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21) Morgan's run
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Richard Morgan, the refined son of a Bristol tavern-keeper finds himself consigned as a convict to the "First Fleet" which brought male and female prisoners to the newly discovered continent of Australia.
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Harlequin Desire brings you three new titles for one great price, available now! This Harlequin Desire bundle includes The Texas Renegade Returns by USA TODAY Seducing His Princess One Night, Second Chance Look for 6 new compelling stories every month from Harlequin Desire!
23) Exiles
Author
Series
(Jane Elizabeth).Aaron Falk volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper is back with a new mystery featuring Aaron Falk, the detective from the bestseller and major motion picture The Dry. At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her stroller, her mother vanishing into the crowds. A year on, Kim Gillespie's absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition...
24) Stolen
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sixteen-year-old Gemma, a British city-dweller, is abducted while on vacation with her parents and taken to the Australian outback, where she soon realizes that escape attempts are futile, and in time she learns that her captor is not as despicable as she first believed.
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
2008, c2006
Language
English
Description
In this season, Drovers Run is hit with more shocks and surprises than ever before. After a pregnancy scare, Tess learns that Nick, the love of her life, is still alive. Meg proposes to Terry and the girls face off against a relentless hit-man, who has been hired to kill Rob.
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume no. 8
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When his brother uses him as a boomerang on a beach near the Great Barrier Reef, the wind takes Flat Stanley halfway across Australia to the Outback.
Author
Publisher
Twelve/Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
On her first day at a new school, Lily befriends one of the daughters of infamous avant-garde painter Evan Trentham. He and his wife are trying to escape the stifling conservatism of 1930s Australia by inviting other like-minded artists to live and work at their family home. Lily becomes infatuated with this wild, makeshift family and longs to truly be part of it. As the years pass, Lily observes the way the lives of these artists come to reflect...
29) Amnesty: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A young illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between risking deportation and reporting the murder of a female client.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 22
Language
English
Formats
Description
Crusading folk hero or murderous horse thief and bank robber? Who was the real Ned Kelly? His name resonates in Australia the same way the name Jesse James does in America. As the impoverished son of an Irish convict, Kelly was cheated, lied to, and abused by the English. Committed to fighting back against oppression, Kelly and his gang of outlaws eluded police for nearly two years. Brilliantly novelized by Peter Carey, the story of the Kelly Gang...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Description
"1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the coast of Western Australia among the seasonal fishing...
34) Hush
Author
Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 04
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop--as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her...
Author
Publisher
Open Road Distribution
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Set in a remote British penal colony in the late eighteenth century, Bring Larks and Heroes explores the early years of European settlement of desperate men and corrupt soldiers to Australia, the world's end. Corporal Phelim Halloran, an honest man, poet and lover, attempts to make a home for himself while confronting the demands of his secret bride, a convict-artist, his Irish comrades, and his own conscience. Can he overcome the hellish, sun-parched...
36) The thorn birds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7 - AR Pts: 39
Language
English
Formats
Description
Presents the saga of the Cleary family, beginning on an Australian sheep station in the early twentieth century and ending fifty years later, focusing on the forbidden love that develops between Meggie and Father Ralph de Bricassart.
37) Bobbie Dazzler
Author
Publisher
Kane/Miller Book
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Bobbie, an Australian wallaby, can jump, bounce, and skip but cannot do splits until the other animals help her.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
"A surprising and moving romance set in an old-fashioned seaside town on the verge of unwelcome change Liza McCullen will never fully escape her past. But the unspoiled beaches and tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the freedom and safety she craves--if not for herself, then for her young daughter, Hannah. That is, until Mike Dormer arrives as a guest in her aunt's hotel. The mild-mannered Englishman with his too-smart clothes and distracting...
39) Ghost Ship
Author
Series
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
From New York Times bestselling author James Rollins comes an electrifying short story, in which the battle over a lost treasure leads to murder, betrayal, and the revelation of a shocking mystery hidden aboard the... Ghost Ship. The discovery of a burned body sprawled on a remote Australian beach shatters the vacation plans of Commander Gray Pierce. To thwart an ingenious enemy, he and Seichan are pulled into a centuries-old mystery surrounding a...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Don Tillman, a professor of genetics, sets up a project designed to find him the perfect wife, starting with a questionnaire that has to be adjusted a little as he goes along. Then he meets Rosie, who is everything he's not looking for in a wife, but she ends up his friend as he helps her try and find her biological father.
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