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Author: Uncle Anzac Publisher: Xlibris Corporation ISBN: 1514446553 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 70
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Maria Moa just cant believe shes the last moa. What she wants most of all is to find a mate and produce an egg. And so the hunt is on. Kapai, Gooney and Maria embark on a new madcap adventure with the help of some friendly Canada geese and a flying bathtub to find another moa. An entertaining adventure story for 5 to 10 year olds with New Zealands favourite kiwi, Kapai.
Author: Uncle Anzac Publisher: ISBN: 9781869412623 Category : Children's stories, New Zealand Languages : en Pages : 32
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Kapai and his mates head for Kaikoura and go whale watching. The whale gives them a ride with his water spout in a classic Kapai adventure.
Author: Paule Marshall Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486118606 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 274
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Set in Brooklyn during the Depression and World War II, this 1953 coming-of-age novel centers on the daughter of Barbadian immigrants. "Passionate, compelling." — Saturday Review. "Remarkable for its courage." — The New Yorker.
Author: Andrew Fiu Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited ISBN: 1775532143 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 257
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An affecting, insightful and warm memoir of growing up Samoan in New Zealand — and of coping with heart disease. Andrew Fiu came to Ponsonby, Auckland as a three-year-old, part of the wave of immigration from Samoa that turned Auckland's inner city suburbs into a vibrant cultural melting pot. At 14 he was misdiagnosed as having flu when in fact he had rheumatic fever, a disease endemic in Pacific Island communities. As a result of the damage to his heart he was rushed to hospital. Since that time Andrew has had five open heart surgeries, a record anywhere. He has spent so much time in hospital that he says he grew up there, experiencing tender and expert care from doctors and nurses but also enduring appalling racism. This memoir is the story of his hospital years, his clashes with his parents' traditional attitudes, the wisdom he learnt from his fellow patients and the medical miracles perfomed on his heart by famous surgeon Alan Kerr. It's the story of growing up a Pacific Islander in Auckland, a reflection on the bad old days when schools made Pacific Island children anglicise their names and hospitals did not have translators, an insight into the inter-generational tensions in Pacific Island migrant families and also a testimony to deep friendship, boundless love and bucketloads of humour. Written in a warm, personable and humorous style, this book is part of the cultural sea-change happening in New Zealand: first the play Niu Sila, then Bro'Town, No. 2 and Sione's Wedding and now the first memoir from a 40-something Samoan, written with grace, love and insight. The Weekend Herald’s Canvas magazine wrote: ‘Written with verge and humour, Purple Heart is a revelation.’ The New Zealand Listener, singled it out as one of the year’s best memoirs, praising its humour, light touch, and lack of self-pity.
Author: Henk Courtz Publisher: Magoria Books ISBN: 0978170768 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 518
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The Carib language, sometimes called Galibi or True Carib, is spoken by some 7,000 people living in Venezuela, Guyana, Suriname, French Guyana, and Brazil. This resource contains a detailed description of Carib grammar and the most extensive inventory of Carib lexemes and affixes so far. (Foreign Language-Dictionaries/Phrasebooks)
Author: Emanuel J. Drechsel Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1107015103 Category : Foreign Language Study Languages : en Pages : 353
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This volume presents a historical-sociolinguistic description and analysis of Maritime Polynesian Pidgin. It offers linguistic and sociohistorical substantiation for a regional Eastern Polynesian-based pidgin, and challenges conventional Eurocentric assumptions about early colonial contact in the eastern Pacific by arguing that Maritime Polynesian Pidgin preceded the introduction of Pidgin English by as much as a century. Emanuel J. Drechsel not only opens up new methodological avenues for historical-sociolinguistic research in Oceania by a combination of philology and ethnohistory, but also gives greater recognition to Pacific Islanders in early contact between cultures. Students and researchers working on language contact, language typology, historical linguistics and sociolinguistics will want to read this book. It redefines our understanding of how Europeans and Americans interacted with Pacific Islanders in Eastern Polynesia during early encounters and offers an alternative model of language contact.
Author: Tommy Kapai Publisher: Huia Publishers ISBN: 9781869691004 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 36
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Little Pai and Cutie Pai go fishing with their Uncle Tutu but their trip turns out to be more exciting than they imagined! Suggested level: junior, primary.
Author: Uncle Anzac Publisher: ISBN: 9781869417857 Category : Children's stories, New Zealand Languages : en Pages : 32
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A kiwi classic - Kapai and his mates help a small-town rugby club win their game. Set in small-town heartland New Zealand. Kapai and his mates have gone to watch the local rugby team play a rival team from a nearby town. Disaster has struck and some of the team can't play. So it's Kapai and his mates to the rescue. They play and save the day - Kapai even scores a try by flying over the line. Through this story you learn the very basic rudiments of rugby in a fun, light-hearted way.
Author: R. F. Kuang Publisher: HarperCollins ISBN: 0062662651 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 720
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The exciting end to The Poppy War trilogy, R. F. Kuang’s acclaimed, award-winning epic fantasy that combines the history of twentieth-century China with a gripping world of gods and monsters, to devastating, enthralling effect. After saving her nation of Nikan from foreign invaders and battling the evil Empress Su Daji in a brutal civil war, Fang Runin was betrayed by allies and left for dead. Despite her losses, Rin hasn’t given up on those for whom she has sacrificed so much—the people of the southern provinces and especially Tikany, the village that is her home. Returning to her roots, Rin meets difficult challenges—and unexpected opportunities. While her new allies in the Southern Coalition leadership are sly and untrustworthy, Rin quickly realizes that the real power in Nikan lies with the millions of common people who thirst for vengeance and revere her as a goddess of salvation. Backed by the masses and her Southern Army, Rin will use every weapon to defeat the Dragon Republic, the colonizing Hesperians, and all who threaten the shamanic arts and their practitioners. As her power and influence grows, though, will she be strong enough to resist the Phoenix’s intoxicating voice urging her to burn the world and everything in it?