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New Zealand Post Book Awards 2014 Best Young Adult Fiction winner. "When sixteen-year-old Canny of the Pacific island, Southland, sets out on a trip with her stepbrother and his girlfriend, she finds herself drawn into enchanting Zarene Valley where the mysterious but dark sevent...een-year-old Ghislain helps her to figure out her origins"--Publisher information. Suggested level: secondary.
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Boomtown Los Angeles, 1929: the movies have burst into song and speech, and aircraft into the skies at speed. Into this world comes Xas, stunt flier and wingless angel, with his German passport and his broken heart, determined only to go on living in the air. What does it take to... turn a wind?
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The story continues dramatically as Grace, overdreamt by Laura, introduces a nightmare instead of the happy holiday dream programmed to a packed Opera House audience, with chaotic results.
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Set in 1906, this work describes a world very similar to ours, except for a special place, where only a select group of people can go. These are the Dreamhunters and they harvest dreams, which are then transmitted to the general public. This work is suitable for children aged 11 ...and above.
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All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature
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Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes.
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Taryn Cornick believes that the past is behind her - her sister's death by violence, and her own ill-concieved revenge. She has chosen to live a life more professional than personal. She has written a book about the things that threaten libraries - the book is a success, but not ...all of the attention it brings her is good.
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Culled from two decades of nonfiction writing from an original and much-celebrated author, these essays tell the story of important moments and experiences in Elizabeth Knox's life. From her first literary efforts as a child to the jobs she took to support herself so she could wr...ite, these writings provide a brilliant and personal look into the life of an internationally successful writer. Displaying the vivid and rich qualities for which Knox is renowned, these works reveal the process through which Knox creates as well as the purpose behind her work.
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"The Margaret Mahy Memorial Lecture ... is presented annually at the WORD Christchurch Writers & Readers Festival"--Publisher information.
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A timely collection of new and previously published work by one of Aotearoa's most acclaimed poets, How to Be Happy Though Human is Kate Camp's superb seventh book of poetry. It is published simultaneously in Canada and the United States by House of Anansi Press.
Kate Camp's p...oetry has been described by critics as 'fearless', 'wry, sympathetic, affable, deadpan', and 'containing a surprising radicalism and power'. Incorporating new, previously unpublished work and a selection of important poems from her six earlier collections, How to Be Happy Though Human represents a new chapter in her career.
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