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Against the Odds: New Zealand's first women doctors
In 2025, the year in which the Otago medical school celebrates 150 years, 50 per cent of graduates a..
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The Book of Guilt
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Delirious *Ockhams 2025 Winner Jann Medlicott Acorn Prize for Fiction*
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The Unquiet Grave
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The Covid Response: A Scientist's Account of New Zealand's Pandemic and What Comes Next
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Stronger: The Untold Story of Muscle in Our Lives
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The Meaning of Life: Letters from Extraordinary People and their Answer to Life's Biggest Question
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Air
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Our Evenings
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Normal People
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The Boy from the Sea
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Nesting *Women's Prize 2025 Long list*
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Greater Sins
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Hopurangi | Song Catcher: Poems from the Maramataka *Ockham 2025 Long List* *Ockham 2025 Short List*
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Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Maori Art *Winner Ockham 2025 Bookhub Award for Illustrated Non-Fiction*
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The Chthonic Cycle *Winner Ockham 2025 Prize for General Non-Fiction*
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The Unsettled: Small Stories of Decolonisation *Ockham 2025 Long List* *Ockham 2025 Short List*
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On the Calculation of Volume I *Int'l Booker 2025 Shortlist*
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Perfection *Int'l Booker 2025 Shortlist*
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A Leopard-Skin Hat *Int'l Booker 2025 Shortlist*
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Heart lamp: Selected Stories *Int'l Booker 2025 Winner*
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Wild Dark Shore
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The Bookshop Detectives 1: Dead Girl Gone
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Wild Walks Aotearoa: A Guide to Tramping in New Zealand *Book of the Month November 2024*
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Ash *Book of the Month May 2024* *Staff Pick 2024* *Ockham 2025 Long List*
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Moon Road *Book of the Month June 2024*
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1001 Days: How Our First Years Shape Our Lifelong Health
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A Blink of the Screen: Collected Short Fiction
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A Land Before Humans, a Land After Humans
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Blessings for Bedtime: Peaceful Nighttime Poems for Children
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10 Mistakes That Changed History: The Reckless Rulers, Monumental Mishaps and Disastrous Decisions That Have Shaped Our World.
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Beach Bodies
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Daughters of Batavia
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The Corpse Queen
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Deep Listening: Transform Your Relationships with Family, Friends and Foes
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Happiness and Love
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A Forgery of Fate
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Boustany: A celebration of vegetables from my Palestine
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The Mirror World
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The Modern Fairies
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The Welcome of Strangers: A History of Southern Maori
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Towards Modernism: The Walter Cook Collection at Te Papa
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Red Star Down
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The Counting Game
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Lavinia
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The Last Truths We Told
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Soft Core
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Folkish: Illustrations Inspired by Folklore
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The Watkins Book of African Folklore
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Pictures of Him
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Wallace & Gromit Vengeance Most Fowl: The Junior Novel
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Defy: The Power of No in a World that Demands Yes: 'Powerful' - Adam Grant
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The Decline and Fall of the Human Empire: Why Our Species is on the Edge of Extinction
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House of the Beast
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The Fox Wife
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First Year Health Science
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Essential Epidemiology 5E
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