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Fatal Shore
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Robert Hughes
This nationwide bestselling account of the founding of Australia is "a brilliant and enduring achievement . . . history of the highest order combining thorough research with vivid narrative and thoughtful assessment".--Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Two 16-page black-and-white photo inserts.
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An observation survey of early literacy achievement
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Marie M. Clay
This book provides for the systematic observation of young children's responses to classroom reading and writing in the first years of school.
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Redemption
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Leon Uris
Continuing the story he began with "Trinity," Leon Uris follow Conor Larkin as he becomes a revolutionary and realizes his burgeoning love for Lady Caroline Hubble. When Larkin dies during a raid against the British, his nephew Rory leaves his father's sheep ranch in New Zealand and joins forces with Lady Caroline's two sons in fighting for ...
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Whale Rider
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Witi Ihimaera
Though she is a girl, and young, Kahu is designated the Whale Rider in her Maori tribe. But the position also brings with it the honor of chiefdom. Kahu must prove that she is worthy. This novel by a Maori is the basis for a critically acclaimed film.
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Green Dolphin street
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Elizabeth Goudge
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New Zealand
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For travelers who enjoy visual travel guides, this handbook offers expanded hotel and restaurant listings, better maps, enhanced itineraries, and new, easier-to-read print. Full color.
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Road from Coorain
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Jill Ker Conway
A memoir of Jill Ker Conway's childhood in Australia and her education in the US, where she became the first woman president of Smith College.
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Lonely Planet New Zealand
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Charles Rawlings-Way
Includes contributions by food expert Lauraine Jacobs, historian James Belich, Maori publisher John Huria and musician Gareth Shute. Contains loads of information on New Zealand's thriving organic establishments and Maori community-based tourism operators. Expanded chapters on Outdoor Activities & Maori Culture. Inspirational interviews with local ...
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Colour scheme
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Ngaio Marsh
Often regarded as her most interesting book and set on New Zealand's North Island, Ngaio Marsh herself considered this to be her best-written novel. It was a horrible death -- Maurice Questing was lured into a pool of boiling mud and left there to die. Chief Inspector Roderick Alleyn, far from home on a wartime quest for German agents, knew that ...
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Tall Man: The Death of Doomadgee
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Chloe Hooper
Hooper's brilliant and searing account of the death of Cameron Doomadgee is written with the pace of a thriller. "Tall Man" tells the story of what happened to one man in an Aboriginal community and provides insight into a world few have ever seen.
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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
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Thomas Keneally
Keneally offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard, and administrators arrived in New South Wales.
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Death in a White Tie
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Ngaio Marsh
A group of society women receive letters from a blackmailer who threatens to reveal their most shocking secrets.
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Teacher
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Warner Sylvia Ashton, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, Maxine Hong Kingston (Foreword by)
"Teacher" was first published in 1963 to excited acclaim. Its author, Sylvia Ashton-Warner, who lived in New Zealand and spent many years teaching Maori children, found that Maoris taught according to British methods were not learning to read. They were passionate, moody children, bred in an ancient legend-haunted tradition; how could she build ...
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Bone People
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Keri Hulme
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1985, "The Bone People" is the story of Kerewin, a despairing part-Maori artist who is convinced that her solitary life is the only way to face the world. Her cocoon is rudely blown away by the sudden arrival during a rainstorm of Simon, a mute six-year-old whose past seems to hold some terrible trauma. In his wake ...
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True North: A Memoir
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Jill Ker Conway
The author continues the memoir that began in "The Road from Coorain," with her arrival in the United States from Australia in 1960 until her acceptance of the presidency of Smith College in 1975. She recounts her immersion in a world of intellectual women, her marriage to her Harvard House master, John Conway, whom she discovers is manic ...
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Died in the wool
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Ngaio Marsh
When the corpse of a businesswoman is discovered compressed in a bale of wool, a New Zealand ranching community finds that it has a long list of suspects in residence.
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A fortunate life
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A. B. Facey
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Cocaine blues
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Kerry Greenwood
The Honorable Phryne Fisher decides it might be rather amusing to try her hand at being a lady detective in Melbourne, Australia. Almost immediately after she books into the Windsor Hotel, Phryne is embroiled in mystery: poisoned wives, cocaine smuggling rings, corrupt cops, and communism--not to mention erotic encounters with a beautiful Russian ...
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Footrot Flats
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Murray Hone Ball
This is the comic strip tale of one man and his dog on a farm "down under". Murray Ball takes a humorous look at the earthier side of farm life with the dog, Wal Footrot and a collection of animals. The strip appears daily in "Today" newspaper.
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Kiwis Might Fly
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Polly Evans
Polly Evans was a woman with a mission. Before the traditional New Zealand male hung up his sheep shears for good, Polly wanted to see this vanishing species with her own eyes. Venturing into the land of giant kauri trees and smaller kiwi birds, she explores the country once inhabited by fierce Maori who carved their enemies' bones into cutlery, ...
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Collected stories of Katherine Mansfield.
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Katherine Mansfield
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New Zealand Prayer Book -REV Ed.: He Karakia Mihinare O Aotearoa
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Stories.
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Katherine Mansfield
This selection of Mansfield's best stories includes such masterpieces as "Prelude, " "Bliss, " "The Man Without a Temperament, " and "The Garden Party" and has a new introduction by Jeffrey Meyers.
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All: A New Zealand Story
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Christina Thompson
An extraordinary love story between a Maori man and an American woman, that inspires a graceful, revelatory search for understanding about the centuries-old collision of two wildly different cultures. "Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All" is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told ...
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The Rough Guide to New Zealand
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Laura Harper, Tony Mudd, Paul Whitfield
"The Rough Guide to New Zealand" is the essential guidebook to this spectacular destination, with exhaustive practical information, a full-colour introduction and hundreds of restaurant and hotel listings. Make the most of the astonishing variety of New Zealand, from the craggy coastlines and sweeping beaches, to the bubbling volcanic mud pools ...
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