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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi

August 2024

 

Haere mai, welcome to our Aotearoa New Zealand newsletter. Explore new books, upcoming events, and heritage collections.

 

WORD Christchurch Festival 2024

Revisit WORD Christchurch 2024 - read our event reports, and find works by WORD writers in our collection.

More about WORD Christchurch
 

Te ao Māori events

Discover te ao Māori events at libraries - from book groups to whakapapa research.

Event

Te Hōtēra Kārara - Bug Hotels, & more - 5-15 years SOLD OUT

Jul 14th | 10:00am - 12:00pm

Te Hāpua: Halswell Centre

Learn about how to grow food at home, design and then make your own bug hotel & journal to record your guests & how well your plant grows.

Event

Te Hōtēra Kārara - Bug Hotels, & more- 5-15 years - SOLD OUT
Series

Jul 16th | 10:00am - 12:00pm

Tūranga

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Learn about how to grow food at home, design and then make your own bug hotel & journal to record your guests & how well your plant grows.

More te ao Māori events
 

New For You - Aotearoa New Zealand - August 2024

Have a taste of home-grown books! Here are some of our best New Zealand new arrivals for this month. Fiction, Biography, Poetry, and more.

More New For You
 

Featured

Blog Post

Local Lives Lived! - a Family History Month exhibition

Katherine gives us a sneak peek at some of the local characters featured in August's Local Lives Lived exhibition.

Blog Post

Waitaha youth writers at 2026 NZ National Flash Fiction Day

Rachel reports back from the annual flash fiction event held at Tūranga where a wealth of local writing talent was on display.

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Family history eResources

Explore online resources for researching family history and genealogy.

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Pukapuka hou - New titles

NZ fiction

"The Antiquarian's Object of Desire" by Holton, India
"Banjara" by Chandra, Shana
"Archangel's Eternity" by Singh, Nalini, 1977-
"The Black Monk" by Grimshaw, Charlotte, 1966-
"The Ballad of Joe Taihape" by Colquhoun, Glenn, 1964-
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Te reo Māori

"A Ariā me te motu pouākai" by Ihimaera, Witi, 1944-
"Ko ngā whetū raupī o Matariki, ko Pōhutukawa rāua ko Hiwa-i-te-Rangi" by Kamo, Miriama, 1973-
"He aha te raru ki tai?" by Sørly, Rita
"Kupe me te wheke nui a Muturangi" by Tait, Mat, 1970-
"Kia hīteki i te rā whakanui māmā" by Wilson, Norah, 1981-
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NZ non-fiction

"Stakes" by McCarthy, Noelle
"Built for This" by Poulter, Brad
"The Good Settler" by Shaw, Richard, 1964-
"Zines NZ" by Galloway, Bryce
"Haunted by Erewhon" by Robinson, Roger, 1939-
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More NZ new titles
 

Discover Canterbury

Explore our Picturing Canterbury and Discover Canterbury posts for an insight into Ōtautahi Christchurch.

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NZ Music Month: Picturing Canterbury

Christchurch City Libraries celebrates NZ Music Month during May every year. Here are some musical highlights from Canterbury Stories.

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