Once Were Warriors

Once Were Warriors PDF Author: Alan Duff
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781776950737
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
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.

Jake's Long Shadow

Jake's Long Shadow PDF Author: Alan Duff
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1775530515
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 255

Book Description
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

When Women Were Warriors Book I PDF Author: Catherine M. Wilson
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780981563619
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
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

The Warriors PDF Author: Sol Yurick
Publisher: Open Road + Grove/Atlantic
ISBN: 1555848893
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224

Book Description
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

When We Were Warriors PDF Author: Emma Carroll
Publisher: Faber & Faber Limited
ISBN: 9780571350407
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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

One Night Out Stealing

One Night Out Stealing PDF Author: Alan Duff
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1775530493
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 201

Book Description
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?

What Becomes of the Broken Hearted? PDF Author: Alan Duff
Publisher: Penguin Random House New Zealand Limited
ISBN: 1775535622
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 279

Book Description
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

Monday's Warriors PDF Author: Maurice Shadbolt
Publisher: David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN: 9780879239152
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332

Book Description
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.

Into the Wild (Warriors, Book 1)

Into the Wild (Warriors, Book 1) PDF Author: Erin Hunter
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008637423
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 226

Book Description
Take your first steps into the wilderness with Rusty the house cat as he leaves his home to go and live in the wild. A thrillling new feline fantasy series that draws you into a vivid animal world.
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