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Patricia Grace
A powerful new collection from one of Aotearoa's most esteemed fiction writers.
Mythology and contemporary Maori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa's foremost short story…
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Patricia Grace's classic novel is a work of spellbinding power in which the myths of older times are inextricably woven into the political realities of today.
This classic has been…
This collection brings together all the stories contained in Waiariki , The Dream Sleepers , and Electric City
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Mythology and contemporary Maori life are woven together seamlessly in this spectacular collection by Aotearoa's foremost short story writer.
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In this collection of stories, we meet the Sky People - those who are wounded in love or by circumstance and those who are unwanted or dispossessed; the challenge to…
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Kenneth Hall
Goodie is not like other ghouls. He doesn't want to eat humans; he wants to befriend them. But the other ghouls don't understand. After all, Goodie is breaking one of…
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Jane Adams
See the light? It's Spirit coming in.
Come join Raisen and her little brother Radar as they ramble around the woods near their home. See the woods, the old oak…
Three cousins’ lives have followed very different paths, yet their struggles offer insightful glimpses into the lives of contemporary New Zealand women. The author records psychological, cultural and political circumstances…
Mutuwhenua is the story of Ripeka, who leaves her extended family and its traditional lifestyle to marry Graeme, a Pakeha schoolteacher. In the strange world of the city, Ripeka discovers…
Patricia A. DeYoung
In this book, shame theory meets memoir and meditation. Therapists, patients, and self-reflective readers from many walks of life will be moved and changed by time spent with this master…
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Patricia Thompson
Grace is the author's first book, but as you begin to read, you will quickly discover that the anointing and hand of God was upon her as she wrote this…
With photographs and quotes from her many, hugely loved books, Patricia Grace begins with her grandparents and parents and takes us through her childhood, her education, marriage and up to…
Irmengard Wohlfart
This monograph investigates a dual translation: 1) the English-Maori original Potiki by Patricia Grace (1986), a translation of Maori culture, postcolonial and neocolonial challenge; 2) the German translation (Martini-Honus &…
Cengage Learning Gale
A Study Guide for Patricia Grace’s A Way of Talking, excerpted from Gale’s acclaimed Short Stories for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study…
Grace Ellis
Flung Out of Space is both a love letter to the essential lesbian novel The Price of Salt and an examination of its notorious author, Patricia Highsmith. Veteran comics creators…
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Set in a rural Maori coastal community, the humour and aroha of the community are powerful life preserving factors. But there is conflict in the whanau. Te Rua is battling…
Stunning and insightful stories of family life in the country and the city, of the contrasts between young and old, of relationships between people who know what it means to…
A powerful collection of stories shortlisted for the Goodman Fielder Wattie Book Award.
These are short stories about ordinary folk leading seemingly ordinary lives. The power of community, extended family…
This novel visits the terrifying and complex world faced by men of the Maori Battalion in Italy during World War II. Three brothers went to war but only one returned…
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A TRUE STORY OF LOVE IN WARTIME AND IN PEACE.In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when…
In this collection of Patricia Grace’s stories we meet the sky people, those under the guardianship of Ranginui and Sky Parent, who are the unwanted, the dispossessed, the wounded in…
The whanau of Ned and Katina approached writer Patricia Grace to compile their parents’ story. Ned & Katina is the result. This warm, beautifully written true story is impossible to…
This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu.The feast of…
A literary milestone- Patricia Grace’s first novel in ten years.
Spanning several decades and several continents and set against the backdrop of a changing New Zealand, Chappy is a compelling…
The remarkable memoirs of a remarkable writer
With photographs and quotes from her many, hugely loved books, Patricia Grace begins with her grandparents and parents and takes us through her…
Patricia Grace’s popular first collection - sensitive stories of Maori life which explore Maori spirituality and values and pursue relationships between people, family and races.Also available as an eBook
Tu is proud of his name ? the Maori god of war. But for the returned soldier there’s a shadow over his own war experience with the Maori Battalion in…
Winner of the 1987 New Zealand Fiction Award. This compelling novel highlights one community’s response to attacks on their ancestral values and symbols provides moving affirmation of the relationship between…
Absorbing New Zealand tale of the Kuia (a grandmother) and the spider. Ideal for reading aloud.
Baby No-eyes is Te Paania’s first child, killed in a car crash before she even leaves the womb. Baby’s ghost returns to comfort Te Paania, and when Baby’s brother Tawera…
It is a time of fear and confusion. Dramatic events threaten the marae. Potiki is Patricia Grace’s best-selling novel about a coastal community in danger. It is a work of…
Tawera and his sister are inseparable, in a relationship that is impossible for others to share. In fact his whole family is bonded by secrets, their genealogy stitched together by…
Patricia Grace King
Martin Silva de Choc, childhood survivor of an army massacre during the Guatemalan civil war, and now a language-school teacher in Guatemala City, falls in love with his American student…
Who’s the best at weaving, the kuia or the spider? They decide to ask their grandchildren … Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa’s 1981 classic story The Kuia and the Spider…
Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa’s classic 1984 picture book of Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street returns in a bilingual Maori-English setting.
A bilingual Maori-English edition of Patricia…
What special gifts does the magical tuna bring to the children of Champion Street?
An unusual tuna (eel) with a magic throat leaps out of his stream and visits a…
Grace Miller White
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high…
Patricia Dixon
A heart warming tale of love from Patricia Dixon
Patricia Damans
I dared to put my hand into the hand of a great and awesome God, and He proved His fatherhood to me. This is a candid expose of my walk…
Patricia Gaffney
A mesmerizing story about true friendship follows the lives of the Saving Graces–Emma, Rudy, Lee, and Isabel–four very different women who find strength in the love, loyalty, and courage they…
