In 2008, Jaspreet Singh made a pact with his mother. He would gladly give her the go-ahead to publish her significantly altered translation of a story from his collection, Seventeen Tomatoes, if she promised to write her memoirs. After...
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- Author: Singh, JaspreetSummary:
- Author: Onomé, LouisaSummary:
A poignant and incandescent debut that explores the bonds of community and what it really means to change Chinelo--or Nelo, as her best friend, Kate, calls her--is all about her neighbourhood, Ginger East. She loves its chill vibe, its...
- Author: Palmer, FionaSummary:
Catherine-Jean Wishart - or CJ as she prefers - is a hardworking young country girl with a heart of gold but a tough and challenging life. She works long, strenuous days in the male-dominated world of the shearing sheds, but at home...
- Author: La Plante, LyndaSummary:
Ruthless drug trafficker Alexander Fitzpatrick is one of the most wanted men in the Western Hemisphere. But for ten years, there's been no sign of him. Is he dead, or just trying to appear that way? When an ex-colleague from the...
- Author: Marshall, OwenSummary:
Pat 'Pearly' Gates has achieved a lot in his life and evinces considerable satisfaction in his achievements. He has a reputation as a former Otago rugby player and believes he would have been an All Black but for sporting...
- Author: Ihimaera, WitiSummary:
Sets the remarkable story of Erenora against the historical background of the turbulent and compelling events that occurred in Parihaka during the 1870s and 1880s. Parihaka is the place Erenora calls home, a peaceful Taranaki settlement...
- Author: Holman, MichelleSummary:
When bad girl, April Ritchie, returns home to Pisa after a nine-year absence, not too many of the townsfolk are glad to see her back. April's spoilt-brat behaviour had never won her many friends, and her fast exit from town the...
- Author: Valentine, JennySummary:
Iris's father, Ernest, is at the end of his life and she hasn't even met him. Her best friend, Thurston, is somewhere on the other side of the world. Everything she thought she knew is up in flames. Now her mother has declared...
- Author: Clarke, Cat.Summary:
It's a hot summer night, Cam is having the party of the year, and Anna has big plans. Her best friend Tilly's come out, and Anna wants to set her up with the only other gay girl in school. That should take the heat off Anna...
- Author: Ribeiro, AileenSummary:
Throughout the history of the Western world, countless attempts have been made to define beauty in art and life, especially with regard to women's bodies and faces. Facing Beauty examines concepts of female beauty in terms of the...
- Author: Tan, ShaunSummary:
Eric is the strangest, most curious foreign exchange student ever known who has a fascination with small discarded things that he finds on the ground. But is only after he has left that the family find a truly wonderful surprise in...
- Author: Chambers, AidanSummary:
Struggling through his dyslexia to try to fulfill his girlfriend Fiorella's request for a letter revealing his secret self, eighteen-year-old Karl asks Fiorella's favorite author for help, and he agrees only if Karl will...
- Author: SeussSummary:
The Once-ler tells a young boy about how he came to the beautiful land of the truffula trees and used the trees to manufacture thneeds. The Lorax, who speaks for the trees, makes appeals to save the environment but is ignored. Suggested...
- Author: McCloy, Nicola ; Bailey, JakeSummary:
Confronting the possibility of death has led Jake to re-evaluate all that he took for granted in life and to encourage others to do the same. His book is an uplifting call to action to people of all ages.
- Author: Merriman, EileenSummary:
'I wish I wasn't the weirdest sixteen-year-old guy in the universe.' Felix would love to have been a number. Numbers have superpowers and they're safe, any problem they might throw up can be solved. 'If I were a...
- Author: Kidman, FionaSummary:
Jean Batten became an international icon in the 1930s. A brave, glamorous woman, she made a number of heroic solo flights across the world. The newspapers couldn't get enough of her; and yet she suddenly slipped out of view,...
- Author: Bishop, GavinSummary:
Uses the cumulative nursery rhyme, about the chain of events that started when Jack built a house, as a metaphor to illustrate the arrival and settlement of the European settlers in New Zealand during the early 19th century. Includes...
- Author: Johnson, Mat.Summary:
Recently canned professor of American literature Chris Jaynes has just made a startling discovery: the manuscript of a crude slave narrative that confirms the reality of Edgar Allan Poe’s strange and only novel, The Narrative of Arthur...
- Author: Gould, LeslieSummary:
Treva Zimmerman finds herself at a crossroads in life after a heartbreaking failed relationship. Returning to Lancaster County to visit her Amish grandparents and elderly aunt, Treva plans to leave her Plain heritage behind for a fresh...
- Author: Harari, Yuval NoahSummary:
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite...