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Follow the unusual life and wisdoms of parentless William Tyce as he shares his poignant adventures in this fictional A-Z coming-of-age compendium.

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Rich with biographical echoes, this novel reveals the emergence of the schematic ironies which characterise the author's later works

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Masterful storytelling in sparkling prose Dr Trish Nicholson

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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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A Sky of Wretched Shells is a provocative story in the face of climate change, a merging of ancient and modern learning and an answer to the question of our place in the stars.

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All the Words Unspoken is a love story that challenges our preconceptions of relationships and shows us that the choices we make have implications and ramifications far beyond the horizon we can see.

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When a 90-year-old former movie star is murdered inside her derelict 1920s mansion, plus-sized PI Savannah Reid, Dirk, and the Moonlight Magnolia gang search for her killer by exploring the "good old days" of Hollywood-when both she and Tinsel Town were young, but far from innocent.

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George Orwell wrote Animal Farm as a scathing satire of the Soviet Union under Stalin. Today, it remains a powerful fable about the nature of tyranny and corruption which applies for all ages.

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Adam is stranded in Smoa, with no flights or way to contact his family. Frustrated, he meets Eve, who feels strangely familiar.

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Checkerboard HilI is a story of belonging, dislocation, misunderstandings, identity and fractured relationships.

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It is 1974 and seven-year-old Jack leads a carefree life, playing in his Auckland street. But when a new priest selects him to train as an altar boy, Jacks world is imperilled and he shrinks away from his community, his friends and his mother.

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This edition of Lear's work contains all the verse and stories of "The Book of Nonsense", "More Nonsense", "Nonsense Songs", "Nonsense Stories and Nonsense Alphabets" and "Nonsense Cookery".

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"Crime and Punishment", based on Dostoevsky's own experience of the justice and penal system of Tsarist Russia, is a dark tale set in the dingy streets of St Petersburg, concerning the actions of a murderer who decides to commit homicide as a matter of principle.

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Cervantes' tale of the deranged gentleman who turns knight-errant have found its way into films, cartoons and even computer games. Intended as a parody of the most popular escapist fiction, the 'books of chivalry', this precursor of the modern novel broadened and deepened into a sophisticated, comic account of the contradictions of human nature.

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First published to critical acclaim in 1886, this mesmerising thriller is a terrifying study of the duality of man's nature. This volume also includes a collection of Stevenson's short stories

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18 yr old Andy Ingle, with his yellow typewriter called Half-Arse under his arm, embarks on one of the great Kiwi road trips, from Palmerston to Dunedin and back to Auckland. On the way falling in with drug dealers, a washed-out Professor, and a rag-tag collection of some of the most eccentric and entertaining characters to appear in Kiwi fiction.

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Still mourning his wife four years after her death, art history teacher and auction house consultant Derek Gaines teams up with Kelly Reid, the head of gallery operations at Christie's Los Angeles, to track down a stolen painting.

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Jane Austen teased readers with the idea of a 'heroine whom no one but myself will much like', but Emma is irresistible. 'Handsome, clever, and rich', Emma is also an 'imaginist', 'on fire with speculation and foresight'. Her matchmaking maps out relationships that Jane Austen ironically tweaks into a clearer perspective.

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After an international meltdown, New Zealand, along with the rest of the world, has shut down. Ruth's sister is dying from tuberculosis and her love for Juliana propels Ruth to set off from Auckland to find a rumoured stockpile of pharmaceutical drugs near Taupo. This involves undertaking a perilous journey by boat down the Waikato River.

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