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Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts

By Josie Shapiro

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The Spanish Garden

By Cliff Taylor

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Home Before Night

By J.P. Pomare

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Time's Raven

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The Fairies' Easter Egg Surprise

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Birnam Wood

By Eleanor Catton

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Tell Me Lies

By J.P. Pomare

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Blind Date

By Joy Cowley

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The Doctor's Wife

By Fiona Sussman

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Kawai

By Monty Soutar

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The Wrong Woman

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The Last Guests

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Winter Time

By Laurence Fearnley

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Harbouring

By Jenny Pattrick

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The Frog Prince

By James Norcliffe

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Before You Knew My Name

By Jacqueline Bublitz

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Kurangaituku

By Whiti Hereaka

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The Jacaranda House

By Deborah Challinor

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Atua

By Gavin Bishop

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The Author's Cut

By Owen Marshall

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Violet Black

By Eileen Merriman

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Tiny Pieces of Us

By Nicky Pellegrino

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Aue

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The Food of Love Cookery School

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The Italian Wedding

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The Villa Girls

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Landmarks

By Brian Turner and Owen Marshall and Grahame Sydney

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Te Kaieke Tohora

By Witi Ihimaera

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The Tally Stick

By Carl Nixon

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Eat Your Heart Out

By Peta Mathias

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A Dream of Italy

By Nicky Pellegrino

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Call Me Evie

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When It All Went to Custard

By Danielle Hawkins

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A Year at Hotel Gondola

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Legacy

By Whiti Hereaka

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Finding

By David Hill

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The Sound of Breaking Glass

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Barry Crump Collected Stories

By Barry Crump

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The Great Piratical Rumbustification

By Margaret Mahy

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Billy Bird

By Emma Neale

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Trust No One

By Cleave Paul

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The Luminaries

By Eleanor Catton

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Catching the Current

By Jenny Pattrick

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The Parihaka Woman

By Witi Ihimaera

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Sons For The Return Home: Popular Penguins

By Albert Wendt

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Garden Party & Other Stories

By Katherine Mansfield

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The 10pm Question

By Kate De Goldi

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Motherstone: The O Trilogy Volume 3

By Maurice Gee

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Halfmen Of O

By Maurice Gee

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Potiki

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Collected Stories: Patricia Grace

By Patricia Grace

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Amma

By Saraid de Silva

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The Dragon Defenders - Book Five

By James Russell

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The Water's Dead

By Catherine Lea

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Better Left Dead

By Catherine Lea

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