Science Snippets – Colour Magic

Science Alive is back for Term 3 with their Science Snippets sessions in libraries. Excellent Science Alive educators lead children through interactive activities to stimulate their interest in science, and there is something to take home every week! There is a different theme for each session and this coming week from Monday 1 August it's Colour…
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Quick questions with Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh – WORD Christchurch

We are asking four quick questions of writers and thinkers coming to the WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival on from 24 to 28 August. First up, it's Dr Selina Tusitala Marsh, award-winning Auckland-based Pacific poet and scholar. She recently performed for the Queen as the 2016 Commonwealth Poet. What are you looking forward to…
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A glut of literary cookbooks

As so often happens with me, I recently spotted a single title that lead me down a library collection rabbit hole that I've only just scrambled out of. The book in question was Dinner With Mr Darcy: Recipes Inspired by the Novels and Letters of Jane Austen. My interest was piqued. I had a sudden appetite to know - what other…
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Podcast – Exposing human rights through (citizen) media

Christchurch City Libraries blog hosts a series of regular podcasts from New Zealand's only specialist human rights radio show Speak up - Kōrerotia. This show is created by Sally Carlton. This episode, 'Exposing human rights through (citizen) media' discusses topics as wide-ranging as satellite technology, the Arab Spring and the struggle for independence in West Papua…
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Trump vs Clinton

It's on. Man vs woman. Republican vs Democrat. You may well be fed up with the whole thing by now but if not, we have plenty of reading material on the presidential hopefuls, including Trump's The Art of the Deal. Tony Schwartz, the ghostwriter of this immensely popular "memoir" of the real estate tycoon gave an astonishing…
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