Te Hāpua Reads: September 2026Like this list

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• The British Booksellers

  a Novel of the Forgotten Blitz

  Cambron, Kristy

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  Rebecca - Recommended by our book club readers: A story about a mother and daughter trying to run a bookstore in Coventry during World War II.

• John of John

  Stuart, Douglas, 1976-

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  Rebecca - Recommended by our book club readers: John MacLeod returns to the small Scottish island where he grew up, rediscovering his roots along with plenty of family secrets.

• Yesteryear

  a Novel

  Burke, Caro Claire

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  Rebecca - Recommended by our book club readers: Natalie is living the tradwife dream and making plenty of money as an influencer along the way. Until the day she wakes up and finds she's in 1855, expected to live out the lifestyle she's up until now…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Sophie, Standing There

  Mason, Meg

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  Rebecca - Recommended by our book club readers: Sophie works freelance at literary festivals but is so profoundly lonely that she begins to form a parasocial relationship with a famous author.

• Dead Girl Gone

  Ward, Gareth, 1968-

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  Rebecca - Recommended by our book club readers: a New Zealand husband-and-wife team of bookstore owners find themselves embroiled in a cold case regarding a missing girl.

• Supremacy

  AI, ChatGPT and the Race That Will Change the World

  Olson, Parmy

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  Juliet - Overview of the history of ai and the main players. Interesting enough to listen to it all.

• Wild Creature Mind

  the Neuroscience Breakthrough That Helps You Transform Anxiety and Live a Fiercely Loving Life

  Biddulph, Steve

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  Juliet - We don't just have two halves of our brain - left and right - but we also have two minds. We have our normal mind, which overthinks, rattles about and gets defensive. We have our quiet, intuitive mind, which is full of life, intelligence,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Penelopiad

  Atwood, Margaret, 1939-

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  Sarah - Penelope shares her view of Odysessus' return from Troy, and what she really thought of Helen, with interjections from the 12 slave girls.

• Dungeon Crawler Carl

  Dinniman, Matt

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  Sarah - Carl and his ex-girlfriend's cat Princess Donut have survived the apocalypse and are now playing for their continued survival in a video game that is being broadcast live across the universe! I don't play video games but I really enjoyed…Read moreRead more of this annotation