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Simone's obsession with her former lover is dangerously out of control, and the approach of her 40th birthday compels her to wreak havoc in his new life. This moving novel explores the possibility of reinvention, the bittersweet taste of revenge, and a woman's search for friendship and love.

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In this poetic, elliptical, and deeply moving coming-of-age novel, the story of Holly, daughter of a powerful and charismatic father and socially anxious mother, is one about the fate of beauty and attractiveness. With nuanced characters and colourful settings, the novels narrative shifts smartly from the present to the influential past.

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First published in 1996, Mohi Turei: na tuhinga i roto i te reo Maori is the collected writings in te reo Mori of Mohi Turei (circa 18301914), Ngti Porou leader, scholar and Anglican minister.

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First published in 1996, Mohi Turei: na tuhinga i roto i te reo Mori is the collected writings in te reo Mori of Mohi Turei (circa 18301914), Ngti Porou leader, scholar and Anglican minister.

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The 2014 general election was surely the most bizarre election campaign in New Zealand's history. The contributors to Moments of Truth - an experienced group of political party leaders and campaign managers, media and political commentators, pollsters, consultants and academics - seek to provide some answers and insights into an election unlike any before it.

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Too stuffy inside All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes.

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A collection of memoirs that include first-hand reports of the administration of New Zealand's foreign policy in the first half of the 20th century and a captivating commentary on a multitude of prominent political figures, Sir Carl Berendsen's journals chronicle the life of the father of New Zealand foreign affairs.

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Muck is about overbearing parents, farm life, mental illness and the extremes of human vanity. Most of all it is about a young man and the world he constructs in order to survive his family and-somehow-discover a self of his own.

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In My Father's Island, Adam Dudding writes frankly about the rise and fall of an unconventional cultural figure. But this is also a moving, funny and deeply personal story of a family, of a marriage, of feuds and secret loves - and of a son's dawning understanding of his father.

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Mysterious Mysteries of the Aro Valley is a dark and forbidding new comic farce by the author of Unspeakable Secrets of the Aro Valley.

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It is 1987, forty-five years after Japan conquered New Zealand, and the brutal shackles of the occupation have loosened a little: English can be spoken by natives in the home, and Business English teacher Chris Ipswitch has a job at the Wellington Language Academy. New Hokkaido is a fascinating counter-factual history and an adventure that thrills and disquiets at every turn.

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Urgent, witty and unnervingly beautiful, Oscar Uppertons first collection takes familiar language and makes it uncanny.

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While Indigenous peoples face the challenges of self-determination in a postcolonial world, New Treaty, New Tradition provides a timely look at how the resolution of historical Treaty of Waitangi claims continues to shape the culture of all who are involved - Maori and government alike.

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Serious and playful, this work of creative conjecture by historians and political scientists reexamines key events and decisions in New Zealands history - sensitive to possibilities that were plausible at the time - and speculates about circumstances that with only a modest degree of adjustment could easily have taken an entirely different turn.

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A work of creative conjecture by leading historians and political scientists which reexamines key events and decisions in New Zealands historysensitive to possibilities that were plausible at the timeand speculates about circumstances that with only a modest degree of adjustment could easily have taken an entirely different turn.

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Taken from the papers presented at the fourth Wellington Conference on World Affairs, this collection of essays focuses on New Zealand's role both in the Pacific and in a globalizing world.

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Surveys the period 1972-1990, providing a record of New Zealand's major international preoccupations, describing how they were officially handled, and making assessments of how effectively challenges were interpreted and acted upon.

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Drawing on 39 interviews with leading New Zealand jazz musicians, New Zealand Jazz Life is a ground-breaking survey of the vibrant local scene

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Conveys some of the complexities of a small land in a world war, by examining individual facets of New Zealand society. Its 18 investigations, researched and written by specialist contributors, of particular social institutions, associations and groups give us a richer, more detailed understanding of how New Zealanders thought and acted during the First World War.

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A collection of fiction, poetry, personal accounts, historical narrative, anecdotes, transcribed oral narratives, newspaper articles and more, all bearing in one way or another on New Zealand perceptions of China and contacts with China and the Chinese. The book is richly illustrated with photographs, paintings, posters, and cartoons.