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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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As he enters his 90th year on the planet, Kevin Ireland describes his third memoir as a process of 'sweeping up all the reflective wrappers and the tinsel, and describing how, in the setting sun, they glitter with the brilliant romance of nostalgia...'.

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Maudie's on the run - from New York and from her past - but she runs headlong into her future when she ends up on Rakiura Stewart Island on assignment to cover Aotearoa New Zealand's southernmost running trails. Or, as her new fisherman friend Vil puts it: "Giving brainless bucket-listers hard-ons for islands like mine."

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This book is a compilation of essays, vignettes and discussion papers written by a retired geriatrician to consider some of the issues associated with ageing and older people, including the health conditions of later years.

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This beautifully illustrated narrative is a testament to a lifetimes fascination with natures grandeur. Through vivid words and breath-taking full-colour images, Buchanan frames the peaks from Mt Cook to the Kaikoura Ranges within a contemporary context, weaving in Mori lore, geographic insights, historical details, and engaging anecdotes.

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Christs Colleges campus in Christchurch is one of the most remarkable collections of buildings in New Zealand. Sir Miles Warren, the architect for the College for 43 years, enlisted fellow architect Alec Bruce to create this succinct summary of the design of the colleges unique buildings.

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Set on Somes Island in Wellington Harbour and in the South Island and its West Coast, this is the gripping story of lives changed forever by the First World War, the hurts suffered, the losses borne, and the secrets kept, yet it is also the story of the capacity of the human spirit to endure, to hope and to love.

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A sensitive and evocative account of the life of a New Zealand World War Two artillery soldier that gives insight into New Zealands rural culture from the pre-depression years, the impact of war on a family through generations, and the magic of companionship in the New Zealand backcountry.

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Once upon a time in the future, things are looking grim. Plague stalks the land, people live behind city walls, or underground. No more animals, no more birdlife, no more freedom... never has the divide between rich and poor been so evident, never has the Earth been so despoiled, and never has the need for a hero been stronger.

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Rhondda Greigs artistic eye guides her poetic perspective. The poetry lives in the greens and seasonal kaleidoscope of the Wairarapa, home throughout her adult life, and in the wintry greys of Scotland.

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This is the true story of a Kiwi cop who survives the dangerous double life of an undercover agent and goes on to become New Zealand's most successful international fraud investigator.

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International intrigue and a tangle of motives unfold against a glittering backdrop of bright stars in this gripping tale of crime and passion, and as Nellie Prayle knows only too well, nothing in the world of academia is straightforward...

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Frank Winter is an ex-cop, a former hard-boiled Boston detective with a soft centre living in curmudgeonly retirement with his beloved dog, Dolly. But when his daughter's killer is released on parole, Frank's back, a man on a mission, and it's yesterday once more.

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Equity and Governance picks up from where Greg Newbolds previous book, Quest for Equity, left off, and covers the Association of Blind Citizens history since 1995. After briefly reviewing the Associations first 50 years (19451995), the book covers the groups convoluted and eventful history over the subsequent 25 years.

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Respectable families hold on to their myths, contain the violence, uphold the Establishment. There was always going to be a story. It couldnt be overlooked, and this one will set the skeletons rattling and the gin bottles clinking up and down the country. Overall it is a story of survival.

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Koenraad Kuipers poems are animated by a frugal, astringent, ironic intelligence that reminds me of when the word wit was used to describe or even name the verse of the Metaphysical poets. However, these poems are not historical pastiche, but are unmistakably contemporary, as in the several formal variations of his Benedictine Sonnets.

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Few have advanced the art of gardening in New Zealand as much as Gordon Collier. In this beautiful celebration of his three famous gardens created and nurtured over 60 years friends, colleagues and fellow gardeners pay tribute to the man behind the legend.

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This beautifully imagined novel examines one of our great historical myths and follows Isaac Newton's path to becoming the Greene Lyon, alchemy's symbolic creature who devours the sun. Greene Lyon will haunt you long after the apple has fallen from the tree.

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Two women, two literally unspeakable tragedies, two families, one powerful and unforgettable story.

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From before Christchurch was settled its cathedral has been the focus of ferocious public debate: Where should a cathedral be built How would it be paid for Should it be built in wood or stone When financially perilous, should it be supported by the city Should it be demolished or should it be restored And to whom did it really belong

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Packed with interesting, amusing and informative anecdotes and lavishly illustrated with 130 superb large-format colour photographs that reveal the beauty of our rivers, streams, lakes and countryside, and encourage readers to head out to experience the wonderful world of fly fishing. The perfect gift for any angler.

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Every parent's dream 'go to' book to help maximise your child's growth and development and improve both sporting and academic performance. Exploring a wide range of health, food, sporting and academic advice, this ground-breaking book is by dietitian and nutritionist Lea Stening who has worked in paediatrics and sports nutrition for many years.

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Kevin Irelands 27th collection is brimful of poems that are never predictable. Whether he is writing about writing, ruminating on the mixed blessings of ageing, or reflecting on love and other viruses, Kevins poems are peppered with wry humour and celebrate a sparkling pleasure in life.

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For more than five decades Kees Bruin has established a unique visionary identity within the framework of New Zealand realism that is enthusiastically commissioned and collected internationally. His three overlapping categories are photo-realism, super-realism and what he terms 'visionary-realism'.