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Haka (English) by Patricia Grace
25.00 NZD
Category: Picture Books
This is the story of the great Ngati Toa chief Te Rauparaha and how he came to compose the haka 'Ka Mate, Ka Mate'. Te Rauparaha is pursued across the island by his enemies and he fears for his life. At Lake Rotoaira, he is hidden in a kumara pit, and Te Rangikoaea, a woman of great power, sits in front ...Show more
Mutuwhenua by Grace Patricia
30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
This is the story of Ripeka, who leaves her extended family and its traditional lifestyle to marry Graeme, a Pakeha schoolteacher. In the strange world of the city, Ripeka discovers that she cannot make the break with her whanau and that the old ways are too strong.
Ned and Katina - A True Love Story by Patricia Grace
41.00 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs | Reading Level: Very Good
A TRUE STORY OF LOVE IN WARTIME AND IN PEACE. In Crete during the Second World War a wounded Maori Battalion soldier and a young Cretan woman fall in love when the young infantryman is sheltered by her family. After marrying in Crete, Ned and Katina come back to live in New Zealand, settling in the Far ...Show more
Potiki by Patricia Grace
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The prophet child Tokowaru-i-te-Marama shares his people's struggles against bulldozers and fast money talk. When dramatic events menace the marae, his grief and rag ...Show more
Potiki (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Patricia Grace
29.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
"Patricia Grace's classic novel is a work of spellbinding power in which the myths of older times are inextricably woven into the political realities of today.In a small coastal community threatened by developers who would ravage their lands it is a time of fear and confusion - and growing anger. The pr ...Show more
Potiki (Popular Penguin) by Patricia Grace
15.99 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
A Māori community on the coast of New Zealand is threatened by a land developer who wants to purchase the community property, move the community meeting hall, and construct many new buildings, including an "underwater zoo." The story is told in several chapters that switch narrators. Sometimes, it is ...Show more
Small Holes in the Silence by Patricia Grace
37.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
This is a fine new collection of short stories by the much-loved Patricia Grace, probably never more popular since the great commercial success of the novel Tu. The feast of stories is varied- urban, rural, New Zealand, overseas, tribal, contemporary. An elderly woman, whose husband has died, gathers fi ...Show more
Te Kuia me te Pungawerewere/The Kuia and the Spider by Patricia Grace
20.99 NZD
Category: Children's Māori Books
Who's the best at weaving, the kuia or the spider? They decide to ask their grandchildren . . . Patricia Grace and Robyn Kahukiwa's 1981 classic story The Kuia and the Spider returns in a dual reo Maori and English text, with Hirini Melbourne's original translation. A bilingual Maori and English editi ...Show more
Te Tuna Wātakirihi me Ngā Tamariki o Te Tiriti o Toa (Watercress Tuna and the Children of Champion Street) by Patricia Grace
19.99 NZD
Category: Children's Māori Books
A bilingual Maori-English edition of Patricia Grace and Robin Kahukiwa's classic story of an eel who brings children together to celebrate their diverse cultures, translated into te reo by Hirini Melbourne.He aha nga koha whakahirahira a te tuna korokoro huna kura ma nga tamariki o te Tiriti o Toa?Kei r ...Show more
The Dream Sleepers and other stories by Patricia Grace
25.00 NZD
Category: NZ Fiction
Stunning and insightful stories of family life in the country and the city, of the contrasts between young and old, of relationships between people who know what it means to be Maori in a society whose predominant values are alien. The dream sleepers -- Between earth and sky -- Mirrors -- Beans -- Lett ...Show more