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All is well in Gabriel's Gully, the ramshackle gold rush town. But not for long. Michael and Atarangi have become firm friends with Siu, a Chinese miner's daughter who came to the schoolhouse to learn.

In this exciting sequel to the Children's Number 1 Shyla, the Snowy Brumby, follow Nina and her sister Lily as they save two wild Kaimanawa ponies and tame them in a month-long challenge! Can Nina tame a wild Kaimanawa colt from wild to mild? Ever since she helped Kelly Wilson train a wild Brumby, t...

Jason Mason is a pretty average kid. The kind of kid who gets to play a dog in the school play. The kind of kid who buys a hotdog and drops it on the ground. The kind of kid who believes his classmate when she says she owns a Maserati. The kind of kid who is, actually, a secret agent. Wait. What?You...

Nina faces her greatest challenge yet - winning over a fierce Kaimanawa stallion! Nina's and Lily's wild horse adventures take off at a gallop when they get the opportunity of a lifetime to help Kelly Wilson save five wild stallions from slaughter. All of a sudden, Nina is in charge of training a ma...

Andrew and his girlfriend Jess are making a life for themselves in London, but it's a bit of a grind, and now their relationship is beginning to suffer. Andrew's best friend Jaryd on the other hand is living every young man's dream - a beautiful apartment in Paris, a happy relationship with the love...

Daniel is a young, idealistic Human determined to make a difference for his people. He lives in a distant future in which Earth has been colonised by aliens. His mission: infiltrate the Alien government called the Hierarch and push for it to honour the infamous Covenant of Wellington, the founding a...

Witi Ihimaera's timeless story tells how the courage of one girl in standing against the tide of tradition enables her tribe to become reconnected with their ancestral life force. The has become one of Witi Ihimaera's best-loved stories, capturing readers with its uni versal themes of conflict betwe...

In The Beautiful Afternoon, award-winning poet and short-story writer Airini Beautrais plumbs history, literature, Star Wars, sea hags, beauty products, tarot, swimwear, environmentalism and pole dancing to deliver a virtuoso inquiry into how we become, and change, who we are. Beautrais surveys the...

A brilliant debut crime novel centred on a 501 deportee gang, set in a remote coastal New Zealand town. After surviving a brutal attack, Auckland cop DS Honey Chalmers has returned to her hometown to care for her mother. The remote coastal settlement of Waitut? holds complicated memories for Honey...

a self-portrait like no other. David Coventry takes us into his experience of ME, a debilitating systemic disease which took hold in March 2013 but has roots in his childhood. For Coventry, ME radically overturns the rules of time, thought and embodiment - an experience which has shaped the writing...

A light to defy darkness. Battered and bruised, suffering grievous loss, the Company enters the great city of Instruere. they have to warn the Council of Faltha of the Destroyer's threat, and have no idea of the depth of treachery that awaits them. Bhrudwo's tentacles go far deeper into Faltha than...

the conclusion of a superb feat of epic storytelling. Can the Company save their world? the Company and the Arkhimm have scattered far and wide in their quest to warn Faltha of imminent invasion by the armies of the Destroyer. they now have possession of the Jugom Ark, the flaming Arrow of legend wh...

Livia Denby is on trial for attempted murder. The jury has reached a verdict.Two years earlier, Livia was a probation officer in Yorkshire, her husband Scott a teacher. Their children, Heidi and Noah, rounded out a happy family - until the day Scott's brother died.Grief and guilt leave Scott searchi...

Seventeen kings on forty-two elephantsGoing on a journey through a wild wet night.Join the kings and the elephants on their jungle journey, meeting new creatures as they dance and sing their way through the jungle.From one of New Zealand's most celebrated children's writers, this is Margaret Mahy's...

From the bestselling author of The Bone Tree comes a lively and playful bilingual collection of stories about growing up in Patea.Interlinked and full of recurring characters, these stories are about growing up in small-town Aotearoa - sneaking away during cross country, doing bombs while the lifegu...

Jason Mason is a pretty average kid. The kind of kid who always ends up with drips of melted ice cream on his sweatshirt. The kind of kid who puts cake in his shorts' pocket then accidentally sits on it. The kind of kid whose nana always asks if he's got a jacket it's cold. The kind of kid who is, a...

In Aue eight-year-old Arama was taken by his brother, Taukiri, to live with Kat and Stu at the farm in Kaikoura, setting in train the tragedy that unfolded. Arama's aunty Kat was at the centre of events, but silenced by abuse her voice was absent from the story. In , Kat and her whanau take over the...

Fast-paced and compelling, this contemporary legal drama, set in Otautahi Christchurch, follows child advocacy lawyer Rebecca Eaton as she navigates her work representing a surrogate mother and advising on a child endangerment case, as well as trials in her own life. Professional and personal lines...

Winner of the Ngaio Marsh Award for Best NovelThey never found Leah Parata. Not a boot, not a backpack, not a turquoise beanie. After she left me that day, she vanished off the face of the earth.A close-knit community is ripped apart by disturbing revelations that cast new light on a young woman's d...

The acclaimed author of Before You Knew My Name with another taut suspense thriller overlaid with a moving exploration of the ways in which violent crime ricochets through the lives of those left behind. You can run from your past, but not from the girls left behind.Nineteen years ago, Ruth-Ann Bake...

A stunning new collection of short stories from master storyteller Owen Marshall. 'So much is chance, don't you think?' Accidental meetings, unexpected turns in the road, job offers that take you into new territories - our lives seem arbitrary and unpredictable, as if at the whim of the god of fortu...

A woman who braved public disgrace to expose a brutal marriage.1838, England: When eighteen-year-old heiress Frances Dickinson impulsively marries Lieutenant John Geils, she soon discovers there is much about her husband she did not know. A cruel and violent man, John keeps Frances in isolation on h...

In A Fishbone Church is the expansive, deeply moving and multi-award-winning novel that launched Catherine Chidgey's storytelling to the world.When Clifford Stilton dies, his son Gene crams his carefully kept diaries into a hall cupboard - but Clifford's words have too much life in them to be ignore...

Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pipits - but above them all and louder, the magpies. We are here and this is our tree and we're staying and it is ours and you need to leave and now.Tama is just a helpless chick when he is rescued by Ma...