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Areta & the Kahawai by Patricia Grace
$4.95 NZD
Category: NZ Children & Young Adult
Children's picture story book. Baby Areta is playing on the beach with her poi when the kahawai come to entice her into the sea.
Baby No-Eyes by Patricia Grace
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 pride, shame and sometimes despair. Baby No-eyes has several threads running through it. One is the death of Te Paania's ...Show more
Baby No-eyes by Patricia Grace
$28.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Do you hear the people calling?' 'No.' s major new novel merges recent headlines with stories of a heartfelt family history. It is an account of the mysteries that operate at many levels between generations, where the present is the pivot, the centre of the spiral, looking outward to the past and futur ...Show more
Chappy by Patricia Grace
$38.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
A literary milestone: Patricia Grace's first novel in ten years. Uprooted from his privileged European life and sent to New Zealand to sort himself out, twenty-one-year-old Daniel pieces together the history of his Maori family. As his relatives revisit their past, Daniel learns of a remarkable love sto ...Show more
Cousins by Patricia Grace
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good
A reprint of one of Patricia Grace's best-loved novels about three girls and what happens as they grow up. Cousins is a stunning novel of tradition and change, of the whanau and its struggle to survive, of the place of women in a changing world. It is an engrossing story that runs on in the head long af ...Show more
Cousins by Patricia Grace
$26.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Now a feature film, this is the unforgettable story of three women's intersecting lives. Makareta is the chosen one - carrying her family's hopes. Missy is the observer - the one who accepts but has her dreams. Mata is always waiting - for life to happen as it stealthily passes by. Moving from the forti ...Show more
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
$34.95 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: good
Like Patricia Grace's award-winning novel Potiki before it, Dogside Story is set in a rural Maori coastal community. The power of the land, the strength of the whanau, are life-preserving forces. This rich and dramatic novel, threaded with humour, by one of our finest writers presents a powerful picture ...Show more
Dogside Story by Patricia Grace
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: good-very good
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 for custody of his daughter against his two aunts. But why are they disputing custody and what is really going on?.
From the Centre - A Writer's Life by Patricia Grace
$40.00 NZD
Category: NZ Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
'We live by the sea, which hems and stitches the scalloped edges of the land.' Renowned writer Patricia Grace begins her remarkable memoirs beside her beloved Hongoeka Bay. It is the place she has returned to throughout her life, and fought for, one of many battles she has faced- 'It was when I first we ...Show more
Haka (English) by Patricia Grace
$25.00 NZD
Category: Children & Young Adult
This is the story of the great Ngati Toa chief Te Rauparaha and how he came to compose the haka 'Ka Mate, Ka Mate'. Te Rauparaha is pursued across the island by his enemies and he fears for his life. At Lake Rotoaira, he is hidden in a kumara pit, and Te Rangikoaea, a woman of great power, sits in front ...Show more
Ned and Katina - A True Love Story by Patricia Grace
$41.00 NZD
Category: NZ Non-fiction | Reading Level: Very Good
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 the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the Far ...Show more
Potiki by Patricia Grace
$30.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and rag ...Show more