7 best-selling nonfiction books like A Māori Phrase a Day by Hēmi Kelly

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A Māori Phrase a Day

By: Hēmi Kelly

4.82

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A Maori Phrase a Day offers a fun and easy entry into the Maori language. Through its 365 phrases, …

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1. The Whale Rider

By: Witi Ihimaera

3.84

Format: 152 pages, Paperback

Eight-year-old Kahu craves her great-grandfather's love and attention. But he's focused on his duti… read more

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"Even the good guys,' she said, 'can't win all the time."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"This is the last spear. It is the seed of Paikea and we must return it to the land."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Man might carve his mark on the earth but unless he's vigilant, Nature will take it all back."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

"Sometimes life has a habit of flooding over you and rushing you along in its overwhelming tide."

-Witi Ihimaera, The Whale Rider

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2. A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.01

Format: 183 pages, Paperback

Ged, the greatest sorcerer in all Earthsea, was called Sparrowhawk in his reckless youth. Hungr… read more

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"Master, I go hunting."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"Bu bir taş. Gerçek Lisan’da ise “tolk"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"To light a candle is to cast a shadow..."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

"Encender una vela es proyectar una sombra..."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1)

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3. The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart

By: Holly Ringland

4.75

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

The most enchanting debut novel of 2018, this is an irresistible, deeply moving and romantic story … read more

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4. The Tale of Despereaux

By: Kate DiCamillo , Timothy Basil Ering

3.49

Format: 465 pages,

A brave mouse, a covetous rat, a wishful serving girl, and a princess named Pea come together in Ka… read more

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5. Pounamu Pounamu

By: Witi Ihimaera

3.53

Format: None pages, Paperback

Pounamu Pounamu is classic Ihimaera. First published om 1972, it was immediately endorsed by Maori … read more

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6. The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

By: Ursula K. Le Guin

4.13

Format: 180 pages, Mass Market Paperback

In this second novel in the Earthsea series, Tenar is chosen as high priestess to the ancient and n… read more

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"COME HOME, TENAR! COME HOME!"

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"The road goes upward towards the light; but the laden traveler may never reach the end of it."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"He had made follow him. He had called her by her name, and she had come crouching to his hand."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

"Pride kept her from confiding in the other girls, and caution kept her from confessing to the older women."

-Ursula K. Le Guin, The Tombs of Atuan (Earthsea Cycle, #2)

7. True Red

By: None , None

4.06

Format: None pages,

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8. You Are Here

By: David Nicholls

4.08

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way . . . Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his… read more

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"It’s true I do have time and freedom and I love it, sometimes. But the notion that I should be “making the most of it"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"You were traumatised.’ ‘I wonder if people use that word too much.’ ‘It’s the right word for something traumatic.’ ‘But it wasn’t war. People get beaten up every Friday night.’ ‘And are traumatised b…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"she went on a solo trip to Italy, role-playing a character in a Forster novel. In Florence, she read performatively in cafés and sat in the cool of exquisite churches, straining for some kind of spir…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

"Books saw her through the pupal stage of thirteen to sixteen, frowning at Kafka and Woolf, then tearing through John Irving and Maeve Binchy, widely read in the proper sense, making no distinction be…"

-David Nicholls, You Are Here

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9. The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

By: Robert Galbraith

4.61

Format: 960 pages, Hardcover

In the seventh installment in the Strike series, Cormoran and Robin must rescue a man ensnared in t… read more

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"Wace's charm and ease of manner, his smile, his warmth, had vanished. Once before, Strike had faced a killer whose eyes, under the stress and excitement of hearing his crimes described, had become as…"

-Robert Galbraith, The Running Grave (Cormoran Strike, #7)

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10. The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

By: Honorée Fanonne Jeffers

4.52

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

A magisterial epic—an intimate yet sweeping novel with all the luminescence and force of Homegoing;… read more

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"These are the incongruities of memory. It is hard to hold on to the entirety of something, but pieces may be held up to light."

-Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

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11. Pet

By: Catherine Chidgey

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Like every other girl in her class, twelve-year-old Justine is drawn to her glamorous, charismatic … read more

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12. 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

"As his rhetoric and reading life matured, he grew intensely scornful of what passed at his high school for 'education' - the mania for testing; the intolerance of real dissent; and the conformist cel…"

-Eleanor Catton, Birnam Wood

"... 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

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13. Forever Home

By: Graham Norton

3.90

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only son … read more

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14. Once There Were Wolves

By: Charlotte McConaghy

4.10

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

From the author of the beloved national bestseller Migrations, a pulse-pounding new novel set in th… read more

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"Can’t track wolves, not really."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"Wolves don't need forests, they grow them."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"Then take from me. I have more than enough."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

"I think it's civilization [that] makes us violent."

-Charlotte McConaghy, Once There Were Wolves

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15. 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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16. Milk Fed

By: Melissa Broder

3.57

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A scathingly funny, wildly erotic, and fiercely imaginative story about food, sex, and god from the… read more

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"This interplay between hope and reality was also a part of the mourning."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"There are emanations of god we can’t even see. What’s important is that you feel it."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"Life was a lot less bleak when you were staring straight down the barrel of a burrito."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

"I wanted a love contingent on nothing finite. I wanted a love without end. Everyone was always saying you had to give it to yourself. Self-love, self-love."

-Melissa Broder, Milk Fed

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17. Small Bodies of Water

By: Nina Mingya Powles

4.14

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Home is many people and places and languages, some separated by oceans. Nina Mingya Powles first l… read more

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18. The Lost Man

By: Jane Harper

4.16

Format: 340 pages, Hardcover

Two brothers meet at the border of their vast cattle properties under the unrelenting sun of outbac… read more

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"I've given you a power over me that you do not deserve."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Life out here is hard. We all try to get through the best way we can. But trust me, there's not a single person here who isn't lying to themselves about something."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

"Someone can decide it’s in their best interests to agree to something, but a choice is only really a choice if there’s a genuine alternative. Otherwise it’s manipulation and it’s taking advantage."

-Jane Harper, The Lost Man

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19. Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)

By: Marian Keyes

4.29

Format: 577 pages, Paperback

In her twenties, Rachel Walsh was a mess. Since her spell in rehab, though, she's come a long way o… read more

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"It might be uncomfortable. But it's an opportunity. An opportunity for what? Personal growth. Internally, I sighed. Wretched personal growth. Always so unpleasant."

-Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)

"- but forcing you to stop wouldn’t have gotten you clean. You had to be the one who decided. It took me nearly six months to face it, you didn’t love me enough -‘ ‘Of course I loved you!"

-Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)

"[…] How often have I told you that is an addict doesn’t lose something, they’ve no incentive to change?’ ‘Right.’ But he didn’t like it. ‘In fact, if - and it’s not going to - but it if I ever relaps…"

-Marian Keyes, Again, Rachel (Walsh Family, #6)

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20. Grand: Becoming My Mother's Daughter

By: Noelle McCarthy

4.13

Format: 269 pages, Paperback

"I’ll be grand, girl, I’ve great faith." – Mammy, just before she died Funny, charismatic and ge… read more

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21. 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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"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

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22. Aroha: Maori wisdom for a contented life lived in harmony with our planet

By: Hinemoa Elder

4.32

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

Ancient wisdom for difficult modern times Kia oraWelcome to Aroha.Aroha is an ancient Maori word a… read more

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23. 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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24. The Space Between

By: Lauren Keenan

3.91

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

A gripping historical novel set amidst the New Zealand Wars in 1860. How do you choose between t… read more

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25. The Life Impossible

By: Matt Haig

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight L… read more

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"And, like so many of life's fun things, it will begin with minimally invasive radiofrequency-based vein ablation surgery."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

"When you grieve someone you see their message in everything. Even in the sunlight on a blade of grass. The whole world becomes their translator."

-Matt Haig, The Life Impossible

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26. The Blue Hour

By: Paula Hawkins

3.56

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The spellbinding new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Girl on the Train. … read more

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27. Matariki: the star of the year

By: Rangi Matamua

4.51

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

In mid-winter, Matariki rises in the pre-dawn sky, and its observation is celebrated with incantati… read more

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28. A Māori Phrase a Day

By: Hēmi Kelly

4.82

Format: 427 pages, Kindle Edition

A Maori Phrase a Day offers a fun and easy entry into the Maori language. Through its 365 phrases, … read more

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29. Māori Made Easy Pocket Guide

By: Scotty Morrison

4.60

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

This pocket-sized book is your guide to using te reo Māori in everyday situations, from introductio… read more

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30. Dear Moko

By: Dr Hinemoa Elder

4.67

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

Bestselling author of Aroha and respected Māori psychiatrist Dr Hinemoa Elder has written a special… read more

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31. He Atua He Tangata

By: A.W. Reed

4.00

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

A fully revised edition of the authoritative work of Maori myths and legends. Esteemed editor Ross … read more

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