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Donovan Bixley re-tells the story of how Maui captured the secret of fire.
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By Lane, Chloe
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- RRP: $30.00
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13 Aug 20
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Erin's mother has motor neurone disease and has decided to take her fate into her own hands. As Erin looks back at her twenty-six-year-old self, she can finally tell the story of the unimaginable task she faced one winter.
'Chloe Lane's The Swimmers is by turns touching, reson...ate, fiercely candid, and beautifully written. In this novel about a daughter's attempt to help her mother receive a merciful death, Lane has sidestepped the cliches, and captured the enigma of what it means to save a life by ending one.'
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For thousands of years, the Maori tohunga, sages, passed closely guarded knowledge to new generations of sages, using only an orally coded system. Two hundred years ago, they started recording that knowledge into secret manuscripts.
Why did they suddenly abandon their oral tra...ditions?
Who were they writing for?
Can this indigenous knowledge provide us with a beacon in our time?
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It's summer holiday fun time for Granny, Grandad and Jock. Let's follow them down through the beautiful sunny Mackenzie Country. This mischievous little West Highland Terrier with 'attitude plus' will melt your hear and entertain your children as they learn.
* Ilustrated with be...autiful full page, glossy colour photographs.
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By Hunt, Des
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- RRP: $24.99
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1 Sep 20
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Twelve-year-old Cassi Whelan and her dad have just moved into a repaired house on the edge of Christchurchs Red Zone. Although Cassi was only four when earthquakes decimated Christchurch, her memories still haunt her. An obsessive runner, she finds the wide-open spaces of the cle...ared Red Zone suit her perfectly. However, she becomes suspicious about strange comings and goings at the broken-down house next door. A chance meeting with a boy who lives on the other side of the house who is a tech geek leads to them setting up a surveillance system to investigate whats happening... and the adventure begins.
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A picture book in Niuean and English for children 0 - 3 years. This is to help and support babies and their families at home to accommodate for the need of appropriate Pacific language resources to encourage their early interests in reading. This responds to the need to have Paci...fic resources in family homes for this vulnerable age group.
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A picture book in both Tongan language and English translation to accommodate for a Tongan resource in Pacific family homes to support the babies and their families. This book attempts to support the babies and their caregivers to encourage early literacy for Pacific families whi...ch is a valuable to the vulnerable babies and their brain development. It is hoped that this will also help nurture and develop the positive attachment of the babies and their caregivers through book sharing.
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By Orwin, Joanna
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- RRP: $35.00
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It is 1853. Widowed Lydia Boulcott has remarried, hoping to escape her shameful past. An isolated new life in the kauri forests of New Zealand's Far North offers the chance of a respectable future for her and her five-year-old daughter, Hannah. To her dismay, Lydia discovers that... one of her few neighbours is none other than ambitious Eliza Noakes - someone from her past who has the power to reveal her guilty secrets to the world. But, despite Lydia's best efforts, fate constantly throws them together - Inspired by the intertwined lives of two real women, and set against the fast-changing and challenging world of remote pioneer New Zealand, award-winning writer Joanna Orwin's superbly written new novel tells a gripping and touching story of struggle, love and unlikely friendship.
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It is Saturday afternoon and two boys' schools are locked in battle for college rugby supremacy. Priya - a fifteen year old who barely belongs - watches from the sidelines.
Then it is Saturday night and the team is partying, Priya's friends have evaporated and she isn't sure wha...t to do.
In the weeks after 'the incident' life seems to go on. But when whispers turn to confrontation, the institutions of wealth and privilege circle the wagons.
Sprigs is the latest novel from Brannavan Gnanalingam. His previous novel Sodden Downstream (Lawrence and Gibson; 2017) was short-listed for the Acorn Foundation prize for best fiction of the year. He is also the author of A Briefcase, Two Pies and a Penthouse and three other books published by Lawrence and Gibson.
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