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Crime Story by Maurice Gee
Category: Fiction
Worlds separate Brent Rosser from Ulla Peet, but a burglary gone wrong brings them into a confrontation that will change their lives ? and end one of them, or perhaps both. There are many crimes in this chilling novel ? brutal murder, corporate fraud, domestic violence and spiritual bankruptcy. Thr ...Show more
In My Father's Den by Maurice Gee
Category: Fiction
Whea Inverarity, aged seventeen, is found brutally murdered in a secluded West Auckland park one Sunday afternoon, Paul Prior, her English teacher and mentor, is suspected of being her murderer. Celia's death and the violence which follows send Prior back to examine the past − a past that is as secret a ...Show more
Plumb (Popular Penguin) by Maurice Gee
Category: Classics
Long regarded as one of the finest novels ever written by a New Zealander, Maurice Gee's Plumb introduces us to the intolerant, irascible clergyman George Plumb, one of the most memorable characters in New Zealand literature &- half saint, half monster, superhuman in his spiritual strength and destr ...Show more
Salt - Salt Trilogy Bk 1 by GEE Maurice
Category: Young Adult | Series: Salt Trilogy
Hari's father has been captured and enslaved to work in Deep Salt. Hari vows to rescue him, a forbidding task: Deep Salt is the most feared of Company's mines. No one knows what's being mined there - no one ever returns to tell. But Hari was born and raised in Blood Burrow. He's tough and smart - and he ...Show more
The Burning Boy (Penguin Award Winning Classics) by Maurice Gee
Category: Classics
"The Burning Boyis a vivid picture of life in a provincial town in times of disturbance and change.Certainties collapse in the face of violence. People start along strange ways, some to loss or ruin, others to unexpected happiness. The Burning Boywon the New Zealand Book Awards in 1991.'Written with ver ...Show more
The Fat Man by Maurice Gee
Category: Children's Fiction
When people like Herbert Muskie take up residence in your mind, there's nothing you can do to get them out. Colin Potter is a skinny boy, hungry for chocolate. Herbert Muskie is enormously fat, hungry for revenge. A dramatic encounter down at the creek forges an unhappy alliance between the vindictive m ...Show more
The Severed Land by Maurice Gee
Category: Young Adult
This gripping, page-turning fantasy adventure follows a dangerous quest through a divided world. From the high reaches of a tree, Fliss watches the soldiers attempting yet again to break through the invisible wall. Amid the explosions, a drummer boy tries to escape. As he is about to be shot, Fliss reac ...Show more
Under the Mountain by Maurice Gee
Category: Young Adult
Beneath the extinct volcanoes surrounding the city, giant creatures are waking from a spellbound sleep that has lasted thousands of years. Their goal is the destruction of the world. Rachel and Theo Matheson are twins. Apart from having red hair, there is nothing remarkable about them - or so they think ...Show more
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