Thomson, Sarah L.
Summary: During the fire season in Australia, a wombat allows its underground shelter to become a place of refuge for other vulnerable animals in need. Discusses Australia's devastating 2019-2020 fire season, in which many animals lost their lives or their habitats.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOKeneally, Thomas
Summary: Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Inc. 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENHartnett, Sonya
Summary: With their father, there is always a catch. Colt Jenson and his younger brother Bastian have moved to a new, working-class suburb. The Jensons are different. Their father, Rex, showers them with gifts, toys, bikes, all that glitters most and makes them the envy of the neighbourhood. To Freya Kiley and the other local kids, the Jensons are a family from a magazine, and Rex a hero, successful,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD FIC HARLonesborough, Gary
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 LONCooper, Tea
Summary: "What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 0000
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Summary: "What connects a botanical illustration of a butterfly with a missing baby and an enigma fifty years in the making? A twisty historical mystery from a bestselling Australian author"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper Muse 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOSilvey, Craig
Summary: Eleven-year-old Annie trains her dog Runt to participate in an Agility Course Grand Championship in an effort to save her family farm.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC SILMorgan, Marlo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORRollins, James
Summary: To stop the world from burning, it's up to Sigma Force to uncover a secret buried at the heart of our planet. The Titan Project-an international research station off the coast of Australia-discovers a thriving zone of life in an otherwise dead sea. The area teems with a strange bioluminescent coral that defies science, yet holds great promise for the future. But the loss of a military submarine...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC ROLNapoli, 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Children's Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE NAPTemple, 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: Thorndike Press 2007
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP M TEMPatterson, James
Summary: 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,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATFrancis, David
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Publisher / Publication Date: MacAdam/Cage Pub. 2005
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FRAJoel, Alexandra
Summary: A stunning novel of love, betrayal and family secrets for all fans of Fiona McIntosh and Natasha Lester. Raised on a vast Australian sheep farm, the beautiful Grace Woods is compelled to travel to tumultuous, postwar Paris in order to start a new life. While working as a glamorous model for Christian Dior, the world's newly acclaimed emperor of fashion, Grace mixes with counts and princesses,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Joel 2020London, Joan
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LONHarper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)
Summary: Joining a family celebration in Australian wine country, investigator Aaron Falk finds that, between his close friend, a missing mother, and a woman he's drawn to, long-hidden truths begin to emerge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARMirren, Lilly
Summary: "Each at the Waratah Inn for Christmas, both Elizabeth Cranwell and Robert Patch have a much different--and much happier--holiday than they originally expected."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIRSummary: A brilliant young mathematician is on the verge of discovering a formula that could predict the fluctuations of the stock market and he is quickly taken under the wing of a corrupt CEO at Centabank. Together these two men will play a deadly game of deception and revenge, while initiating one of the largest banking scandals in history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BANHarper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M HARFraillon, Zana
Summary: Subhi is a refugee. Born in an Australian permanent detention center after his mother and sister fled the violence of a distant homeland, Subhi has only ever known life behind the fences. But his world is far bigger than that -- every night, the magical Night Sea from his mother's stories brings him gifts, the faraway whales sing to him, and the birds tell their stories. And as he grows, his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney-Hyperion 2016
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC FRAMorton, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORPung, Alice
Summary: 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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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PUNClark, Georgia
Summary: A messy, loud Australian family and an aloof, snobby American family who have nothing in common except the marriage of their daughters are stuck for six weeks on a tropical island off Queensland when a nearby volcano erupts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2022
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Summary: Chelsea Myles earns her living as an actress with her uncle's theatre troupe, performing cheap plays on the streets of London and picking the customers' pockets. Until one night, a robbery goes awry and Chelsea is left holding a purse with enough gold to buy her passage to Australia, and the chance of a fresh start. Once on board the vessel, Chelsea is intrigued by a fellow passenger, Quaid...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2010