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Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (180 min.) : sound, stereo, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a landscape so ancient that, in parts, it predates life on the planet, are animals superbly adapted to the harsh and beautiful extremes of Outback Australia. Over the course of a year, journey with the people and animals of Australia's Kimberley region in northwest Australia: a vast, rugged and remote wilderness, bursting with character.
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Jett delivers a surfboard to a girl named Clara who lives on the Gold Coast, Australia. Mira's Wild Team is called in to teach Clara to surf, but everyone winds up getting more than they bargained for when they also wind up helping to rescue a shark!"--
Author
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Imagine birthing your baby exactly the way you would like -- quietly and peacefully in a dimly lit room in absolute control of your labour and birth, feeling safe and supported. A doula can help you achieve this. Doulas are trained to look after you, both emotionally and physically, during pregnancy, labour and birthing. They empower you to negotiate the best care for you and your baby. They act as your advocate, steering you and your partner through...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Eddie Jaku always considered himself a German first, a Jew second. He was proud of his country. But all of that changed on 9 November 1938, when he was beaten, arrested and taken to a concentration camp. Over the next seven years, Eddie faced unimaginable horrors every day, first in Buchenwald, then in Auschwitz, then on the Nazi death march. He lost family, friends, his country. Because he survived, Eddie made the vow to smile every day. He pays...
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Seven Australian teenagers return from a camping trip in the bush to discover that their country has been invaded and they must hide to stay alive.
70) Australia
Author
Series
Physical Desc
588 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Provides background information on Australia; describes the major sights, and suggests hotels, restaurants, entertainment, and outdoor activities.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (353 min.) ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two lone strangers trekking on the road -- a retired Australian policeman with a dog as his only company and a widowed English nurse -- meet each other and embark on an epic odyssey in the outback of northern Australia. Joan is looking for answers about her husband's unusual death and Jack is just wandering to escape his past, but together they encounter mysteries in the dark corners of the isolated landscape.
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 4
Pub. Date
1999.
Language
English
Formats
Description
As survivors of an enemy invasion of their homeland, Ellie and her friends return to Australia as guides for soldiers from New Zealand who plan an attack on the Wirrawee airfield.
73) Stolen
Author
Language
English
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Formats
Description
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.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (591 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This drama follows Sarah Adams, a nurse returning to 1950s Australia after twenty years in Europe. A convert to Judaism, Sarah emerged from the horrors of World War II strong, principled, and defiant--a modern woman still bearing the weight of her past.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
262 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When a professional urban couple relocate to regional Australia to care for an ageing parent, they find it more confronting yet also rewarding than they could have imagined. When Rebecca Lister and Tony Kelly move from Melbourne to Mount Isa to care for Rebecca's elderly mother, Diana, they have no idea what they've signed up for. The isolation, sweltering heat and limited employment opportunities make settling into the mining town a challenge. While...
77) A killing frost
Author
Series
Tomorrow series volume 3
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ellie and her friends, a small band of teenagers trying to survive in the Australian countryside, continue to resist the enemies who have invaded their country.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
xii, 511 pages, 8 pages of plates : color illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Is it too late to regenerate the earth? This groundbreaking book will change the way we think of, farm and grow food. Author and radical farmer Charles Massy explores transformative and regenerative agriculture and the vital connection between our soil and our health. It is a story of how a grassroots revolution, a true underground insurgency, can save the planet, help turn climate change around, and build healthy people and healthy communities,...
79) Jasper Jones
Author
Language
English
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Description
In small-town Australia, teens Jasper and Charlie form an unlikely friendship when one asks the other to help him cover up a murder until they can prove who is responsible.
80) Australia
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color map ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Engaging images accompany information about Australia. The combination of high-interest subject matter and narrative text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--
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