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"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...
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Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naive young governess in early nineteenth-century London, is discharged when her pregnancy is discovered and sent to the notorious Newgate Prison. After months in the fetid, overcrowded jail, she learns she is sentenced to "the land beyond the seas," Van Diemen's Land, a penal colony in Australia. Though uncertain of what awaits, Evangeline knows one thing: the child she carries will be born on the months-long...
4) Possum magic
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2010]
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English
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When Grandma Poss's magic turns Hush invisible, the two possums take a culinary tour of Australia to find the food that will make her visible once more.
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English
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From Liane Moriarty, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Big Little Lies and Truly Madly Guilty, comes an unforgettable novel defined by her signature sharp wit, page-turning storyline, and lovable and eccentric characters.
Sophie Honeywell always wondered if Thomas Gordon was the one who got away. He was the perfect boyfriend, but on the day he was going to propose, she broke his heart. A year later he married his travel agent, while Sophie...
6) The touch
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Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Not since The Thorn Birds has Colleen McCullough written a novel of such broad appeal about a family and the Australian experience. When Alexander Kinross -- remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and godless rebel -- summons his bride Elizabeth Drummond to Australia, his Scottish relatives realize that Kinross has made a fortune in the goldfields and is now a man to be reckoned with. The intimacies of marriage...
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Alice Love is twenty-nine, crazy about her husband, and pregnant with her first child. So imagine her surprise when she comes to on the floor of a gym and is whisked off to the hospital to find out that she's getting divorced, has three kids, and is actually thirty-nine. Now Alice must reconstruct a lost decade -- and try to reconstruct her life. Ultimately, she must discover if forgetting is a blessing or a curse, and if it's possible to start over...
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2017.
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"A small town hides big secrets in The Dry. 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, Luke was his alibi. Falk and his father fled under a cloud of suspicion, saved from prosecution only because of Luke's steadfast claim that the boys had been together at the time of the...
9) Ash Road
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Publisher
Angus and Robertson
Pub. Date
[1966]
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English
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A raging fire spreading in the Australian bush cuts off the escape of the children and two old men entrusted to their care.
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
11) Fifty, fifty
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Detective Harriet Blue volume 2
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English
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"Sam Blue stands accused of the brutal murders of three young students, their bodies dumped near the Georges River. Only one person believes he is innocent: his sister, Detective Harriet Blue. And she's determined to prove it. But Harry's outburst at her brother's trial earns her a reassignment -- to the outback. With no choice but to leave Sam's case alone, she relocates to Last Chance Valley, population 75, where a diary found on the roadside outlines...
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Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
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English
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Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 5
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
16) Lucy and Linh
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
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Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 9
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
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English
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 10
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
19) Stolen
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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.v
20) Jasper Jones
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.
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