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Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Just after Christmas 1803, convict William Buckley fled an embryonic settlement in the land of the Kulin nation (now the Port Phillip area), to take his chances in the wilderness.A few months later, the local Aboriginal people found the six-foot-five former soldier near death. Believing he was a lost kinsman returned from the dead, they took him in, and for thirty-two years Buckley lived as a Wadawurrung man, learning his adopted tribe's language,...
882) The water diviner
Author
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
10 audio discs (12 hr., 5 min.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in. ; in container.
Language
English
Description
When the Great War ends, Joshua Connor, a grieving farmer and sometime water diviner from the Mallee in Victoria, sets out to fulfil his wife's dying wish, to travel to Gallipoli to recover the bodies of his three sons and bury them in consecrated ground. Crescent collides with cross, and hope with reason as he discovers that his eldest son, Art, may still be alive. When Connor makes a desperate dash into the perilous heart of Anatolia one question...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (48 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two mischievous Gremlins have singled out the Wiggles and the "Network Wiggles" television studio for some serious mischief. When the Big Red Car breaks down on the way to the studio, Jeff, Murray, Greg, and Anthony have to get out and push. Meanwhile, Captain Feathersword finds leading the preparations for broadcast at the television studio unduly difficult, and most perplexing. After a truly wacky day, the Gremlins are discovered and the Wiggles'...
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
217 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the author's journey as an Australian Aboriginal woman and member of Australia's "Stolen Generation," detailing how she was forcibly removed from her biological family, adopted, and grew up coping with abuse, racism, and emotional trauma.
886) Kindness for koalas
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly illustrations (colour) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mala the Koala goes on a gentle journey discovering the meaning of kindness. A perfect, gentle introduction to friendship and kindness. When Mala the Koala stomps into the forest, a little mouse suggests Mala will soon feel better if she starts to be kind. But how? wonders Mala. Soon she's sharing her lunch with some emu chicks, helping a baby bat and comforting her friend, Wombat - discovering, on her way, that kindness really is what makes the...
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
186 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Funny, acerbic Edie Richter is moving with her husband from San Francisco to Perth, Australia. She leaves behind a sister and mother still mourning the recent death of her father. Before the move, Edie and her husband were content, if socially awkward - given her disinclination for small talk. In Perth, Edie finds herself in a remarkably isolated yet verdant corner of the world, but Edie has a secret: she committed an unthinkable act that she can...
Author
Series
Silver brumby volume 8
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
4 audio discs (4 hr., 29 min.) : digital, CD audio ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A ferocious storm cruelly separates the young colt, Tiarri, from his mother and dumps him beside an orphaned dingo pup. Tiarri saves the pup's life from a marauding eagle, and from this battle springs a friendship that defies every law of nature. It is a bizarre friendship between three animals that ordinarily would never associate. Together they roam the magnificent Snowy Mountains and survive repeated attacks from bush animals unsettled by their...
890) Epic expeditions
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
111 pages : color illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
Discover five of the most amazing adventures and treks in history. Join some of the world's greatest explorers as they embark on the most unforgettable expeditions in history.
891) Uluru
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Australia, a large red rock rises from the flat, dry ground. Uluru looks at when and how this monolith formed and what the future looks like for the beautiful rock." -- Amazon.
892) Of ashes and dust
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
507 pages (large print) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. -- Job 30:19 (NKJV) Jim Robbins is a dead man, and he knows it. He's fought Yankee and Pawnee, fought for the love of two very different women, fought for his very survival. Now, as the scenes of his life flash before him, his greatest struggle is about to begin. Wounded in a railroad explosion, Jim reviews those moments that shaped him. From the inequities of the Antebellum South,...
893) House of wax
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When their car breaks down on the way to a college football game, six friends become sidetracked and set off into an eerie backwoods town. Curiosity gets the better of them when they are intrigued by its macabre "House of Wax." They soon find out that the town is not what it seems and they must find their way out before they fall victim to its ghoulishly inventive killers.
894) Death defying acts
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mary McGarvie is a beautiful con artist who, with the help of her young daughter, fools audiences into believing she is psychic. The legendary magician Harry Houdini comes to town with a skeptic's challenge. He is going to give $10,000 to anyone who can correctly 'channel' his mother's dying words. Mary accepts the challenge. Houdini enters into a passionate affair with the charming clairvoyant even as he prepares for the most dangerous stunt of his...
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
xii, 284 pages : color illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Adventures with Old Vines offers an engaging and knowledgeable guide to demystify wine for novice enthusiasts. Richard Chilton provides detailed information about buying and storing wine, how to read a wine list, the role of the sommelier, wine fraud, how wine is really made, and how weather patterns can influence the quality of a vintage. A vineyard owner and lifelong wine lover, the author encourages readers to discover wine by tasting, taking...
896) Dawn raid
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
217 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
After the police raid their house, Lenny starts talking about protests and injustices against Pacific Islanders by the government, which inspires the whole family to become involved in the movement.
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