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Christchurch City Libraries Ngā Kete Wānanga o Ōtautahi

July 2025

 

Haere mai, welcome to our non-fiction newsletter. Discover interesting library events, and books and resources focused on the factual.

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Look back at WORD Christchurch Festival 2025

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

Blog Post

Health and Wellbeing at WORD Christchurch Festival 2025

WORD events you might like if you are interested in health and wellbeing - topics include menopause, resilience, and epic adventures.

Blog Post

Literary Top Twelve: My picks of WORD Christchurch 2025

Moata shares what she's loving in this year's WORD Christchurch festival programme, 27-31 August 2025.

More WORD Christchurch
 

New For You

Staff List

New For You - Aotearoa New Zealand - July 2025

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

Staff List

New For You - Science & Nature - July 2025

Science and Nature books for people with enquiring minds. A selection of recently arrived or on order titles.

More New For You
 

In the library catalogue

Adults

"The Mushroom Tapes" by Garner, Helen, 1942-
"Breakneck" by Wang, Dan (Writer on China)
"Attention" by Enright, Anne, 1962-
"The Uncool" by Crowe, Cameron, 1957-
"Cat Zen" by Vette, Mark
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"Breakneck" by Wang, Dan (Writer on China)
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Kids

"Taylor Swift" by Morais, Gus
"Cryptid Sea Monsters" by Halls, Kelly Milner, 1957-
"To Walk the Sky" by Buckley, Patricia Morris
"The Secret Life of A Sea Turtle" by Bearzi, Maddalena
"Potty Time" by Martin, Fernando, (Illustrator)
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"Cryptid Sea Monsters" by Halls, Kelly Milner, 1957-
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Aotearoa New Zealand

"How to Paint A Nude" by Mahon, Sam, 1954-
"Give Me A Memory" by Parkinson, Robyn L.
"Garrison World" by Macdonald, Charlotte
"Echoes in Stone" by Strombom, Simon
"Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington Architecture" by Walsh, John, 1957 March 30-
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"Give Me A Memory" by Parkinson, Robyn L.
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Exhibitions

 

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Arts and literature reading guide

Find fun reads that shed light on your favourite music, theatre or literature. Reads that inform and entertain just like great works of art.

Arts & lit reading guide
 

Staff List

Change for the better: Plastic Free July

Find out how to do your bit in the global movement that helps millions of people be part of the solution to plastic pollution.

Staff List

Best of 2025 - so far!: Troy's picks

"These are some of the books I have really enjoyed in 2025 so far,"

More non-fiction booklists
 

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Best of 2025

Staff pick their favourite books, audiobooks, and movies of 2025 so far.

Best of 2025 so far
 
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