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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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English
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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) Stolen
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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
5) Possum magic
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
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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Series
Pub. Date
2023.
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English
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"Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I'm not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate. I'm Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I'd killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it's a little more complicated than that. Have I killed someone? Yes. I have. Who was it? Let's get started"--...
7) 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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English
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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...
9) Hush
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Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 4
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English
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"Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop--as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her...
11) The dry: a novel
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Series
Pub. Date
2017.
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English
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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...
Author
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2011.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Everyone says that Crooked Hill has a curse. But it's the only good place to go mountain biking in Flatte County. When Jonah's brother goes down it during a storm, can Jonah beat the Crooked Hill curse?
13) Fifty, fifty
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Series
Detective Harriet Blue volume 2
Language
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...
14) Moonfire
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Maggie Chamberlin, an American actress, travels all the way to Australia in 1887 on the promises of a scoundrel and encounters Reeve McKenna, an Irishman who has become one of the richest men in Australia.
Author
Series
Magic tree house. Original series volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
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
19) Lucy and Linh
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 9
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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