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Strong Words 4 showcases Aotearoa New Zealand's best contemporary essays, including winners from the 2023 and 2024 Landfall Essay Competitions. Topics range from queer rights to capitalism, colonisation, and environmental destruction, blending personal reflections with critiques of society.

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Ginny Sullivan's poems move in and out of landscape, love, loss and enlightenment. Spare, lyrical, they celebrate moments of stillness and realisation, the sustaining importance of the small triumphs of the every day.

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When Adrienne was first diagnosed with cardiomyopathy she asked, What is that She had never heard of the condition and had trouble finding information. Her book is designed to help others with cardiomyopathy and heart failure.

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Talanoa: Four Pacific Plays is a timely collection from five playwrights who interweave Pacific languages with English. Masters in the art of comedy and real-life theatre, these contemporary voices shine a light on the lives of Pacific peoples, their culture and identity in New Zealand.

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Tangata Ngai Tahu, Volume Two remembers and celebrates the rich and diverse lives of the people of Ngai Tahu. Spanning time, geography and kaupapa, some fifty biographies bring Ngai Tahu into the present.

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Terry Locke's reveals the deeper complexities of what it means to be human.

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The book relates stories of people at the end of life who have continued to teach the author the importance of self-awareness. With more awareness there is less likelihood of projecting one's own issues into the situation and less likelihood of developing compassion fatigue or 'burnout'.

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The Book Collector is an enjoyable and thoroughly engaging read, packed full of stories, personal observations, useful information and splashes of humour, inviting the reader to further explore what our often neglected New Zealand literature has to offer.

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A compelling insight into one Far East ex POW survivor's mental health and terrible suffering, long after he returned home to his loving family resulting in domestic abuse observed through the eyes of a child.

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A thoughtful and grounded collection of poetry.

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A writer of penetrating insight, Martin Edmond explores the intersections of past and present in the lives of four extraordinary individuals. Their stories combine, in the hands of this award-winning writer, to a moving reflection upon New Zealands place in the world, then and now.

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Richards thinks his way into and through moments in the human condition, pausing to be surprised, to tease out a realisation, to share a half-shrugging joke or a laconic, lyrical epiphany. - David Hill

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The Kiwi Runners' Family Tree tells the stories of over 100 running related athletes and coaches, focusing on the interconnections between the generations as well as the important relationships within those generations. It has well-grounded roots, a strong trunk and vast experience, knowledge and inspiration coursing through its branches.

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A moving personal story of love, loss and prejudice, woven around Wiremu Maopo's service to his country during the First World War

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The first ever English language biography of Erich Honecker, covering his entire life and career. Never before published details of Honecker's first marriage, his exotic private life and fractious relationship with Walter Ulbricht.

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In this fascinating memoir, New Zealander Sir Donald McIntyre looks back over a huge slice of operatic history and his role in it. Mixing fun and gossip with judgement and insight, he brings to life a teeming gallery of the world's movers and shakers in the opera world of two generations.

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Here is the inside story of all those colourful escapades and Linn's adventures in the Big Apple in the '70s and early '80s, from downtown $20-a-night gigs to uptown's swanky ivories, with stops along the way for marriage, divorce and a baby. The Redhead Gets the Gig is a rollicking yarn - with a heart.