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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 — Two leading New Zealand fiction writers have been announced as the recipients of the annual Buddle Findlay Sargeson Fellowship for 2012.

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Auckland — Fancy reading a book up a tree this summer? Or visiting the library in your togs? Auckland Libraries is challenging children to take an adventurous approach to reading this summer with its ‘Dare to Explore’ programme.

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Auckland — Historians and genealogists delved into Auckland’s past at the Auckland Central Library this week to mark the start of a unique Australasian sailing tour.

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Auckland — A new book celebrating the rich history of iconic Kiwi company Masport has been launched, cataloguing the first 100 years of the proud New Zealand brand.

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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 — With over 80,000 good quality, pre-loved books, DVDs, CDs, games and puzzles and thousands of brand new children’s books, there is something for everyone at Variety – The Children’s Charity’s Monster Book Fair.

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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 — An innovative installation has been created from thousands of books to launch the new Booksellers Tokens campaign, in the lead-up to the busy Christmas gift-buying season.

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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 — A COMPETITION is being run on New Zealand-based crime and thriller fiction blog, Crime Watch, for entrants to win one of two (2) free double-passes to meet international bestselling thriller writer Lee Child at his event in Takapuna on 11 April 2010.

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By Craig Sisterson
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Waitakere City — A dragon, a book-loving cat and a photo taken at Piha beach in 1895 are among the images featured on Waitakere Library and Information Services’ new range of library cards.

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Manukau City — New self-service machines are a hit with Manukau Libraries’ customers - much to the delight of library staff.

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Auckland — Don't forget to bring in my journal tomorrow Tarn as this will be good for my book. These were the words Philip Morrow spoke to his wife on April 12 2005 shortly after doctors told him he had only days to live.

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Auckland — Auckland author and film-maker, Michael Thorp, has just completed a fantasy/adventure novel, Ben Brown's Adventure Beyond the Universe - The Return of the Nephilim.

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