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Once Were Warriors

Author : Alan Duff

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Page : 0 pages

File Size : 34,69 MB

Release : 2023-08

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ISBN : 9781776950737

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This classic has been released in the Popular Penguin format to mark 50 years of publishing in New Zealand. The format reaches further back to 1935, when Allen Lane founded Penguin Books with a clear vision- 'We believed in the existence of a vast reading public for intelligent books at a low price, and staked everything on it.' Ground-breaking. Original. Heart-rending. Most talked about book in New Zealand, ever. Adapted into a blockbuster movie. Still in print three decades later.



Once Were Warriors

Author : Alan Duff

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Page : 428 pages

File Size : 10,79 MB

Release : 2004-03

Category : Domestic fiction, New Zealand

ISBN : 9781864423259

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This hard-hitting novel is frank and uncompromising in it's portrayal of Maori in New Zealand society. The driving force of writing carries the reader into a world of frustration, resentment and waste. It is a raw, powerful story, in which everyone is a victim until the strength and vision of one woman transcends brutality and leads the way to a new alternative.



Jake's Long Shadow

Author : Alan Duff

Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Page : 246 pages

File Size : 50,48 MB

Release : 2013-12-16

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1775530515

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The third volume in the hard-hitting, best-selling Once Were Warriors trilogy. The millennium has changed but have the Hekes? Where are they now, Beth, Jake, and what of their other children? Son Abe who has rejected violence but violence finds him. Polly, as beautiful as her sister Grace, who committed suicide; is that a Heke running around with the wealthy polo-playing set and growing rich herself? And the gang leader, Apeman, who killed Tania, what's prison like, does it change a man, grow him or not? We meet another tragic female figure, Sharneeta. And Alistair Trambert, a middle-class white boy sunk into the same welfare dependency trap as the Maoris his class criticises. Meet Charlie Bennett, Beth's husband, a fine man, and yet . . . And yet there's Jake Heke, casting his long shadow over everyone. Has he really grown up?



When Women Were Warriors Book I

Author : Catherine M. Wilson

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Page : 272 pages

File Size : 18,82 MB

Release : 2008-10-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780981563619

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The classic hero of myth and legend is defined in masculine terms, but to judge a woman by the strengths and virtues of the typical male hero does her an injustice. The hero of "When Women Were Warriors" becomes a hero by learning to master herself and to understand the human heart.



The Warriors

Author : Sol Yurick

Publisher : Open Road + Grove/Atlantic

Page : 224 pages

File Size : 36,85 MB

Release : 2007-12-01

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1555848893

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The basis for the cult-classic film and the inspiration for a concept album written by Lin-Manuel Miranda and Eisa Davis, executive produced by Nas, releasing from Atlantic Records on October 18 Every gang in the city meets on a sweltering July 4 night in a Bronx park for a peace rally. The crowd of miscreants turns violent after a prominent gang leader is killed, and chaos prevails over attempts at order. The Warriors follows the Dominators as they make their nocturnal journey to their home territory without being killed. The police are prowling the city in search of anyone involved in the mayhem. An exhilarating novel that examines New York City teenagers left behind by society, who form identity and personal strength through their affiliation with their "family," The Warriors weaves together social commentary with ancient legends for a classic coming-of-age tale. This edition includes a new introduction by the author.



When We Were Warriors

Author : Emma Carroll

Publisher : Faber & Faber Limited

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 16,15 MB

Release : 2019-02-07

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ISBN : 9780571350407

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An irresistible return to World War Two for the Queen of Historical Fiction.



One Night Out Stealing

Author : Alan Duff

Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Page : 201 pages

File Size : 18,82 MB

Release : 2014-10-03

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1775530493

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The second gripping, powerful novel by the author of Once Were Warriors. Boys’ homes, borstal, jail, stealing, then jail again – and again. That’s been life for Jube and Sonny. One Pakeha, the other Maori, only vaguely aware of life beyond pubs and their hopeless cronies . . . Reviewers found it compulsive and unforgettable, one saying: 'Brutal, foul-mouthed, violent, despairing and real . . . it can't be ignored'. In this novel Alan Duff confirms his skills as a gripping story-teller and a masterful creator of characters and situations. As one reviewer noted, it is 'original and important'.



What Becomes of the Broken Hearted?

Author : Alan Duff

Publisher : Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 36,26 MB

Release : 2014-03-07

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 1775535622

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The prize-winning, passionate and uncompromising sequel to the blistering classic novel, Once Were Warriors 'She always came the following day for a second visit on this yearly remembering; in fact, Polly Heke came several times a year and had done for the last two, from when she herself hit the same age as Grace’d been when she, uh, when she killed herself.' The searing power of Alan Duff’s masterpiece Once Were Warriors rocked a nation and was acclaimed around the world. What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? is the challenging, poetic sequel, taking up the story of the Heke family six years after Grace’s suicide. The novel won the Montana New Zealand Book Award for Fiction and was made into a film.



Monday's Warriors

Author : Maurice Shadbolt

Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher

Page : 332 pages

File Size : 36,15 MB

Release : 1992

Category : Fiction

ISBN : 9780879239152

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Based on fact, this tells of Kimball Bent, a Yankee who blundered into the British army in the mid-19th century, and was sent to fight in New Zealand. He deserted across battle lines to the Maori side in possibly the most ferocious colonial war ever fought.