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New Zealand Saga Series

This saga chronicles the lives of Māori families against the backdrop of New Zealand's rugged yet beautiful landscapes. Immerse yourself in tales of love, loss, tradition, and the struggle for survival in a changing world. Each installment reveals the deep connection between the people and the land that shaped them for generations. Experience the island's culture and history through the eyes of its indigenous inhabitants.

A hope at the end of the world
Call of the kiwi
Song of the Spirits
In the Land of the Long White Cloud

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  1. 1

    In the Land of the Long White Cloud

    • 674 pages
    • 24 hours of reading
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    Helen Davenport, governess for a wealthy London household, spots an advertisement seeking young women to marry New Zealand's honorable bachelors and begins correspondence with a gentleman farmer. When her church offers to pay her travels under an unusual arrangement, she jumps at the opportunity. On the ship, she meets Gwyneira Silkham, traveling to meet a New Zealand baron who won her in a game of blackjack. When their new husbands turn out to be very different than expected, the women must help one another find the life they'd hoped for.

    In the Land of the Long White Cloud
  2. 2

    Song of the Spirits

    • 687 pages
    • 25 hours of reading
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    "Lark recounts...the sometimes peaceful, sometimes uneasy relationship between the Maori natives and the pakeha--the colonists. And the land, which can be rocky and formidable and also breathtakingly beautiful, is as much a character as anyone else." --Historical Novel Society New Zealand, 1893: William Martyn is better educated and more cultivated than the other men breaking their backs searching for gold near Queenstown. William is the son of landed Irish nobility, and he comes to town ready to invest in the best equipment. On his search for supplies, he encounters spirited and beautiful young Elaine O'Keefe, who promptly falls in love with him. He is captivated by her charms until Kura, Elaine's half-Maori cousin, comes to visit. William succumbs at once to Kura's exotic beauty and free-spiritedness, and tension develops not only between the two cousins but also between the colonial settlers and their Maori neighbors.

    Song of the Spirits
  3. 3

    Call of the kiwi

    • 492 pages
    • 18 hours of reading
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    In the conclusion to the In the Land of the Long White Cloud trilogy, the spirited Warden and McKenzie clan continues its trials--and triumphs--in New Zealand and beyond.

    Call of the kiwi
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    A hope at the end of the world

    • 268 pages
    • 10 hours of reading
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    In the chaos of World War II, Polish teenagers Helena and Luzyna Grabowski have lost everything. Without parents or a home, they are shipped to a refugee camp in Persia, where the days ahead hold only darkness. When they hear that orphans are being selected for relocation to New Zealand, Helena is filled with hope--until the officials say they have a place only for her younger sister. On the morning she is to be transported, Luzyna fails to join the chosen group, and Helena takes her place. But the horrors of war--and her guilt at abandoning her sister--follow Helena on the journey across the sea, as a man from her past preys on her fear and remorse. Though the people in New Zealand embrace her, the traumas Helena has suffered threaten her peace and blind her to the devotion of James, a charming, heroic young Allied pilot. If Helena can let go and dare to hope again, she may finally step out of the long shadow of her past to find a future made whole--a new community, a new family, a new love.

    A hope at the end of the world