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    <![CDATA[Under the Mountain]]>
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    <![CDATA[While vacationing with relatives in Auckland, twins Theo and Rachel discover that they are endowed with special powers to oppose mysterious giant creatures that are determined to destroy the world.<br/>]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Halfmen of O]]>
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    <![CDATA[In My Father's Den]]>
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    <![CDATA[Blindsight]]>
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    <![CDATA[Alice Ferry lives in Wellington, and keeps an eye on her brother, though he doesn't know it.  Alice as narrator begins telling us the story from their childhood, but there are things she's hiding.<br/><br/>When a young man shows up on her doorstep, claiming to be her brother Gordon's grandson, things get complicated.<br/>]]>
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    <![CDATA[Plumb, is the story of a New Zealand Presbyterian minister who preached pacifism and socialism, left the church, and was sent to prison for sedition. The narrator of Meg is his daughter, a woman in her early fifties. In using her as a mouthpiece Gee has set himself an even trickier task than that of speaking through her obsessed and unforgiving father, but there are no lapses of style or tone: the narrative voice is consistently convincing.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Motherstone]]>
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    <![CDATA[Salt (The Salt Trilogy, #1)]]>
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    <![CDATA[In a dangerous world, Deep Salt strikes terror into the heart of everyone. Hari lives in Blood Burrow, deep in the ruined city of Belong, where he survives by courage and savagery. He is scarred from fighting, he is dangerous and cruel, but he has a secret gift: he can speak with animals. When his father, Tarl, is taken as a slave and sent to the mine known as Deep Salt, from where no worker ever returns, Hari vows to save him. Pearl is from the ruling families, known as Company, which has conquered and enslaved Hari's people. Her destiny involves marriage that will unite her family with that of the powerful and ambitious Ottmar. It soon becomes clear that the survival of their people depends entirely upon the success of Pearl and Hari's mission.]]>
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    <![CDATA[The Priests of Ferris]]>
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    <![CDATA[Fat Man]]>
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    <![CDATA[Herbert Muskie is The Fat Man. When he catches skinny, hungry Colin Potter stealing a chocolate bar, he forces Colin to become his partner in crime. This begins an ever-escalating cycle of dominance fueled by Muskie's hatred of the people of Loomis--a grudge Colin doesn't understand. The Fat Man's sphere of influence quickly ensnares the rest of Colin's family and threatens to destroy their lives.]]>
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    <![CDATA[Going West]]>
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  <average_rating>3.86</average_rating>
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