Wellington City — A poem that folds out like a concertina, a graphic novel that comes in a large box, a sports book with a cover made of fake grass, a knitting book for nerds - these are just some of the weird and wonderful items on the shelves of our libraries.
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Wellington City Council
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Wellington — Denis Welch will be the New Zealand writer in residence 2013 at Randell Cottage.
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Kathryn Carmody
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Wellington City — Get advice from top NZ entrepreneurs and leaders in the book, Gifts of Wisdom; book to be launched at a Global Entrepreneurship Week event in Wellington, Friday 16th November.
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Kelly McLuckie
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Wellington City — Eight French and New Zealand writers who’ve lived and worked in Thorndon’s historic Randell Cottage are gathering to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the writers’ residency this week in Wellington.
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Kathryn Carmody
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Lower Hutt — Hutt City Council libraries have doubled the lending period for e-books and downloadable audiobooks.
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Lower Hutt — Librarian Kylie Young holds a copy of A Lion in the Meadow, the first book published by Margaret Mahy, whose death on July 23 prompted staff to organise readings celebrating the life and work of one of New Zealand’s most acclaimed literary figures.
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Wellington City — From Sunday 1 July, the issue period for books will change to 3 weeks.
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Wellington City — Peter Graham, author of So Brilliantly Clever - Parker, Hulme and the Murder that Shocked the World, will give a free evening talk at Wellington Central Library on Thursday 26 January.
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Wellington City — A former UK journalist-turned horror writer is urging New Zealand readers to get more involved in the fast-evolving world of ebooks.
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Wellington City — Throwing out conventional publishing and going straight for a treeless ebook, former Guardian journalist William Knight launches Generation -- an intelligent horror “that won’t cost the Earth.” “The planet cannot stand another million authors cutting down trees to publish novels,” explains Knight.
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Wellington — Fleeing Vesuvius NZ Edition, a book that tells us how to respond to climatic, energy and economic catastrophies was to be launched at Parliament this week but the event was postponed due to the snow storm.
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Wellington — A celebration of children’s literature took place [last night] at Caffe L’affare in Wellington.
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Wellington — Christopher Finlayson, Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage, tonight awarded music historian Chris Bourke the New Zealand Post Book of the Year, for his work Blue Smoke: The Lost Dawn of New Zealand Popular Music 1918-1964.
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Wellington City — The Wellington Holocaust Research and Education Centre recently hosted the launch of a book edited by Senior Italian lecturer Marco Sonzogni that analyses visual representations of the Holocaust.
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Wellington — "Come back with me, if you will, to meet the people and visit the places in the town where I grew up.
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Wellington — Hutt City library customers can now receive a free email reminder two days before their library item is due, to help them return or renew their items on time.
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Wellington City — Minister for Arts, Culture and Heritage Chris Finlayson will launch the Bougainville library project and website tomorrow at a function in Wellington.
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Wellington — 200,000 residents from the Wellington region could soon be able to access more than half a million books, DVDs, CDs and magazines across any one of 18 libraries in the region, using a single library membership card.
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Wellington City — Three of New Zealand's most celebrated writers – C K Stead, Brian Turner and Dr Ranginui Walker were honoured at tonight's 2009 Prime Minister's Awards for Literary Achievement at Premier House in Wellington.
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Wellington City — To celebrate the LIANZA Children's Book Awards and Library Week 2009, Caffe L’affare is hosting a special storytime event on Tuesday 11 August at 10am, Caffe L’affare, 27 College Street.
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Wellington — Unity Books of Wellington won the 2009 Independent Bookseller of the Year Award at the annual Booksellers NZ Conference in Auckland.
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Wellington City — New Zealand's greatest writer, Katherine Mansfield, is to have her position in world literature further recognised with a sculpture in her home city of Wellington.
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