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*Hard-hitting memoir of Maori leader in education and broadcasting *Testament to Sir Toby, who passed away on 17 August 2022 *Mixes personal stories with reflections on NZ society *Lays out vision for lifting Maori educational achievement

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This witty, clever, mind-expanding and original book is destined to become a classic. A professor for over 40 years, Jim Flynn found fewer and fewer of his students were in love with reading. Flynn begins by offering five novels he believes will convince anyone to make reading a habit, including one that will change your life.

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The term "touchscreen" emerged in the 1970s to describe a computer display that doubles as an input device. In Touch Screen, poet Philip Armstrong reexamines this term, exploring the evolving interface between humans and technology through poems that blend personal lyric and myth, asking: "Can you feel it"

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Catharina van Bohemen walked the Camino de Santiago in 1998. Her journal was the most important thing she carried.

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Welcome to 'Town', fifty stories and fifty images by writer and photographer Madeleine Slavick, who lived in Hong Kong for almost twenty-five years before moving to a Wairarapa country road that runs from state highway to bush.

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In this fascinating crime book journalist and longtime Japan resident Paul Murphy provides a glimpse of Japanese society through a year's worth of criminal court cases in Matsumoto, a city 140 miles to the west of Tokyo

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"The Kathleen Grattan award for poetry, 2011."

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Award-winning poet Joanna Preston's beautifully crafted second collection charts a course for the journey from child to woman. Her voice swoops the reader from the ocean depths to the roof of the world, from nascent saints, Viking raids and fallen angels to talking cameras and an astronaut in space.

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Tung is the debut collection from award-winning poet, Robyn Maree Pickens. Attuned to the fine murmurings of the earth and to the louder sound and content of human languages (English, Spanish, Japanese and Finnish), these poems offer sustenance and repair to a planet in the grips of a socio-ecological crisis.

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Douglas Brass was as fine a writer in his field as his more famous contemporaries and close friends,Denis Glover, Charles Brasch and Ian Milner. In Tunis is Mad Tonightjournalist Douglas Brass, a long neglected New Zealander, takes his deserved place in the spotlight and an extraordinary life is revealed.

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H.W. Tilmans Two Mountains and a River sees him trek across Nepal, China, Pakistan and other areas of Asia, including Ishkashim, where the author was arrested on suspicion of being a spy ...

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This book charts the Fab Four's musical evolution through the sixties. Includes a fascinating biography of each member of the band, an introduction to the members' early years as school kids, and reveals the band's split and their lives after The Beatles, including the murder of John Lennon and the untimely death of George Harrison.

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Former editor Jenny Lynch takes the wraps off the unreported side of life in print, explodes myths, unearths secrets and shows that even on seemingly conservative publications such as the New Zealand Woman's Weekly things were seldom exactly as they seemed.

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Michael Giacons first volume is a dishevelment of self, sexuality, relationships, nature: his Pkeh-Italian upbringing; tense routines of the recent present; scenes from a gay play; barefoot on the spirited whenua of the Tutukk coast, his favourite surface, sand.

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"The work of a poet who knows how important people and places are... I kept thinking, too, about life's voyagings. I found the whole very affecting - touching, tender, rueful at times... And all the more impressive for being unsentimental." - BRIAN TURNER

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Unseasoned Campaigner is a layered collection exploring the complexities of farming life in Horowhenua. Poet Janet Newman uncovers territory ripe for exploration as she juxtaposes the often troubled aspects of commercial farming - the life and death of animals -with loving family relationships.

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In Upstream on the Mataura, Dougal has captured the essence of his lifelong connection with the Mataura River. The book is as much a meditation on landscape and moving water as it is about angling. It is also about the communities the river runs through, the friendships sustained by fly-fishing, and a love of the river and its tributaries.

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The Rudolf Hess Flight Book