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December 8, 1941. Marie Broom wakes in her home on Hong Kong's Fortress Hill to the sound of bombs falling nearby. Within days, Japanese soldiers have seized the surrounding ?buildings. Soon afterwards they take over the whole island. Most of its British residents are forcibly in...terned.
Marie's husband Vincent, a New Zealander, is away on business, trapped in Singapore as it too comes under Japanese attack. Macau-born Marie, 27, her three young daughters, baby son and the family's amahs must face Hong Kong's increasingly brutal occupation alone.
This gripping novel, based on a true story, is a chilling portrait of wartime conditions in the British colony that Winston Churchill was happy to abandon to? its fate, and a page-turning account of Vincent and Marie's extraordinary attempts to reunite - an epic of courage, love and endurance.
Many famous figures appear: New Yorker correspondent Emily Hahn; Australian doctor Lindsay Ride, founder of the British Army Aid Group; American aviator Claire Chennault of the legendary Flying Tigers; Scotsman John Keswick, head of Far East trading giant Jardine, Matheson. But at its heart are the ordinary citizens of Hong Kong as they struggle to survive in the face of constant danger, disease and near-starvation.
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1982, New Zealand. Sean McBride, an unlicensed private investigator living under a false identity, forms an unlikely alliance with small-town lawyer Jim Mansell and his unconventional secretary Kelly. Fighting against dirty tricks from Northland rugby fields to dusty courtrooms, ...they soon find themselves locked in a David and Goliath battle against unscrupulous businessmen who have no qualms in obliterating anyone in their way. Sean's past has taught him how to play dirty as well, if that's what it takes.
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Sequel to 'Navigator', 'The Secrets of Others' continues the story of the Hassen family, and the theme of the effects of war on individuals and families. Son of a WWII veteran, and with other family members in the peace movement, Carl fights in Vietnam, to return home with his ow...n trauma, and with personal and family issues to resolve.
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Translated by Kelly, Hemi
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kei tetahi wharekura i te papakainga o Baile Beag, i tetahi hapori korero Airihi i te whaitua o Tonekara i te pito o te marama o Akuhata, i te tau 1833, nga mahi o te whakaari nei.
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A very personal discovery of the Mainland through the landscape photography of international award winning photographer Kevin Clarke.
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By Wood, Briar
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In this collection, poet Briar Wood reimagines the lives of Rongo and Te Rangahau, nineteenth-century wahine toa, tupuna of Ngapuhi, in radiant verse. The collection also stretches across time into today's world with poetry about contemporary Northland. Featuring stunning cover a...rt by Nikau Hindin.
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"Doug gave the old Pratt & Whitney full jandal, and somehow, we lifted off, skimming just over the roof of the car."
It's not that Stewart 'Scuff' McSkimming goes looking for trouble, it's just that trouble seems to have a way of finding him. And when opportunities land in his... lap (sometimes quite literally) he's been taught to grasp them with both hands. It doesn't always make for an easy life but it sure makes for an interesting one!
From his early antics as a schoolboy in Clyde to his many near misses in agricultural aviation and skydiving, two near drownings, being chased by a guy with a gun and surviving four major earthquakes in a year, this is a colourful tale filled with highs and lows.
Go Hard or Go Home is about hard living, hard knocks and why Stewart found getting in touch with his softer side the hardest lesson of all.
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A concise and timely book for employers, unions, academics and anyone with an interest in employment relations in Aotearoa New Zealand. Covers history, approaches to employment relations, key legislation, policies, and labour market issues.
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Herries Beattie's 1946 book, Mackenzie of the Mackenzie Country is combined with his 1959 Mackenzie the Sheep Stealer. This publication is a masterful historical who done it with the author sifting evidence he gathered over the years. The story is retold and debated in Beattie's ...inimitable style and was the first book on Mackenzie.
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