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Together Alone : The story of the Finn brothers
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| NZ$ 42.00 each |
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| Author: Jeff Apter |
| Published by: Random House |
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To rattle off the hits of Neil and Tim Finn reads like a checklist of recent pop history. And to think it all began in sleepy rural Te Awamutu - a town whose name had a 'truly sacred ring', as Neil would famously recount - where Brian Timothy Finn fell in love with the Beatles, an obsession that would also work its way straight into his younger brother Neil's DNA.
Success for the brothers was a long time coming it took several turbulent years in Split Enz - an art-pop band Neil would join in 1977, despite Tim's reservations - before they produced a genuine hit and connected with the mainstream. And it was achieved by one of Neil's songs, 'I Got You', which wasn't the sweetest pill brother Tim had ever tasted. After all, Split Enz was his band, his odyssey, his obsession.
When the Enz came undone, their paths split. Neil led world-beaters Crowded House, while Tim immersed himself in a series of bold if not always successful solo
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Music Depts will thank you for buying this one. They are Kiwi icons after all.
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Boy Soldier
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| Author: Cola Bilkuei |
| Published by: Pan Macmillan Australia |
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In 1987, Cola Bilkuei, a young boy from the Dinka tribe in the southern Sudan, was forcibly recruited into Sudan People's Liberation Army. For three months, he and hundreds of other children from his tribe were marched from southern Sudan to a military training camp inside Ethiopia.
Once they arrived at the camp, exhausted and terrified, SPLA officers taught them how to handle a rifle, how to fight and how to kill.
Yet Cola refused to be brutalised. He knew there was a better life somewhere and he was determined to find it. After two years, he escaped from the camp and began an extraordinary odyssey down the length of Africa.
Without money, a passport or official papers of any kind, he began a journey across the world that ended fourteen years later when he arrived in Australia as a refugee.
This book is the story of Cola's extraordinary journey.
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True and very harrowing story that shows the very best and worst of what humans are capable of.
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Great Hair
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| Author: Davis Biton |
| Published by: Sterling |
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Here are 100 classic, salon-quality styles that any non-professional can handle, all shown with full-colour photographs that detail every step, as well as information on essential supplies and basic techniques. There are "dos" for any length, mood, and occasion, from a night out at the hottest club to the fanciest wedding. Select from elegant chignons, waterfalls of curls that cascade down your back, or loose, playful tendrils that frame the face. Some have jewel or flower adornments, while others feature braids, twists, and hair weaves.
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