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Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
Author
Series
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"The Transit of Venus tells the story of two orphan sisters, Caroline and Grace Bell, as they leave Australia to start a new life in postwar England. What happens to these young women--seduction and abandonment, marriage and widowhood, love and betrayal--becomes as moving and wonderful and yet as predestined as the transits of the planets themselves"--
3) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
Classic Collection
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
Stranded in the Australian desert, an English girl and her small brother are rescued by an aborigine boy who has journeyed into the outback on his "walkabout"--A tribal initiation into manhood.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
"Sophie Gruebella is happy with her single life--until she overhears her friends discussing why she's still single! Could this be why she falls into bed with a man who's her complete opposite? Cooper Smith is as driven as he's drop-dead gorgeous! Cooper has life all planned out and his night with Sophie was amazing, but--on mutual agreement--not to be repeated. Three months later: the stick has turned pink. Sophie'' expecting ... and Cooper has just...
Author
Series
(Patrick).Game day! volume 2
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Tyson is Patty's archrival. And when he gives Patty a hard time about his people, it really hurts. But it makes Patty more determined than ever. Playing for the Shadows, Patty and his friends have a chance to shine - and show that Indigenous kids can do anything. After a huge improvement, they make the grand final. And the result will come down to the final seconds of the game.
Author
Series
(Patrick).Game day! volume 3
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"Through lots of hard work, Patty's skills have improved- they're out of sight. And he's invited to step it up in a big basketball tournament. Even though he'll miss out on time in his beloved Torres Strait, playing in a major competition in Sydney is an opportunity too exciting to pass up. Patty starts to think he might have a future in basketball. But an injury puts it all at risk. Could Patty's dream be over before it's begun?" --Page 4 of cover....
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows 21-year-old convict Clare. Having served her time, she is eager to be free of her abusive master, Lieutenant Hawkins. Clare becomes the victim of a harrowing crime by the lieutenant and his cronies. When authorities fail to deliver justice, she decides to pursue Hawkins and enlists the help of a young Aboriginal tracker. As they go, they must learn to find empathy for one another while...
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"First published by Walker Books Australia 2019"--Colophon.
Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly and Aboriginal Elder of the Wurundjeri people Aunty Joy Murphy join to tell the Indigenous and geographical story of Melbourne's beautiful Yarra River - from its source to its mouth and from its prehistory to the present day. Includes a glossary.--description from publisher's website.
10) Shantaram
Author
Series
Shantaram volume 1
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Language
English
Description
Presents a novel based upon the life of the author about Lin, an escaped convict who disappears into the dark side of Bombay's streets and enters into a life of murder and betrayal, prison and torture, and war.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four code names Nancy used during the war, Code Name Hélène is a spellbinding and moving story of enduring love, remarkable sacrifice and unfaltering resolve that chronicles the true exploits of a woman who deserves to be a household name. It is 1936 and Nancy Wake is an intrepid Australian expat living in Paris who has bluffed her way into a reporting job for Hearst newspaper. She is fighting...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched, their cattle starving. When the rain finally comes, it is a miracle that renews their hope for survival. But returning home from an afternoon swimming at a remote waterhole filled by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy meet with a shocking tragedy.
Author
Series
Shantaram volume 2
Publisher
Grove
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
A breath of Bombay hope, in the first glimpse of the sea, on Marine Drive, filled my heart, if not my head. I turned away from the red shadow. I stopped thinking of that pyramid of killers, and Sanjay's recklessness. I stopped thinking about my own part in the madness. And I rode, with my friends, into the end of everything.' The end of the eighties was the beginning of everything. The Berlin wall fell on a ruined empire, and the Taliban took Afghanistan....
Author
Publisher
Frances Lincoln Children's Books
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Ten ancient legends of the Yorta-Yorta people -- one of Australia's Aboriginal tribes, are retold here. You will discover how Great Mother Snake created and peopled the world with plants and creatures, what made Frog croak, why Kangaroo has a pouch, and just what it is that makes Platypus so special.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In 1919, an Australian farmer travels to Turkey after the Battle of Gallipoli to try and locate his three missing sons. With insurmountable obstacles he must travel across the battle-scarred Turkish landscape to find the truth and his own peace.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"A gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life-winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award-that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world...
18) Almost French
Author
Publisher
Bolinda Audio
Pub. Date
℗2011.
Language
English
Description
After backpacking her way around Europe, journalist Sarah Turnbull is ready to embark on one last adventure before heading home to Sydney. A chance meeting with a charming Frenchman in Bucharest changes her travel plans forever. Acting on impulse, she agrees to visit Fredric in Paris for a week. Put a very French Frenchman together with a strong-willed Australian girl and the result is some spectacular, and often hilarious cultural clashes.
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 19
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"When a strapping young Australian named Jack MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late uncle's affairs, heads turn in the sleepy English village. But when Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle's overgrown garden, they discover something even more shocking than a stranger turning up in Finch. After Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden's old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true....
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