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1) Whale rider
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152 pages ; 21 cm
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English
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As her beloved grandfather, chief of the Maori tribe of Whangara, New Zealand, struggles to lead in difficult times and to find a male successor, young Kahu is developing a mysterious relationship with whales, particularly the ancient bull whale whose legendary rider was their ancestor.
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832 pages : maps ; 23 cm
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Español
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"Mecklemburgo, 1837: el sueño de una vida mejor convence a los familiares de Ida de emigrar a Nueva Zelanda. Pero cuando el barco Sankt Pauli llega por fin a la Isla Sur, a su pasaje le espera una sorpresa desagradable. ¿Así es realmente la tierra prometida? Pronto el destino de Ida toma un giro tan inesperado como el de su amor secreto hacia Karl. Y por algún motivo, en esa tierra Ida solo encuentra amistad y protección en la exótica y singular...
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"When a body is found half-submerged in a molten mud pot in one of Rotorua's famous geothermal wonderlands, forensics expert Alexa Glock spots a way to prolong her stay in New Zealand, which she has been visiting for work. Teeth are her expertise, and the investigation needs her help, as other ways of identifying the body may have ... melted away."--Amazon.com.
A body has been found half-submerged in a Waiariki Thermal Land of Enchantment molten...
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"A tenacious Māori detective, Hana Westerman juggles single motherhood, endemic prejudice, and the pressures of her career in Auckland CIB. Led to a crime scene by a mysterious video, she discovers a man ritualistically hanging in a secret room and a puzzling inward-curving inscription. Delving into the investigation after a second, apparently unrelated, death, she uncovers a chilling connection to a historic crime: 160 years before, during the brutal...
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283 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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"Maori cop Tito Ihaka, 'unkempt, overweight, intemperate, unruly, unorthodox and profane', is a cop unable to play the police politics necessary for promotion, but a man who has a way with women, and he's a stubborn investigator with an uncanny instinct for the truth. Ihaka is in the wilderness, having fallen foul of the new regime at Auckland Central. Called back to follow up a strange twist in the unsolved case that got him into trouble in the first...
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"Tauhou envisions a shared past between two Indigenous cultures, set on reimagined versions of Vancouver Island and Aotearoa that sit side by side in the ocean. Each chapter in this innovative hybrid novel is a fable, an autobiographical memory, a poem. A monster guards cultural objects in a museum, a woman uncovers her own grave, another woman remembers her estranged father. On rainforest beaches and grassy dunes, sisters and cousins contend with...
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684 pages ; 23 cm
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Español
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Un joven arqueólogo viaja a las islas Chatham de Nueva Zelanda. Descubre una talla desgastada de origen desconocido en los dibujos de árboles históricos de Moriori. Un misterio que tiene lugar hace casi 200 años. En ese momento, el joven Moriori Kimi experimenta la invasión de su país y los maoríes son esclavizados. Cuando Kimi se da cuenta de que sus dioses no la protegen, finalmente toma su destino en sus propias manos y lucha por su libertad,...
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