Books from New Zealand

Last month visitors from Missoula's sister city Palmerston North, New Zealand dropped by to say 'Kia ora' (that's hello in Maori) and presented us with gift books from the Palmerston North City Library (how nice!) We've added these New Zealand authored titles to our collection and soon they will be available for you to checkout.

Inheritance by Jenny Pattrick
Call #: PATTRIC
This is a novel of contracts: the tropical beauty and exuberance of Samoa in the 1960s, and the dark violence that arises from the conflict between truthfulness and love. Elena catches a glimpse of her friend Jeanie Roper in a New Zealand art gallery. It is twenty-three years since Jeanie suddenly disappeared. Why is Jeanie hiding her identity? Elena is intrigued to discover Jeanie has a daughter who is unaware of her Samoan ancestry. There are family secrets here -- possibly dangerous - that Elena is determined to uncover. -publisher


The Dennison Rose by Jenny Pattrick
Call #: PATTRIC
The bleak coal-mining settlement of 1880s Denniston, isolated high on a plateau above New Zealand's West Coast, is a place that makes or breaks those who live there. Into this chaotic community come five-year-old Rose and her mother. No one knows what has driven them there, but most agree they must be desperate to choose Denniston; worse, to choose that drunkard, Jimmy Cork as bedfellow. The mother has her reasons and her plans, which she tells no one. The indomitable Rose is left to fend for herself, finding allies and enemies in her struggle to survive. -publisher


Dust to Gold: The inspiring story of Bendigo Station, home of Shrek by John Perriam
Call #: 636.301 PERRIAM
Bendigo Station is best known these days for its elder statesman, Shrek the hermit merino, who was catapulted into worldwide fame when he was discovered up the back of the station. But the Bendigo is way bigger than that. It's the story of overcoming seemingly impossible odds; of transforming a high country sheep station from rocks and rabbits into an iconic destination, and a place that produces world-class wine and champion superfine merino wool for the fashion houses of the world. The back-story of the station is rich and fascinating, from its earliest days as the scene of the New Zealand's richest quartz reef gold strike in the 1860s to its establishment as a 12,000 hectare sheep station. -publisher


How to Make a Piupiu by Leilani Rickard
Call #: 746.92 RICKARD
This book offers simple, step by step instructions on how to make a piupiu, the traditional Maori flax shirt or kilt. The craft advice is accompanied by a gallery of piupiu creations in both traditional and wearable art styles. -publisher


Swift to the Sky: New Zealand's military aviation history by Errol W. Martyn with the Air Force Museum of New Zealand
Call #: 358.4009 MARTYN
New Zealanders were among the world's first aviators. Tens of thousands have served not only in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, but in numerous air forces in peace and war around the world. Told through the collections of the Air Force Museum of New Zealand, this story traces the development of New Zealand's military aviation, from its birth over the muddy trenches of the First World War, to today's mobile defense force support backbone. -publisher


Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig by Diana Neild ; illustrated by Philip Webb
Call #: EP NEILD
Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig lives with his parents and eight siblings, all of whom have ordinary names of ordinary length. He doesn't like being different -- until Dad explains just how special Piggity-Wiggity really is. -publisher, Also available Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig Goes to Dad's Cafe & Piggity-Wiggity Jiggity Jig and the School Concert.