Author: Carl Nixon
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1869790936
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 172
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Much more than a murder mystery, this powerful novel is about coming of age and loss of innocence. The body of a teenage girl is found on the beach in the days leading up to Christmas, 1980. It’s an event that makes a huge impact on all those who live along Rocking Horse Road, which runs through the Spit, a long ‘finger of bone-dry sand’ between the ocean and the estuary. It’s an event that for one hot summer brings together a group of fifteen-year-old boys and then keeps them linked for the rest of their lives. Evolving from Nixon’s celebrated short story, this compelling novel shows New Zealand turning upon itself during the 1981 Springbok Tour. It examines how early events can influence the rest of our lives, and probes ideas of community, collective memory and story-telling.
Author: Bruce Ansley
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 177553054X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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A heartfelt, hilarious and warm-hearted memoir of New Zealand in the 1960s. When you walk along the pier under the huge blue sky and with clean surf on either side, you can easily think that New Brighton is the loveliest place in the world. This was once New Zealand’s most bustling township, however it became a parable of New Zealand when the revolution of the eighties and nineties derailed it. New Brighton’s youth grew up in happy anarchy beside its great, glorious beach. In Gods and Little Fishes, Bruce Ansley gives us immediate entry into one such rich, well-lived boyhood and family life. He both captures the freedoms of a childhood many would envy now, and offers a perceptive adult sensibility charged with a partisan view. Not only a marvellous memoir, this is also a superb portrait of a seaside town set in the second half of last century. New Brighton’s playing fields, the pier, the Cubs and Scouts, the main street shops, even the easterly, are given as much character as the township’s old identities. The nuances of family life, the complexities of a marriage, the entanglements of small town relationships, and the very culture of the place are all conveyed with love and humour, as well as a sharp sense of what has been lost. The sound and brilliance of the sea, the wind, the women, the shadow of a generation of men who went to war: all are described with a poetic clarity and dancing wit that will make you long to have lived the author’s boyhood alongside him.
Author: Carl Nixon
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1761047132
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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One Family. Forty Years. The Waters kids ― practical, athlete Mark; the physically beautiful dreamer Davey; and the baby of the family, Samantha ― have had to face more than their fair share of challenges. 1979 was the year their father sold up the farm and invested all the family’s money in a doomed property development next to the ocean in Christchurch. Is that when 'everything started going wrong', as Mark believes? Will their bond survive the passage of time or will the three siblings succumb to their parents’ legacy of failure? Can the past be overcome . . . and forgiven?
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Category : Diplomatic and consular service
Languages : en
Pages : 690
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Category : Merchant marine
Languages : en
Pages : 1336
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Author: United States. Coast Guard
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Languages : en
Pages : 1332
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Category : Aeronautics
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
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Author: Clarence Y. H. Lo
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520378504
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 289
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Clarence Lo's investigation of California's Proposition 13 and other tax reduction bills is both a tribute and a warning to people who get "mad as hell" and try to do something about being pushed around by government. Homeowners in California, faced with impossible property tax bills in the 1970s, got mad and pushed back, starting an avalanche that swept tax limitation measures into state after state. What we learn is that, although the property tax was slashed, two-thirds of the benefits went to business owners rather than homeowners. How did a crusade launched by homeowning consumers seeking tax relief end up as a pro-business, supply-side political program? To trace the transformation, Lo uses the firsthand recollections of 120 activists in the movement, going back to the 1950s. He shows how their protests were ignored until a suburban alliance of upper-middle-class property owners and business owners took charge. It was the program of that latter group, not the plight of the moderate-income homeowner, that inspired tax revolts across the nation and shaped the economic policies of the Reagan administration. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1990.
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.). Branch of Geographic Names
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Category : Maryland
Languages : en
Pages : 454
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Author: Margaret Chu
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
ISBN: 1426973616
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 361
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We take life for granted sometimes. What if our lives took a turn for the worse.....would you be prepared for it. Could you handle the outcome? Kathy Draper and her husband Walt wanted to make life better for their two boys by buying a house in the country but they weren't prepared for what was going to happen in the days to come. Life in the country was a dream come true but that dream was shattered and she found herself fighting for her life and the life of others as she was trying to return to them from a trip to the city collecting supplies for their weekend. What she found along her journey terrified her but what terrified her more was learning that she could fight! Especially once learning the secret to surviving the zombie onslaught, of a very special little girl......Penny.
