Paula Morris

A Ruined Novel

1 - Ruined (Aug-2009)
2 - Unbroken (Feb-2013)

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  Queen Of Beauty
  

  • Dec-2004
  • / General Fiction
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  Virginia Ngatea Seton leaves New Orleans, where she works as a researcher for a historical novelist, and returns home to Auckland for the wedding of her younger sister. Drawn back into the world of her Pakeha-Maori family, Virginia rediscovers many f...

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  Hibiscus Coast
  

  • May-2008
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  Emma Paupere has just returned to New Zealand from Shanghai, where her training as a painter has made her a copyist of incredible skill. Now, Siaki, her ambitious and manipulative ex-boyfriend, has recruited her as a forger, shutting Emma away in a b...

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  Ruined
  

  • Aug-2009
  • / Fantasy
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  A Ruined Novel - 1
  

  Rebecca couldn't feel more out of place in New Orleans. She's staying in a creepy house with her aunt, who reads tarot cards. And at the snooty prep school, a pack of filthy-rich girls treat Rebecca like she's invisible. Only gorgeous, unavailable An...

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  Dark Souls
  

  • Aug-2011
  • / Fantasy
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  Welcome to York, England. Mist lingers in the streets. Narrow buildings cast long shadows. This is the most haunted city in the world. . . . Miranda Tennant arrives in York with a terrible, tragic secret. She is eager to lose herself amid...

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  Rangatira
  

  • Nov-2011
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  Based on a true story Auckland, June 1886. Ngati Wai chief Paratene Te Manu spends long sessions, over three long days, having his portrait painted by the Bohemian painter Gottfried Lindauer. Hearing of Lindauer's planned trip to England reminds him...

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  Unbroken
  

  • Feb-2013
  • / Fantasy
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  A Ruined Novel - 2
  

  Welcome back to New Orleans. Where the streets swirl with jazz and beauty. Where the houses breathe with ghosts. A year ago, Rebecca Brown escaped death in a New Orleans cemetery. Now she has returned to this haunting city. She is looking forwar...

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  Hene and the Burning Harbour
  

  • Aug-2013
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  Book two in the New Zealand Girl series, Paula Morris's Hene and the Burning Harbour tells the story of Hene, a Maori girl living in 1840s New Zealand. For readers aged 7-10. Northland, 1845. When Hene's twin brother falls dangerously ill, her parent...

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  The Eternal City
  

  • Jun-2015
  • / Fantasy
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  From master of suspense Paula Morris comes a tale of gods and goddesses, thrilling romance, and mystery set in present-day Rome. Laura Martin is visiting Rome on a class trip, and she's entranced by the majestic Colosseum, the Trevi Fountain, the ...

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  Trendy But Casual
  

  • Sep-2021
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  Ko Aotearoa Tatou/We Are New Zealand
  

  • May-2022
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  In the aftermath of the Christchurch terrorist attacks of 15 March 2019, Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern declared: 'We are all New Zealanders.' These words resonated, an instant meme that asserted our national diversity and inclusiveness and, at the sa...

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  Hiwa
  

  • Jan-2024
  • / Literary
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  An essential new anthology of our best Māori short fiction.Hiwa showcases contemporary Māori voices in a collection of short stories edited by Paula Morris and consulting editor Darryn Joseph. These stories explore themes of identity, culture, and ...

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