Auckland Books

Auckland City — Aucklanders aren’t eating their home-grown veges, says a survey of Kiwi vege patches.

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Auckland City — One of New Zealand’s best-loved comedians, Rhys Darby, will be bringing his distinctive brand of humour to Auckland this week.

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Auckland City — An integrated transport system, vibrant businesses, a third harbour crossing, and improved health and education services are what Aucklanders can look forward to by 2040 if the city gets focused, takes action and builds investor confidence according to a new study by the AECOM Global Cities Institute.

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Auckland City — Orakei Local Board is keen to hear people’s views on calls to expand St Heliers Library to meet evolving community needs.

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Auckland City — Tess Gerritsen, a physician who gave up medicine for crime writing and is now one of the world’s bestselling thriller authors, will teach a workshop on thrillers, and give a talk on how to build emotion into one’s writing at the Romance Writers of New Zealand Annual Conference, Love & Other Crimes.

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Auckland City — For a fourth year Auckland University Press, a small publisher of scholarly non-fiction and poetry for the general market, has topped the list in New Zealand’s national book awards.

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Auckland City — Agricultural Heritage Auckland Agricultural & Pastoral Association, 1843–2010 Hugh Stringleman Essential reading for anyone interested in New Zealand agriculture and business history.

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Auckland City — With around four months to go until the Variety Monster Book Fair, Variety - The Children's Charity is calling for donations of good quality, pre-loved books, games, CDs, DVDs and puzzles.

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Auckland City — Book lovers and aspiring marathon runners are invited to attend the launch of the sequel to Kerre Woodham's 2008 bestseller at a special Paper Plus Books & Bubbles event on Sunday 3 October.

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Auckland City — With over 80,000 pre-loved books, games, jigsaw puzzles, DVDs and CDs for sale, the Variety Monster Book Fair held from 29 July – 1 August at Alexandra Park Function Centre, Greenlane is a bargain-hunter's paradise!

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Auckland City — A Year 6 pupil from Glenavon Primary School in Auckland has won an innovative writing competition and almost $5000 worth of books for her school Library.

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Auckland City — Karlo Mila perfoming in Auckland at the book launch of her second book of poetry, A Well Written Body.

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Auckland City — Karlo Mila has collaborated with visual artist Delicia Sampero to produce her second book of poetry, A Well Written Body, which is being officially launched by Huia Publishers this Friday.

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Auckland City — An exhibition of library "treasures" will be officially opened by the prime minister at Auckland Central City Library on Friday, 9 November.

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Auckland City — Borders Queen Street, Auckland was awarded the prestigious Bookseller of the Year award this week at the 2007 THORPE-Bowker New Zealand Book Industry Awards.

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Auckland City — Video of the Harry Potter book launch at Borders Queen St, Auckland on Saturday.

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Auckland City — Nga Moteatea Launch; Waipapa Marae Dr Pita Sharples, Co-leader of the Maori Party Friday 20 July 2007 “The publication of Nga Moteatea, demonstrates the continuing influence of Sir Apirana Ngata, just on six decades after he left this world” says Dr Pita Sharples, who last night was called on to launch the fourth volume which has been translated for the first time.

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