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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
International Bestseller: The famed travel writer and author of In Patagonia traverses Australia, exploring Aboriginal culture and song-and humanity's origins. Long ago, the creators wandered Australia and sang the landscape into being, naming every rock, tree, and watering hole in the great desert. Those songs were passed down to the Aboriginals, and for centuries they have served not only as a shared heritage but as a living map. Sing the right...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
Thirteen-year-old Rob, a painfully shy wallflower, receives a series of mysterious text messages challenging him to leave his comfort zone as he tries to impress new student Destry Camberwick.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sent to a Tasmanian penal colony after conceiving her employer's grandchild, a young governess befriends a talented midwife and an orphaned Aboriginal chief's daughter while confronting the harsh realities of British colonialism and oppression in nineteenth-century Australia.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 20
Publisher
Lectorum Publications
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
Español
Description
Al ser transportados a la tierra de Australia, Annie y Jack se enfrentan con un gran incendio. ¡Pero allí no están solos! Tendrán que ayudar a un canguro bebé y a un koala a escaparse de la peligrosas llamas. ¿Podrán Annie y Jack rescatar los animales?
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
©2012
Language
English
Description
Follows three teens who struggle with hardscrabble realities, from Luke, who works at the local supermarket and tries to stay out of trouble; to Bongo, who drinks to avoid his abusive family; to Casey, who longs to escape her controlling father.
12) Sarah Thornhill
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Sarah Thornhill - the third and final book in the series including The Secret River, and The Lieutenant - Kate Grenville takes us back to the time when England was expelling their criminals to Australia. Unknown to Sarah, her father was one such criminal. Sarah was always taught not to ask about the past and she is oblivious to her father's true ways and that he's built himself up into a prominent station on the blood of Aboriginal people. Sarah...
13) True stories
Author
Publisher
Consortium Book Sales & Dist
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Helen Garner looks at the world with a shrewd and sympathetic eye. Her nonfiction, with its many voices, is always passionate and compelling. True Stories is an extraordinary book, spanning twenty-five years of work, by one of Australia's great writers."--Amazon.com.
Author
Series
Six Tudor queens volume 2
Language
English
Formats
Description
A novel filled with fresh insights into the story of Henry VIII's second-and most infamous-wife, Anne Boleyn. The new book in the epic Six Tudor Queens series, from the acclaimed historian and bestselling author of Katherine of Aragon. It is the spring of 1527. Henry VIII has come to Hever Castle in Kent to pay court to Anne Boleyn. He is desperate to have her. For this mirror of female perfection he will set aside his Queen and all Cardinal Wolsey's...
Author
Publisher
Milkweed Editions
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First US edition.
Language
English
Description
"A beautiful, evocative, and sometimes provocative memoir of Australia's unique landscape, and how that singular place has shaped Tim Winton and his writing. From boyhood, Winton's relationship with the world around him-rock pools, sea caves, scrub, and swamp-has been as vital as any other connection. Camping in hidden inlets, walking in high rocky desert, diving in reefs, bobbing in the sea between surfing sets, Winton has felt the place seep into...
Author
Series
Buckmaster novels volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his sons are killed at the Battle of Hastings and his family and farm are destroyed by the Norman invaders, Buccmaster leads a group of fighters on a quest of revenge.
19) A dream life
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family's life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must find a way to weave an existence from its shimmering mirage.
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