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When a bird flies into a window in Spring Green, Wisconsin, sisters Milly and Twiss get a visit. Twiss listens to the birds' heartbeats, assessing what she can fix and what she can't, while Milly listens to the heartaches of the people who've brought them. These spinster sisters have spent their lives nursing people and birds back to health. But back in the summer of 1947, Milly and Twiss knew nothing about trying to mend what had been accidentally broken. Milly was known as a great beauty with emerald eyes and Twiss was a brazen wild child who never wore a dress or did what she was told. That was the summer their golf pro father got into an accident that cost him both his swing and his charm, and their mother, the daughter of a wealthy jeweler, finally admitted their hardscrabble lives wouldn't change. It was the summer their priest, Father Rice, announced that God didn't exist and ran off to Mexico, and a boy named Asa finally caught Milly's eye. And, most unforgettably, it was the summer their cousin Bett came down from a town called Deadwater and changed the course of their lives forever. Rebecca Rasmussen's masterfully written debut novel is full of hope and beauty, heartbreak and sacrifice, love and the power of sisterhood, and offers wonderful surprises at every turn.

Title: Bird Sisters
Author: RASMUSSEN REBECCA
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 03/02/2012
Price: $29.00
RRP: $29.00
Imprint: Broadway Publications
ISBN: 9780307717979

The Rena, a 236-metre-long container ship was making 17 knots when she ploughed into the Astrolabe Reef at 2:20am on Wednesday 5 October 2011. She was on her way from Napier towards Tauranga carrying 1368 containers along with 1700 tonnes of heavy fuel oil and 200 tonnes of marine diesel. The vessel's bow was impaled on a pinnacle of rock and she was hard aground forward although the sea was working her still-buoyant stern. There are no big salvage tugs on standby in New Zealand so no serious attempt to refloat the ship could be made. By Sunday 9 October, fluids and lubricants seeping from her ruptured hull had formed a 5 km slick, threatening both the Bay of Plenty's rich fishing grounds and its abundant wildlife. Gobbets of the Rena's heavy fuel oil began to foul the beach at Mount Maunganui the following day. The scene was set for a major economic and environmental catastrophe; a race against time for salvors working in hideous conditions to stem the black tide.
Hundreds of tons of thick, evil-smelling oil had been spilled, thousands of people volunteered to clean it up, millions watched the story unfold and, at first, tens and then hundreds of millions of dollars were spent by the New Zealand Government on salvage experts and equipment, as well as the pursuit of all involved with a 21-year-old ship built in Germany, registered in Liberia, insured in England, owned by a Greek company, chartered to a Swiss group and crewed by Filipinos. The stranding of the M.V. Rena has already prompted searching questions about New Zealand's ability to respond to maritime disasters. Black Tide looks at the ship and her crew and tells what was happening on the bridge that night; John Julian asks Maritime New Zealand for their version of events, he speaks with the salvors and the people of the Bay of Plenty. No shipwreck is the same, but lessons can and should be learned, whether they be from the Mikhail Lermontov or the Orpheus, the Wairarapa or the Wahine. Above all, what can be done to stop this happening again?

Title: Black Tide: The Story Behind the Rena Disaster
Author: JULIAN JOHN
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 20/04/2012
Price: $40.00
RRP: $40.00
Imprint: Hodder Moa Beckett
Publisher: Hachette New Zealand Ltd
ISBN: 9781869712709

Pepys Road: an ordinary street in the Capital. Each house has seen its fair share of first steps and last breaths, and plenty of laughter in between. Today, through each letterbox along this ordinary street drops a card with a simple message: We Want What You Have. At forty, Roger Yount is blessed with an expensively groomed wife, two small sons and a powerful job in the City. An annual bonus of a million might seem excessive, but with second homes and nannies to maintain, he's not sure he can get by without it. Elsewhere in the Capital, Zbigniew has come from Warsaw to indulge the super-rich in their interior decoration whims. Freddy Kano, teenage football sensation, has left a two-room shack in Senegal to follow his dream. Traffic warden Quentina has exchanged the violence of the police in Zimbabwe for the violence of the enraged middle classes. For them all, this city offers the chance of a different kind of life. "Capital" is a post-crash state-of-the nation novel told with compassion and humour, featuring a cast of characters that you will be sad to leave behind.

Title: Capital
Author: LANCHESTER JOHN
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 01/03/2012
Price: $37.00
RRP: $37.00
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Publisher: Faber and Faber
ISBN: 9780571234615

In Cabin Fever, the Heffley family is stuck indoors during a blizzard. But will they weather the storm?

'A very tough New England winter inspired me to snow the Heffley family in for the holidays,' said Jeff Kinney. ''Cabin fever' refers to the claustrophobia Greg feels, as well as the broader theme of the book. . . that you're trapped by the identity you create for yourself.'

Title: Diary of a Wimpy Kid Cabin Fever
Author: KINNEY JEFF
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 16/11/2011
Price: $17.99
RRP: $17.99
Imprint: Puffin Books

When literature student Anastasia Steele interviews successful entrepreneur Christian Grey, she finds him very attractive and deeply intimidating. Convinced that their meeting went badly, she tries to put him out of her mind - until he turns up at the store where she works part-time, and invites her out. Unworldly and innocent, Ana is shocked to find she wants this man. And, when he warns her to keep her distance, it only makes her want him more. But Grey is tormented by inner demons, and consumed by the need to control. As they embark on a passionate love affair, Ana discovers more about her own desires, as well as the dark secrets Grey keeps hidden away from public view ...

Title: Fifty Shades of Grey
Author: JAMES E L
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 12/04/2012
Price: $20.00
RRP: $20.00
Imprint: Arrow
Publisher: Cornerstone
ISBN: 9780099579939

Dorothy Forrest is immersed in the sensory world around her; she lives in the flickering moment. From the age of seven, when her odd, disenfranchised family moves from New York City to the wide skies of Auckland, to the very end of her life, this is her great gift and possible misfortune. Through the wilderness of a commune, to falling in love, to early marriage and motherhood, from the glorious anguish of parenting to the loss of everything worked for and the unexpected return of love, Dorothy is swept along by time. Her family looms and recedes; revelations come to light; death changes everything, but somehow life remains as potent as it ever was, and the joy in just being won't let her go. In a narrative that shifts and moves, growing as wild as the characters, The Forrests is an extraordinary literary achievement. A novel that sings with colour and memory, it speaks of family and time, dysfunction, ageing and loneliness, about heat, youth, and how life can change if 'you're lucky enough to be around for it'.

Title: Forrests
Author: PERKINS EMILY
Format: Trade Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 24/05/2012
Price: $37.00
RRP: $37.00
Imprint: Bloomsbury
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9781408809235

After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out ... and the Capitol has decided that someone must pay. As Katniss and Peeta are forced to visit the districts on the Capitol's Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever.

Title: Hunger Games 02 Catching Fire
Author: COLLINS SUZANNE
Series: Hunger Games Trilogy
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 04/07/2009
Price: $23.00
RRP: $23.00
Imprint: Ashton Scholastic
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9781407109367

Against all odds, Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But now that she's made it out of the bloody arena alive, she's still not safe. The Capitol is angry. The Capitol wants revenge...This thrilling final instalment of this ground-breaking trilogy promises to be one of the most talked-about books of the year.

Title: Hunger Games 03 Mockingjay
Author: COLLINS SUZANNE
Series: Hunger Games Trilogy
Year: 2010
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 25/08/2010
Price: $23.00
RRP: $23.00
Imprint: Ashton Scholastic
Publisher: Scholastic
ISBN: 9781407109374

A veil of melancholy has fallen over Jacob Marlowe. He's the last of his kind. Hunted by his enemies and haunted by his past, he is worn out by centuries of decadence and debauchery, and by the demands of his lunatic appetites. He decides to submit to the authorities at the next full moon.

However, as Jacob counts down to suicide, a violent murder and an extraordinary meeting plunge him straight back into the desperate pursuit of life.

Gory and sexy, The Last Werewolf is a thrilling take on our relationship with the wild side, what it means to be alone and the transformative possibilities of love.

Glen Duncan is a highly regarded literary novelist and readers will find that The Last Werewolf - erudite, playful, ironic, intelligently frightening and frighteningly intelligent - is to the bulk of werewolf literature as Moby Dick is to Anglers' Weekly.

Title: Last Werewolf
Author: DUNCAN GLEN
Format: Paperback
Publishing status: Active
Publication date: 22/02/2012
Price: $30.00
RRP: $30.00
Imprint: Text Publishing Co
ISBN: 9781921922053