Navigating the Stars: Maori Creation Myths
By: Witi Ihimaera
4.59
Format: 500 pages, Kindle Edition
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1. The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
By: Raymond Chandler
3.95
Format: 231 pages, Paperback
When a dying millionaire hires Philip Marlowe to handle the blackmailer of one of his two troubleso… read more
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"Parecía más muerto que muchos cadáveres"-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Dead men are heavier than broken hearts."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"I was as empty of life as a scarecrow's pockets."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
"Just keep your nose clean and everything will be jake."-Raymond Chandler, The Big Sleep (Philip Marlowe, #1)
2. The Harbors of the Sun (The Books of the Raksura, #5)
By: Martha Wells
4.23
Format: 416 pages, Kindle Edition
Nominated for the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Series"Breathtakingly surprising and fun. For readers wh… read more
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3. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
By: Yuval Noah Harari
4.35
Format: 26 pages,
Yuval Noah Harari, author of the critically-acclaimed New York Timesbestseller and international ph… read more
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4. American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
By: Kai Bird , Martin J. Sherwin
4.00
Format: None pages, Paperback
"American Prometheus is the first full-scale biography of J. Robert Oppenheimer, "father of the ato… read more
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5. The Edge of Worlds (The Books of the Raksura, #4)
By: Martha Wells
3.50
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
An expedition of groundlings from the Empire of Kish have traveled through the Three Worlds to the … read more
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6. The Tempest
By: William Shakespeare
4.27
Format: 127 pages,
In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more
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7. Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
By: Mary Roach
3.84
Format: 308 pages, Hardcover
What’s to be done about a jaywalking moose? A bear caught breaking and entering? A murderous tree? … read more
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"The black bear is a ridiculously lovable species. There's a reason kids have teddy bears, not teddy goats or teddy eels."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"Californians are like, 'Lions are everywhere now!'" What's on the rise are home security cameras. Doorbell cameras are the mammograms of wildlife biology."-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"So I’m curious, how far does the Pope think we should go in the direction of respecting and correcting the natural world and it’s wild inhabitants. Before I arrived the PIL media manager sent me a co…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
"We are irrational in our species-specific devotions. I know a man who won’t eat octopus because of its intelligence. Yet he eats pork and buys glue traps for rats, though rats and pigs are highly in…"-Mary Roach, Fuzz: When Nature Breaks the Law
8. If I Had Your Face
By: Frances Cha
3.75
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
If I Had Your Face plunges us into the mesmerising world of contemporary Seoul - a place where extr… read more
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" For my mother, who taught me how to hold on to a dream "-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
"I will build myself up so high in such a short time that when he leaves me, I will become a lightning storm, a nuclear apocalypse. I will not come out of this with nothing."-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached and touch…"-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
"Sometimes, when he is holding me and I feel like I am liquid in his arms, I wonder if anything else in my life will seem real after this. It is as if I traveled beyond the earth and reached out and t…"-Frances Cha, If I Had Your Face
9. Lifespan: Why We Age―and Why We Don't Have To
By: David A. Sinclair
4.15
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
It’s a seemingly undeniable truth that aging is inevitable. But what if everything we’ve been taugh… read more
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10. Birnam Wood
By: Eleanor Catton
3.82
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Birnam Wood is on the move . . . Five years ago, Mira Bunting founded a guerrilla gardening gro… read more
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"...wondering, not for the first time, when exactly she had become so technologically dependent that her first instinct in every unpredicted circumstance was to outsource her imagination to her phone."-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
"Not at all,’ he said. ‘I was just going to remark that being a cliche can be very useful. You ought to consider it some time.’ ’Oh yeah?’ ’Yeah,’ he said. ‘It means people underestimate you. They thi…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
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"... his future, had either been sold or laid to waste by his parents' generation, trapping him in a perpetual adolescence that was further heightened by the infantilising unreality of the Internet as…"-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood
11. Woman, Eating
By: Claire Kohda
3.46
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
A young, mixed-race vampire must find a way to balance her deep-seated desire to live amongst human… read more
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"People---aging and mortal---are like flowers, seasonal, wilting and finite; while I'm like a tree."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"I become aware of the duck blood circulating around my system; I can almost feel it, moving down my arms, reaching my fingertips, looping back up, searching for wings on my back."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"there always seems to be something that suffers of dies as a result of any form of food consumption, and once all suffering is whittled out of a human's diet, they can't survive themselves."-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
"The beginning of love, maybe, but not quite that either. The feeling that comes from being brought to almost-life by a person, of having tasted their blood, of feeling the rhythm of contractions, the…"-Claire Kohda, Woman, Eating
12. Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
By: Alan Rickman
3.58
Format: 469 pages, Hardcover
Madly Deeply is a rare invitation into the mind of Alan Rickman—one of the most magnetic, beloved … read more
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"The trouble with death is that there is no next."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"Why was I dreaming about having got myself a Saturday job at Woolworth's??"-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"The walls we are surrounded by, the objects we fill the spaces with, the lives they all describe."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
"Savoy Grill with Emma[Thompson]. A very easy, enjoyable meal with an easy enjoyable person. She says 'fuck' a lot. Much laughter."-Alan Rickman, Madly, Deeply: The Diaries of Alan Rickman
13. 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
14. Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
By: Neal Stephenson
3.58
Format: 883 pages, Hardcover
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Seveneves, Anathem, Reamde, and Cryptonomicon returns w… read more
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"The living stayed home, haunting the world of the dead like ghosts."-Neal Stephenson, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
"Captain considered it, and shrugged. "It seems right," he said. "It is not precisely what El wanted; but enthroned as he is in his Palace, viewing the Land from a high seat, he does not see its compl…"-Neal Stephenson, Fall; or, Dodge in Hell
15. Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
By: Lisa Feldman Barrett
4.05
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
From the author of How Emotions Are Made , a captivating collection of short essays about your bra… read more
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"The triune brain idea is one of the most successful and widespread errors in all of science."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"Sometimes we're responsible for things not because they're our fault, but because we're the only ones who can change them."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
"The best thing for your nervous system is another human. The worst thing for your nervous system is also another human. This situation leads us to a fundamental dilemma of the human condition."-Lisa Feldman Barrett, Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
16. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler-Colonial Conquest and Resistance, 1917-2017
By: Rashid Khalidi
4.50
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
A landmark history of one hundred years of war waged against the Palestinians from the foremost US … read more
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17. 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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18. 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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"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
19. 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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20. Greta & Valdin
By: Rebecca K. Reilly
4.05
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
An irresistible and bighearted international bestseller that follows a brother and sister as they n… read more
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"I wonder what plant I would be, if I were a plant. Maybe something with big leaves that droop sulkily if not provided with the exact right amount of water and light."-Rebecca K. Reilly, Greta & Valdin
21. Auē
By: Becky Manawatu
4.50
Format: 328 pages, Paperback
Taukiri was born into sorrow. Auē can be heard in the sound of the sea he loves and hates, and in t… read more
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"I thought how many terrible words there were, and how when they were let loose in the world, they sucked up all the air around them."-Becky Manawatu, Auē
22. Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
By: Maddie Mortimer
3.98
Format: 448 pages, Paperback
This lyrical debut novel is at once a passionate coming-of-age story, a meditation on illness and d… read more
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"the best way to ruin a perfect moment is by letting it continue."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"For we inherit the haunts of our mothers; we are left with the guests they let in."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"It is history's only duty, Lia thought: ensuring daughters are brighter than their mothers."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
"Sometimes it takes a lifetime to receive the world in a language different to your own; to let the shape and taste and sense of a thing eclipse its own translation."-Maddie Mortimer, Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies
23. 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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24. Becoming Pakeha
By: John Bluck
3.63
Format: 304 pages, Kindle Edition
A journey between two cultures After more than 200 years of co-existence under the umbrella of a … read more
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25. Wawata - Moon Dreaming: Daily wisdom guided by Hina, the Māori moon
By: Hinemoa Elder
4.23
Format: None pages, Kindle Edition
Hina, the Maori moon goddess, has 30 different faces to help illuminate life’s lessons - a differen… read more
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26. Tikanga Maori: Living by Maori Values
By: Hirini Moko Mead
4.25
Format: 398 pages, Paperback
Tikanga Māori is the authoritative and accessible introduction to understanding the correct Māori w… read more
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27. After the Fairy Tale
By: Terence Gray
3.33
Format: 5 pages, Audible Audio
You won’t want to pause this funny, tender, must-listen romantic comedy - scripted exclusively for … read more
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28. 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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29. Navigating the Stars: Maori Creation Myths
By: Witi Ihimaera
4.59
Format: 500 pages, Kindle Edition
From master storyteller Witi Ihimaera, a spellbinding and provocative retelling of traditional Maor… read more
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- nonfiction
- mythology
30. A Fire in the Belly of Hineamaru: A Collection of Narratives about Te Tai Tokerau Tupuna
By: Melinda Webber
4.44
Format: 239 pages, Kindle Edition
From peacemakers and strategists to explorers and entrepreneurs, the tupuna of the North are an ins… read more
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31. Our Untold Stories: Extraordinary Tales from New Zealand’s Past
By: Tom Clarke
3.33
Format: 234 pages, Paperback
Our Untold Stories brings to light tales of human tragedies, bravery and daring endeavours, famous … read more
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