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61) Homecoming
Author
Language
English
Description
"Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve, 1959: At the end of a scorching hot day, beside a creek on the grounds of a grand country house, a local man makes a terrible discovery. Police are called, and the small town of Tambilla becomes embroiled in one of the most baffling murder investigations in the history of South Australia. Many years later and thousands of miles away, Jess is a journalist in search of a story. Having lived and worked in London for two...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Josh Tyler fronts a top-selling worship band and is in demand all over the world. But in the past, his failed romantic relationships almost destroyed both his reputation and his family. He's determined to never risk it happening again. The last thing he needs is some American girl tipping his ordered life upside down--especially one who despises everything he's ever worked for and manages to push every button he has.
63) Amnesty: a novel
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
"A young undocumented immigrant in Sydney, Australia is forced to choose between reporting the murder of a female client--and risking deportation--or staying silent."--
Dhananjaya "Danny" Rajaratnam is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. Danny learns a female client...
Author
Series
Treasure hunters (James Patterson) volume 7
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2020
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A cache of unsent love letters from the 1950s is found in a suitcase on a remote island. 1951. Esther Durrant, a young mother, is committed to an isolated mental asylum by her husband. Run by a pioneering psychiatrist, the hospital is at first Esther's prison but soon becomes her refuge. 2017. Free-spirited marine scientist Rachel Parker embarks on a research posting in the Isles of Scilly, off the Cornish coast. When a violent storm forces her to...
Author
Publisher
Dawn Publications
Pub. Date
c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A counting book in rhyme presents various Australian animals and their offspring, from a mother crocodile and her "little hatchling one" to a huge father emu and his "little chicks ten." Includes related facts and activities.
Author
Series
Geronimo Stilton. Thea Stilton volume 2
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[2009]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"An adventure down under! Moldy mozzarella! A flock of sheep at Nicky's family's Australian ranch was losing all its wool, and no one knew why. Nicky and her friends the Thea Sisters headed to Australia and set off on a tour of the whole country in search of clues. What happened next turned out to be a truly memorable Outback adventure!"--P. [4] of cover.
68) The dry: a novel
Author
Series
Aaron Falk novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
" ''One of the most stunning debuts I've ever read . . . Every word is near perfect.' -- David Baldacci. A small town hides big secrets in The Dry, an atmospheric, page-turning debut mystery by award-winning author Jane Harper. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder,...
69) Run, run, koala!
Author
Publisher
Simon Spotlight/Nickelodeon
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Diego's down under in Australia, where he finds a little koala, who has wandered very far from home. Diego helps the little koala back to his mommy.
70) Bittersweet
Author
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Returning to the sweeping romantic saga, Colleen McCullough presents a new major work: the story of four unforgettable sisters navigating work, love, and their dreams in 1920s Australia. Because they are two sets of twins, the four Latimer sisters are as close as can be. They are famous throughout New South Wales for their beauty, wit, and ambition, but as they step into womanhood, they are not enthusiastic about the limited prospects life holds...
71) Jasper Jones
Series
Publisher
Distributed by RB Media
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
Unabridged.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting and moving Australian coming of age story about Charlie Bucktin, a bookish boy of 14. On the night that Jasper Jones, the town's mixed race outcast shows him the dead body of young Laura Wishheart, Charlie's life is changed forever. Entrusted with this secret and believing Jasper to be innocent, Charlie embarks on a dangerous journey to find the true killer. Set over the scorching summer holidays of 1968, Charlie defeats the local racists,...
Series
Publisher
Distributed by VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Nurse Jean Paget is one of a small band of women trekking through the Japanese-occupied Malayan jungle, where they are befriended by Joe Harman, a tough Australian P.O.W. Later each learns that the other has survived the horrors of the war, and they set out separately to find each other.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Jenny Ashcroft's Under the Golden Sun is a captivating World War II historical love story set against the raw beauty of Australia. Rose Hamilton is in desperate need of a life change when she reads the want ad in the newspaper for a companion needed to escort a young orphaned child to Australia. There are so many reasons she should ignore the advertisement-the war, those treacherous winter seas, her family, her fiance... but she can't help herself....
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Following her parents separation, twelve-year-old Rain moves with her mother to the country, where she befriends the unpopular boy who lives next door and also seeks a way to cope with her feelings toward her father and his new girlfriend.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2019
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Twenty years ago, Abigail Sorenson's brother Robert went missing one day before her sixteenth birthday, never to be seen again. That same year, she began receiving scattered chapters in the mail of a self-help manual, the Guidebook, whose anonymous author promised to make her life soar to heights beyond her wildest dreams. The Guidebook's missives have remained a constant in Abi's life--a befuddling yet oddly comforting voice through her family's...
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