Summary: Samson and Delilah are two teens living in an isolated Aboriginal community in the Central Australian desert. When tragedy strikes, they turn their backs on home and embark on a journey of survival. Lost, unwanted and alone, they discover that life isn't always fair, but love never judges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IndiePix 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SAMSummary: The story of a lawyer defending a group of aboriginals accused of murder. The lawyer feels the pull of magic forces beneath the surface of civilization.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors.
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Publisher / Publication Date: University of Arizona Press 2012
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2 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC WALSummary: A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WALSummary: Sharpshooter Quigley travels to western Australia, only to find himself saddled with a half-loco lady, and locked in a lethal battle with a wealthy rancher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Quigley 2001Copies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN QUIColeman, Claire G.
Summary: "Terra Nullius (def): land belonging to no one; no man's land. 'Jacky was running. There was no thought in his head, only an intense drive to run. There was no sense he was getting anywhere, no plan, no destination, no future. All he had was a sense of what was behind, what he was running from. Jacky was running.' The Natives of the Colony are restless. The Settlers are eager to bring peace to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Small Beer Press 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COLSummary: Set during the colonization of Australia in 1825, the film follows Clare, a 21-year-old native Irish wife and mother held captive beyond her 7-year sentence, desperate to be free of her obsessed master, British lieutenant Hawkins. Clare's husband Aidan intervenes with devastating consequences for all. When British authorities fail to deliver justice, Clare pursues Hawkins, who leaves his post...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER NIGSummary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008
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Summary: "It's a hot summer, and life's going all right for Jackson and his family on the Mish. It's almost Christmas, school's out, and he's hanging with his mates, teasing the visiting tourists, avoiding the racist boys in town. Just like every year, Jackson's Aunty and annoying little cousins visit from the city--but this time a mysterious boy with a troubled past comes with them. As their friendship...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Push 2022
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC LONSummary: Cody is a young man of intrepid spirit, always looking for a challenge. Living with his guardian, Cody learns of an ancient myth, the story of 'Donkegin'. He is told to leave it alone, but the legend sparks his lively imagination. Defying all authority, Cody and his girlfriend embark on a search that takes them into the shadow-land of mystery and to the edge of death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE QUESummary: Set in 1922 in the outback, the story follows three mounted policemen and an Aboriginal tracker on a mission to bring to justice a black man accused of murdering a white woman. The party's leader is a sadistic racist known simply as the Fanatic. Their guide, the Tracker, is a resourceful and complex character, who keeps everyone guessing until the end. They are constantly half a day behind the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: ArtMattan Productions 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRASummary: Set one thousand years ago in Australia, a young man covets one of his older brother's wives and is told a mythical story about why this is wrong.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Palm Pictures 2007
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TENTemple, Peter
Summary: Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the Homicide Squad to a quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and not a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. When a prominent local is attacked and left for dead in his own home, Cashin is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007
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1 available in Adult, Call number: MYS TEMMorgan, Marlo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORPedersen, Aaron
Summary: An Australian indigenous detective returns home to the outback to investigate the disappearance of two young boys from a remote cattle ranch.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rlj Distribution Solutions 2021
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MYSFlanagan, Richard
Summary: One of our most inventive and important international literary voices, Richard Flanagan now delivers Wanting , a powerful and moving tale of colonialism, ambition, and the lusts and longings that make us human. It is 1841. In the remote penal colony of Van Diemen s Land, a barefoot aboriginal girl sits for a portrait in a red silk dress. She is Mathinna, the adopted daughter of the island s...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atlantic Monthly Press 2009
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FLASummary: Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighboring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam's relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SWEHowarth, Paul
Summary: It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched, their cattle starving. When the rain finally comes, it is a miracle that renews their hope for survival. But returning home from an afternoon swimming at a remote waterhole filled by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy meet with a shocking tragedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HOWLucashenko, Melissa
Summary: "A gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life-winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award-that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LUCMorgan, Marlo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins Publishers 1994
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MORGrainger, Jean
Summary: Sister Claire McAuliffe travels to Queensland, Australia, in 1936 to assist in setting up a Catholic school for the education of the gold rush families. When she learns of the manner in which the Aboriginal people are treated, she is forced to act; but no one wants to upset the status quo, and she finds herself in danger.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction GraingerSummary: Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SAPNapoli, Donna Jo
Summary: While drawing pictures of the animals she sees on her trip to Australia, a young girl named Ally meets Pauline, an aborigine woman and fellow artist, from whom Ally learns that art is not always created with just paper and paints, and that mistakes are actually happy accidents.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAPSummary: Dramatization of the life of a half caste torn between his Aboriginal roots and his desire to be part of white society. When he becomes an object of loathing and ridicule, he and his full blood Aborigine brother embark upon an odyssey of murdering whites before he is captured, tried, and executed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Industrial Entertainment 2008