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Language
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) The dry
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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Description
Receiving a sinister anonymous note after his best friend's suspicious death, federal agent Aaron Falk is forced to confront the fallout of a twenty-year-old false alibi against a backdrop of the worst drought Melbourne has seen in a century.
5) Morgan's run
Author
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Formats
Description
Sexy, educated, and a convicted felon, Englishman Richard Morgan finds romance and adventure on a harsh, untamed continent in this historical saga of Australia's first settlers.
Author
Publisher
Emily Bestler Books/Atria
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Emily Bestler Books/Atria paperback edition.
Physical Desc
x, 405 pages : illustration ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Horse mad volume 5
Publisher
Walrus Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Physical Desc
259 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ashleigh Miller's busy life at the riding ranch becomes more complicated when her parents open a bed-and-breakfast, her best friend Jenna visits, and Ashleigh learns how to ride western style for a show.
Author
Series
Horse mad volume 3
Publisher
Walrus Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2006
Physical Desc
249 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
When Ashleigh Miller wins a stay at Waratah Grove Riding Academy, she finds the training a challenge, especially when her horse, Honey, refuses to enter the dressage ring, and her relationships with the other students are just as difficult.
Author
Series
Horse mad volume 4
Publisher
Walrus Books
Pub. Date
2009, c2007
Physical Desc
264 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ashleigh Miller's work at the new riding school makes difficulties in her friendship with Becky until Cassata, an Appaloosa that belongs to Becky's family, disappears and the two girls unite to find the missing mare.
Author
Publisher
Aladdin Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2000, c1996
Edition
1st Aladdin Paperbacks ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.3 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
When a thirsty frog drinks up all the water in Australia, the other animals must think of a way to make him give it up.
12) The lost man
Author
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Description
Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead. Something caused Cam, the middle child who had been in charge of the family homestead, to die alone in the middle of nowhere.
13) Dirt Creek
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
324 pages ; 25 cm
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
Publisher
Dial Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
An Australian sheep rancher who eats pumpkins for energy enters a race from Melbourne to Sydney, despite people laughing at his eccentricities.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 550 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Doctor Lucien Blake returns to Ballarat after an attempt to reunite with his long lost daughter. But it's no longer the safe haven he left behind: Danny has been transferred to Melbourne, replaced by a new Senior Constable who seems hell bent on making Blake's job as police surgeon as difficult as possible. Blake's old nemesis Patrick Tyneman has called in the help of some powerful men to keep an eye on Blake. And of course there are the strange and...
16) Boss of the pool
Author
Publisher
Viking Kestrel
Pub. Date
1988, c1986
Physical Desc
79 p. : ill.
Language
English
Description
Shelley's reluctant attempts to teach a mentally handicapped boy to swim teach her some painful lessons about herself.
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 20
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
2000
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
71 p. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
18) The snow pony
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 8
Physical Desc
194 p. : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Prolonged drought has strained Dusty's ranching family to the breaking point, but she finds consolation with her wild and beautiful horse.
19) Love is a gift
Author
Series
Heartland volume 15
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
173 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
On a visit to their father's ranch in Australia, Lou has no difficulty accepting her father's new wife, Helena, while Amy seeks refuge in the stables and in working with Spirit, the reluctant grey gelding trained by Helena.
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 505 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.