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 THOSummary: A wealthy Australian ranch owner's gift of a wild pony means young Scotty can finally ride the seven miles to and from school. But the pony gets away and is sheltered as unclaimed by a young girl who cannot walk. The treasured pony means freedom to both children, but can only belong to one.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The continuing story of Dr. Lucien Blake as he practices medicine and investigates murder in 1950s rural Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Worldwide Ltd. 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Several interweaving storylines that start with a mysterious accident and the death of an Aboriginal girl in the outback. Her former teacher, Alex, becomes involved with journalist Ned Banks and his brother, Jesse, a genius computer hacker, to try to unravel the mystery. When the brothers uncover video footage of the crime, they are targeted by powerful and dangerous figures that may be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CODSummary: On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: 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: Two Canberra-based brothers become entangled in a cover-up that involves a remote outback community and key members of the Australian government.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CODSummary: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. Regina has ensnared Bligh patriarch and political aspirant George in marriage, but she continues to plot against Sarah, exploiting the rising fear of Communism to target her rival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 4Patterson, 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,...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2018
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC PATSummary: A mysterious woman is perched between the harsh legacy of World War II and the hope of a new life in Australia.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 2Summary: 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: Mad Max: In the ravaged near future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force bent on stopping them. But they underestimate one officer: Max Rockatansky. And when the bikers brutalized Max's best friend and family, they send him into a mad frenzy that leaves him with only one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Against the backdrop of post-World War II Australia, Sarah Adams is a nurse who becomes involved in the affairs of the wealthy Bligh family. It is dealing with themes such as anti-Semitism, sexuality, and social class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Entertainment 2016
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 3Summary: Australia, 1940s. An English aristocrat inherits a large ranch. English cattle barons plot to take her land and she reluctantly joins forces with a rough-hewn cattle drover to protect her ranch. Together they experience four life-altering years, a love affair and the bombing of Darwin during World War II.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Australia 2009Summary: After World War II, a nurse returns to Australia to start a new life after spending twenty years in Europe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PLACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Pl 5Summary: It tells the remarkable true story of Robyn Davidson, a young woman who leaves her life in the city to make a solo trek through almost 2,000 miles of sprawling Australian desert. Accompanied by only her dog and four unpredictable camels, she sets off on a life-changing journey of self-discovery. Along the way, she meets National Geographic photographer Rick Smolan who begins to photograph her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Media 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRASummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BANSummary: Based on remarkable real-life stories, this gripping drama series follows the modern-day heroes of the Royal Flying Doctor Service as they navigate private lives as turbulent and profound as the heart-stopping emergencies they attend to across some of the most beautiful and inhospitable places in the Australian outback.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Stevenson, Robin
Summary: Jayden ends up in the unforgiving Australian outback, fighting for his life.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Orca Book Publishers 2012
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1 available in Young Adult Foreign Language, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH STEPilkington, Doris
Summary: Three mixed-race Australian girls, having been taken from their Aboriginal families, escape and return home on foot, without supplies or gear, while trying to evade recapture, in an account based on a true story. Following an Australian government edict in 1931, black Aboriginal children and children of mixed marriages were gathered up by whites and taken to settlements to be assimilated. In...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Books/Hyperion 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 994.04 PILColeman, 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 COLLim, Rebecca
Summary: "Wen Zhou is a first-generation daughter of Chinese migrant parents. She has high expectations from her parents to succeed in school, especially her father, whose strict rules leave her feeling trapped. She dreams of creating a future for herself more satisfying than the one her parents expect her to lead. Then she befriends a boy named Henry who is also a first generation immigrant. He is the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delacorte Press, an imprint of Random House Children's Books 2023
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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC LIMSummary: When Alex Irving, a charismatic and contradictory Indigenous woman, is thrust into the national limelight after a horrific domestic violence event, Australia's embattled Prime Minister Rachel Anderson, sees a publicity goldmine for her party. In a bold power play, she handpicks Alex for the Senate. But Alex wants to be more than just a political stunt: she wants to make a difference. So, when...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022