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In an inspiring modern-day adventure, Shaun Quincey shares the physical and mental challenges of pitting yourself against something way bigger than anything you'll ever face in a life more ordinary. In 1977, Colin Quincey became the first man to row the Tasman. Thirty years later, his son Shaun decided to emulate his father - rowing the other way.

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O'Sullivan won the Japan Cup on Horlicks, at the time the world's richest race with a 5 million dollar stake, has taken out every major race in Australasia and was a huge success while riding in Hong Kong. Recently retiring at the top, Lance is now a TAB ambassador and racing commentator for Trackside television, the racing channel.

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Memoirs of a leading children's author. In this warm and witty memoir, renowned author William Taylor writes engagingly about life as a writer, teacher and solo father.

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Luke Evans never knew his father; he'd cleared out before he was born. So when his internet skills track down someone living at a luxurious resort in tropical Queensland who could be his dad, Luke's imagination runs wild. Luke soon learns that no one is perfect, and the world can be a tricky place.

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When Paddy, a young New Zealand schoolboy, becomes so obsessed with a book about the Second World War Battle of Guadalcanal he's lucky not to killed in a traffic accident, his parents ban him from reading it ever again. But Paddy begins to hear the voices of men who died during the battle, leaving him both horrified and fascinated.

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Twelve year old David has been ill and is staying with relatives in Kaikoura, where he meets Rua, and his ancient grandmother, who is a powerful Kuia, determined to recover the guardian of the land, a long -lost carved whalebone taonga for her people before she dies. Will the boys be able to solve the puzzle of it's whereabouts

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A vintage Jack Lasenby tale set in Waharoa, the same town and Depression years as the setting for Old Drumble, and featuring some of the same characters. This time the protagonist is Maggie, a young girl being raised by her widowed father, with the help of the whole village.

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Arthur, who believes himself to be the second son of God, lives at a boarding house in Ponsonby with all the other ex-psych patients released into community care, only to find themselves washed up on the shores of 'cappuccino city' - unwanted and struggling to cope with life on the outside, as their home is threatened with closure.

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When Kiwi airman John Sanderson was shot down over Laines-aux-Bois in May 1944, an ordinary French family chose to help. Tragically, a local doctor called in to treat his wounds betrayed them to the Gestapo. This absorbing, illustrated account presents a poignant and compelling view of our humanity, and our history.

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This very funny story is about the famous 1924 tour as it might have been, if there was more sex and less etiquette than the rugby historians would have us believe. What happens on tour stays on tour ... but then there is Beau Baxter, cad, bounder and possibly All Black. Funny, earthy, direct and unforgettable.

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Handguns and flintlocks, technology and magic, modern teens and mythological beings, all collide in this thrilling young adults fantasy novel from the writer who defines the new genre of Maori Gothic.

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A race against time to save rare birds on the cliff tops of Taioroa Head - a race, that if lost could cause the extinction of the species ...

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Several generations after volcanic eruptions and tsunamis caused the onset of the Dark, the descendants of the few survivors are struggling to maintain their tenuous communities in swamplands at the far northern end of New Zealand. A gripping quest that pushes the boundaries of endurance and spirit.

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Hamish Harrison lives with his mum, a menagerie of animals, ever-present money worries and the social problems of a boy more inclined to music than sport. On the brink of his teenage years, the trials of family life seem less important when the concert pianist next door offers to teach him to play.

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Matiu Douglas has promised to help the storyteller's daughter, but there are a few problems ... The daughter is dead - she's been petrified in stone for centuries. And she's no longer human ... she's a taniwha.