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40 Famous Women (Four Corners)
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Diane Hoyt-Goldsmith
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Alexander Graham Bell
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A Life Like Other People's
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Alan Bennett
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Alan Bennett's
A Life Like Other People's
is a poignant family memoir offering a portrait of his parents' marriage and recalling his Leeds childhood, Christmases with Grandma Peel, and the lives, loves and deaths of his unforgettable aunties Kathleen and Myra. Bennett's powerful account of his mother's descent into depression and later dementia comes hand in hand with the uncovering of a long-held tragic secret. A heartrending and at times irresistibly funny work of autobiography by one of the best-loved English writers alive today.
First published 2005 in
Untold Stories
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Amelia Earhart
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Jonathan A Brown
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A New Song In The Land : The Writings of Atapo, Paihia, c. 1840 (My Story)
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Fleur Beale
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This powerful story, set at the time of New Zealand's founding document in 1840, traces Atapo's capture and slavery as a child through to her escape to the mission house in the Bay of Islands as a 14-year-old.
There she learns the new English ways and language and is present at the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi. Although born into an important family, her imprisonment has meant she has lost her standing in her tribel. She hopes her new skills will enable her to return home with her head high and help save her tribal lands from unscrupulous settlers.
Beale has written an outstanding story that highlights our shared history. It is the sixth book in the popular
My Story
series that chronicles true events in New Zealand's history, as seen through the eyes of a fictitious child diarist.
Finalist New Zealand Post Junior Fiction 2005.
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Anne Frank Remembered
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Miep Gies
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For the millions moved by Anne Frank: The Diary of a Young Girl, here is Miep Gies's own astonishing story. For more than two years, Miep and her husband helped hide the Franks from the Nazis. Like thousands of unsung heroes of the Holocaust, they risked their lives every day to bring food, news, and emotional support to its victims. From her remarkable childhood as a World War I refugee to the moment she places a small, red-orange-checkered diary -- Anne's legacy -- into Otto Frank's hands, Miep Gies remembers her days with simple honesty and shattering clarity. Each page rings with courage and heartbreaking beauty.
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Aquarius, My Ohu Year: The Diary of Starshine Penney, 1975 (My Story)
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Jill Brasell
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A junior fiction title in the established My Story series. In the 1970s the NZ government established a fund to allow the establishment of ohu, a commune-based farming co-operative. Starshine (previously known as Estelle) is whisked off against her wishes to live with her mother in the Aquarius ohu. Commune living is very different - it definitely has its bad points but there are good points too, and Starshine comes to love many aspects of her new life. Then her father comes to claim her back, and begins a custody tug-of-war with her mother.
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Aung San Suu Kyi The Voice of Hope: Conversations with Alan Clements (rev. ed. 2008)
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Aung San Suu Kyi & Alan Clements
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Aung San Suu Kyi is known for her courageous stand for democracy and human rights inside Burma (now Myanmar). Forced to endure many years of house arrest by the military junta, she continues to act as a focus for change inside a country that is ruled by one of the most hard-line dictatorships in the world. Such is her determined action for the best interests of Burma that she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1991. In September 07, the Burmese monks led a powerful protest against their government, which was brutally put down. Yet, in the midst of their struggle, they still were encouraged by the sight of Aung San Suu Kyi, who is still imprisoned. One of the very few people she has trusted enough to take her message to the wider world is Alan Clements.
The Voice of Hope
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Battle Order 204
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Christobel Mattingley
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Seconds after the bombs had been released, Dog was hit. David was wounded in five places by flying metal. His right knee, thigh and shoulder were injured. The tendons and artery in his right hand were severed. And shrapnel ripped though his thick leather helmet, fracturing his skull.The aircraft went into a dive.David's boyhood drams of flying led him to England for months of training and preparation as a bomber pilot. But his final flight was a nightmare.Author Christobel Mattingley tells her husband's gripping story with remarkable restraint and compassion.
Below the Mountains: The diary of Amy McDonald, Milford Road, 1935-36 (My Story)
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Jean Bennett
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The diary of fourteen year-old Amy McDonald who lives in the harsh environment of the Milford Road Public Works Camp, along with her mother and seven year old brother, Bruce. Her father has been employed as workshop supervisor on the dangerous project of building the Milford Road and Homer Tunnel, cutting through the Southern Alps. Suggested level: intermediate, junior secondary.
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Benazir Bhutto
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Mary Englar
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This follows the life story of Benezar Bhutto, the first woman to become Prime Minister of Pakistan, also the first woman to head an elected government in an Islamic nation.It includes a time line and a list of additional resources.
Bishops: My Turbulent Colonial Youth
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Mona Williams
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Born to Run
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Catherine Freeman
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When Cathy Freeman won gold at the Sydney Olympics, she became a champion, everyone loved her and everyone knew her. But she wasn't always famous. Ages 9+.
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Buck Shelford
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John Matheson
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When Buck Shelford was dropped as All Black captain there was a public outcry - bring back Buck - with bumper stickers and posters and graffiti to that effect springing up overnight. The popular, highly respected hard man, famous for playing on through a severe groin injury, impervious to pain because he was the captain and he wouldn't leave his men, Buck Shelford is now regarded as the ultimate All Black. In the light of the disastrous 2007 All Black World Cup campaign, the news that Buck Shelford was battling cancer sent a shudder through the rugby fans who remember him and his courage and skill and strength of leadership. Those qualities will be celebrated in this tribute to one of the greatest, and most loved All Blacks.
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Castaway: The Diary of Samuel Abraham Clark, Disappointment Island, 1907 (My Story)
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Bill O'Brien
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Sam is 14 when he signs on as a cabin boy aboard a vessel bound for Sydney. The barque Dundonald founders and sinks off Disappointment Island in the southern ocean. Fifteen survivors endure a harsh winter on this remote island until their rescue in late November. 6 March 2007 marks 100 years since the wreck of the Dundonald, and this incredible story of survival. Although Sam is a fictional character, the other survivors are all based on the real people.
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Change We Can Believe In : Barack Obama's plan to renew America's promise
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Obama for American (Introduction Barack Obama)
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This book details Obama's plan for America's renewal and features eight key speeches from his 2008 presidential campaign. Among the speeches is Obama's declaration of candidacy for the Presidency, his inspirational speech on race in response to his former pastor Jeremiah Wright's controversial comments about America, and his magnanimous declaration as he became President-elect last week. A foreword by Barack Obama describes his vision of hope for America.
First published 2008.
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Chinatown Girl : The Diary of Silvey Chan, Auckland, 1942 (My Story)
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Eva Wong Ng
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A look at one of New Zealand's many cultures. In Auckland, in 1942 there was an area of the city known as Little Chinatown. Here the descendants of the Chinese miners and market gardeners gathered together to maintain their culture and provide a sense of community.
New Zealand is at war when Silvey starts her diary, but for Silvey this is just a backdrop to the main issues of
her world – the closure of her school and the arrival of Chinese-American soldiers.
SHORTLISTED NEW ZEALAND POST BOOK AWARDS 2006
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Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All : An unlikely love story
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Christina Thompson
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What happens when two utterly different cultures meet and then collide? Beginning with Abel Tasman's discovery of New Zealand in 1642 and Cook's circumnavigation in 1770, this compelling account explores many of the themes and episodes of New Zealand's early history, from the establishment of the first Christian mission, to the annexation of New Zealand by the British, to the beginnings of the Maori rebellion and the outbreak of the Maori Wars. But this book goes beyond New Zealand's history to the heart of a present-day mixed marriage in which these two cultural and historical strands are intertwined.It is at once a cross-cultural love story and a search for understanding about what happens when two cultures collide. Transporting us back and forth in time and around the world, from Australia to Hawaii to tribal New Zealand and finally to a house in New England that has ghosts of its own, "Come on Shore" brings to life a lush variety ...
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D-Day, a Second World War Soldier 1944 (My Story)
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Bryan Perrett
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It's 1944 when Lieutenant Amdy Pope takes part in the D-Day landings, crossing the English Channel to the beaches of Normandy. Ordered to cut off the German's line of retreat, Andy's company comes under sustained attack until, as the only unwounded officer left, Andy finds himself in command and fighting for survival.
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Dreams From My Father
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Barack Obama
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In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American.
It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father - a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man - has been killed in a car accident.
This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey - first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother's family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father's life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance.
First published 1995; this edition 2004.
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