Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers
By: Witi Ihimaera
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A lively, stimulating and engaging retelling of pūrākau - Maori myths - by contemporary Māori write…
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1. The Secret Chord
By: Geraldine Brooks
5.00
Format: None pages, Hardcover
Peeling away the myth to bring the Old Testament's King David to life in Second Iron Age Israel, Br… read more
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- fiction
2. Splinters
By: Leslie Jamison
3.86
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Recovering and The Empathy Exams comes the riveti… read more
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3. The Bookseller at the End of the World
By: Ruth Shaw
4.25
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
A rich, immersive, funny and heartbreaking memoir of the charming bookseller who runs two tiny book… read more
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"My mother, more than anyone, knew why I lived such a high-risk life. She gave me the freedom to run."-Ruth Shaw, The Bookseller at the End of the World
4. The Woman With the Cure
By: Lynn Cullen
3.94
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
She gave up everything— and changed the world. A riveting novel based on the true story of the w… read more
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- adult
- fiction
"You were right to insist that we invest in the beds. I don't know why we did not jump on getting them sooner. She knew why. A woman, Dr. Jesse Wright invented them. And much like Sister Kenny's metho…"-Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure
"Even scientific articles contributed to defining a woman's place. It wasn't just by happenstance that when Dorothy was photographed with David Bodian for Time magazine at the conference where they an…"-Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure
"Not a direct quote, but referenced in the author's note at the end - Sister Elizabeth Kenny, was instrumental in developing a new method of treating polio. Barbara Johnson, a laboratory technician wh…"-Lynn Cullen, The Woman With the Cure
5. Turncoat
By: Tihema Baker
4.20
Format: 295 pages, Paperback
I see you’re coming to terms with what it means for a Human to serve the Hierarch.’ ‘Well, I know … read more
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6. There’s a Cure for This: A Memoir
By: Emma Espiner
4.31
Format: 202 pages, Kindle Edition
“I don’t know why medicine felt like coming home but, for some reason, it fits. I keep thinking abo… read more
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- adult
- indigenous
7. How to Loiter in a Turf War
By: Coco Solid
4.23
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
A genre-bending work of autobiographical fiction from one of Aotearoa’s fiercest and most versatile… read more
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- fiction
- indigenous
"She gives him a hurled brick wrapped up in a smile"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
"Māoridom in Aotearoa dictates that we generate prestige from manaakitanga. It is the connection and hospitality we express for those in our care but also to show all that they are our equal, they too…"-Coco Solid, How to Loiter in a Turf War
8. Return to Blood (Hana Westerman Thriller, #2)
By: Michael Bennett
3.94
Format: 325 pages, Hardcover
From the author of Better the Blood, the gripping second novel in a crime series starring Māori det… read more
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- adult
- fiction
9. Straight Up
By: Ruby Tui
4.38
Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition
This is Ruby Tui. An open, raw and honest account of her journey from a troubled and unstable child… read more
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- adult
"True leadership is the opposite of individualism, the opposite of one person standing above the rest. It's an encompassing, inclusive thing. I never liked the top-down way of leading. Even if I've be…"-Ruby Tui, Straight Up
10. Everything Is Beautiful and Everything Hurts
By: Josie Shapiro
4.21
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
The stunning debut novel by the winner of the Allen & Unwin Commercial Fiction Prize. If you loved … read more
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- adult
- fiction
11. The Axeman's Carnival
By: Catherine Chidgey
4.37
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Everywhere, the birds: sparrows and skylarks and thrushes, starlings and bellbirds, fantails and pi… read more
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- fantasy
- fiction
12. Kāwai For Such A Time As This
By: Monty Soutar
4.16
Format: 371 pages, Paperback
This epic historical adventure tells the story of pre-colonial Aotearoa New Zealand like it’s never… read more
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- fiction
- indigenous
13. The Bone Tree
By: Airana Ngarewa
3.71
Format: 251 pages, Paperback
After the death of both parents, Kauri and Black must find a way to survive in a world that doesn't… read more
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- fiction
14. Better the Blood
By: Michael Bennett
4.01
Format: 329 pages, Hardcover
A DETECTIVE IN SEARCH OF THE TRUTH Hana Westerman is a tenacious Māori detective juggling single… read more
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- fiction
- indigenous
15. Tauhou
By: Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall
4.03
Format: 224 pages, Hardcover
An inventive exploration of Indigenous families, womanhood, and alternate post-colonial realities b… read more
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- short stories
- fiction
- indigenous
"Each no-dig hāngi we make in the oven with cabbage leaves sutures a different part of me back together. Every time we collect and cook something together with love and joy makes up for every time I a…"-Kōtuku Titihuia Nuttall, Tauhou
16. Audition
By: Pip Adam
3.64
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
A spaceship called Audition is hurtling through the cosmos. Squashed immobile into its largest room… read more
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- fiction
17. Kurangaituku
By: Whiti Hereaka
4.34
Format: 350 pages, Paperback
Kurangaituku is the story of Hatupatu told from the perspective of the traditional ‘monster’, Kuran… read more
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- mythology
- fantasy
- fiction
- indigenous
"The lives I have consumed are countless. The lives you can live within stories are endless. Through story, I gift you my sight. I let you see this world as I see it."-Whiti Hereaka, Kurangaituku
18. Pūrākau: Māori Myths Retold by Māori Writers
By: Witi Ihimaera
4.23
Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition
A lively, stimulating and engaging retelling of pūrākau - Maori myths - by contemporary Māori write… read more
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- fairy tales
- retellings
- anthologies
- indigenous
- short stories
- fiction
- adult
- fantasy
- mythology
- anthropology
19. Tikanga: An Introduction to te ao Māori
By: Keri Opai
4.41
Format: 194 pages, Paperback
Tikanga: An introduction to te ao Māori provides a unique explanation of the Māori world for Pākehā… read more
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20. Imagining Decolonisation
By: Biana Elkington
4.59
Format: 184 pages, Paperback
Decolonisation is a term that alarms some, and gives hope to others. It is an uncomfortable and oft… read more
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- indigenous
21. A Canoe Before the Wind
By: Vitale Lafaele
4.24
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
An extraordinary memoir of an immigrant son's story of a better future In 1962, a Sāmoan family j… read more
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