Books

Plague Poems

Brian Flaherty

Reflections on the first months of the COVID-19 pandemic, through a re-reading of Albert Camus' great novel La Peste (1947). Just before midnight on 25 March 2020 the country ente… [+]

Polynesian Festival

Evotia Tamua

The ASB PolyFest is an annual celebration of Pacific Islands' culture for the secondary schools of Auckland, captured here in photographs taken over the last 15 years of the festiv… [+]

Samoa: Pacific Pride

Samoa: Pacific Pride introduces the Samoa islands - their geography, the history of the people and their way of life today. It reveals a proud society based on ancient traditions w… [+]

Samoan Queer Lives

Dan Taulapapa McMullin, Yuki Kihara

Samoan Queer Lives is a collection of personal stories from one of the world’s unique indigenous queer cultures. The first of its kind, this book features a collection of autobiogr… [+]

The Samoans: A Global Family

The beauty of this Samoan proverb poetically describes The Samoans: A Global Family. From the tea estates of Sri Lanka to the deserts of the Sudan, from the Himalayas of Bhutan to… [+]

So Far the World

Tavaʻe Raioaoa

When his boat engine failed him in March 2002, Tahitian fisherman Tavaʻe Raioaoa was cast adrift in the currents and winds of the Pacific Ocean. He travelled over 1,200 kilometres… [+]

So Many Islands

Edited by Nicholas Laughlin with Nailah Folami Imoja So Many Islands brings together stories from the distant shores of the island communities in the Caribbean, Mediterranean, Ind… [+]

Talanoa

Leki Jackson-Bourke, Lolo Fonua, Louise Tuʻu, Vela Manusaute, ʻAmanaki Prescott-Faletau

Talanoa: Four Pacific Plays is a timely collection from five playwrights who interweave Pacific languages with English.  Masters in the art of comedy and real-life theatre, these… [+]

Tales of Niue Nukututaha

Zora Feilo

These twelve tales from the island of Niue, in both Niuean and English, give traditional Polynesian storytelling a new twist. [+]

Te Tamaiti me te Aihe

Robyn Kahukiwa

"Tērā tētahi tamaiti e noho ana i te taha o te moana. He nui tōna aroha mō te moana, ā, i ngā rā e āhei ana ka kauhoe ia ... me kī, i te nuinga o ngā rā. He kaikauhoe tino kaha ia.… [+]

Taranga

Reina Kahukiwa

Taranga is the mother of Māui, a great cultural hero in the Māori creation narrative. Here Reina Kahukiwa recounts the birth of Māui seen through the eyes of Taranga. Inā te ātaa… [+]

Tino, le tuagane a le ma tinā

Avikaila Sopoitulagi Tilialo, Jane Vaʻafusuaga

This is the Sāmoan edition of Uncle Tino.James and Jessie are embarrassed by Uncle Tino’s old car and the way he honks the horn so loudly when he drives them to school. But when th… [+]

Uncle Tino

Jane Vaʻafusuaga

James and Jessie are embarrassed by Uncle Tino’s old car and the way he honks the horn so loudly when he drives them to school. But when the Sāmoan culture group needs help to prep… [+]

Visiting Grandma

Jane Vaʻafusuaga

A children's picture book about a Sāmoan family set in New Zealand from the perspective of a palagi girl. A normal event in one culture may seem unusual to another culture. When pa… [+]

where we once belonged

Sia Figiel

Winner of the 1997 Asia/Pacific Commonwealth Writer’s Prize for fiction. In Where We Once Belonged Sia Figiel uses the storytelling traditions of Samoa to weave together experience… [+]

The Wreck

Déwé Gorodé

Young Léna's quest is to gain an awareness of a repressed childhood trauma. It is, she says, like the excitement of a detective sensing he's about to uncover the clue that will ope… [+]

ABC English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary

The ABC English-Chinese, Chinese-English Dictionary (ECCE) is a student-oriented bilingual dictionary that, like other dictionaries in the ABC series, organizes Chinese words by th… [+]