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The library spends around $10,000pa on new purchases. We aim to maintain a relevant and current collection.
NOVEMBER  2020  BOOKS  PURCHASED

​Bought with a grant from the Rata Foundation

F       Nothing ventured                                    Jeffrey Archer                                   
F       Daylight                                                     David Baldacci                                     
F       Letters from Berlin                                  Tania Blanchard                                    
F       Trio                                                              William Boyd                                          
F        The sentinel                                              Lee Child
F        War lord                                                    Bernard Cornwell                                  
F       Total power                                                Vince Flynn                                            
F      A time for mercy                                         John Grisham                                        
F       The dressmaker’s secret                            Rosalie Ham                                          
F     Trust                                                                Chris Hammer                                      
F      V2                                                                    Robert Harris                                       
F     The champagne war                                     Fiona McIntosh                                  
F     Hamnet                                                            Maggie O’Farrell                                  
F     Summer                                                           Ali Smith                                             
NF   Supergood                                                      Chelsea Winter                                      
NF   The SS officer’s armchair                             Daniel Lee                                            
NF     Maiden voyages                                            Sian Evans                                           
NF     Off the beaten track                                     Dave Shaw                                           
YA      One for sorrow                                             Zoe Sugg & Amy McCulloch               
YA    Midnight sun                                                   Stephenie Meyer          
ChF  Code name Bananas                                      David Walliams              
ChF   The deep end                                                 Jeff Kinney           
ChF    The forever horse                                         Stacy Gregg                       
ChF      The tunnel of dreams                                 Bernard Beckett                                     
ChNF What happened to the moa                         Ned Barraud                                     
ChPB There’s a weta on my sweater                      Dawn McMillan                                
ChPB The grinny granny donkey                            Craig Smith                                             
ChPB The little yellow digger saves Christmas    Peter Gilderdale

OCTOBER  2020  BOOKS  PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
F     Hannah’s war                        Jan Eliasberg                                                   
F     Paris never leaves you        Ellen Feldman                                               
F   The lying life of adults        Elena Ferrante                                             
F    We are all the same in the dark      Julia Heaberlin                                    
F     Still life                                     Val McDermid                                      
F     The abstainer                         Ian McGuire                                          
F     The Godmothers                  Monica McInerney                               
F      The silence of snow            Eileen Merriman                                         
F      Home stretch                         Graham Norton                                           
F      Mayflies                                  Andrew Hagan                                          
F       The book of two ways      Jodi Picoult                                                  
F       The women’s pages           Victoria Purman                                        
F         A song for the dark times  Ian Rankin                                               
F      The return                              Nicholas Sparks 
F       The dictionary of lost words  Pip Williams                                         
NF   Just ignore him                     Alan Davies                                               
NF   Wild at heart                          Miriam Lancewood                               
ChF Wizards of Once:Never and forever   Cressida Cowell
ChF  The 13-story treehouse      Andy Griffiths (replacement)                 
ChF  The bad guys : The one?   Aaron Blabey                                             
 Bought with Mapua Library funds
F     The Paris seamstress                     Natasha Lester                                  
F     Hell bay                                              Kate Rhodes                                          
F     The temptation of Gracie          Santa Montefiore                                       
F     This is happiness                                Niall Williams                                             
NF     The shoemaker and his daughter        Conor O’Clery                                       
NF     Dear life                                          Rachel Clarke                                           
NF    The salt path                                  Raynor Winn                                             
NF     Purple hands                                 Barbara Walker                              
YA   Land of fences                                     Mark Smith                                              
ChF  Grandpa’s great escape             David Walliams (replacement)             
ChF   My story: lady Jane Grey        Sue Reid                                                    
ChF    Alice Miranda shows the way         Jacqueline Harvey                                     
ChF    Friday Barnes: Bitter enemies         R A Spratt                                                
ChPB  Stick Man                                             Julia Donaldson (replacement) 


SEPTEMBER 2020 BOOKS PURCHASED

Bought with a grant from the Rata Foundation
F The mystery woman    Belinda Alexandra
F The other passenger    Louise Candlish
F Piranesi                          Susanna Clarke
F The darkest evening    Ann Cleeves
F The bird in the bamboo cage Hazel Gaynor
F Miss Benson’s beetle    Rachel Joyce
F This tender land           William Kent Krueger
F Betty                               Tiffany McDaniel
F The mother fault          Kate Mildenhall
F The kingdom                 Jo Nesbo
F The tally stick                Carl Nixon
F Under pressure            Robert Pobi
F The German midwife  Mandy Robotham
F The missing pieces of Nancy Moon                    Sarah Steele
F Island of mercy            Rose Tremain
ChF Throwback (#1)        Peter Lerangis
ChF Fortunately, the milk....                                    Neil Gaiman
ChPB Eric Carle’s book of many things                Eric Carle
ChPB Hound the detective                                     Kimberly Andrews
ChPB The lighthouse keeper’s mystery                Ronda and David Armitage
ChPB We catch the bus                                           Katie Abey


AUGUST 2020 BOOKS PURCHASED
Bought with a grant from Rata Foundation
F              Anxious people                                                Fredrick Blackman
F              The vanishing sky                                             L. Annette Binder
F              The jacaranda house                                       Deborah Challinor
F              The pull of the stars                                         Emma Donoghue
F              Wild                                                                    Kirstin Hannah
F              Knife edge                                                          Simon Mayo
F              The mountains sing                                         Phan Que Mai Nguyen
F              When she was good                                        Michael Robotham
F              The sandpit                                                       Nicholas Shakespeare
F              The light at the end of the day                       Eleanor Wasserberg
NF          Know your place                                               Golriz Ghahraman
NF          This farming life                                                Tim Saunders
NF          Searching for Charlie                                       Tom Scott
ChF        The boy in the dress                                         David Walliams (replacement)
ChF        Diary of a wimpy kid: Old school                  Jeff Kinney(replacement)
ChPB    The cook and the king                                      Julia Donaldson
ChPB     Sugarlump and the unicorn                            Julia Donaldson
 
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              Shiang   (Empire of salt # 2)                          Conn Iggulden
F              Darien (Empire of salt #3)                             Conn Iggulden
F              Ruin Beach                                                       Kate Rhodes
NF          A house in the sky                                           Amanda Endhout
NF          Black diamonds                                               Catherine Bailey
YA           Refugee                                                             Alan Gratz
YA           The hunger games                                          Suzanne Collins
ChF       Because of Winn-Dixie                                   Kate Di Camillo
ChNF  Astrophysics for young people in a hurry     Neil Degrasse Tyson


JULY 2020 BOOKS PURCHASED

Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              A traveller at the gates of wisdom            John Boyne
F              The silk house                                               Kayte Nunn
F              Pearly gates                                                   Owen Marshall
F              Liar                                                                  Lesley Pearse
F              Tiny pieces of us                                          Nicky Pellegrino
F              Miss Graham’s cold war cookbook           Celia Rees
F              The order                                                       Daniel Silva
F              The silent wife                                              Karin Slaughter
NF          The Kennedy curse                                       James Patterson
NF          Unorthodox                                                   Deborah Feldman
YA           Aspiring                                                         Damien Wilkins
ChF        The World’s worst parents                          David Walliams
ChF        Wonder       (replacement)                          R.J.Palacio
ChPB     The longdrop                                                 Joan Joass
ChPB     Minnie Whinny: Goodie Four-shoes        Stacy Gregg
ChPB    Oscar and Ray                                                Amber Gaskell
ChPB     But who’s looking after the animals         Renee Lang


JUNE  2020  BOOKS  PURCHASED

Bought with Mapua Library funds
F    A strange country                                         Muriel Barbery
F    Code name                                                    Helene Ariel Lawhon
F    Husband replacement therapy                  Kathy Lette
F    The glass hotel                                              Emily St. John Mandel
F    The yellow bird sings                                  Jennifer Rossner
F    My dark Vanessa                                          Kate Elizabeth Russell
NF  Driven                                                           Hayden Paddon
YA The ballad of songbirds and snakes         Suzanne Collins
YA Nightshade (Alex Rider)                              Anthony Horowitz
ChF Wink                                                            Rob Harrell
ChF Slime                                                            David Walliams
ChF The bad guys- Dawn of the underlord  Aaron Blabey


MARCH 2020 BOOKS PURCHASED

 Bought with a grant from the Tasman District Council
F              Riptides                                                Kirsten Alexander
F              Keep your eyes on me                                  Sam Blake
F              Resistance women                                          Jennifer Chiaverini
F              The girl with the louding voice                    Abi Dare
F               News of our loved ones                               Abigail DeWitt
F               House on endless waters                            Emuna Elon
F              The guest list                                                     Lucy Foley
F              The year without summer                           Guinevere Glasfurd
F              The foundling                                                    Stacey Halls
F              Into the fire (Orphan X #5)                          Gregg Hurwitz
F              Isabelle in the afternoon                              Douglas Kennedy
F              All the way to summer                                  Fiona Kidman
F              Trace elements                                                 Donna Leon
F              Three hours                                                       Rosamund Lupton
F              The mirror and the light (Wolf Hall #3)    Hilary Mantel
F              The good turn (Cormac Riley #3)               Dervla McTiernan
F              The holdout                                       Grahm Moore
F              Long Bridge river                             Liz Moore
F              Dear Edward                                      Ann Napolitana
F              Mr Nobody                                                         Catherine Steadman
F              The other people                                             C.J.Tudor
NF          Veg                                                                        Jamie Oliver
NF          Green                                                                   Jason Chongue
NF          Exposure                                                             Robert Bilott
NF          The house of Yan                                             Lan Yan
NF          The longest day                                                Matt Calman
NF          The lost pianos of Siberia                              Sophy Roberts
NF          The official NZ road code (replacement)
ChPB     Wheels                                                                 Sally Sutton
ChPB     Dozer the fire cat                                             Robyn Prokop
ChPB     All of the factors why I love tractors        Davina Bell
PBOK     Aroha’s way                                                       Craig Phillips

Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              Sugarland                                                            Martha Conway
F              The sword saint (Empire of Salt III)           Con Iggulden
YA           Hourglass                                                            Claudia Gray
NF          The new childhood                                         Jordan Shapiro
NF          The sisters of Auschwitz                               Roxane van Iperen
NF          Why we eat (too much)                               Dr Andrew Jenkinson
GN         Meanwhile                                                         Jason Shiga
ChF        Sunny side up                                                    Holly Smale


FEBRUARY  2020  BOOKS PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
 
F              The light after the war                                   Anita Abriel
F              A long petal of the sea                                   Isabel Allende
F              American dirt                                                     Jeanine Cummins
F              The strangers we know                                 Pip Drysdale
F              Deep state                                                          Chris Hauty
F              The Paris model                                                Alexandra Joel
F              Grown ups                                                          Marian Keyes
F              The institute                                                      Stephen King
F              The stolen bicycle                                            Wu Ming-Yi
F              Saving Missy                                                      Beth Morrey
F              Good dogs don’t make to the South Pole Hans-Olav Thyvold
F              Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe                   Heather Webber
NF          Spitfire                                                                 John Nichol
NF          Jacinda Ardern                                                  Michelle Duff
NF          Driven by the wind                                          Karen Stade
NF          A walk a day                                                       Peter Janssen
NF          Classic New Zealand mountain bike rides J,P & S Kennet
ChF        Billie B Brown mysteries                                Sally Rippin
ChF        Cinders and Sparks                                          Lindsey Kelk 
ChPB     Muddle & Mo’s rainy day                             Nikki Slade Robinson
ChPB     The go-away bird                                             Julia Donaldson
 
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              The lacemaker                                                  Laura Frantz
F              Thieving forest                                                  Martha Conway
F              The glass woman                                             Caroline Lea
F              The memory stones                                       Caroline Brothers
F              The girl they left behind                                Rozanne Veletzos
NF          Looking for trouble                                         Peter de la Billiere
NF          Silence                                                                  Erling Kagge 
NF          This is going to hurt                                         Adam Kay
NF          The more beautiful world                            Charles Eisenstein
ChF        All wrapped up                                                 Holly Smale
ChF        The wizards of once (Book 1)                      Cressida Cowell
ChF       Twice magic (Book 2)                                      Cressida Cowell
ChPB     Can I be your dog?                                       Troy Cummings
ChPB     The bedtime frog (Pip & Posy)                   Nosy Crow
ChPB     The new friend (Pip & Posy)                        Nosy Crow 


JANUARY 2020 BOOKS PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
F The museum of broken promises Elizabeth Buchan
F The girl in the painting Tea Cooper
F Silver Chris Hammer
F Josephine’s garden Stephanie Parkyn
F In the clearing J.P Pomare
F Burnt island Kate Rhodes
F A madness of sunshine Nalini Singh
F Medici Ascendancy Matteo Strukul
F The assistant S.K.Tremayne
ChF Knock three times Cressida Cowell
ChPB Twinkle, twinkle, little star Anne Hunter
ChPB Porkie Schnoodle Samantha Laugesen
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The suspect Fiona Barton (replacement)
F Peace Garry Disher
F The devil’s alternative Frederick Forsyth
F Old Filth Jane Gardam (replacement)
F Annelies David Gillham
F When they come for you James Hall
F Need you dead Peter James
F The republic of thieves Scott Lynch(The Gentlemen Bastard sequence #3)
F The secret lives of dresses Erin McKean
F The art of racing in the rain Garth Stein (replacement)
NF The kindness diaries Leon Logothetis
NF How to change your mind Michael Pollan
GN Zoo James Patterson et al
ChF Head over heels Holly Smale (Geek Girl)
ChF Hidden kingdom Tui Sutherland (Wings of fire series #3)
ChF Ricky Ricotta’s mighty robot vs the stupid stinkbugs from Saturn Dav Pilkey
ChF Dogman and Catkid Dav Pilkey (The adventures of Dogman # 4)
ChF Ivy and Bean take care of the babysitter Annie Barrows (#4)
ChF The furball strikes back Aaron Blabey (The bad guys #3)
DECEMBER  2019  BOOKS  PURCHASED
Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
F             Celestial bodies                                Jokha Alharthi
F             The eighth life                                  Nino Haratischvili
F             All the flowers in Paris                    Sarah Jio
F             To Calais, in ordinary time             James Meek
F             The last paradise                             Di Morrissey
F              Criss cross                                        James Patterson
F             The rise of Magicks (Book 3)         Nora Roberts
F             Girl                                                      Edna O’Brien
F             Inexpressible Island  (Book 3)       Paullina Simons
NF          Big sister, little sister, red sister   Jung Chang
NF          A game of birds and wolves          Simon Parkin
YA          The book of dust : Volume 2         Philip Pullman
ChNF     Wildlife of Aotearoa                       Gavin Bishop

NOVEMBER 2019 BOOKS PURCHASED
Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
F           A minute to midnight                               David Baldacci 
F            The confession                                          Jessie Burton
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Blue moon                                                   Lee Child 

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The last train to London                              Meg Waite Clayton

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Platform seven                                            Louise Doughty 

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The girl who read on the metro               Christine Feret-Fleury

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Lethal agent                                                  Vince Flynn 

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Out of darkness, shining light                      Petina Gappah

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The guardians                                                 John Grisham

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The world that we knew                             Alice Hoffman

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Before the coffee gets cold                        Toshikazu Kawaguchi 

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The family gift                                              Cathy Kelly

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The end of the ocean                                Maja Lunde 
F            The last voyage of Mrs Henry Parker      Joanna Nell
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City of windows                                           Robert Pobi  

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Westwind                                                  Ian Rankin

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The sun sister                                                 Lucinda Riley  

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The poppy wife                                           Caroline Scott

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Olive, again                                                 Elizabeth Strout

NF        
Finding Chika                                                  Mitch Albom

NF        
Confessions of a bookseller                          Shaun Bythell

NF       
Lady in waiting                                              Anna Glenconner

NF        
Me Elton John                                                  Elton John

NF        
Gotta get Theroux this                                  Louis Theroux

NF        
How to walk a dog                                       Mike White

ChF       
Wrecking ball (Diary of a wimpy kid)          Jeff Kinney 

ChF       
Fowl twins                                                      Eoin Colfer
ChNF      The treehouse joke book                           Andy Griffiths
ChNF      Love your body                                             Jessica Sanders
ChNF       
Rockpools                                                      Ned Barraud 

ChPB      
Santa’s worst Christmas                              Huia 

ChPB       
Cleo & Rob                                                     Helen Brown 

ChPB        
Father Christmas heard a fart                   Olaf Falafel

Bought with Mapua Library funds
F         Excursion to Tinari                              Andrae Camilleri
F         
The Night fire                                        Michael Connelly

F         
The Wyatt butterfly                           Garry Disher

F         
Ember Island                                      Kimberley Freeman

F          
When you can’t stop                        James Hall

F          
Love you dead                                     Peter James

F           
Caging skies                                           Christine Leunens

F         
The diamond hunter                            Fiona McIntosh

F          
The thirteenth tale                               Diane Setterfield 

NF         
Smoky the brave                                 Damien Lewis 

ChF       
Dragonet prophecy (Wings of fire #1)      Tui Sutherland 

ChF       The lost heir (Wings of fire #2)               
Tui Sutherland 

ChF         
All that glitters                                             Holly Smale

ChF        
Ricky Ricotta’s mighty robot vs Jurassic jackrabbits Dav Pilkey 

ChF      
Mission unpluckable {Bad boys #2)             Aaron Blabey  

ChF       
Unleashed (Dogman #2)                               Dav Pilkey    

ChPB       
The Steves                                                         Morag Hood 

ChPB      
Hey Grandude                                               Paul McCartney  

Bought with Mapua Library Literary Festival funds for NF
NF           The bite of the mango                              Mariatu Kamara
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NF          Women rowing north                                 Mary Pipher                                        



​OCTOBER  2019  BOOKS  PURCHASED
Bought with a grant from the Rata Foundation
F              Postscript                                                            Cecelia Ahearn
F              Saltwater                                                             Jessica Andrews
F              Wearing paper dresses                                 Anne Brinsden
F              Someone’s wife                                               Linda Burgess
F              Nailing down the saint                                   Craig Cliff
F              Akin                                                       Emma Donoghue
F              The unforgiving city                                        Maggie Joel
F              The stationary shop of Tehran                   Marian Kamali
F              The absolute book                                          Elizabeth Knox
F              How the dead speak                                      Val McDermid
F              Cilka’s journey                                                  Heather Morris
F              The giver of stars                                             Jojo Moyes
F              The Dutch house                                              Ann Patchett
F              Let’s hope for the best                                  Carolina Setterwall
F              Taking Tom Murray home                            Tim Slee
F              Grand union                                                       Zadie Smith
F              The wife and the widow                               Christian White
ChPB     The dinky donkey                                            Craig Smith
ChPB     I’ve broke my bum                                          Dawn McMillan
ChPB     My first words in Maori                                 Stacey Morrison
LPF        Look for me                                                        Lisa Gardner
 
Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
F              The sword of kings                                          Bernard Cornwell
F              The shape of night                                          Tess Gerritsen
ChF        Prince of ponies                                               Stacy Gregg
ChF        Biscuits and very big plans (Tom Gates) Liz Pichon
 
Bought with Mapua Library Literary Festival funds for NF
NF          Native son                                                          Witi Ihimaera
NF          The body                                                             Bill Bryson
NF          A communist in the family                           Elspeth Sandys
NF          Syria’s secret library                                        Mike Thomson
NF          Ian McKellen                                                      Garry O’Connor
 
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              The handmaid’s tale  (replacement)        Margaret Atwood
F              The closed circle                                               Jonathan Coe
F              The heat                                                              Garry Disher
F              Wildflower Hill                                                   Kimberley Freeman
F              Auntie Poldi and the Sicilian lions              Mario Giordano
F              Auntie Poldi and the fruits of the Lord    Mario Giordano
F               Imagine me gone                                            Adam Haslett
F              Dead if you don’t                                             Peter James
F              Still midnight                                                      Denise Mina
F              The love letter                                                  Lucinda Riley
F              The hiding places                                             Catherine Robertson
F              The American agent                                       Jacqueline Winspear
NF          Bad blood                                                            John Carreyrou
NF          The year of living Danishly                            Helen Russell
NF          Somebody to love                                           Matt Richards
GN         Amulet #8 Supernova                                    Kazu Kibuishi
ChF        Those sugar-barge kids                                 Jon Tucker
PS           Little blue truck                                                 Alice Schertle
September 2019 Books purchased
Bought with a grant from the Rata Foundation
F             The collaborator                                             Diane Armstrong
F             Scented                                                             Laurence Fearnley
NF          Emilia’s colours  The gift of autism            Ali Beasley
ChF        The birthday wars                                           Kate & Joel Temple
ChF        Dog Man – For whom the ball rolls            Dav Pilkey
ChF        Snow                                                                 Ondine Sherman
ChPB      My Kiwi gumboots                                         June Pitman-Hayes
PS           Colours                                                             Lynley Dodd
 
Bought with a grant from the Lion Foundation
F             The testaments                                               Margaret Atwood0
F             Beyond reasonable doubt                            Gary Bell
F             The sound of the hours                                 Karen Campbell
F             A single thread                                                Tracy Chevalier0
F             The long call                                                    Ann Cleeves
F             Where the light enters                                  Sara Donati
F             Do not feed the bear                                     Rachel Elliot
F             The ten thousand doors of January            Alix E. Harrow
F             The girl who lived twice                                David Lagercrantz
F             How we disappeared                                     Jing-Jing Lee
F             The inheritance of Solomon Farthing         Mary Paulson-Ellis
F             Quichotte                                                         Salman Rushdie
F             The turn of the key                                         Ruth Ware
F             The far field                                                     Madhuri Vijay
YA          Crossfire                                                           Malorie Blackman
ChNF     Harry Potter and the fantastic beasts        Michael Kogge9
ChPB      One ted falls out of bed                               Julia Donaldson
                                            
Bought with Mapua Library funds
 
F             The rotters’ club                                             Jonathan Coe
F             The snack thief                                                Andrea Camilleri
F             I’m travelling alone                                        Samuel Bjork
F              Echo burning                                                  Lee Child  (replacement)
F             Red seas under red skies                               Scott Lynch
F             The red road                                                    Denise Mina
F             Wyatt                                                                Gary Disher
F             Eagle in exile                                                   Alan Smale
NF          The desert column                                         Ion Idriess
NF          No friend but the mountains                        Behrouz Boochani
NF          Upheaval                                                          Jared Diamond
GN         Montress Vol 1                                                Marjorie Liu
YA          Tiny pretty things                                            Sona Charaipotra
YA          Shiny broken pieces                                       Sona Charaipotra2
ChF        Ivy and Bean break the fossil record          Annie Barrows
ChF       Friday Barnes :The plot thickens                 R A Spratt
ChPB      The duckling gets a cookie                           Mo Willems
PS            Listen to the music                                        Nosy Crow
August 2019 Books purchased
Bought with a grant from Rata foundation
F        Half Moon lake                              Kirsten Alexander
F          State of fear                                 Tim Ayliffe
F           One good dead                            David Baldacci  
F           Whatever it takes                         Paul Cleave
F            Gun Island                                      Amitav Ghosh
F             Tidelands                                      Philippa Gregory
F           Confession with blue horses         Sophie Hardach
F          A grave for two                               Anne Holt
F          Lady in the lake                                Laura Lippman
F           Moonlight sonata                         Eileen Merriman
F           The Paris diversion                       Chris Pavone
F           Disappearing earth                        Julia Phillips
F          The burnt country                            Joy Rhoades
F           Good girl, bad girl                           Michael Robotham
F           The red daughter                            John Burnham Schwartz
NF         Three women                                   Lisa Taddeo
NF         How to escape from prison             Dr Paul Wood
YA       Return to Zero                                   Pitticus Lore
YA       The accomplice (Theodore Boone) John Grisham
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              We, the survivors                            Tash Aw
F             The locksmith’s daughter              Karen Brooks
F            Keep you close  -             Karen Cleveland
F             The heat                                            Gary Disher
F            Y is for yesterday                           Sue Grafton (replacement)
F              The ten loves of Mr Nishino        Hiromi Kawakami
F             The lies of Locke Lamora               Scott Lynch
F             Unto us a son is given                     Donna Leon
F              Orphan’s inheritance                     Aline Ohanesian
F           Pieces of happiness                        Anne Ostby
F            The cartel                                         Don Winslow
?              The pilgrimage                                Paulo Coelho 
ChF         Ivy & Bean and the ghost               Annie Barrows
ChF        Friday Barnes 4: No rules              R A Spratt
ChF         The war I finally won                     Kimberley Brubaker
ChPB       A house for hermit crab                  Eric Carle
ChPB        Spinderella                                        Julia Donaldson
PS            Listen to the things that go           Nosy Crow
PS           Roadwork                                         Sally Sutton
Bought with Mapua Library Literary Festival funds for adult non-fiction
NF          Mother tongue                           Bill Bryson (replacement)
NF        After                                                 Nikki Gemmell 
NF         The remarkable life of the skin      Monty    Lyman 
NF         Listen to me!                               Anna Martin
NF         The path made clear                     Oprah Winfrey
NF          Faber & Faber                                  Toby Faber

July 2019 Books Purchased
Bought with a grant from Lion Foundation
F              Big sky                                                  Kate Atkinson
F              The only woman in the room         Marie Benedict
F              Those people                                     Louise Candlish
F              The canary keeper                            Clare Carson
F              A nearly normal family                   M.T.Edvardsson
F              The guardian of lies                         Kate Furnivall
F              The other half of Augusta Hope    Joanna Glen
F              The silver road                                  Stina Jackson
F              Rules for visiting                               Jessica Francis Kane
F              Six minutes                                        Petronella McGovern
F              The scholar                                        Dervla McTiernan
F              The carer                                            Deborah Moggach
F              Knife                                                   Jo Nesbo
F              You’ll never see me again               Lesley Pearse
F              Ellie and the harp-maker                Hazel Prior
F               Under currents                                Nora Roberts
F              The new girl                                       Daniel Silva
F              A beggar’s kingdom                         Paullina Simons
F            The last widow                                   Karin Slaughter
ChF        The 117-storey treehouse               Andy Griffiths
ChF        The world’s worst teachers            David Walliams
ChNF     When we walked on the moon     David Long
ChPB     Bottoms                                              Nikki Slade Robinson
ChPB     Song of the river                               Joy Cowley
 
Bought with Literary Festival funds for adult non-fiction
NFNZ        Swim                                                Annette Lees
NFNZ       We can make a life                        Chessie Henry
NF            Ma’am darling                                 Craig Brown



JUNE  2019  BOOKS PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from the Lion Foundation
F             The unreliable people                                    Rosetta Allan
F             The guest book                                               Sarah Blake0
F             Master of my fate                                          Sienna Brown
F             The better sister                                             Alafair Burke
F             The tenth muse                                             Catherine Chung
F             The daughter’s tale                                        Armando Lucas Correa
F             Stay hidden                                                      Paul Doiron
F             The garden of lost and found                      Harriet Evans
F             I know who you are                                       Alice Feeney
F             City of girls                                                       Elizabeth Gilbert
F             Little darlings                                                   Melanie Golding
F             The porpoise                                                   Mark Haddon
F             Liar                                                                    Ayelet Gundar-Goshen
F             Sixty summers                                                 Amanda Hampson
F             When it all went to custard                          Danielle Hawkins
F             Crossings                                                          Alex Landragin
F             The beekeeper of Aleppo                             Christy Lefteri
F             The doll factory                                              Elizabeth Macneal
F             My life as a rat                                                Joyce Carol Oates
F             Waste tide                                                       Chen Qiufan
F             The farm                                                           Joanne Ramos
F             Under the midnight sky                                 Anna Romer
F             Something to live for                                     Richard Roper
F             The favourite daughter                                 Kaira Rouda
F             The flatshare                                                   Beth O’Leary
F             The electric hotel                                           Dominic Smith
F             The wonder of lost causes                           Nick Trout
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F             The half brother                                              Lars Saabye
F             Beautiful death                                               Fiona McIntosh
F             The last word                                                  Hanif Kureishi
F             The next person you meet in Heaven         Mitch Albom
F             Where the crawdads sing                             Delia Owens
F             Cartes postales from Greece                       Victoria Hislop
F             Marbeck and the gunpowder plot              John Pilkington
F             Shadow play                                                    Barbara Ismail
F             Once upon a river                                           Diana Setterfield
YA          Mortal engines                                                Philip Reeve (replacement)
YANF     Anne Frank’s diary (graphic form)
ChF        The bad guys (episode 1)                              Aaron Blabey
ChF        Mr Stink                                                            David Walliams  (replacement)
ChPB      The gruffalo’s child                                        Julia Donaldson (replacement)
ChPB      Tiddler                                                Julia Donaldson (replacement) 

​MAY 2019  BOOKS  PURCHASED​
Bought with a grant from the Rata Foundation
F The strawberry thief - Joanne Harris
F The tiger catcher - Paullina Simons
F The girl in the letter - Emily Gunnis
F The confessions of Frannie Langton - Sara Collins
F Family trust - Kathy Wang
F A long night in Paris - Dov Alfon
F Machines like me - Ian McEwan
F The French photographer - Natasha Lester
F The Parisian - Isabella Hammad
F A woman is no man - Etaf Rum
F Pachinko - Min Jin Lee
F The border - Don Winslow
F The things we cannot say - Kelly Rimmer
F The hidden - Mary Chamberlain
F The missing years - Lexie Elliott
F The fourth shore - Virginia Baily
F Call me Evie - J. P. Pomare
F The butterfly room - Lucinda Riley
NF The honey bus - Meredith May
NF The pianist of Yarmouk - Aeham Ahmad
NF The note through the wire - Doug Gold
YA How it feels to float - Helena Fox
YA My brother’s name is Jessica - John Boyne
ChF Dancing the Charleston - Jacqueline Wilson
ChF The dog runner - Bren MacDibble
ChF Mummy fairy and me - Sophie Kinsella
ChPB Orla the inventor fairy - Daisy Meadows
ChPB The dragon who sneezed - Miguelanxo Prado
ChPB Little penguin lost - Tracey Corderoy
ChPB Weka’s waiata - Nikki Slade Robinson
ChPB Spots or stripes? - Vasanti Unka
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F Moon tiger - Penelope Lively
F Red birds - Mohammed Harif
F The method actors - Carl Shuker
F Don’t eat me - Colin Cotterill
F The lying game - Ruth Ware
F The freedom artist - Ben Okri
F Dear sweet Harry - Lynn Jenner
F Mr Godley’s phantom - Mel Peet
NF Time to go - Guy Kennaway
NF Another fine mess - Tim Moore
NF The rocky shore - Jenny Bornholdt
NF A woman of no importance - Sonia Purnell
GN Firelight: Amulet #7 - Kazu Kibuishi

APRIL  2019  BOOKS  PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from the Rata Foundation
F              Loving Sylvie  -  Elizabeth Smither
F              The book of dreams  -  Nina George
F              The island of sea women  -  Lisa See
F              The true story of Maddie Bright  -  Mary-Rose MacColl
F              The gulf between  -  Maxine Alterio
F              Spring  -  Ali Smith
F              Lost roses  -  Martha Hall Kelly
F              Orchid & the wasp  -  Caoilinn Hughe
F              Kill shot  -  Gary Disher
F              A dream of Italy  -  Nicky Pellegrino
NF          See you in the piazza  -  Frances Mayes
ChF        To trap a thief  -  Des Hunt
ChF        Secret weapon (Alex Rider)  -  Anthony Horowitz
YA           Grenade  -  Alan Gratz
YA           Five feet apart  -  Rachael Lippincott
ChPB     Uncle Allan’s stinky leg  -  Jennifer Sommervell
ChPB     The Anzac billy  -  Claire Saxby
ChPB     Bess the brave war horse  -  Susan Brocker
Bought with Mapua Library Literary Festival funds for adult non-fiction
NF          Keepers of history  -  Renee Hollis
NF         Defeating the ministers of death  -  Prof David Isaacs
NF          Saving Mona Lisa  -  Gerri Chanel
NF         The fast 800  -  Mike Mosley
NF          The uninhabitable Earth  -  David Wallace-Wells
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              The great wide open  -  Douglas Kennedy
F              In a dark, dark wood  -  Ruth Wave
F              Lost dogs and lonely hearts  =   Lucy Dillon
F              Last friends  -  Jane Gardam
F              The darkest day  -  Tom Wood
F              The final hour  -  Tom Wood
F              Little Bee  -  Chris Cleave
F              Rainbow days  -  Stephanie Cox
F              The map of salt and stars  -  Jennifer Zehnab
F              Evergreen Falls  -  Kimberley Freeman
F              The mapmaker’s race -  Eirlys Hunter
F              Closed for winter  -  Jorn Lier Horst
NF          The longest breakfast  -  Jenny Bornholdt
NF          Yak girl  -  Dorje Dolma
ChF        Those Snake Island kids  -  Jon Tucker
ChF        Rescue!  -  Bindi Irwin
ChF        Trouble at the zoo  -  Bindi Irwin

MARCH 2019  BOOKS  PURCHASED​
Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
F Gallowstree Lane - Kate London
F The huntress - Kate Quinn
F Do you dream of Terra-Two? - Temi Oh
F The girl on the page - John Purcell
F Islands - Peggy Frew
F Out of the dark - Greggg Hurwitz
F Golden state - Ben H. Winters
F The flower girls - Alice Clark- Platts
F One minute later - Susan Lewis
F Looker - Laura Sims
F The hunting party - Lucy Foley
F The orchardist’s daughter - Karen Viggers
F The chocolate maker’s wife - Karen Brooks
F Louis & Louise - Julie Cohen
F Blood orange - Harriet Tyce
F The last - Hanna Jameson
F The ruin - Dervla McTiernan
F Swallowtail summer - Erica James
F Star-crossed - Minnie Darke
ChF Fing - David Walliams
ChF Five go adventuring again (replacement) - Enid Blyton
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The memory of love - Linda Olsson
F The god of small things - Arundhati Roy (replacement)
F Shallows - Tim Winton (replacement)
F The riders - Tim Winton (replacement)
F Hardcore twenty-four - Janet Evanovich
YA Brisingr - Christopher Paolini
NF The best we could do - Thi Bui (graphic form)
GN Assassination classroom Vol 2 – Yusei Matsui (replacement)
GN Assassination classroom Vol 7 – Yusei Matsui
GN Spill zone - Scott Westerfeld
GN Escape from Lucien (Amulet #6) - Kazu Kibuishi
ChF 300 minutes of danger - Jack Heath

FEBRUARY  2019  BOOKS  PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
F              The suspect  -  Fiona Barton
F              The six loves of Billy Binns  -  Richard Lumsden
F              Not bad people  -  Brandy Scott
F              The familiars  -  Stacey Halls
F              The mother-in-law  -  Sally Hepworth
F              Blood and sugar  -  Laura Shepherd-Robinson
F              Top dog  -  Jens Lapidus
F              The Rosie result  -  Graeme Simsion
F              When all is said  -  Anne Griffin
F              The chestnut man  -  Soren Sveistrup
F              We must be brave  -  Francis Liardet
F              The rumour  -  Lesley Kara
F              The last days of the Rominov dancers  -  Kerri Turne
F              At the wolf’s table  -  Rosella Postorino
NF          Adventurer at heart  -  Nathan Fa’avae   (replacement)
NF          Ajax the kea dog  -  Corey Mosen
NF          Old Nelson – a postcard history  -  Barney Brewster
YA           The fork, the witch and the worm  =  Christopher Paolini
YA           The rift  -  Rachael Craw
ChF        Candy kisses (Jojo & Bobo)  -  Jojo Siwa
ChF        Koolio, the problem pony  -  Kelly Wilson
ChF        Scared to death  -  Anthony Horowitz
ChPB     A stack of alpacas  -  Matt Cosgrove
ChPB     Monster slime  -  Dean O’Brien
ChPB     Arabella and the bubble  -  Carol Don Ercolano
ChPB     Euphemia – a fairy’s tale  -  Deborah Brookes
 
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              Lionheart  -  Sharon Penman
F              The wolf border  -  Sarah Hall
F              The quiet side of passion  -  Alexander McCall Smith
F              Turbo twenty-three  -  Janet Evanovich
F              The seven sisters  -  Lucinda Riley (replacement)
NF          The maverick mountaineer  -  Robert Wainwright
YA           Man vs beast  -  Robert Muchamore (replacement)
ChF        Five run away together  -  Enid Blyton
ChF        Home sweet drama  -  Jessica Burkhart
ChPB     The explorer  -  Katherine Rundell

JANUARY  2019  BOOKS  PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from Rata Foudation
F              What you wish for  -  Catherine Robertson
F              Battle sight zero  -  Gerald Seymour
F              Flight risk  -  Michael McGuire
F              Tell me a secret  -  Jane Fallon
F              A long night in Paris  -  Dov Alfon
F              The binding  -  Bridget Collins
F              The kinship of secrets  -  Eugenia Kim
F              Year one  -  Nora Roberts  (The one #1)
F              Of blood and bone  -  Nora Roberts (The one #2)
F              An anonymous girl  -  Greer Hendriks & Sarah Pekkanen
F              Fire and blood  -  George R.R. Martin
F              The new Iberia blues  -  James Lee Burke
F              Bye bye baby  -  Fiona McIntosh
F              Something in the water  -  Catherine Steadman
F              Eleanor’s secret  -  Caroline Beecham
F              The boy  -  Tami Hoag
F              Bright young dead  -  Jessica Fellowes
F              The corset  -  Laura Purcell
YA           The hive  -  A.J. Betts
YA           After the lights go out  -  Lili Wilkinson
ChF        Brawl of the wild (Dogman)  -  Dav Pilkey
ChF        Endermen rule (Diary of a Minecraft enderman)  - Pixel Kid & Zack Zombie
ChF        Bullets and buddies (Diary of a Minecraft zombie)  -  Zack Zombie
ChF        Puppy love (Dork Diaries)  -  Rachel Renee Russell
ChPB     We’ve got a boat  -  Jay Laga’aia
ChPB    The man whose mother was a pirate  -  Margaret Mahy
ChPB     The taniwha in our backyard  -  Malcolm Paterson
ChPB     Oscar the hungry unicorn  -  Lou Carter
ChPB    Happy Birthday to me (Mini Whinny)  -  Stacy Gregg
 
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              A gentleman in Moscow  -  Amor Towles
F              The Wych elm  -  Tana French
F              The alchemist’s daughter  -  Katherine McMahon
F              The sparrow  -  Doria Russell
F              Die trying  -  Lee Child (replacement)
F              To die but once  -  Jacqueline Winspear
F              All I ever wanted  -  Lucy Dillon
F              Tricky twenty two  -  Janet Evanovich
F              Target: Alex Cross  -  James Patterson
F              The hunting dogs  -  Jorn Lier Horst
F              Memory wall  -  Anthony Doerr
NF          Auschwitz escape – The Klara Wizel story  -  Danny Naten
YA           Waterhole  -  Fiona Bell
YA           Swim the fly  -  Don Calame
PS           The ABC book of cars, trains, boats and planes  -  Helen Martin
                               
Bought with funds from the Literary Festival (for adult non-fiction)
NF         The cancer-fighting kitchen  -  Mat Edelson & Rebecca Katz
NF          Why we sleep  -  Matthew Walker
NF          Happiest toddler on the block  -  Harvey Karp
NF         Down the bay  -  Philip Simpson
NF          Made in Scotland  -  Billy Connolly

DECEMBER 2018 BOOKS PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from the Tasman District Council
F             Midnight blue -Simone Van Der Vlugt
F             The unexpected inheritance of Inspector Chopra -Vaseem Khan
F             The au pair -Emma Rous
F             The single ladies of Jacaranda Retirement Village -Joanna Nell
F             The pearl thief -Fiona McIntosh
F             Make or break -Catherine Bennetto9
F             The invitation -Belinda Alexander
F             The dissent of Annie Lang -Ros Franey
F             The Moscow sleepers -Stella Rimington
NF          Becoming - Michele Obama
ChF        Hubert Horatio -Lauren Child
ChF        Jojo & Bobo take the stage -Jojo Siwa
ChF        Lord of the fleas (Dog man) -Dav Pilkey$15.19
 
Bought with funds from the Literary Festival (for adult non-fiction)

NF          Born lippy -Jo Brand
NF          The spy and the traitor -Ben MacIntyre

NOVEMBER 2018 BOOKS PURCHASED
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              The winter soldier  -  Daniel Mason
F              The last Kashmiri rose  -  Barbara Cleverly
F              Normal people  -  Sally Rooney
F              The moon sister  -  Lucinda Riley
F              The midsummer garden  -  Kirsty Manning
NF          The last girl  -  Nadia Murad
NF          Born survivors  -  Wendy Holden
ChF        The meltdown  -  Jeff Kinney
ChPB     Here we are  -  Oliver Jeffers
ChPB     Slinky Malinki’s Christmas  -  Lynley Dodd
ChPB     The most magnificent thing  -  Ashley Spires
Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
F              The year of the farmer  -  Rosalie Ham
F              Dark sacred night-- --Michael Connelly
F              Past tense  -  Lee Child
F              Look alive 25  -  Janet Evanovich
F              Freida  -  Annabel Abbs
F              Smile of the wolf  -  Tim Leach
F              Long road to Mercy  -  David Baldacci
F              The survivors  -  Kate Furnivall
F              Milkman  -  Anna Burns
F              The Alice network  -  Kate Quinn
F              Love is blind  -  William Boyd
F              Unsheltered  -  Barbara Kingsolver
F              Heads you win  -  Jeffrey Archer
F              From the ashes  -  Deborah Challinor
F              A keeper  -  Graham Norton
F              The reckoning  -  John Grisham
F              Courtney’s war  -  Wilbur Smith
F              The lost man  -  Jane Harper
F              The turn of midnight  -  Minette Walters
YA           Killer T  -  Robert Muchamore
YA           A map of days  -  Ransome Riggs   (Mrs Peregrine series)
ChF        The ice monster -   David Walliams
ChNF     Cook’s cook  -  Gavin Bishop
ChPB    Inkey’s amazing escape -  Sy Montgomery
ChPB     Tu Meke Tui!  -  Malcolm Clarke
Bought with Literary Festival funds (for NF)
NF          Dopestick  -  Beth Macy
NF          Sam Hunt- Off the road -  Colin Hogg
NF          Gloucester Crescent  -  William Miller
NF          Blowing bloody doors off  -  Michael Caine
NF          We need to weaken the mixture  -  Guy Martin
Bought with Literary Festival funds (for ChNF)
ChNF     Who was Neil Armstrong?  -  Roberta Edwards
ChNF     Duke (Dogs of WWII)  -  Kirby Larson
ChNF    World war I  -  Simon Adams
ChNF    World war II  -  Simon Adams
ChNF     Peep inside dinosaurs  -  Anna Milbourne
ChNF     The story of the Titanic for children  -  Joe Fullman
ChNF    New Zealand’s backyard beasts  -  Ned Barraud
ChNF    Why is that lake so blue? -  Simon Pollard

OCTOBER 2018

Bought with a grant from Tasman District Council
F The labyrinth of the spirits - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
F Bridge of clay - Markus Zusak
F The other woman - Daniel Silva
F The rules of seeing - Joe Heap
F In a house of lies - Ian Rankin
F War of the wolf - Bernard Cornwell
F Aftershocks - A.N.Wilson
F A spark of light - Jodi Picoult
F The mystery of three quarters - Sophie Hannah
ChF A different boy - Paul Jennings
ChF The fire stallion - Stacy Gregg
ChPB Poo bum - Stephanie Blake
ChPB Trever the smelliest dog ever! - Samantha Laugesen
ChPB The great white man-eating shark - Margaret Mahy

Bought with Literary Festival funds (Adult non-fiction)
NFNZ Memory pieces - Maurice Gee
NF Small fry - Lisa Brennan-Jobs
NF Just one more day - Susan Lewis
NF The feather thief - Kirk Wallace Johnson
NF How did we get into this mess - George Monbiot

Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The key - Simon Toyne
F Shadow on the crown - Patricia Bracewell
F The case of the love - Tarquin Hall
F Persuader - Lee Child
F The fox - Frederick Forsyth
F Storms over Blackpeak - Holly Ford
F Chemistry - Weike Wang
F The Greek escape - Karen Swan
F Regions of thick-ribbed ice - Helen Garner
YA Dark tracks - Philippa Gregory
ChF Clover moon - Jacqueline Wilson
ChF Izzy the indigo fairy - Daisy Meadows
ChF The frog prince - Sally Gardner (First reader)
ChPB Little meerkat’s big panic - Jane Evans
PS Go, Dog, go! - P.D.Eastman

​SEPTEMBER  2018  BOOKS  PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from the Tasman District Council
F              Clock dance  -  Anne Tyler
F              Take nothing with you  -  Patrick Gale
F              Leverage in death  -  J.D. Robb
F              The Sunday girl  -  Pip Drysdale
F              Salvation  -  Peter F. Hamilton
F              The fall of Gondolin  -  J.R.R. Tolkien
F              The clockmaker’s daughter  -  Kate Morton
F              The accidental further adventures of the 100 year old man  -  Jonas Jonasson
F              The house across the street  -  Lesley Pearse
F              Transcription  -  Kate Atkinson
F              A ladder to the sky  -  John Boyne
F              The possible world  -  Liese O’Halloran Schwartz
F              Paris ech  -  Sebastian Faulks
F              Lethal White  -  Robert Galbraith
F              A double life  -  Flynn Berry
F              Nine perfect strangers  -  Liane Moriarty
F              Where the light gets in  -  Lucy Dillon
ChF        The dragon defenders  -  James Russell  (Book 1)
ChF        The pitbull returns  -  James Russell  (Book 2
ChF        An unfamiliar place  -  James Russell  (Book 3)
ChF        Lord of the fleas  -  Dav Pilkey
ChPB     Shhhh! Don’t wake the baby  -  Scott Pearson
ChPB     The tallest truck gets stuck  -  Pat Chapman
ChPB     Little Hector and the big blue whale  -  Ruth Paul
ChPB      How Maui fished up the North Island  -  Donovan Bixley

Bought with Mapua library funds
 F             Sanctus  -  Simon Toyne
F              Three daughters of Eve  -  Elif Shafak
F              Cold earth  -  Ann Cleeves
F              The right side  -  Spencer Quinn
F              The favourite sister  -  Jessica Knoll
F              The rat catchers’ Olympics  -  Colin Cotterill
F             The choice  -  Edith Eger
F              The tears of dark water  -  Corban Addison
F              The Mars room  -  Rachel Kushner
NF          The diving bell and the butterfly  -  Dominique Bauby
YA           The crossover  -  Kwame Alaxander
ChF        Finding  -  David Hill
ChF       Poppy the pirate dog  -  Liz Kessler      (Early Reader)
ChF       The three little witches  -  Georgie Adams (Early Reader)

AUGUST  2018 BOOKS  PURCHASED
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F    Bearskin  - James A.McLaughlin
F    The one memory of Flora Banks  - Emily Barr
F    Anything is possible  - Elizabeth Strout
F    Thirteen  - Steve Cavanagh
F    Slowly we die  - Emilie Schepp
F    Fools’ gold  - Philippa Gregory
F    Big bad wolf  - Nele Neuhaus
F    The quaker -  Liam McIlvanney
F    This mortal boy  - Fiona Kidman
F    The Shanghai wife  - Emma Harcourt
F    All this by chance  - Vincent O’Sullivan
F    Varina  - Charles Frazier
F    Wild fire  - Anne Cleeves
F    You me everything  - Catherine Isaac
F    The jade lily  - Kirsty Manning
F    So much life left over  - Louis De Bernieres
F     The burning chambers  - Kate Mosse
F    Prague spring  - Simon Mawer
F    Pieces of her  - Karin Slaughter
F    The honourable thief  - Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
F    Caroline’s bikini  - Kirsty Gunn
F    The book of colours  - Robyn Cadwallader
F    Love & ruin  - Paula McLain
NFNZ The missing files  - Scott Bainbridge
NFNZ My life, my fight  - Steven Adams
NF      The lost pilots  - Corey Mead
NF      The long walk  - Slavonir Ravicz
ChPB  Nanny Mihi and the bellbird  - Melanie Drewery
ChPB  Flit the fantail and the flying flop  - Kat Merewether
ChPB  Oi  Cat -  Kes Gray
ChPB  Puffin the architect  - Kimberly Andrews
ChPB   Wake up Bear  - Lynley Dodd
ChPB “You’re called what?”  - Kes Gray
  

Bought with funds from the Literary Festival (Non-fiction-adult)
​
NFNZ    Straight from the pig’s mouth  - Al Lester
NFNZ     Murdoch  - Ron Palenski
NFNZ     Mind that child  - Dr Simon Rowley
NF          The good mothers  - Alex Perry 
​

Bought with fund from the Literary Festival (non-fiction –children)
ChNF       Aotearoa  - Gavin Bishop

JULY 2018 BOOKS PURCHASED
Bought with Literary Festival funds
( children’s non-fiction)
ChNF The slime book - DK
ChNF Who was Dr Seuss - Janet B Pascal
ChNF Astronomy, astronauts and space exploration - Clive Gifford
ChNF Dead or alive - Clive Gifford
ChNF Atlas of oddities - Clive Gifford


Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The tiger’s prey - Wilbur Smith
F Tripwire - Lee Child
F The Cuban affair - Nelson DeMille
F The ruin - Dervla McTiernan
F Happiness - Aminatta Forna
F Thirteen - Steve Cavanagh
F Our house - Louise Candish
F Day of the Caesars - Simon Scarrow
F Dear Mrs Bird - A J Pearce
F The shepherd’s hut - Tim Winton
F The woman at 1,000 degrees - Brian Fitzgibbon & Hallgrimur Helgason
F Marked for revenge - Emelie Schep
YA Mirror, mirror - Cara Delevingne
ChPB Winnie and Wilbur in space - Valerie Thomas

JUNE 2018 BOOKS PURCHASED
Bought with Mapua library funds
F Levi’s war - Julie Thomas
F A place for us - Fatima Farheen Mirza
F The hour of separation - Katherine McMahon
F The seventh cross - Anna Seghers
F The consolation of maps - Thomas Burke
F The falcon of Sparta - Conn Iggulden
F Mr Peacocks possessions - Lydia Syson
F The president is missing - Bill Clinton & James Patterson
F Whistle in the dark - Emma Healey
F The water cure - Sophie Mackintosh
F Stones from the river - Ursula Hegi (replacement)
F Fever - Dion Meyer
F A shout in the ruins - Kevin Powers
F Friends and traitors - John Lawton
F The dark angel - Elly Griffiths
F The temptation of forgiveness - Donna Leon
F His bloody project - Graeme McCrae Burnett
NF The girl with seven names - Hyensio Lee (replacement)
NF The happy hoofer - Celia Imrie
NF The best of A A Gill -- Adrian Gill
ChF Left out - Tim Green
ChF The world’s worst children 2 - David Walliams (replacement)
ChF The world’s worst children 3 - David Walliams
ChPB Best bedtime stories ever - Richard Scarry (replacement)
ChPB Hairy Maclarey’s showbusiness - Lynley Dodd
PS My first trucks and diggers - DK

MAY 2018  BOOKS  PURCHASED

Bought with Mapua Library funds

F A year at Hotel Gondola - Nicky Pellegrino
F Paper ghosts - Julia Heaberlin
F A sister in my house - Linda Olsson
F The new animals - Pip Adam
F Warlight - Michael Ondaatje
F The colour of Bee Larkham’s murder - Sarah J. Harris
F The greater good - Tim Ayliffe
F The new ships - Kate Duigan
F Speak no evil - Uzodimna Iweala
Bought with Literary Festival funds (adult non-fiction)
NF Rosie - Rose Tremain
NF Dictatorland - Paul Kenyon
NF Two sisters - Asne Seierstad
NFNZ Odyssey of the unknown Anzac - David Hastings
NFNZ Life, loss, love - Lorraine Downes
Bought with Literary Festival funds (children’s non-fiction)
ChNF Whose home is this? - Gillian Candler
ChNF Stories for boys who dare to be different - Ben Brooks
ChNF Go girl - Barbara Else
ChNF New Zealand’s great white sharks - Alison Balance
ChNF Staying safe online - Jennifer Perry
ChNF How to mend a kea - Janet Hunt
ChNF The book of pirates - Jamaica Rose & Captain Michael MacLeod
YANF Young Queen - Parris Goebel ​

APRIL  2018  BOOKS  PURCHASED
 
Purchased with a grant from the Lion Foundation
F             The girl in the woods  -  Camilla Lackberg
F              Mazarine  -  Charlotte Grinshaw
F             Women in sunlight  -  Frances Mayes
F             The lace weaver  -  Lauren Chater
F             The woman in the window  -  A.J.Finn (rep)
F             The punishment she deserves -  Elizabeth George
F             The lost flowers of Alison Hart  -  Holly  Ringland
F             MacBeth  -  Jo Nesbo
F             Every note played  -  Lisa Genova
F             The only story  -  Julian Barnes
YA          I have lost my way  -  Gayle Forman
YANF    Wildboy  -  Brando Yelavich
ChPB      Storybook stars  -  Jim Dewar

Bought with Funds from the Mapua Library Literary Festival  (ChNF)
ChNF    Home lab  -  Robert Winston
ChNF    Computer coding projects for kids  -  Carol Vorderman
ChNF    Get coding!  -  Young Rewired State
ChNF    It’s a good thing there are earthworms  -  Jodie Shepherd
ChNF    Endangered animals (replacement) -  Ben Hoare
ChNF     Totally cool creations  -  Sean Kenney
ChNF     Unbored  -  Joshua Glen et al
ChNF     Flying machines  -  Alison Witgus
ChNF    Drones  -  Lauren Newman
ChNF     The beginner’s guide to netball  -  Maria Tutaia
ChNF     Impossible inventions  -  Malgorzata Mycielska
ChNF     Human body  (replacement) -  DK
ChNF    Who was Albert Einstein?  -  Jess Brallier
ChNF    Fantastically great women who changed the world  -  Kate Pankhurst
ChNF    Fantastically great women who made history  -  Kate Pankhurst
ChNF    Women in sports  -  Rachel  Ignotofsky
ChNF    Friendship bracelets  -  Lucy Hopping

Bought with Mapua Library funds
F             Three things about Elsie  -   Joanna Cannon
F             March violets (a Bernie Gunther novel)  -  Philip Kerr
F             Golden Hill  -  Francis Spufford
F             The chosen ones  -  Steve Sem Sandberg
F             Camille (Paris crime files #3)  -  Pierre LeMaitre
F             Forest dark  -  Nilcole Krauss
F             Firefly Lane  -  Krisin Hannah
F             The travelling cat chronicles  -  Hiro Kirikawa
NF          Island home  -  Tim Winton
GN         Assassination classroom 5  -  Yusei Matsui
YANF     Girl on pointe  -  Chloe Lukasiak
ChF        Midnight mystery (Dotty Detective)  -  Clara Vulliamy
ChF        Home run  -  Tim Green
ChPB      The dudgeon is coming  -  Lynley Dodd (replacement)
ChPB      Rattletrap car  -  Phyllis Root (replacement)
ChPB      The lighthouse keeper’s cat  -  Ronda Armitage  (replacement)
ChPB      The gingerbread man  -  Mairi Mackinnon (replacement)
ChPB      Monkey puzzle  -  Julia Donaldson (replacement)
ChPB      The dot  -  Peter H. Reynolds
PS           Richard Scarry’s cars and trucks from A-Z (board book)

MARCH  2018  BOOKS  PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from the Lion Foundation
F              Still me  -  Jojo Moyes
F               Surprise me  -  Sophie Kinsella
F              The year that changed everything  -  Cathy Kelly
F              Babylon Berlin  -  Volker Kutscher
F              The lost season of love and snow  -  Jennifer Laam
F              In dust and ashes  -  Anne Holt
F              Four respectable ladies seek part time husband  - Barbara Toner
F              An unsuitable match  -  Joanna Trollope
F              The beat of the pendulum  -  Catherine Chidgey
F              Money in the morgue  -  Ngaio Maesh & Stella Duffy
ChF        Annual 2  -  Kate deGoldi & Susan Paris editors
ChF        Pax  -  Sara Pennypacker
ChF        Flamingo boy  -  Michael Morpurgo
ChPB    Bobby the littlest war hero  -  Glyn Harper
ChPB     Best mates  -  Philippa Werry
ChPB    There was an old woman who swallowed an egg  -  P.Crumble
ChPB    The dragon hunters  -  James Russell
ChPB    Monte and Milli : The totally amazing magic trick  -  Tracey Corderoy
ChPB     Two left feet  -  Adam Stower
ChPB     The super swooper dinosaur  -  Martin Waddell
ChPB    Nee Naw the little fire engine  -  Deano Yipadee
ChPB     Dino Diggers : Crane calamity  -  Rose Impey
ChPB     Row, row, row your waka  -  Rebeca Larsen (Te reo)
 
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F              Dragon Springs Road  -  Janie Chang
F              The woman who walked in sunshine  -  Alexander McCall Smith
F              In this grave hour  -  Jacqueline Winspear
F              The garden of small beginnings  -  Abbi Waxman
F              Alex  -  Pierre Lemaire
F              You  -  Caroline Kepnes
F              A harvest of thorns  -  Corban Addison
F              White chrysanthemum  -  Lynn Bracht
F              The tattooist of Auschwitz  -  Heather Morris
F              Sleeps standing  -  Witi Ihimaera
NF          The diary of a bookseller  -  Shaun Bythell
NF          The wizard of lies  -  Diana Henriques
ChF        Delphie and the magic ballet shoes  -  Darcey Bussell
ChF        Christmas in Enchantia  -  Darcey Bussell
ChF        Picture perfect  -  Holly Smale
ChF        Dotty Detective and the paw print puzzle  -  Clara Vulhamy
ChF        Dork Diaries: Puppy love  -  Rachel Renee Russell
ChPB     Winnie & Wilbur:The new computer  -  Valerie Thomas

FEBRUARY 2018 BOOKS PURCHASED
Bought with a grant from the Lion Foundation
F              Hellbent - Greg Hurwitz
F              The great alone - Kirstin Hannah
F              The wardrobe mistress - Patricia McGrath
F              The Chilbury ladies’ choir - Jennifer Ryan
F              Need to know - Karen Cleveland
F              On the bright side - Hendrik Groen
F              Anatomy of a scandal - Sarah Vaughn
F              The chalk man - C.J.Tudor
F              The cage - Lloyd Jones
F              The stakes - Ben Sanders
F              Gabriel’s Bay - Catherine Robertson
F              The woman in the window - A.J. Finn
YA           Rain fall - Ella West
ChF        Dandy, the mountain pony - Kelly Wilson
ChF        Cameo, the street pony - Kelly Wilson
ChPB     I am jellyfish - Ruth Paul
 
Bought with a grant from the Mapua, Ruby Bay & District Community Trust
NFNZ     Nothing to sell but service - Temple Sutherland
 
Bought with funds from the Literary Festival (adult non-fiction)
NFNZ     Time and tide: The story of the Pelorus mail boat
NFNZ     Dog zen - Mark Vette


JANUARY  2018  BOOKS  PURCHASED
Bought with a grant from the Lion Foundation
F               The Bedlam stacks  -  Natasha Pulley     
F               The last Mrs Parrish  -  Liv Constantine    
F               Hiding in plain sight  -  Susan Lewis          
F                Spoils  -  Brian Van Reet                            
​F              Into the world  -  Stephanie Parkyn                        
F             The naturalist’s daughter  -  Tea Cooper         
F              Those pleasant girls  -  Lia Weston                     
F             We that are left  -  Lisa Bigelow         
F               The sisters’ song  -  Louise Allen
F               Faking friends  -  Jane Fallon            
NF            Where the past begins  -  Amy Tan           
NF             Island nurses  -  Leonie Howie & Adele Robertson
ChF         Around the world in 80 days  -  (Jules Verne) Retold by Tony Evans
ChNF      True stories of Everest adventures  -  Paul Dowswell    
ChPB      Monkey and me  -  Emily Gravett       
ChPB       Dogs  -  Emily Gravett             
Bought with a grant from Network Tasman
F        Irene  -  Paul LeMaitre                                  
F         The Sparsholt affair  -  Alan Hollinghurst           
NF         Elena vanishing  -  Elena Dunkle          
YA       Theodore Boone: The fugitive  -  John Grisham          
ChF       Forever geek  -  Holly Smale                    
ChF        Dork diaries: Crush  catastrophe  -  Renee Russell             
Bought with Mapua Library funds   (Scholastic book sale, Chch)
ChF         Oceana’s kitty catastrophe (Miniwings series)  -  Sally Sutton
ChF        Ben Pole’s worst day ever!  -  Adam Stower          
ChF         Hot dog!  -  Anh do                                
ChF         Hot Dog! Party time!  -  Anh Do         
ChF         Worst camp ever (Ella Diaries)  -  Meredith Costain        
ChF         Going green  (Ella Diaries)   -  Meredith Costain        
ChF          Friendship SOS (Ella Diaries)  -  Meredith Costain  
ChF         Winnie adds magic  -  Laura Owen                  
ChF         Winnie’s alien sleepover  -  Laura Owen    
ChF         Winnie spells trouble  -  Laura Owen                  
ChF          Jonty and Choc  -  Vince Ford                        
ChF          Secret spy (E.J.Spy School)  -  Susannah McFarlane  
ChPB       A mother’s Day dilemma  -  Juliette MacIver      
ChPB       There is no dragon in this story -  Lou Carter      
ChPB         Tidy  -  Emily Gravett                                       
ChPB       Go, Percy! Go!  -  Brett Preiss                  
ChPB      Stink-o-saurus  -  Deano Yipadee                  
ChPB        We’re off to find a kiwi  -  Juliette MacIver
ChPB        Ninja Nan  -  Hollie Hughes                                    
ChPB       The singing dolphin  -  Mere Whaanga (Te reo)           
ChPB       The big block of chocolate  -  Janet Slater        
ChPB       The ugly five  -  Julia Donaldson          
Bought with funds from the Literary Festival  (Adult non-fiction)
NF         Drawn out  -  Tom Scott                        
NF       Belonging  -  Simon Schama                               
NF        Emergency response    -  Dave Greenberg         
NF          Let’s eat  -  Nadia Lim                                         
NF          King of spies  -  Harden Blaine             
NF          The saboteur  -  Andrew Gross          
NF           The fire and fury   -  Michael Wolff          
NF          To Siri with love  -  Judith Newman         
NF             Castle of the eagles   -  Mark Felton          
NF          More fool me  -  Stephen Fry                        
NF            Great tales from rural New Zealand   -  Gordon McLauchlan   
NF            Member of the family   -  Dianne Lake               
NF           All the money in the world  -  John Pearson                                      
NF          Red notice   -  Bill Browder                            
NF           Koh i Noor  -  William Dalrymple    

DECEMBER  2017  BOOKS  PURCHASED
 
Made possible by a grant from Network Tasman
F              The people vs. Alex Cross  -  James Patterson
F              Ada  -  Kaz Cooke
F              The rest of their lives  -  Jean-Paul Didierlaurent
F              The floating theatre  -  Martha Conway
F              Betrayal  -  Kate Furnivall
F              In the midst of winter  -  Isabel Allende
F              Two steps forward  -  Graeme Simsion &Anne Buist
F              Pulse  -  Felix Francis
F              Sleep no more  -  P.D.James
F              Mythos  -  Stephen Fry
ChPB     The kiwi go marching one by one (Eng & Te reo) -  Peter Millett
ChPB     Nga wira o te pahi  (Te reo) -  Donovan Bixley
ChPB     Te pamu o koro meketanara (Te reo)  -  Donovan Bixley
ChPB     Ten tiddly, widdly tadpoles  -  Debbie Torbett
ChPB     Moo and Moo and can you guess who?  -  Jane Milton
ChPB     1-2-3  Bird  -  Dave Gunson
ChPB     The scariest thing in the garden  -  Craig Smith
ChPB    Five minutes peace  -  Jill Murphy
ChPB     Big Truck’s road adventure  -  Amelia Marshall
ChPB    Do you want to gallop with me?  -  Sophie Siers
ChPB     This is not a fairy tale  -  Will Mabbitt
 
Bought with a grant from the Lion Foundation
F              The Zanzibar wife  -  Deborah Rodriguiz
F              Dangerous minds  -  Janet Evanovich
F              Southern ruby  -  Belinda Alexander
F              The boat runner  -  Devin Murphy
F              Comimg home to Island House  -  Erica James
F              The tea gardens  -  Fiona McIntosh
F              Silk and song  -  Dana Stabenow
F              The Romanov ransom  -  Clive Cussler
F              Tell tale  -  jeffry Archer
F              Year one  -  Nora Roberts
NF          Oxygen  -  William Trubridge
NF          The great New Zealand robbery  -  Scott Bainbridge
NF          The official New Zealand road code  -  NZ Transport Agency
YA           The book of dust  -  Philip Pullman
ChPB     Boogie Bear  -  David Walliams
 
Bought with Mapua library funds
F               Munich  -  Robert Harris
F              The case of the man who died laughing  - Tarquin Hall
F              Practical magic  -  Alice Hoffman
F              The pearl sister  -  Lucinda Riley
NF           I shall not hate  -  Izeldin Abu
NF          You gotta want it  -  Jake Paul
NF          The colour of water  -  James McBride  (replacement)
YA           One  -  Sarah Crossan
GN         Assassination classroom 5  -  Yusei Matsu
GN         Username: Uprising  -  Joe Sugg
ChF        Itch  -  Simon Mayo
ChF        Letters from the lighthouse  -  Emma Carroll
ChF        Letty’s Christmas (Our Australian girl)  -  Alison Lloyd


NOVEMBER 2017 BOOKS PURCHASED
Bought with a grant from Network Tasman Trust
F Origin - Dan Brown
F Two kinds of truth - Michael Connelly (Harry Bosch)
 F The Rooster Bar - John Grisham
F The last hours - Minette Walters
F Fools and mortals - Bernard Cornwell
F The rules of magic - Alice Hoffman
F Uncommon type - Tom Hanks
F The midnight line - Lee Child (Jack Reacher)
F A long way from home - Peter Carey
F The force - Don Winslow
F The seagull - Ann Cleaves (Vera Stanhope)
NF Driving to Treblinka - Diana Wichtel
YA Turtles all the way down - John Green
YA Moonrise - Sarah Crossan
ChF Magnus Chase and the ship of the dead - Rick Riordan
ChF The getaway (Diary of a wimpy kid ) - Jeff Kinney
ChF Bad Dad - David Walliams
ChNF Sky high (Jean Batten’s story) - David Hill
ChPB Kiwicorn - Kat Merewether
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The death of kings -- Conn Iggulden
F Missing, presumed - Susie Steiner
F The Little Breton Bistro - Nina George
F The faithful spy - Alex Berenson
F Little fires everywhere - Celeste Ng
F Home fire - Kamila Shamsie
F The life to come - Michele de Kretser
F Sydney Bridge upside down - David Ballentyne
NF I am, I am, I am - Maggie O’Farrell
YA Words of radiance(Part 1) Stormlight archive Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson
YA Words of radiance (Part 2) Stormlight archive Book 2 - Brandon Sanderson4
YA Heir of fire (Throne of glass Book 3) - Sarah Maas
YA The revolution of Ivy - Amy Engel
YA The bone sparrow - Zana Frailon
GN Prince of the elves (Amulet 5) - Kazu Kibuishi
ChF A seven letter word - Kim Slater
ChF Fish in a tree - Lynda Mullaly Hunt
ChF Letty on the land (Our Australian girl series) - Alison Llloyd
ChNF Magic tricks with coins, cards and everyday objects - Jake Bamfield​


OCTOBER  2017  BOOKS  PURCHASED
Bought with a grant from the  Rata Foundation
F          Decline and fall on Savage Street  -  Fiona Farrell
F          Force of nature  -  Jane Harper
F          The history of bees  -  Maja Lunde
F          The necessary angel  -  C. K. Stead
NF       The resilient farmer  -  Doug Avery (with Margie Thomson)
NF       Keeping your children safe  -  John Parsons
ChF     The thunderbolt pony  -  Stacy Gregg
ChPB   Scarface claw hold tight  -  Lynley Dodd   
Bought with a grant from Mapua, Ruby Bay& District Community Trust
NF        Kahurangi stories-more tales from North West Nelson  -  Gerald Hindmarsh

Bought with Mapua Community Library funds
F           Troubling love  -  Elena Ferrante
F           Transmigration of bodies  -  Yuri Herrero
F           Cross the line  -  James Patterson
F           History of wolves  -  Emily Fridlund
F           The woman who walked into the sea  - Mark  Douglas –Home
F           Three days and a life  -  Pierre Lemaitre
F           Prince of legend  -  Jack Ludlow
F           Soldier of crusade  -  Jack Ludlow
F           Son of blood  -  Jack Ludlow
F           Secret daughter  -  Shilpi Somaya Gowde
NF        Journey into the whirlwind  -  Eugenia Sememova Ginzberg
NF       Cockpit confidential  -  Patrick Smith
YA       The way of kings (Part 1)  -  Brandon Sanderson
YA        The way of kings (Part 2)  -  Brandon Sanderson
YA        Crown of midnight  (Throne of glass series)-  Sarah J. Maas
YA        The book of Ivy  -  Amy Engel
YA        Warbreaker  -  Brandon Sanderson
GN       Last council (Amulet #4)  -  Kazu Kibuishi
ChF      New kid  -  Tim Green
ChF      Soda pop  -  Barbro Lindgren
ChPB   Grandad’s island  -  Benji Davies
ChPB   The storm whale in winter  -  Benji Davies
PS        It’s a little book  -  Lane Smith (board book)                   
SEPTEMBER  2017  BOOKS  PURCHASED
 
Bought with a grant from the Mapua Ruby Bay Community Trust
NF          Old Tasman Bay  -  J.D.Peart
NF          Beyond the marble mountain  -  J. Halket-Milar
NF          High noon for coaches  -  J. Halket-Millar
NF          Thomas Cawthron and the Cawthrone Institute
NF          Nelson now and then  -  Peter Lukas
NF          Meet you at the church steps  -  Karen Stade
Bought with a grant from the Rata Foundation
F              Y is for yesterday  -  Sue Grafton
F              The break  -  Sarah Keyes
F              The girl who takes an eye for an eye -  David Lagercrantz
F              The golden house  - Salman Rushdie
F              The beguiled  - Thomas Cullinan
F              Apple Tree Yard  -  Louise Doughty
F              The beach cafe  -  Lucy Diamond
F              Two nights  -  Kathy Reichs
F              A legacy of spies  -  John le Carre
F              The sunshine sisters  -  Jane Green
F              Persons unknown  -  Susie Steiner
F              A column of fire  -  Ken Follett
F              Crossing the lines  -  Sulari Gentill
F              I know a secret  -  Tess Gerritsen
F              Freedom at midnight  -  Larry Collins &Dominique Lapierre
NF          What am I supposed to eat  -  Dr Libby Weaver
NF          How to eat better -  James Wong
NF          Mansfield and me  -  Sarah Laing
NF          Painting the sand  -  Kim Hughes
ChF         Penelope the foal fairy  -  Daisy Meadows
ChF        Jack’s holiday stories -  Sally Rippin
ChF        Stargazing for beginners  -  Jenny McLachlan
ChNF    Up the river  -  Gillian Candler
ChPB     The great dog bottom swap  -  Peter Bently
ChPB     What noise comes from a giraffe  -  Craig Maclean
ChPB     I will not wear pink  -  Joyce Dunbar
ChPB     Watch out for the weka  -  Ned Barraud
ChPB    Moo and Moo and the little calf too – Jane Milton
 
Bought with Mapua Community Library funds
F              The field of swords  -  Conn Iggulden
F              The gods of war  -  Conn Iggulden
F              My absolute darling  -  Gabriel Tallent
F              The chocolate tin  -  Fiona McIntosh
F              Quiet until the thaw  -  Alexandra Fuller
F              The malice of waves  -  Mark Douglas-Home
F              The improbability of love  -  Hannah Rothschild
F              My Grandmother sends her regards and apologises  -  Fredrik Backman
F              Close to you  -  Kara Isaac
F              Death message  -  Kate London
NF          Half wild  -  Pip Smith
NF          Irresistable  -  Adam Alter
NF          A dog called Hope  -  Damien Lewis
NF          Road racer  -  Michael Dunlop
YA           History is all you left me  -  Adam Silvera
ChF        The battle of heroes  -  Kate Forsyth
ChF        Our Australian girl: Meet Letty  -  Alison Boyd
ChF        Out Australian girl: Letty and the stranger’s lace  -  Alison Boyd
ChNF     Finding Gobi  -  Dion Leonard
AUGUST 2017 BOOKS PURCHASED

Bought with Mapua Library funds
 
F              Swingtime  -  Zadie Smith
F              My name is Lucy Barton  -  Elizabeth Strout
F              The music shop  -  Rachel Joyce
F              The sea detective  -  Mark Douglas-Home
F              The late show  -  Michael Connelly
NF          The journalist and the murderer  -  Janet Malcolm
NF          A stolen life  -  Jaycee Dugard  (replacement)
NF          The secret diary of Charlotte Gatland  -  Patricia Dennis
NF          Secrets of the ice  -  Veronika Meduna
ChF        The Beast of Blackmore Bog (The impossible quest)  -  Kate Forsyth
ChF        The drowned kingdom (The impossible quest)  -  Kate Forsyth
ChF        Blossom Time – The unicorns of Blossom Wood  -  Catherine Coe
ChNF     Dinosaur hunting  -  Leonie Bennett
ChNF     Goodnight stories for rebel girls  -  Elena Favilli
 
Made possible by a grant from the Rata Foundation
 
F              The last Tudor    Philippa Gregory
F              The spy’s daughter  -  Adam Brookes
F              Precious and Grace  -  Alexander McCall Smith
F              A stranger in the house  -  Shari Lapena
F              A killer harvest  -  Paul Cleave
F              Kill the father  -  Sandrone Dazieri
F              House of spies  -  Daniel Silva
F              The good daughter  -  Karin Slaughter
F              Fletcher of the Bounty  -  Graeme Lay
NFNZ     The cause of death  -  Dr Cynric Temple-Camp
NFNZ     Daughter of Gloriavale  -  Lilia Tarawa
NFNZ     Edmond Hillary: a biography  -  Michael Gill
NFNZ     Beaver  -  Stephen Donald (with Scotty Stevenson)
NFNZ     The New Zealand project  -  Max Harris
YA           Wilder country  -  Mark Smith
ChF        Maybe  -  Morris Gleitzman
ChF        The 91-storey treehouse  -  Andy Griffiths
Chf         The discombobulated life of Summer Rain  -  Julie Lamb
ChPB     That’s not a hippopotamus!  -  Juliette MacIver

JULY 2017 BOOKS PURCHASED

Bought with a grant from Rata Foundation
F Heloise - Mandy Hager
F Seven stones to stand or fall - Diana Gabaldon
F The empty coffin - Gary Moore
F The suicide club - Sarah Quigley
F The trip of a lifetime - Monica McInerney
F Together - Julie Cohen
F Larchfield - Polly Clark
F The Baltimore boys - Joel Dicker
F Come sundown - Nora Roberts
F Fierce kingdom - Gin Phillips
F The boy who saw - Simon Toyne
F Earthly remains - Donna Leon
NF How to have a beer - Alice Galletly
NF My Father’s island - Adam Dudding
ChF Raymie Nightingale - Kate DiCamillo
ChF Evie’s ghost - Helen Peters
ChNF A storm too soon - Michael J.Tougias
ChPB Doggy do’s and don’ts - John Phillips
ChPB Jin’s great escape - Maria Artho

Bought with a grant from the Mapua, Ruby Bay and District Community Trust
NF Rolling stones - Karen Warren
NF Nelson’s first railway and the city bus - Mike Johnston

Bought with Mapua Library funds
F Moonglow - Michael Chabon
F The ministry of utmost happiness - Arundhati Roy
F Lamentation - C.J. Sansom
F The emperor of lies - Steve Sem-Sandberg
F The mothers - Britt Bennett
F Dearly devoted Dexter - Jeff Lindsay
F Keeping faith - Jodi Picoult (replacement)
F Gypsy in amber - Martin Cruz Smith
F Can you hear me? - Elena Vanvello
F Post mortem - Kate London
F The notebook - Nicholas Sparks (replacement)
NF 1963: a slice of bread and jam - Tommy Rhattigan
NF No is not enough - Naomi Klein
NF If this is a man - Primo Levi
YA The killing - Robert Muchamore (replacement)
GN Assassination classroom 3 - Yusei Matui
ChF Believe in magic (The unicorns of Blossom Wood) - Catherine Coe

JUNE 2017 BOOKS PURCHASED

Bought with a grant from the Rata Foundation
F A talent for murder - Andrew Wilson
F The crimson lake - Candice Fox
F Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine - Gail Honeyman
F Lies - T.M.Logan
F Camilo Island - John Grisham
NF The husband hunters - Anne De Courcey
NF Your nuts & bolts - Phil Gifford
NF Nelson/ Tasman mountain bike tracks 2017 - Steve Newport
NF What cancer taught me - Jake Bailey
NF Cutting the curd - Katherine Mowbray
YA Never say die - Anthony Horowitz
ChF Radio boy - Christian O’Connell
ChF The world’s worst children 2 - David Walliams
ChF Tom gates – My school project - Liz Pichon
ChF A different dog - Paul Jennings
ChNF The genius of bugs - Simon Pollard
ChPB We’re all wonders - R.J.Palacio
ChPB Stuck in poo, what to do? - Samantha Laugesen

Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The French promise - Fiona McIntosh
F Head of State - Andrew Marr
F Power down - Ben Coe
F The Loveday trials - Kate Tremayne
F Britt-Marie was here - Fredrik Backman
F Can’t stop falling - Kara Isaac
F Heritage - Judy Nunn
NF A new Earth - Eckhart Tolle
NF The elephant whisperer - Lawence Anthony
NF Gweilo - Martin Booth
NF The penguin lessons - Tom Michel
ChF Stinkbomb & Ketchup Face & the evilness of pizza - John Dougherty
ChF A magical beginning - Catherine Cox
ChPB There’s a pig up my nose - John Dougherty
ChPB The highway rat - Julia Donaldson
ChPB Dinosaur hunting - Lucy Davey
​
Bought with a grant from the Mapua, Ruby Bay & District Community Trust
NF The Heaphy Track - Chris Petyt
NF From rations to riches - Virginia Thornley

MAY 2017 BOOKS PURCHASED

F Charity - Len Deighton
F The underground railroad - Colson Whitehead
F No middle name - Lee Child
F The fix - David Baldacci
F The long drop - Denise Mina
F The stars are fire - Anita Shreve
F Dunstan - Conn Iggulden
F See what I have done - Sarah Schmidt
F The lucky one - Caroline Overington
F Through the lonesome dark - Paddy Richardson
F The thirst - Jo Nesbo
F Into the water - Paula Hawkins
F Best laid plans - Kathy Lette
F Leap of faith - Jenny Pattrick
NF Breaking ranks - James McNeish
NF Woman in the wilderness - Miriam Lancewood
NF Nesting on the Nushagak - Emma Stevens
NF The lady in gold - Anne-Marie O’Connor
NF A hope more powerful than the sea - Melissa Fleming
YAF Love, Stargirl - Jerry Spinelli
YAF The road to winter - Mark Smith
GN Assassination classroom Vol 2 - Yusei Matsui
ChF The wolves of Witchwood - Kate Forsyth
ChF Owls of Blossom Wood: The birthday party - Catherine Coe

APRIL 2017 BOOKS PURCHASED
Bought with Mapua library funds
F Faith - Len Deighton
F Crow Lake - Mary Lawson
F Fields of gold - Fiona McIntosh
F The sun and the wind - Mairi MacKinnon
F Kill shot - Vince Flynn
F The last refuge (a Dewey Andreas novel) - Ben Coes
F The North water - Ian McGuire
F Black water lilies - Michel Bussi
F Five give up the booze - Bruno Vincent
F The bones of grace - Tahmima Anan
F Unwanted - Kristina Chitson
NF Homo deus - Yuval Noah Harari
NF Hillbilly elergy (a memoir) - J.D.Vance
YAF Guardian angel - Robert Muchamore
GN Assassination classroom Vol. 1 - Yusa Matsui
ChF The severed land - Maurice Gee
ChF Escape from Wolfhaven Castle - Kate Forsyth
ChF Double dare you - Meredith Costain
ChF The circus collection - Enid Blyton
ChNF Space! - Ben Morgan (ed)
ChNF Masks - Fiona Gowan
ChPB Hairy Maclary’s rumpus at the vet - Lynley Dodd(replacement)
ChPB A squash and a squeeze - Julia Donaldson (replacement)
ChPB Hairy Maclary from Donaldson’s dairy - Lynley Dodd (replacement)
ChPB Big yellow digger - Julia Jarman
CgPB I want my light on - Tony Ross
ChPB Friendly day - Mij Kelly
ChPB The biggest baddest wolf - Nick Ward
ChPB The hill and the rock - David McKee
ChPB All about piglet - Laura Dollin (retold)
ChPB The hare and the tortoise - Aesop
ChPB Ouch! - Ragnhild Scamell
ChPB The selfish crocodile - Faustin Charles

MARCH 2017 BOOKS PURCHASED
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The Queen’s accomplice (a Maggie Hope mystery) - Susan Elia MacNeal
F The heart’s invisible furies - John Boyne
F Blade of light (an Inspector Montalbano story) - Andrea Camilleri
F The lost swimmer - Ann Turner
F Ru - Kim Thuy
F Olive Kitteridge - Elizabeth Strout
F The girl from Venice - Martin Cruz Smith
F Fates and furies - Lauren Groff
F The earth cries out - Bonnie Etherington
F The march of the foxgloves - Karyn Hay
F Obsession - Elspeth Sandys
F The nowhere man - Gregg Hurwitz
F The wish child - Catherine Chidgey
F The pretty delicious cafe - Danielle Hawkins
NF Goneville - Nick Bollinger
NF The energy guide - Dr Libby Weaver
NF Marrow - Elizabeth Lesser
NF The optician of Lampedusa - Emma- Jane Kirby
NF The last Englishman (the double life of Arthur Ransome) - Roland Chambers
NF Bolshoi confidential (secrets of the Russian ballet) - Simon Morrison
NF Dry ice - Peter Joyce
YAF American monsters (3rd in Demon Road trilogy) - Derek Landy
ChF Nelly and the quest for Captain Peabody - Roland Chambers
ChF Dunger - Joy Cowley (replacement)
ChF The little giraffe - retold by Lesley Sims (First reader)
ChF How elephants lost their wings - retold by Lesley Sims(First reader)
ChF The dragon and the phoenix - retold by Lesley Sims (First reader)
ChF Clever rabbit and the lion - retold by Mairi MacKinnon (First reader)
ChF The ant and the grasshopper - retold by Katie Daynes (First reader)
ChNF Jack and Charlie: boys of the bush - Jack Marcotte
ChPB Here comes Mr Postmouse - Marianne Dubuc

February 2017

​Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The power of the dog - Don Winslow
F Queen of swords - Sara Donati
F Days without end - Sebastian Barry
F The care and management of lies - Jacqueline Winspear
F Maxwell’s Point - M J Trow
F The dying light - Henry Porter
F A man called Ove - Fredrik Backman
F The shadow sister - Lucinda Riley
F The liberation - Kate Furnivall
F Selection day - Aravind Adiga
F Hidden depths - Ann Cleeves
F In the land of the long white cloud - Sarah Lark
NF The smell of summer grass - Adam Nicolson
NF Babylon’s ark - Lawrence Anthony
NF A stolen life - Jaycee Lee Dugard
NF Big magic - Elizabeth Gilbert
NF Walking with James Hogg - Bruce Gilkison
NF Bad-ass librarians of Timbuktu - Joshua Hammer
TF Demon Road - Derek Landy
TF Desolation - Derek Landy
TF The escape - Robert Muchamore
TF The two towers - J R R Tolkien
TF The return of the king - J R R Tolkien
TF Risk - Fleur Ferris
ChF Wonderstruck - Brian Selznick
ChF The haunted mask - R I Stine
ChNF Which New Zealand insect? - Andrew Crowe (replacement)
ChNF Gemstones - Ann O Squire
ChPB A child of books - Oliver Jeffers & Sam Winston

November 2016

Bought with a grant from TDC
F Nutshell - Ian McEwan
F Paris for one - Jojo Moyes
F Holding - Graham Norton
F The whistler - John Grisham
F Night school - Lee Child
F Rather be the devil - Ian Rankin
F The cloud leopard’s daughter - Deborah Challinor
F The Paris librarian - Mark Pryor
F Magpie murders - Anthony Horowitz
NF Lecretia’s choice - Matt Vickers
ChF The midnight gang - David Walliams
ChF The unforgettable What’s His Name
ChF 1916 Dig for victory - David Hair
ChNF Amazing animal journeys - Chris Packham
ChNF New Zealand machines and inventions - Dave Gunson
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The wolves - Alex Berenson
F Three souls - Janie Chang
F The last Roman: Honour - Jack Ludlow
F And then came Paulette - Barbara Constantine
F The vegetarian - Han kang
F The story of the lost child - Elena Ferrante
F Deleted scenes for lovers - Tracey Slaughter
F Unholy war - David Hair
F The Essex serpent - Sarah Perry
F The sellout - Paul Beatty
F The sympathizer - Viet Thanh Nguyen
NF Arthur , the dog who crossed a jungle to find a home
GN Username:Evie - Joe Sugg
TF Throne of glass - Sarah J. Maas
ChF The call (The magnificient 12) - Michael Grant
ChF Soon - Morris Gleitzman
ChF Ricky Ricotta’s mighty robot - Dav Pilkey
ChF Ricky Ricotta’s mighty robot v.the Mecca Monkeys from Mars - Dav Pilkey
ChPB The adventures of Burt: Burt and the big race - Jason Reis

October 2016

​Purchased with a grant from Rata Foundation
F Small great things - Jodi Picoult
F The best of Adam Sharp - Grame Simsion
F The atomic weight of love - Elizabeth J Church
F The Joyce girl - Annabel Abbs
F On the blue train - Kristel Thornell
F Death in Oslo - Anne Holt
F The eye of the sheep - Sofie Laguna
F Tamar - Deborah Challinor (replacement)
F Kitty - Deborah Challinor (replacement)
F White feathers - Deborah Challinor (replacement)
F The wonder - Emma Donoghue
F The trespasser - Tana French
F The good people - Hannah Kent
NF Tasman echo alpha - Guy Clapshaw
NF Declared - Brendon McCullum
NF The radium girls - Kate Moore
ChF Ruby Redfort blink and you die - Lauren Child
ChF Katy’s pony summer - Victoria Eveleigh
ChNF Girl stuff for girls aged 8-12 - Kaz Cooke
ChPB Ranger the Kaimanawa stallion - Kelly Wilson
ChPB Elizabeth, queen of the seas - Lynne Cox
Bought with Mapua Library funds
F The flame bearer - Bernard Cornwell
F Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts (replacement)
F Vengence (The last Roman) - Jack Ludlow
F Ruby - Cynthia Bond
F Scarlet tides - David Hair
F Eileen - Ottessa Moshfegh
NF Gut - Gloria Enders
NF A thousand hills to Heaven - Josh Ruxin
NF In the garden of beasts - Erik Larson
NF Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
GN The cloud searchers (Amulet series) - Kazu Kibuishi
TF The boy in the striped pyjamas - John Boyne (replacement)
ChF The siege of Macindaw - John Flanagan
ChF Big trouble - R A Spratt
PS Peepo! - Janet Ahlberg
PS The very hungry caterpillar - Eric Carle
PS Each peach, pear, plum - Janet Ahlberg
PS Are you my mother? - P D Eastman
PS Elmer’s colours - David McKee
PS Ten little monkeys jumping on the bed - Tina Freeman
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