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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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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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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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Too stuffy inside? All those familiar social realist furnishings, all those comfortable literary tropes.
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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 Incorporating new, previously unpublished work and a selection of important poems from her six earlier collections, How to Be Happy Though Human represents a new chapter in her career.
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All Who Live on Islands introduces a bold new voice in New Zealand literature
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Let Me Be Frank brings Sarah Laing's popular autobiographical comic series together for the first time.
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Set of the beautiful Mediterranean coast this is a thriller that is "sensuous and heavenly", combining Knox's "greatest gifts, her wildly imaginative storytelling and her clear eye for atmosphere and place".
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One part Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell, one part American Gods and one part Carter Beats the Devil, this is an extraordinary contemporary fantasy available for pre-order now . . . Taryn Cornick believes her sister Bea was deliberately run down, and killed. She believes it so hard... she allows a man called the Muleskinner to exact the justice Bea was denied. An eye for an eye. Which is when Taryn's problems really begin. Because the police suspect Taryn's involvement in the death. Worse, others have their eyes on Taryn - those in a faraway place who know what Taryn's family have been carefully hiding in their vast library. The Absolute Book. They want it - and they want Taryn to help find it. For the lives of those in more than one world depend upon it . . . PRAISE FOR THE ABSOLUTE BOOK: 'An angelic book, an apocalyptic book, an astounding book' FRANCIS SPUFFORD
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