Book Blog
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Our favourite books about sisters
Date:Categories:Book BlogFor better or for worse, sisters are part of our lives forever. These are some of our favourite books that celebrate this unique bond.
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Reader Review - Question 7 by Richard Flanagan
Date:Categories:Book BlogA searing, poignant and poetic memoir and history by one of the greatest Australian writers of recent times.
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What We Read in April
Date:Categories:Book BlogOur Reader Services Librarian Lucy highlights some of her favourite April reads.
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Read around the world - new arrivals from diverse voices
Date:Categories:Book BlogFrom South Korea and Japan to Zimbabwe and Burkina Faso, our newly arrived international fiction is a diverse delight.
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Reader Review - Resurrection by Roger Simpson
Date:Categories:Book BlogJane might finally be making headway with a twenty-year-old case, when an accident sends her spinning into a strange world.
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Stoke Book Chat April
Date:Categories:Book BlogStoke Book chat meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month at Stoke Library from 5:30pm and chat about books we've been reading. All welcome!
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Recently arrived fiction from Aotearoa New Zealand
Date:Categories:Book BlogNew titles from across the genre spectrum highlight our roundup of books from Aotearoa New Zealand this month.
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What we Read in March
Date:Categories:Book BlogOur Reader Services Librarian Lucy's favourite reads from March covered the horrors of two world wars, magical realism and Nathaniel Hawthorne, family drama, and essays on all things.
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Down on the farm - the pick of the crop of farming memoirs and stories
Date:Categories:Book BlogFrom Aotearoa New Zealand and abroad, we've harvested the best in farming memoirs, essays and nonfiction.
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Reader Review - The Vanishing Point by Andrea Hotere
Date:Categories:Book BlogA highly enjoyable historical thriller/mystery set partly in 1660s Madrid in the court of King Philip IV, and partly in the 1990s fine art world.
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Recently arrived fantasy fiction
Date:Categories:Book BlogMyth and legend, magic and mermaids, our fantasy roundup will enchant and beguile.
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Elma Turner Library Book Chat
Date:Categories:Book BlogBook chat meets on the second Tuesday of each month from 10:30am in Ruma Mānuka at Elma Turner Library. All welcome!
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April Thriller Roundup
Date:Categories:Book BlogGang bosses and assassins, politicians and vigilantes, clones and spies. There's a feast of thrills and fast paced mysteries in our round up of newly arrived thrillers this April.
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New collection! Adult comics and manga
Date:Categories:Book BlogFrom Vikings to super heroes, this new collection celebrates everything comics and manga.
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What we read in February
Date:Categories:Book BlogDiscover our Reader Services Librarian Lucy's top reads for the month of February, from heart wrenching historical novels to high fantasy, immigrant voices to millennial angst.
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Stoke Book Chat March
Date:Categories:Book BlogStoke Book chat meets the 3rd Wednesday of each month at Stoke Library from 5:30pm and chat about books we've been reading. All welcome!
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Reader Review - The Postcard by Anne Berest
Date:Categories:Book BlogA haunting and powerful work of autofiction, deftly weaving the mystery of one family into the the history of 20th century Europe
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Recently arrived literary fiction
Date:Categories:Book BlogA reprinted classic, American history and dystopia and new arrivals from old favourites are highlights in our round up of recently published literary fiction.
