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Te Wahine i Muri i te
Gigi Levangie Grazer, 2012
298 p.
Mahuru, 2012
Kāore he mea whakakatakata mō te mate, inā koa he mea kāore i te tūmanakohia, he ora ka motuhia ohorere, ka tino poto.
Heoi, pērā i ana pukapuka katoa, ka taea e Gigi Levangie Grazer te whakaoho i a tātou ki te kata nui me te kata pōuri. Ahakoa i roto i te pouri, kua waihangahia e Grazer he toa-kaikōrero e kōrero ana me te reo pōuri engari he tino kata, he whakatoi.
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Te Ārihi kua Whakamōhiotia
Lewis Carroll, 1865; Martin Gardner, 1960
384 p.
Hui-tanguru 2007
Ehara i te mea mā ngā tamariki anake. Kua roa a Alice e noho ana ki te whare kōhungahunga; me whakahoki ia ki te taha o ngā pakeke.
Hei tīmatanga, he tino katakata te pūrākau a Carroll. Ko tōna whakakatakata ngaro, matatau hoki—e ahu mai ana i te arorau, te pāngarau, me te tākaro kupu—karekau e arohia ana e te nuinga o ngā tamariki…tae atu ki ngā pakeke hoki.
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Te Wera o Ākuhata
Andrea Camilleri, 2006 (whakamāoritanga, 2009)
272 p.
August 2011
Ko Ākuhata tēnei, ko Hihiria tēnei, ā, he wera—ā, i roto i tēnei pukapuka, e 24 ngā wā e kaukau ana, e kaukau ana, e ruku ana a Kaitirotiro Salvo Montalbano i te moana. I ētahi wā ko tōna tinana, engari i ētahi wā ko tōna hinengaro pūngāwerewere te mea e hiahia ana kia whakamatao.
Kei te tata mai te kōhuru ki a Montalbano, ā, kei te ngana anō hoki ia ki te aukati i tōna hiahia ki tētahi wahine taitamariki hei tamāhine māna. He nui hei whakaoho i te hiahia o tētahi tāne.
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atu
Amy Bloom, 2008
256 p.
January 2009
Ahakoa te ataahua o te uhi o tēnei pukapuka, he tino reka hoki te āhua o roto. atu Ko te pūrākau tēnei mō Lillian Leyb, he pouaru taitamariki nō Rūhia, he manene hoki, e kawe ana i a tātou ki tētahi haerenga āwhiowhio puta noa i te whenua. I roto i tēnei mahi, ka kitea e Lillian a Amerika me tōna tūranga i roto i tōna whenua whānui.
Ko te tekau tau atu i 1920, ka tae a Lillian ki te Tāone o Niu Ioka mai i Rūhia, i reira ka ngaro tōna whānau me tōna kāinga i tētahi aituā nanakia.
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Te Pāpaka
Mike Lupica, 2010
256 p.
Hui-tanguru, 2012
E hiahia ana a Brian Dudley ki tōna pāpā; ko te whakapakoko o Brian—te kaiwhiu rongonui a Hank Bishop—e hiahia ana ki tana tamaiti ā-roto, te tamaiti i rite ai a Hank ki a ia i mua, te tangata i aroha ki te pēihipora. Koinei te kaupapa o tēnei pūrākau whakamīharo mō tētahi tama, mō tētahi tāne, me tō rāua aroha ki te kēmu.
Ka whiwhi a Brian, tekau mā whā tau te pakeke, i tana moemoeā raumati hei kaitākaro pēhi mō ngā Detroit Tigers. He porangi ia mō te kēmu, ā, e whakaaro ana, e tumanako ana, e inoi ana kia tata atu ia ki tōna matua i tēnei hākinakina, he kaitākaro rīki nui kua ngaro atu i te ao, kua wehe atu i te kāinga mō ake tonu atu.
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I mua i tō tāua tūtakitanga
Lucie Whitehouse, 2014
288 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Hui-tanguru 2014
Tuhinga o mua Gone Girl a I mua i taku haerenga ki te moe, e tātaritatia ana e te pukapuka a Whitehouse tētahi marena harikoa me ngā hua kino. Inaa, ko te pātai e pā ana ki ēnei pukapuka e toru, mehemea rānei ka taea e tātou te mōhio pono ki tētahi atu mea ora—ahakoa ko tētahi e ara ake ana tātou i ia ata.
I te ngaronga o tana tāne, a Mark, i tana waka rererangi ki Rānana, ā, kāore ia i waea mai, ka tīmata a Hannah ki te manukanuka. Ka nui haere tōna manukanuka i te wā i kōrero ai te kaiawhina a Mark me tana hoa pakihi ki a ia kei te whakaaro rāua nā Mark ia, a Hannah, i kawe ki Rōma mō te mutunga wiki. Rōma? Mō te mutunga wiki? He mea hou tēnei ki a Hannah.
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Pupuri
Malcolm Gladwell, 2005
265 p.
Hōngongoi 2008
E ai ki tēnei pukapuka whakahihiri, he mātau ake tātou i tō tātou mōhio. I roto i tana pukapuka tuarua, ko Gladwell (Ko te Tipping Point) e tuhituhi ana mō te wāhanga o ō tātou roro e whakamōhio ana i a tātou ki ngā mea me te kore e mōhio me pēhea tātou e mōhio ai.
E kitea ana ko ō tātou whakaaro ā-kanohi—arā, ko te tere o te hinengaro—he mea pono ake i te wāhanga whakaaro nui o ō tātou roro.
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Ko te Whakapono Pukapuka
Marcus Zusak, 2005
552 p.
Pipiri 2008
He uaua ki te whakapono, engari i whakarōpūtia tēnei e Random House hei mahi taiohi—ā, i ata waihotia e ngā kaitiaki pukapuka ki ngā wāhanga Taiohi. Inaianei kei te nekehia ki roto i ngā Pakiwaitara Pakeke—nā te mea he tokomaha o te hunga 30 neke atu kua aroha ki tēnei pukapuka!
Ko te Whakapono Pukapuka He kōrero tēnei mō tētahi kōtiro e noho ana me tētahi whānau whāngai, mai i te tau 1941 ki te 44, i Molching, Tiamana, he kāinga i waho o Munich, te kāinga o te puni kukū o Dachau.
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Te Diary a Bridget Jones
Helen Fielding, 1998
271 p.
August 2007
He tino "whakamārama" a Bridget Jones, he pānui whakamiharo, he whakaata hou i ngā kōrero a Jane Austen Tuhinga Whakamoemiti. Heoi, ina tae ki tana kiripuaki matua, ka wehe a Helen Fielding i tana tauira tuhituhi—ko Bridget tētahi o ngā toa wahine tino wairangi, tino pōuri hoki o te tuhituhi. Ko Elizabeth Bennett, ehara.
Haunga te reo whakaiti a Bridget i a ia anō, āna mahi kore hua ki te whakapai ake i a ia anō, ōna hoa, tōna whaea, tana mahi, tōna rangatira...ko te tino ngahau o tēnei pukapuka ko te kimi i ōna āhuatanga ōrite ki ngā mahi a Austen.
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Te Hāora Poto o te Whakamiharo: He pukapuka nā Anne Boleyn
Margaret Campbell Barnes, 1949
382 p.
Mahuru 2010
He aha te hakari o ngā mahi a Anne Boleyn i tukuna mai i te tekau tau kua hipa—tīmata mai i tā Philippa Gregory Ko tetahi atu Boleyn Girl i te tau 2001, ā, ka mutu ki a Alison Weir Te Wahine i te Pourewa i te Hakihea 2010. Patohia "ngā pukapuka a Anne Boleyn" ki Amazon ka kite e hia ngā mea ka puta ake i te mata. Kāore e taea te ngata i tō tātou hiahia mō te kuīni kua mate.
Te Hāora Poto o te Whakamiharo i mua atu i tētahi o rātou—i te tau 1949. Kua piki ake tōna rongonui i ēnei rā, me tētahi uhi hou hoki. Me ātaahua katoa tātou i te 61 tau.
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Kāore e taea te tatari kia tae ki te rangi
Fannie Flagg, 2006
375 p.
October 2007
Kāore e taea te kore e aroha ki tēnei pukapuka. He pukapuka mahana, he pukapuka katakata, ā, i ētahi wā he tino whakakatakata. Ahakoa ehara i te "pūrākau pāpori" i roto i te tikanga tuhituhi tūturu, he tata tonu ki tā mātou pukapuka "Lighter Touch".
Ka whakahokia e Flagg āna kaipānui ki Elmwood Springs, he hapori iti piripono i Missouri, e manukanuka ana, e oma ana, e whakaaroaro ana ngā kainoho ina tata mate tetahi o rātou... kua mate rānei... kei waenganui rānei i a rātou.
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I whiriwhiria e te Hōiho
Susan Richards, 2006
248 p.
March 2008
Nā taku tuahine, nā Janet, he tangata e matenui ana ki ngā hōiho, tēnei pukapuka i homai ki ahau. Kāore māua i kaha ki te ātete i te ataahua o te mata i runga i te uhi. Ahakoa he kōrero wairangi ngā tuhinga i roto. Engari ehara. Kei roto he kōrero ataahua mō te whakaoranga mō te hōiho me te tangata. Hopukia he pepa tauera.
Ka whakaora a Richards, he wahine eke hōiho mātau, i tētahi hōiho reihi e matekai ana. I te kitenga tuatahi i te hōiho uha, ka miharo ia: "Kāore anō kia pāngia ahau e tētahi hōiho pēnei te mate."
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Te Tāone o te Mārama Ataahua
Bo Caldwell, 2010
304 p.
Hōngongoi 2011
"Ina wehe atu koe i tētahi wāhi e arohaina ana e koe, ka waiho e koe tētahi wāhanga o tō ngākau." E hopu ana te whakataukī Hainamana o te pukapuka i ōku kare ā-roto i te wā i kati ai ahau i ōna uhi—kua waiho e ahau tētahi wāhanga o tōku ngākau ki roto i ōna whārangi.
He ahua whakakatakata rawa atu ahakoa tērā—engari kāore he tangata i miharo ake i ahau mō te kaha o te kukume a tēnei pukapuka i ōku ngākau e hoha ana i ētahi wā.
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Te Tae o te Wai: He Whakamoemiti mō te Tāne Mangu
ki tōna Whaea Mā
James McBride 1996
362 p.
Whiringa 2007
Mō ngā tau maha, i pōhēhē a James McBride, ā, i riri paku hoki ki tōna whaea. He rerekē ia.
He whaea ia nō ngā tamariki Āwherika-Amerika tekau mā rua, i eke pahikara ia, i kōrero Yiddish, ā, e ai ki tāna, he "kiri mā." I karo ia i tētahi pātai mō tōna papamuri ki te "Nā te Atua ahau i hanga." Ko te mea pono, he tino rerekē rawa atu ia i tā McBride i whakaaro ai.
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Coral Glynn
Pita Cameron, 2012
224 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Oketopa, 2012
He rite tonu te whakatakotoranga ki tā Daphne du Maurier RipekaHe wahine rangatahi whakama, kāore anō kia whakamatautauria, ka tau ki tētahi whare rangatira Ingarihi haukū, me tētahi rangatira ātaahua engari pōuri, me tētahi kaitiaki whare nanakia.
Heoi, e whai ana a Peter Cameron i tētahi mea nui atu i te kōrero ngaro gothic—e pā ana tana mea ngaro ki ngā mahi uaua o te wairua. I roto i te reo ngāwari, huatau, te āhua nei e pātai ana a Cameron me pēhea tātou e mōhio ai ki a tātou anō, mēnā ka taea e tātou, me pēhea hoki tātou e aroha ai tetahi ki tetahi, mēnā ka aroha tātou.
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Te Rongoā mō te Oranga Hou
Lisa Tucker, 2008
369 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lunduist
Hōngongoi 2009
He aha tena He pai te tiaki i te whare me kōrero koe mō tēnei pukapuka? Āe—he "whakamārama kare ā-roto": he kīanga kua whakarāpopototia e whakarapopoto ana i te Ko te CureEngari e pai ana ahau ki tēnei pukapuka—he pukapuka māmā, he pukapuka hauhautanga, he nui hoki te pānga (āe, he kōrero tawhito anō).
He hoa aroha a Matthew rāua ko Amelia i mua, engari inaianei kua noho hei hoa whakataetae. E pakanga ana rāua mō ngā tikanga matatika a te kamupene—ko Matthew hei kaiwhakahaere rongoā taumata teitei, ko Amelia hei tohunga tikanga matatika hauora motuhake.
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Ko te Take Whakamatau a Benjamin Pene
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1922
64 p.
Hakihea 2010
Ka hurihia e tēnei pakiwaitara poto te pere o te wā. He mea whakakatakata, he mea pouri hoki, ka aro atu ki ngā whakapehapeha rangatira, tētahi o ngā whāinga tino pai a Fitzgerald. He pakiwaitara whai kiko. (Ko te kiriata a Brad Pitt me tōna pono katoa? Kāore i te tata. He iti noa ngā āhuatanga ōrite o te kiriata me te pakiwaitara.)
Ka tīmata te kōrero i te mea e tatari ana tētahi tokorua taitamariki o te hapori ki te whānautanga o tā rāua tamaiti tuatahi. Heoi, i te taenga atu ki te hōhipera, ka tūtaki a Mr. Button ki tētahi "matakite whakamataku"—ehara i te pēpi e ngunguru ana engari he mea whai pahau e kuhu ana ki roto i tana moenga. Kei reira ia e noho ana, e tono ana i te kai, i te kākahu, i te tūru ruru me te tokotoko. Ko te tamaiti hou a Roger, a Button, he tāne pakeke, e whitu tekau tau te pakeke.
Pānuihia atu: Te Take Whakamīharo o Benjamin Button (Arotake)
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Ko te aitua Heke a te kur Dog i te waa-po
Māka Haddon, 2003
240 p.
April 2007
He aha te āhua o te ao i roto i te hinengaro o tētahi tamaiti autō? Koinei te pātai e tūhuratia ana e Mark Haddon i roto i tēnei pukapuka whakakatakata, he pukapuka ngāwari hoki te pānui mō tētahi tamaiti Ingarihi autō.
I te whārangi 1 ka kitea e Christopher Boone (15) te kurī a tōna hoa noho i werohia ki te marau māra. I roto i ngā whārangi 119 e whai ake nei, ka ngana ia ki te whakaoti i te mea ngaro o tōna kōhurutanga. I te whārangi 120, ka kitea e ia te whakautu; 101 whārangi i muri mai, ka mutu te pukapuka. E 45 ngā tuhi, 17 ngā tūtohi me ngā kauwhata, 12 ngā whārite, 16 ngā rārangi, me te 1 whakaahua. Ā, kāore i te tatauhia te tāpiritanga whārangi 3-3/4. E 2:57:45 hāora te roa o taku whakaoti i te pukapuka.
Pānuihia atu: He Aituā Whakamiharo o te Kurī i te Pō (Arotake)
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Daisy Miller
Henare Hēmi, 1878
80 p.
Mahuru 2009
He pukapuka pakiwaitara, ā, koinei pea te mea tino ngāwari ki te pānui i roto i ngā mahi a James, Daisy Miller i rongonui tonu te kaituhi... me te iti o te tautohetohe. I whakapaehia ko tana toa wahine he "whakapouri i te ao kōtiro o Amerika."
Ko Daisy te tauira o te wahine toa o James—he wahine Amerikana hou i te whenua Pākehā, e whakahē ana i ngā tikanga pāpori tino pakari, hei painga mōna ake. Nō roto ia i te akomanga o ngā Amerikana whai rawa, kua "whakaahuahia ki te Pākehā" mō te roa o te noho ki Ūropi. Kāore rātou e pupuri ana i ngā kaupapa manapori, e karo ana i te hapori tuwhera, ōrite, e pai ana ki te hapori tino hierarki. Ko tā rātou ture e tohe ana kia mōhio te tangata ki tōna tūranga me te whanonga i runga i tēnā.
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Ka tae te mate ki a Pemberley
PD James, 2011
304 p.
Maehe, 2012
I roto i tana mahi hou, ka whakamahia e PD James, te tohunga nui o ngā mea ngaro kohuru, ōna pūkenga hei mahi mā Jane Austen. Ko te mutunga mai he pukapuka pakiwaitara o mua, he pukapuka aroha, he pukapuka hara, me te whakaari i roto i te rūma whakawā.
Ko te pukapuka, e ono tau te roa o te marena o Bennet rāua ko Darcy, ka tīmata me te whakarāpopototanga o ngā kaupapa mai i Tuhinga WhakamoemitiI a ia e hanga anō ana i aua kaupapa, ka whiriwhiria e James tētahi tirohanga whakahihi—tērā i ngā hoa noho e kōrero pōhewa ana, e whakapono ana kua roa a Elizabeth e hiahia ana ki a Darcy, inā koa i tana kitenga i ngā whenua ataahua o Pemberley.
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Te Matenga o ngā Pī*
Lisa O'Donnell, 2012
320 p.
January, 2013
I whakanuia i Peretānia, ā, ināianei kei te whiwhi arotake whakamiharo i te US, Te Matenga o ngā Pī he pukapuka poto e whakahihiri ana i te ngākau. Ahakoa he kaha te kōrero, ā, he ātaahua hoki ngā kiripuaki, kia mōhio mai: he nui rawa pea tēnei mō ētahi. He pōuri...he pōrearea rānei...he pōrearea rānei, Te Matenga o ngā Pī ehara hoki i te mea mo te katoa.
Kei Glasgow, Scotland te pūrākau, ā, e kōrerotia ana mā roto i ngā reo whakawhitiwhiti: e rua ngā tuahine me tō rāua hoa noho, a Lennie. Ko ngā kōtiro, 12 me te 15 tau te pakeke, kei a rāua anake, "ngaro" ō rāua mātua. Heoi, e mōhio ana ngā kaipānui mai i te tīmatanga ki te wāhi tika kei reira rātou. Me ngā kōtiro anō hoki.
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Delancey: He Tāne, he Wahine, he Wharekai, he Marena
Molly Wizenberg, 2014
256 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Mahuru 2014
He wahine tino pūkenga a Molly Wizenberg: he kaituhi kai angitu, he kaituhi pukapuka kua whakaputaina. Heoi, anei ia i te kotahi karaka e tangi ana ki roto i ngā huamata me te horoi i te papa. Kua tino ngenge rawa ia.
Ko tōna raruraru ko ia te rangatira tahi o tētahi wharekai—he wharekai kāore ia e pai ki a ia, kāore hoki e hiahia ki a ia. Ko tētahi atu raruraru ko te angitu o te wharekai e hono tata ana ki te angitu o tana marena—ko tana tāne te rangatira tahi. Koinei te pukapuka whakamaharatanga a Molly, ā, he mea whakamīharo.
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Dewey: Te Ngeru o te Tāone Iti i Pā ki te Ao
Vicki Myron rāua ko Bret Witter, 2008
271 p.
March 2009
Tērā pea nā te kanohi i runga i te uhi i tino aroha ai te tini ki tēnei pukapuka, engari tera pea ko te kōrero anō hoki. Me pēhea e kore ai e taea te kore e aroha ki tētahi mea iti, korekore e taea te tiaki i a ia anō i tukuna iho i roto i tētahi o ngā pō makariri rawa atu o te tau?
Pērā i te nuinga o ngā mōkai, he rerekē te mahi a Dewey i roto i te oranga o ōna rangatira maha—ngā kaimahi whare pukapuka me ngā kaitautoko—ā, i te mutunga ka rongonui ia, ā, ka puta ia i roto i ngā pāpāho tā me ngā pāpāho puta noa i te ao. Ka taraiwa te tangata i ngā maero puta noa i te US kia whai wāhi ai ki te tūtaki ki a ia. Mā te pānui i tana kōrero, he māmā noa te mārama he aha.
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Manu Moata: He Whakamaharatanga mō te Reti Wawe
Rodney Rothman, 2005
256 p.
October 2006
Kua tuhia e Funnyman Rothman tētahi pukapuka whakakatakata. Ā, pērā i ngā kōrero whakakatakata pai katoa, kei roto i tēnei pukapuka he nui atu i te pūtake o te pono pāpori.
Ko Rothman, he kaituhi katakata o mua mō ngā mea e rua Rāhoroi Ora Ora ā, e 28 tau te pakeke o David Letterman, ā, kua ngenge rawa. Nā, he aha atu anō hei mahi i tua atu i te haere ki tētahi hapori reti o Florida?
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Kai, Tata, Aroha
Irihāpeti Kiritā, 2006
338 p.
Pipiri 2007
He pono e whakaaetia whānuitia ana, ko te wahine takakau e ngākau maru ana me kore e kai.—Hune Austin
Ka haria e Elizabeth Gilbert taua whakataukī rongonui ki tētahi taumata tino pai i roto i tana pukapuka atamai, ātaahua hoki, ā, ka anga atu ia ki Itari, ki reira kai ai i te rimurapa, te gelato, te calamari, te rāpeti kohuatia, te pītiti haiciniti pīkara, me te piza tino pai rawa atu o te ao mō ngā marama e whā. I roto i tēnei mahi, ka piki ake tōna taumaha ki te 15 pauna, ā, me arohaina e te nuinga o te hunga neke atu i te 30 tau te pakeke.
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Ko Etta rāua ko Otto, ko Russell rāua ko James
Ema Hooper, 2015
320 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Maehe, 2015
He katakata, he pārekareka, he aroha hoki ngā mea e puta ake ana i te hinengaro ina whakaahuahia te pukapuka tuatahi a Emma Hooper. Kua homai e Hooper he kōrero i ahu mai i te ao tūturu me te pakiwaitara i konatunatua ki te whakaaro auaha—ā, he pūkenga tana whakakotahi i ngā mea e rua hei hanga i tētahi kōrero aroha.
Ka tīmata te kōrero i tētahi ata ka kitea e Otto tētahi reta mai i a Etta i runga i te tēpu o te kīhini e kī ana kia kaua e manukanuka engari kua whakatau ia (i te 83 o ōna tau) ki te hikoi puta noa i Kanata ki te moana. Kāore anō ia kia kite i tēnei mea i mua, ā, he mea tēnei me mahi e ia. Nō reira ka tīmata tētahi haerenga o te tūhura i a ia anō, e toru ngā mea pono: mō Etta, Otto, me Russell, he hoa, he hoa noho tata hoki. Ā, kei reira a James, te hoa haere o Etta—he koiota e kōrero ana, e waiata ana.
Pānuihia atu: Etta rāua ko Otto, ko Russell rāua ko James (Arotake)
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Ex Libris: Ngā Whakaae a te Kaipānui Noa
Anne Fadiman, 1998
162 p.
kia 2009
He tini ngā mea papai kua tākaihia ki roto i tētahi kete iti nei—he pukapuka he rite te rahi ki te kāri taupū nui, ā, he hawhe inihi noa te matotoru.
He tino tangata pānui pukapuka a Anne Fadiman. Ahakoa te nuinga e kī ana he pai ki a mātou ngā pukapuka, he tino pai ki a Fadiman. Tērā pea he nui ake tōna mōhiotanga mōna. Ka hopukina koe e te Wairua, ka hinga koe (1997), i konei ka tangohia e Fadiman tētahi huarahi māmā ake, ā, i roto i ngā tuhinga poto e 18, ka kōrero ia mō te āhua o ngā pukapuka, ō rātou ihirangi me te āhua tinana, i hanga ai tōna ao.
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Ngā Kōtiro Gatsby a F. Scott Fitzgerald
F. Scott Fitzgerald, 1920-22
300 p.
Akuhata, 2013
i whakaputaina i roto i Ko Te Takahanga ahiahi Hatarei mai i te tau 1920 ki te 22, kua kohia ēnei kōrero e waru nā Fitzgerald ki roto i tētahi pukapuka hou. He mea tāpiri atu ko ngā whakaahua taketake mai i Ko te Post e haere tahi ana me ia pūrākau—he mea whakamiharo.
I tuhia ki te whakakatakata me te whakatoi a Fitzgerald, ko ngā kōrero, pērā i āna pukapuka, e aro ana ki ngā rangatira o Amerika. I ngā karapu whenua, i ngā whare whānui me ngā waka tere, ka whaia e ngā wāhine rangatahi ataahua me ngā tāne rangatahi Ivy-Leagued tetahi i tetahi me te hiahia nui. He mākete marena hei whakama i a Jane Austen.
Pānuihia atu: Ngā Kōtiro Gatsby a F. Scott Fitzgerald (Arotake)
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Matuamucker
Greg Olear, 2011
320 p.
Whiringa 2011
He tino kata te pukapuka a Olear—tīmata mai i te taitara i te uhi o mua: Kāore e taea e au te maumahara ki te kata pinepine, mai i tētahi paraka ki tētahi, pērā i taku i pānui ai. Matuamucker.
Heoi anō, he pukapuka whakakatakata, he pukapuka whakakorikori hoki i te wā kotahi—ā, he tino tika anō hoki te kōrero whakatoi pāpori.
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Tuhinga o mua
Hoani Kāriki, 2012
336 p.
Mei, 2012
He pukapuka mō te hunga taiohi tēnei, pērā i Ko te Whakapono Pukapuka i mua atu, kua heke ki te mākete pakeke. Ahakoa he pūrākau aroha taiohi, he tino ataahua te whakaaturanga o ngā taiohi e pāngia ana e te raruraru, ā, he mea whakamīharo ki ngā pakeke.
I roto i tēnei pukapuka, he rerekē te tikanga o "te hunga taiohi e raru ana" i tōna tikanga. Ka tōia e Hazel, te kaikorero 16-tau te pakeke, tētahi mīhini hāora kawe i muri i a ia ki ngā wāhi katoa e haere ana ia. Ko Augustus, tana hoa tāne, he kaitākaro poitūkohu o mua, he waewae hangai tōna, ā, ko tā rāua hoa, ko Issac, i ngaro tētahi kanohi. Koinei te āhua pōuri mō ngā taiohi tokotoru e whawhai ana ki te mate pukupuku.
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Ngā Makutu Māra
Hera Addison Allen, 2007
304 p.
Hui-tanguru 2008
He pukapuka reka tēnei—he angiangi rawa, he mea e taea te matapae. Engari ki te mea kua ngenge koe i te aro atu ki ngā mahi matotoru, pōuriuri, koinei pea te rongoā e hiahiatia ana e koe.
Ngā Makutu Māra He whakataki ngāwari ki te ao makutu tūturu. He māra huna tā Claire Waverly e whakatipu ana i ngā putiputi me ngā otaota hei mahi kai māna. Ko te tikanga, pērā i ngā mea ngaro katoa, e mōhio ana te katoa o te tāone ki te māra—he mea rongonui—ahakoa he tokoiti noa iho kua takahi ki roto.
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Kireara
Marilyn Robinson, 2004
247 p.
October 2008
He taonga nui tēnei pukapuka. Ahakoa i ahu mai i ngā karaipiture o te Paipera, he whakamārama mō ngā whakapono katoa. E pā ana ki te whakaritenga kia ora ai tātou ki ngā wāhanga pai rawa atu o tātou anō—me te manaakitanga, te wehi me te mea ngaro o te oranga katoa. He nui ngā mea kua whakakīia ki roto i tētahi pukapuka iti noa iho.
I te tīmatanga o te pukapuka, ka riro i a Reverend John Ames, 76 tau te pakeke, te kawenga ki te tuhituhi i ētahi reta me te tumanako ka mate ia—a mua tata atu, e whakapono ana ia, kaua a muri ake nei—ka whiwhi tana tama nohinohi i tētahi tuhinga whaiaro mō tōna matua me te whakapono i ārahi i tōna oranga me tana mahi.
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Te Pakanga o te Ao ki a Morris
Steve Iharaira, 2014
304 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
January, 2015
Nā wai i mōhio ka pērā te kata a ngā Mema Paremata o Amerika? He mea āta whakaaro. He tino kata rātou ina whakaputa ana rātou i ngā whakapuakitanga kaupapa here, i ngā whakapāha whakarihariha rānei—engari ehara i te mea hei kata mā tātou.
Engari kua tuhia e te Mema Pāremata a Steve Israel o Long Island tētahi kōrero whakatoi e kata ai tātou mai i te whārangi tuatahi—he mea āta whakaaro. Ko tana toa a Morris Feldstein he momo Walter Mitty pōuri, kua pau tōna oranga katoa ki te takaro haumaru—i roto i tana mahi, i tana marena, i ngā mea katoa—nā te mea he mate pāwera nui tōna ki te raruraru.
Nā, koinei te kōrero i muri i tēnei whakataukī o te Pakanga ki te Whakamataku. Ko wai atu i te tangata wairangi pērā i a Morris ka mau ki te horapa nui o te paranoia whai muri i te 9/11?
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Tino pouri
Lolly Winston, 2004
342 p.
April 2009
He aha ahau ka whakanoho ai i te kōrero mō tētahi wahine taitamariki e tohe ana ki te aro atu ki te matenga o tana tāne ki raro i te taitara "He Pā Māmā?" Ahakoa e whai ana i ngā wāhanga o te pouri, he reka, he pukuhohe hoki te mahi a tēnei pukapuka.
He tangata whakakatakata, he tangata whakaiti i a ia anō, he tangata mānumanu hoki, ka kata tātou i a Sophie Stanton e tōia ana ia i roto i te hōhonutanga, ka tīmata ki te hanga anō i tōna ao. Anei ia e haere ana ki tētahi wānanga tohutohu rōpū mō ngā morehu e pouri ana:
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Ngā Hōiho Pakaru
Jeannette Walls, 2009
288 p.
Hui-tanguru 2010
Kāore e taea te kore e pānui i ngā pukapuka a Jeannette Walls Te Whare Karaihe ā, kaua e miharo "nō hea te whenua i ahu mai ai tōna whaea?" (Ehara pea i te whenua, engari...nō hea?) I tīmata a Walls i tēnei pukapuka, ko tana tuarua, mā te tuhituhi mō tōna whaea, engari i mutu ake ko te arotahi ki te whaea o tōna whaea.
He whakatau tino harikoa tēnei. I tipu ake a Lily Casey Smith i te tīmatanga o te rautau 20 o Texas, he tangata taketake nō Amerika—he mātau, he toa, ā, kāore e mataku i ngā arai ka whakararu i te hunga pai rawa atu o tātou.
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Ko Harry Potter me te kohatu makutu
RK Rowling, 1997
309 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
January, 2014
Āue, e Harry iti. E moe ana ia i roto i te kāpata i raro i ngā arawhata, e tukinotia ana ia e tōna whanaunga, e whakahaweatia ana ia e tōna whaea kēkē me tōna matua kēkē, ā, ko te taonga tino maumahara i kitea e te ao he pai ki te hoatu ki a ia he takirua tōkena tawhito me te whakairi rakau. Engari kua tata te huri o tōna ao.
He tangata rongonui a Harry, he tino rongonui ia—i tētahi atu ao o te ao—ā, ko te whakahua noa i tōna ingoa ka puta te oho me te wehi. Aue, e Harry! Ā, tae noa ki te waenganui pō i te ahiahi o tōna huritau 11, kāore te tamaiti iti i te mōhio ki tētahi mea.
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Hotera kei te kokonga o te kawa me te reka
Jamie Ford
290 p.
August 2009
Tae noa ki ngā tau tōmua o te Pakanga Tuarua o te Ao, e rua ngā hapori Āhia-Amerika i Seattle, Washington—ko Hapanihi me Haina. Ā, e kore rawa rāua e tūtaki; engari i roto i tēnei pukapuka ka tūtaki rāua.
I te wā tuatahi i tūtaki ai tātou ki a ia i te tau 1986, he tangata mokemoke a Henry Lee—he wahine Hainamana-Amerika mokemoke kua tata nei te pouaru. I te kitenga o tētahi hōtēra tawhito i tētahi puranga taonga Hapanihi-Amerika, i rongoatia mai i te pakanga, e tino mōhio ana a Henry kei reira tētahi wāhanga o tōna hītori.
Pānuihia atu: Hōtera i te Kokonga o te Kawa me te Reka (Arotake)
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Te Karapu Pukapuka a Jane Austen
Karen Joy Fowler
288 p.
kia 2008
Huringa o ngā mahere. I mahi ahau i tētahi atu kaupapa mō tēnei marama, tētahi atu kaupapa nui, ā...um, hohonu. Engari kātahi ka taea e au te pānui i te pukapuka a Fowler (kua oti i ahau i te haora kua pahure) ā, ka whakatau ahau me kōrero mōna.
Ko tētahi o ngā motika matua o Te Karapu Pukapuka a Jane Austen ko te harikoa—ā, ka mōhio ahau, ko te harikoa, hei kaupapa pai, he mea hōhonu i tōna ake ara.
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Te patu i a Kennedy: Te Whakamutunga o Camelot
Bill O'Reilly rāua ko Martin Dugard, 2012
336 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Oketopa, 2013
Koinei pea te pukapuka ārahi tino pai mō te hunga taitamariki rawa kāore anō kia ora i te kōhurutanga o JFK, kua taka rānei ki raro i te makutu o te wairua o Kennedy. He mea whakamīharo tonu te mea kei te miharo tonu tō tātou whenua—50 tau i muri mai—ki te tangata me tōna taonga tuku iho.
Heoi anō, he mea whakamīharo ake ko te tuhi a tētahi kaikōrero whai āhua matatika pērā i a Bill O'Reilly i tētahi kōrero whakahirahira mō Kennedy, he mema mō te Rōpū Manapori—e whakaae ana ia he mea whakamīharo ki a ia.
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Te Reo Puawai
Vanessa Diffenbaugh
336 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
January 2012
Ka tūtaki tuatahi tātou ki a Victoria Jones i tana oho ake i tōna rā whānau 18, ā, ka kitea e ia he rarangi mati kei raro i tōna moenga e mura ana. Ki te whakaaro tātou he mea rerekē, he tika tā tātou.
Kāore he mea i te noho noa i roto i te ao o Wikitōria: he pēpi hou kua whakarērea i whakawhitia mai i te mātua whāngai ki te mātua whāngai, ā, i te mutunga ka tau ia ki tētahi kāinga mō ngā kōtiro e raruraru ana i te hinengaro. He ao kino te ao, ā, i tēnei rā ka tukuna a Wikitōria ki roto i ōna ringa kore e manakohia. I tēnei rā kua 18 ōna tau, ā, ko ia anake.
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Te Pō Whakamutunga i te Kōura
Stewart O'Nan, 2007
146 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
October 2010
Kāore he mea e tupu ana i roto i tēnei pukapuka, kāore rawa he mea - engari he mea e kore e taea te whakatakoto. Kāore au e mōhio me pēhea te whakaoti a Stewart O'Nan i tēnei, engari e tino mahi ana ia.
Ka whai tātou i a Manny DeLeon i roto i te rā kotahi hei kaiwhakahaere mō tētahi Rōpara Whero. Kāore te wāhi i tutuki i ana hiahia i ngā rā tata nei, ā, kua whakatau ngā rangatira umanga a Manny ki te whakamutu. Ko te pō nei te pō whakamutunga. Koinei te kaupapa matua—engari he pānui ataahua! He himene ki tētahi tangata pai, rangatira hoki.
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LEL
Caroline Bock, 2011
224 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Hakihea, 2011
He tikanga rua kei te ngako o te taitara o tēnei pukapuka—"te teka" hei teka, me te "TEKA" hei huarahi tere o Long Island Expressway, he wāhanga nui o te huarahi tere e rere ana i te roanga o Long Island o New York.
I roto i te ao pakiwaitara a Caroline Bock, ko te KŌRERO te rārangi hapa, e wehewehe ana i te ahurea Anglo mai i te ahurea Hispanic—me te pono mai i te teka. Kei te taha o te KŌRERO koe e whakawhirinaki ana ki te kōrero.
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Te Oranga me ngā Wā o te Tamaiti Āwhata
Bill Bryson, 2006
288 p.
Whiringa 2008
Ko Bill Bryson tēnei, nō reira he mea whakakatakata. Ā, he tino mīharo. Engari he whakamahara ataahua anō hoki ki ngā tau 1950, arā, ngā tau marino i muri i te pōuri me te pakanga, i te wā e horapa haere ana te rawaka i waenga i te hunga waenga e tipu haere ana. He reka te ora mō te tini.
He oranga tēnei i kōrero rotarota ai ngā pakeke mō ngā pouaka whakamātao hou, kāore he roimata mō te pouaka tio tawhito; i reira hoki ngā tamariki e tito ana i ā rātou ake tākaro, i waho; me te wā e taea ai e te tangata, tae atu ki ngā tamariki, te hikoi ki te tāone.
Pānuihia atu: Te Oranga me ngā Wā o te Tamaiti Thunderbolt (Arotake)
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Te Arewhana a te Makutu
Kate DiCamillo, 2009
208 p.
March 2010
Ki te kore koe e aroha ki tēnei pukapuka iti, ka ohorere ahau. He pukapuka tēnei mō ngā tamariki, he pukapuka mō ngā reanga katoa—he pakiwaitara waiata mō te āheinga o te pai i roto i te ao pōuri. He mea whakamiharo, he ātaahua, he tino whakahihiri, ahakoa te pakeke.
E whakaatu ana te tohunga makutu i ana mahi makutu i tētahi arewhana, ka pakaru i te tuanui o te whare tapere ka tau ki runga i ngā uma o tētahi wahine rangatira. He aituā. Heoi, i mua tata atu, i whiwhi tētahi tamaiti i tētahi karere ngaro e kī ana he haina māna ia e ārahi ki tōna tuahine ngaro.
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He Tangata Ko Ove
Fredrik Backman, 2012 (Engl., 2014)
352 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
August 2014
He tangata whakahē tangata a Ove, 59 tau te pakeke. He pukuriri, he whakahihi, ā, he uaua ki te pai ki a ia. Engari ka pānui tonu mātou i ngā pukapuka nā te mea ka kata tonu mātou nā Fredrik Bachman—ā, nā te mea he iti te pono o ngā kōrero a Ove...me te iti o te whakahīhī o ia tangata o mātou.
Kua mutu te oranga o Ove—ko tāna anake e hiahia ana ko te whakamutu i tana mahi. Me pēhea pakeke Tērā pea tēnei? He tino uaua, te āhua nei, inā koa mēnā kei te karapotia koe e ngā hoa noho e whakararuraru ana i a koe i ngā wā tino kore e tika ana, pērā i te wā e ngana ana koe ki te tārona i a koe anō.
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Ko Marley me au
Hoani Grogan, 2005
305 p.
January 2007
I waea mai taku hoa a Nan ki te kī mai kei te hoatu e ia he kape o tēnei pukapuka ki te katoa o tōna whānau—he tino mihi nui, nā te mea ehara ia i te tangata aroha kurī. Inaa, kāore ia e pai ki te hunga e aroha ana ki ngā kurī.
Nō reira, i tino hiahia ahau ki te mōhio, inā koa nā te mea he tino pūkenga tuhituhi a Nan, e tautoko ana i ngā pukapuka i mua noa atu i te taenga mai o ngā kairīti. Nō reira, tera pea i mōhio ia ki tētahi mea.
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Tērā pea i tēnei wā
Jennifer Crusie, 2010
352 p.
kia 2011
He nui ngā kaiwhaiwhai a Jennifer Crusie mō tana putanga hauhautanga, whakakatakata hoki o te pukapuka aroha—ā, kāore tana pukapuka hou i rerekē.
In Tērā pea i tēnei wā, e whakamahi ana ia i te pūrākau gothic whakamataku a Henry James, Te Huringa o te Tiwiri (tirohia i raro), hei tīmatanga māna. Ko te mutunga iho he pūrākau wairua hou ngahau—me te tira kiripuaki me ngā tamariki aroha e rua.
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Te Nekehanga o te Moana
Janna Cawrse Esarey, 2009
336 p.
Hakihea 2009
I te rerenga tuatahi tonu, ka karanga ia i a ia he tangata wairangi: ko ia te kāpene o te poti...me tana tāne anō hoki. Heoi, i te rerenga tuatoru, kei te rongo koe i ngā mamae tuatahi o te aroha (he tangata tunu kai tēnei; me kōrero atu anō ahau?); i te upoko tuatoru, kua tino mau koe. He toa, he tangata whakahihiri hoki a Graeme, te tāne-kāpene.
Engari koinei te kōrero a Janna—nō reira, e whakaaro ana koe, he aha te hē o ia? Koinei te kaupapa tūturu o tēnei pukapuka whakamaharatanga haerenga ataahua, whakakatakata hoki.
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Te Kura mō ngā Kurī i Maunga Me ētahi atu whai wāhitanga tuarua
Ellen Cooney, 2014
304 p.
Arotake Pukapuka nā Molly Lundquist
Oketopa, 2014
Kua oti kē tēnei te mahi i mua—he maha ngā wā, ā, e mōhio ana tātou ki te putanga o tēnei pukapuka mai i te tīmatanga. Engari kāore he aha nā te mea he tino harikoa te kōrero a Ellen Cooney mō ngā kurī me ngā tāngata—he kōrero e whakaora ana i tētahi i te oranga o tētahi.
Kotahi te wāhi e tū ai te mahi: he piringa maunga tū motuhake, e mōhiotia ana ko te Wāhi Tapu, e manaaki ana i ngā kurī i whakaorangia mai i ngā āhuatanga kino. Kua whara rātou, kāore e tika ana kia whāngaihia, ā, i te mutunga o tā rātou haerenga ki te whakamate i a rātou anō, ka tukuna he whai wāhitanga tuarua ki ngā kurī mō te whakaoranga—me te ora.
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Ngā Pūrākau a Ms. Hempel
Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, 2008
208 p.
October 2009
Aue, te mate o Whaea Hempel. Kāore ia e tino whakaaro ana ki ōna pūkenga hei kaiako...kāore hoki ia e tino whakaaro ana ki tana mahi. Engari, he rerekē te mōhiotanga o tātou, o ngā kaipānui.
Ko te tohu tuatahi, e aroha ana a Whaea Hempel ki āna ākonga—e kite ana i a rātou, i roto i ō rātou ngākau, he mea ataahua. He mihi nui ki a ia, i taea e ia te kukume i taua ataahua, me tō rātou āhua taketake, mai i raro i ngā anga tiaki o ō rātou ake āhua kura waenga.