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Morgan Bach weaves a line between waking life and the unstable dreamworld beneath, disorienting and reorienting us from moment to moment. In poems of childhood, family, travel and relationships, she responds to the ache and sometimes horror of life in a voice that is restless and witty, bold and sharp-edged.

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What happens in moments of crisis Are people capable of change How can one express their true feelings How does society survive the endless dance of estrangement and intimacy The Intentions Book is a tender and funny novel about love, communication, and the ways families shape people.

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Peter Collie is adrift in the wake of his wife's death. An unexpected revelation forces Peter to navigate anew his roles as a husband, father and son.

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Klara Galambos was a twenty-year-old violin student in Budapest in March 1944. During the war she was transported with the Jews of Szombathely to Auschwitz Birkenau. The Violinist draws on memoir, interviews and historical research to tell her compelling story.

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When Hope Patterson plunges into a construction hole at her local mall and saves a child from drowning, she believes this is a sign from God. Their Faces Were Shining combines profound human insight with a thriller's narrative drive. Engaging marriage, family and faith, mixing comedy and awe, it is an astonishing literary achievement.

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Dinah Hawkens new long poem interweaves her family history in the early years of Pkeh settlement in Taranaki; a short history of the Taranaki Wars; and her thoughts and feelings as she researched and wrote the poem.

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Serves as a map of survival for Maori growing up outside of their papakaika. These poems look at how we take the knowledge we are given by our ancestors and hide it beneath our tongues for safekeeping. They show us how we live with our tupuna, without ever fully understanding them.

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In poems presented in both English and German, six remarkable voices present a fresh series of encounters between Europe and New Zealand and record a once-in-a-lifetime experience. The next Transit of Venus will not be seen until 2117.

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Provides a social history of women in the liquor trade and the controls, social and legal, written and unwritten, with which they had to contend. It begins in the 1830s when control over the sale of alcohol was first mooted and ends in 1976, when the last of the regulations that applied specifically to females was removed.

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This is a story about what it feels like to be a Maori in an education system where, for more than a century, equality, social justice and fairness for all New Zealanders has been promised but not adequately provided.

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With vivid and often hilarious storytelling, this novel is concerned with what it means to be a woman in the modern world by exploring issues of sexuality, identity, and discovering one's place in the world. This witty, tender, and frank novel delivers moving and memorable snapshots of late 20th century lesbian life.

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Empire City: Wellington Becomes the Capital of New Zealand takes Wellington from the first encounter between Mori and the New Zealand Company in Te Whanganui-a-Tara in 1839 to its becoming the Empire City by the 1870s.

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In her third collection, Kerrin P. Sharpe writes about trespass and return, the homelessness of flight, and anatomies both human and object. Her poems take the form of oblique, sometimes tragic, always powerful vignettes. These are poems that are brilliantly restless in time and place.

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The pilgrim poems in this collection persuade the other poems and the readers to join them on a quest for personal meaning. All the while there is the feeling that the movement forward is really towards the place where it all began.