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Ideals Are Like Stars is the remarkable true story of Yvette Williams, a trailblazing young athlete who defied the odds to win gold in the long jump at the Helsinki Olympics in 1952. This is a long overdue celebration of an extraordinary sporting life and a highly engaging chronicle of a young womans quest for excellence.

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Part Man Alone, part love story, Island Notes explores questions of belonging, loss and impermanence and whether the life, seas and forests of a wild island can offer a reconciliation with our past.

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It's Over! is sports commentator John McBeth's story of his 40 years behind the microphone and in front of the camera. He described some of New Zealand's most memorable sporting achievements and personally contributed to some unique "firsts".

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NZ author James Courage moved to London in 1927 and began writing novels, plays, poems and short stories. His 1959 novel, A Way of Love, was the first gay novel written by a New Zealander. Between 1920 and 1963, Courage confided his thoughts to a private diary, recording his triumphs and struggles with an engaging honesty and a lively intelligence.

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A monograph on the great Pop Art master, James Rosenquist, this book shows how the artist's large-scale works and their source materials remain powerful and relevant as cultural and political commentary.

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The Reverend George Austen has so often been painted as just a quiet, country clergyman. This book reveals he was anything but and that the parsonage Jane Austen lived in was a very lively and literary place.

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These private recollections of longtime Japan resident and Japanese culture expert Donald Richie capture the personalities of the Japanese people with insight and humor.

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An endearing book of photographs of legendary skateboarding pioneer and Z-Boy Jay Adams during his childhood years, taken by Adams s stepfather Kent Sherwood and now back in print for the first time since Adams s passing.

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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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An avid collector of works of art, and long fascinated by how artists see the world, Peter Bland has drawn together poems for his 85th birthday that he's written over the years about paintings and the visual image.

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Beautifully written and illustrated with maps and stunning photography, Katherine Mansfields Europe is part travelogue, part literary biography, part detective story and part ghost story. Guided by Mansfields journals and letters, Redmer Yska traces her restless journey in Europe, seeking out the places where she lived, worked and died.

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Part of theCrane Classicsseries, featuring the poetry of John Keats.

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Keeping the Party in Tune embraces twenty stories primarily about the battles of a union leader and Labour politician during turbulent times in New Zealand's political and industrial history. Other pieces capture the often-hilarious life of a musician and dance band leader and later the High Commissioner to Canada.

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Celebrated artist, activist and humanitarian, Keith Haring is the perfect subject for this graphic novel. Focused on three colors, this comic-book tells the fascinating life story of a man who lived his truth on all kinds of canvases.

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We have no poet quite like Jan Hutchison - a nature poet of course, but so much more than this: her imaginative leaps are startling; her mind ever quizzical, puzzling at what is just beyond perception. - James Norcliffe

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Ko Aotearoa Tatou | We Are New Zealand is bursting with new works of fiction, nonfiction, poetry and visual art created in response to the editors' questions: What is New Zealand now, in all its rich variety and contradiction, darkness and light Who are New Zealanders

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With more than 100 poems of celebration, elegy, fear, hope and activism, Koe An Aotearoa Ecopoetry Anthology provides a comprehensive overview of the traditions, development and heritage of a unique Aotearoa New Zealand ecopoetry derived from both traditional Mori poetry and the English poetry canon.

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Davey Gunn lived 30 years in Fiordland's rugged Hollyford Valley, where he had one of the most isolated cattle runs in New Zealand. Although quiet and modest by nature, Davey became known throughout New Zealand. The Land of Doing Without brings to life the memories of many of Davey's contemporaries, and explores the man behind the legend: his quir

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