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Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
1968, rural Australia. Newly arrived from Hungary, Hannah Babel is passionate, brilliant, and fiercely determined to open sleepy Hometown's first bookshop. Tom Hope has only ever read one book in his life when Hannah hires him to install shelving for the shop, but the two discover an astonishing spark. Recently abandoned by an unfaithful wife, Tom dares to believe that he might make Hannah happy. But Hannah is haunted by memories: twenty-four years...
45) Bob
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
46) Dirt Creek
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"In Hayley Scrivenor's Dirt Creek, a small-town debut mystery described as The Dry meets Everything I Never Told You, a girl goes missing and a community falls apart and comes together. When twelve-year-old Esther disappears on the way home from school in a small town in rural Australia, the community is thrown into a maelstrom of suspicion and grief. As Detective Sergeant Sarah Michaels arrives in town during the hottest spring in decades and begins...
Author
Series
Sydney Smoke volume 3
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
After a long history with crappy guys, high school teacher Em Newman is going man-vegan. Four months of revirginization has opened her eyes to her doormat imitation but, baby's got spine now, and some smooth-talking--even if he is sinfully hot--rugby player, won't be adding her as a notch anytime soon. Lincoln Quinn loves rugby, women, and poker. And he likes to win at all three. When his team mates bet him he can't break through Em's resolve, he's...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about two high school nemeses who end up sharing a house together their first year of college Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and politely chases others for their share. She's the helper, the doer, the maker-of...
51) Meet Blinky Bill
Author
Pub. Date
©1984
Language
English
Description
Blinky Bill, the baby koala is introduced to the Australian bush.
52) The assault
Author
Series
Language
English
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Description
It is 2030 and humans are at war with the Bzadians, an alien race which has invaded the Earth. A multinational team of highly trained teenage soliders must slip behind enemy lines and infiltrate a secret alien experimental facility hidden in the Australian desert. One of the team, however, is a spy. Suggested level: intermediate, secondary.
55) Horse mad summer
Author
Series
Horse mad volume 2
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Ashleigh Miller is happy when her best friend from the city, Jenna, comes to stay for the summer and she can teach Jenna how to ride, but the visit endangers her relationship with her new friend Becky as they both prepare for an important competition.
57) On fragile waves
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Growing up on their parents' mythical stories about the opportunities of Australia, a brother and sister travel with their family from war-torn Pakistan through temporary homes in Indonesia and Nauru, before government indifference in Australia challenges their dreams.
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom she believes cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese fighter pilot who's abandoned his post. With messages...
Author
Series
Flat Stanley's worldwide adventures volume 8
Pub. Date
2011
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.
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