juliet Hulme made shock headlines around the world. International media flocked to New Zealand to follow the trial. Still today, the mur ...

ISBN 9781877551123
Published 4 November 2011 by Awa Press
Interest Age Young Adults
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Off the Track: More Tales From the New Zealand Bush
 

Off the Track: More Tales From the New Zealand Bush (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Lester, Big Al

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'Those of you with a sense of humour, a love of hunting and a liking for yarns about the characters that roam the New Zealand mountains, this book is for you.'Big Al' once again revisits his beloved terrain: yarns of off-road New Zealand. With his characteristic humour and love f ...

ISBN 9780143009856
Published 4 August 2008 by Penguin
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A Hard Shot in the Hills
  

A Hard Shot in the Hills (Trade Paperback/Paperback, New title)

By Lester, Big Al

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More uproarious tales of huting and gaming in the New Zealand wilderness. Includes antics such as an unfortunate experinece with a Japanese traveller, jet boating, a helicopter crash and the 'Bullshitter's Ball'. Cartoons complement the writing style.

ISBN 9780790010670
Published 1 August 2006 by Raupo Publishing (NZ) Ltd
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Expert Witness
  

Expert Witness (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Sandiford, Anna

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Using first-hand experience, Dr Anna Sandiford presents a real-life look at the inner workings of forensic science as she recounts her work, as well as that of others, on well-known (and some lesser known) cases that have created so much media and public fascination.

ISBN 9781869508753
Published 3 June 2011 by HarperCollins
Interest Age Young Adults
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Blue Water: Stories from a Life Afloat
  

Blue Water: Stories from a Life Afloat (Trade Paperback/Paperback)

By Wright, Lindsay

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Blue Water is a collection of true adventure stories from a writer in love with the sea ... From an action-packed journey to the Arctic ice pack, encounters with whales and storms, to rescuing a derelict yacht - only to later be washed ashore on a New Zealand beach - Lindsay Wrig ...

ISBN 9781869509002
Published 1 December 2010 by HarperCollins
Interest Age Young Adults
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