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Head Girl

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Coma

Real and unreal landscapes, science fiction, rural New Zealand, the West Coast of the USA from Orego..

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Stardust and Substance: The New Zealand General Election of 2017

Stardust and Substance captures some of the magic of Jacinda Ardern’s extraordinary seven-and-a-half..

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Trial of Strength

Discover the gripping stories of the men and women who have faced the challenge of the fragile yet f..

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Truthteller

THERE IS A WAR ON TRUTH. AND THE LIARS ARE WINNING.In a time of fake news and conspiracy theories, t..

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Secrets of the Slims: Things Fat People Don't Know

How, after a lifetime of losing and gaining weight, did I finally discover the Secrets of the Slims?..

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Godzone Dictionary of favourite New Zealand words and phrases

This concise A–Z dictionary, now updated in a new expanded edition, is a quick and easy reference to..

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The Journal Writer's Companion

Numerous studies show that journal writing is a fantastic resource that can significantly impact you..

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The Wisdom Years: Unleashing Your Potential in Later Life

We are now experiencing one of the most significant — but not yet fully understood — revolutions in ..

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Talking Baby: Helping your child discover language

In this fascinating and informative book, Margaret Maclagan and Anne Buckley – two specialists in ch..

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Road Tour of American Song Titles

Explore the rich musical history behind the classic American songs of the 1950s and 1960s on this ro..

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The Kiwi Surfcasting Guide

All you need to know to master the art of surfcasting in New Zealand. Getting a fish on your line is..

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Coal: The Rise and Fall of King Coal in New Zealand

Coal was the heroic fuel of New Zealand’s 19th and early 20th centuries, the fuel on which the colon..

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Living in a Warmer World

Living in a Warmer World goes beyond the debate over how and why, and describes what is actually hap..

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Bateman Illustrated History of New Zealand

In his Illustrated History of New Zealand, noted historian Matthew Wright brings New Zealand's turbu..

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Craven

‘She seems to me a poet of scale and embodiment. Her moments are informed by awe and intelligence – ..

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First Among Equals

Since Federation in 1901, 29 men and one woman have served in the position of Australian prime minis..

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Going by Train

Railways played a pivotal part in the development of New Zealand’s economy, towns and cities, and he..

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The Luminaries

*** WINNER of the Man Booker Prize 2013 *** ‘There was this large world of rolling time and s..

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Harvesting Wild Meat: the Simple Art of Primitive Trapping

A book describing how to catch birds and animals with nothing more than rocks, sticks and string...

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Teaching Social Studies for Critical, Active Citizenship

Social studies education plays a critical role in developing young people as active and engaged citi..

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The Absolute Book

Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her – her sister’s death by violence, and her own ill..

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The Fable of a Stable Climate

Dr Gerrit J. van der Lingen is a geologist and paleoclimatologist. Studying climate change in the pa..

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Understanding enduring ideas in education

The journey towards becoming a teacher involves engaging with a range of theoretical and pedagogical..

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Ngapuhi Speaks

Ngāpuhi Speaks - a challenge to the history we’ve received Note: the final index for t..

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Key Competencies for the Future

This book is an exhilarating journey into the set of ideas known as the key competencies. The aut..

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Teaching to the North-East

Teaching to the North-East responds to the marginalisation of particular groups of students with a w..

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Develop people and business the way nature intended

Do you ever catch yourself saying why are you like that or why don’t we see the same picture? If you..

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Auditing: Theory and Practice in New Zealand (7th Edition)

Auditing: Theory and Practice in New Zealand 7th Edition is a comprehensive audit textbook designed ..

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Working as allies: supporters of indigenous justice reflect

In Working as allies non-indigenous supporters of indigenous justice in Australia and Aotearoa Ne..

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Coaching Leadership (2nd edition)

Coaching Leadership is about building leadership capacity in individuals, and in institutions, throu..

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Monologues from NZ Plays - Female

These monologues selected from New Zealand plays provide over 100 choices for audition and perfor..

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The Children's Pond

Jessica Pollard has moved to Turangi to be near her son Reuben who is in prison there. While work..

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Decolonisation in Aotearoa: Education, Research and Practice

This book examines decolonisation and Māori education in Aotearoa New Zealand in ways that seeks to ..

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Black November: The 1918 influenza pandemic in New Zealand

‘Black November’ details New Zealand’s worst public health crisis, and its worst natural disaster. O..

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Fully Committed: The Ben Sigmund Story

Fully Committed is the story of Wellington Phoenix and All Whites footballer Ben Sigmund. It's no..

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A Quiet Revolution: Growing Creative Commons in Aotearoa NZ

The past few years have seen a quiet, relatively well behaved, and entirely legal revolution in Aote..

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Trade Me: The Inside Story

Few companies have captured the hearts and minds of New Zealanders like Trade Me. Original..

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Castaway on the Auckland Isles

Originally published 1866, by Lockwood and Co.Thomas Musgrave's account of the wreck of the Grafton...

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Gifted

One day in 1955 the ‘father of New Zealand fiction’ finds a young woman on his doorst..

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From "Real Rape" to Real Justice

Despite significant reform over the last 30 years, little real change has resulted to the inciden..

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Sport 39: New Zealand New Writing 2011

The latest issue of New Zealand’s leading magazine of new writing, featuring the winners of..

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A History of the Birds of New Zealand

Originally published 1888, by Sir Walter Lawry Buller, K.C.M.G., D.Sc., F.R.S., F.L.S., F.G.S., F..

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A Sequel to One of England's Little Wars

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Future State

New Zealand’s public sector has consistently rated well internationally on a variety of mea..

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The Vintner's Luck

One summer evening in 1808, Sobran Jodeau stumbles through his family's vineyard in Burgundy,..

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A Sketch of the New Zealand War

Originally published 1899, by Horace Marshall and Son ..

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A Leaf from the Natural History of New Zealand

Originally published 1848, by Printed and Published by Robert Stokes, at the Office of the New Ze..

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Raupatu: The Confiscation of Maori Land

This ground-breaking collection of essays by leading scholars – Bryan Gilling, James Belich..

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Cockney Kid: the making of an unconventional psychologist

The biography of a gutter snipe in the East End of London, who joined the Royal Navy, saw s..

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Sport 40: New Zealand New Writing 2012

Sport is the place to discover the best new New Zealand writers. Each annual issue is a superb sn..

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Buying the Land, Selling the Land

Winner of the Montana New Zealand Book Award for History 2009 This book is a study of Crown ..

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The Garden Party and Other Stories

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The VUP Home Reader

The VUP Home Reader is everything we’re working on at the moment—extracts of books which were publis..

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The Castaways of Disappointment Island

Originally published 1911, by S. W. Partridge & Co., Ltd.Herbert Escott-Inman's The Castaways of..

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Man Alone

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The Early Canterbury Runs: Containing the First, Second and Third (new) Series

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Fairy Folk Tales of the Maori

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Early Wellington

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Beyond the Himalayas: with The Yoga of the Christ

These two books cover the author’s travels and experiences in Tibet, over a seven month period, betw..

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The Letters of Katherine Mansfield: Volume I

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A Dictionary of the Maori Language

Originally published 1957, by R. E. Owen, Government Printer..

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Sketches of Early Colonisation in New Zealand and its Phases of Contact with the Maori Race

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The Old-Time Maori

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My Life: Jean Batten

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History of New Zealand, Volume I

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The Coming of the Maori

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Retirement in a Tent: From Dream to Reality - Faye Hawtin

jax.goss@gmail.com 29/05/2019 0

When she retired, Faye Hawtin refused to settle down in a little house and grow roses like so many retirees. Instead, she got herself a tent and a dream and began traveling around New Zealand, exploring its campgrounds and towns. She has turned the letters she wrote to her family into a memoir of her adventures and, dear readers, it is a delight. This book is full of delicious titbits from all over Aotearoa, gathered up carefully over several years traveling around in a tent. Hawtin tells the stories of her adventures with humour and a tangible joy in having achieved this dream of hers. The pages are full of the kind of information you can only gather by exploring slowly, taking the time to investigate wherever you are and being willing to ...