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August 2025

 

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

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Look back at WORD Christchurch Festival 2025

The Festival is over for the year. Read librarian reports on WORD events.

Event

Make @ Tūranga Lunchtimes: Matariki earrings
Series

Jun 19th | 11:45am - 12:30pm

Tūranga

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Celebrate Matariki by creating some earrings using pre-designed templates! Choose your design, shape, material, size, & earring hook type.

Staff List

Best of the year so far - 2026 edition | Debora's picks

Olivia Laing has rocked my reading world but there's also room for Kaveh Akbar and other stellar voices.

Blog Post

Challenges to Human Existence: Hong's Picks for WORD 2025

Menopause, resilience, and AI - Hong's WORD Christchurch picks all have a common theme of "challenges", and some great non-fiction reads.

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Teresa’s Picks: NZ fiction & couture: WORD Christchurch 2025

Teresa shares what she's looking forward to at this year's WORD Christchurch festival, on from 27 to 31 August 2025.

More WORD Christchurch
 

New For You - Aotearoa New Zealand - August 2025

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

More new NZ books
 

What's on

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Tamil Collection Tūranga Launch: Fri 22 August 5.30pm-7.30pm

Anaivarukkum vanakkam அனைவருக்கும் வணக்கம் The library is launching its Tamil Language Collection on Friday 22 August, join us to celebrate.

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NZ Chinese Language Week: 29 June - 5 July 2026

Nĭ hăo! New Zealand Chinese Language Week 2026 is on from 29 June to 5 July. Find out what's on.

Event

Make @ Tūranga Lunchtimes: Matariki earrings
Series

Jun 19th | 11:45am - 12:30pm

Tūranga

View all dates

Celebrate Matariki by creating some earrings using pre-designed templates! Choose your design, shape, material, size, & earring hook type.

Staff List

Best of the year so far - 2026 edition | Debora's picks

Olivia Laing has rocked my reading world but there's also room for Kaveh Akbar and other stellar voices.

See what's on
 

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Family history eResources

Explore online resources for researching family history and genealogy.

Explore family history
 

Pukapuka hou - New titles

Non-Fiction

"AInthropology" by Carapiet, Jon, 1963-
"Between Dreams"
"All in" by McHardy, Karina
"Between the Tides"
"Bad Teacher" by Bartholomew, Robert E.
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"Between Dreams"
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Fiction

"The Other Catherine" by Keenan, Lauren
"Archangel's Eternity" by Singh, Nalini, 1977-
"Slash" by Strawhan, Gavin
"Malachite" by Andersen, Ashley
"Maybe Baby" by Neale, Emma, 1969-
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"Archangel's Eternity" by Singh, Nalini, 1977-
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Te reo Māori

"A Ariā me te motu pouākai" by Ihimaera, Witi, 1944-
"Pepeha Portal" by Tikao, Ariana, 1971-
"Kupe me te wheke nui a Muturangi" by Tait, Mat, 1970-
"Rere atu ki Poronihia" by Paul, Tangaroa
"The Other Catherine" by Keenan, Lauren
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"Pepeha Portal" by Tikao, Ariana, 1971-
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More NZ new titles
 

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New Zealand Book Awards for Children & Young Adults

The winners of the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults have been announced.

Read the winners
 

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VJ Day in Christchurch - 15 August 1945

15 August 2025 marks 80 years since the final surrender of Japan and the end of the Second World War. What was VJ Day like in Christchurch?

More about VJ Day
 

Picturing Canterbury

Explore our Picturing 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.

More Canterbury images
 
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