Email digest: Monday 25 June 2012

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Events
This Thursday Cook the Books is having a fundraiser for Habitat for Humanity – details on our calendar

Book News
As independent bookstores crash and burn in USA and UK, the book market in France is doing just fine

You can find events for National Poetry Day on our website. Scroll to 27 July for the action

New releases
Eruption! Discovering New Zealand volcanoes by Maria Gill from New Holland

Walker Books July Highlights

60 Million Gingernuts by Peter Janssen

Scholastic NZ: July titles

Book reviews
2312 by Kim Stanley Robinson

Read LA Times review of Jodi Picoult’s Between the Lines and see her live in Auckland 23 July

The Ant and the Ferrari By Dr Kerry Spackman

From around the internet
Hear Noel Murphy of the NZ Book Council chat to Radio NZ about us being Guest of Honour country at Frankfurt

Opportunities
Poets if you have a love for good poetry and good food you might like this competition