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Right there in the backyard, Oscar and Bryn struck something hard. What they discover as they dig deeper will surprise everyone. Join these little adventurers and a whole parade of diggers as they uncover a VERY BIG FIND.

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Everyone with sight knows the pleasure of colours, the fascination of faces and bodies, the subtle forms of nature, and the curious patterns of art. This book is for everyone who would like to delve deeper into their experience of seeing. Richly textured and profoundly engrossing. Murray Edmond. Fresh and lively.Linda Tyler

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A fifth volume of poetry from a beloved New Zealand troubadour that includes old favorites, such as "Sad Joke on a Marae" and "Cocoa Cola Jesus and Mitsubishi Mary." It explores topics such as nature and landscape, love and war, poverty and racism, and the poet's Maori ancestry.

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Originally published in 2001, A City Possessed is the shocking account of one of New Zealands most high-profile criminal cases. This shocking account of high-profile New Zealand child sexual abuse case is the landmark critique of controversial conviction. This 2019 reprint coincides with an appeal to Supreme Court by Peter Ellis.

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Part-biography, part-travel journal, part-literary commentary, 'A Communist in the Family: Searching for Rewi Alley' is a beautifully written multi-layered narrative centred on New Zealander Rewi Alley and his part in the momentous political events of mid-twentieth-century China.

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For many Kiwi baby boomers, growing up in New Zealand in the 1950s and 60s was a special time heaps of playmates, freedom to run wild, and opportunity to exercise imagination. Pete Majendies stories of his childhood in New Brighton capture those experiences.

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Written between 1909 and 1911, this autobiography describes Vaggioli's philosophical temperament, his search for justice, his objections to war, and his activities as a missionary in New Zealand. It covers the period of his life between 1879 and 1887. The introduction provides background information, and features black and white illustrations.

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In 2013 the Hautapu family went through the extremely traumatic experience of their 7 year-old daughter Quinn being diagnosed with brain cancer. Quinns mother, Roanne Barnes Hautapu, has written a profoundly moving account of what the family went through, living at Ronald McDonald House whilst undergoing treatments at Starship Hospital.

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'A Feeling for Food' began as a letter to two sons leaving home, giving them the recipes of the food they'd grown up with so they could feed themselves, but Lis Cowey soon realised she was giving them another kind of nourishment that was all about who they were, where they'd come from and the adventures awaiting them.

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"Poems are born to blow a kiss at everlasting life as they rise to the rim of language then bubble and cascade over" says Kevin Ireland, one of New Zealands best-loved and richly lived poets in this, his 24th collection. Here are poems that make us laugh, reflect, question, celebrate "its poetry going about its stunning business once again."

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After Robbie Walkers father dies of cancer, he is sent to spend the summer holidays on the farm where his father grew up. There, in a hidden valley called Paradise, Robbie discovers a new friend a creature thought extinct. But others also visit Paradise: wildlife thieves whose only interest is to get rich through this new animal.

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Peter Bland's poems have an ecstatic sensibility and a vividly personal voice, or voices. In this new collection Peter continues his search for 'a lost sense of the sacred' and explores his 'wanting to be a child again.' These are poems of recovery and intervention, full of the intoxicating feeling his work evokes.

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That first night in Samoa, Ana slept next to her grandmother on an old bed with sheets that smelled of mothballs. Now it was morning and as she opened her eyes, Ana saw that the other side of the bed was empty.

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90-year-old Christchurch author lives through a pandemic and keeps writing about the joys of the life in front of her.

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