Waiamakariri Libraries created an amazing Māori Language Collection called Ako Collection to help you explore and learn more about Te Reo Māori.
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Award Winners
Waimakariri Heritage website - a place to conserve and curate community memories and taonga.
To assist teachers, Waimakariri Libraries have a feast of resources available to help teachers feed students who are hungry for knowledge.
Missed out on our Get Bookish evening? Check out Fantasy recommendations from our librarian Amy.
Click on the title to place a hold on the book in our catalogue.
Epic Fantasy
Iron Flame by Rebecca Yarros
The City of Zirdai by Maria Snyder
Great Library of Tomorrow by Rosalia Solace
Muse of Nightmares by Lani Taylor
Silver Elite by Dani Francis
Hall of Smoke by H. M Long
The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
Witch/Magic
Tonight I Burn by Katherine Adams
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Hendrix Grady
Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Leia Stone
White Silence by Jodi Taylor
The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik
Curious Tides by Pascale Lacelle
Weyward by Emilia Hart
Hex by Jenni Fagan
The Burnings by Naomi Kelsey
Urban
Society of Unknowable Objects by Gareth Brown
The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
This Dream Will Devour Us by Emma Clancey
The Girl Who Could Move Sh*t With Her Mind by Jackson Ford
Poison City by Paul Crilley
The Hanging Tree by Ben Aaronovitch
All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody
An Unkindness of Magicians by Kat Howard
Myth
Song of Silver, Flame Like Night by Amelie Wen Zhao
Six Crimson Cranes by Elizabeth Lim
Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen
Wicked As You Wish by Rin Chupeco
Sisters Grimm and Night of Demons and Saints by Menna van Praag
Winter White and Wicked and Shannon Dittermore
Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
The Faithless Hawk by Margaret Owens
We Who Hunt the Hollow by T.F Murray
Romantasy
Fallen Academy by Leia Stone
Wolf Girl by Leia Stone
Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalo
House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J Maas
The Blood Countess by Tara Moss
Historical
A Gathering of Ghosts by Karen Maitland
The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis
The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman
Dystopian
The Hush by Sara Foster
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Year of the Orphan by Daniel Findlay
The Bone Season by Samantha Shannon
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Branded by Jo Riccioni