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 THOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE THOPatterson, 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 PATHarper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)
Summary: Joining a family celebration in Australian wine country, investigator Aaron Falk finds that, between his close friend, a missing mother, and a woman he's drawn to, long-hidden truths begin to emerge.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Macmillan Audio 2023
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC HARLim, 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 LIMPung, Alice
Summary: In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Collection, Call number: YA FIC PUNMirren, Lilly
Summary: "Each at the Waratah Inn for Christmas, both Elizabeth Cranwell and Robert Patch have a much different--and much happier--holiday than they originally expected."--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Black Lab Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIRMorgan, Marlo.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perennial 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MORStevenson, 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 World, Call number: YA FOREIGN SPANISH STEClark, Georgia
Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Emily Bestler Books/Atria 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC CLAMorton, Kate
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Publisher / Publication Date: Center Point Pub. 2009
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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP FIC MORDalton, Trent
Summary: "Darwin, 1942. As Japanese bombs rain down on her hometown, newly orphaned Molly Hook looks to the skies and runs for her life. Inside a duffel bag, she carries a stone heart and a map that will lead her to Longcoat Bob, the deep-country sorcerer whom shebelieves cursed her family. Accompanying her are the most unlikely traveling companions: Greta, a razor-tongued actress, and Yukio, a Japanese...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DALDisher, Garry.
Summary: Drugging his former police officer girlfriend and fleeing with a cache of stolen gems he subsequently discovers are fakes, enduring thief Wyatt begrudgingly joins forces with his estranged nephew to engineer a complicated heist.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Soho Press 2013
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC DISO'Reilly, P. A. (Paddy A.)
Summary: Single mother Loretta Boskovic campaigns to save the local school and it soon becomes clear that more than the school is in trouble.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Washington Square Press 2012
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OREMorrissey, Di.
Summary: At twenty-one, Queenie Hanlon has the world at her feet and the love of handsome bushman TR Hamilton. Beautiful, wealthy and intelligent, she is the only daughter of Tingulla Station, the famed outback property in the wilds of Queensland. At twenty-two, her life lies in ruins. A series of disasters has robbed her of everything she has ever loved. Everything except Tingulla--her ancestral home...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Bolinda Audio 2012
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC MORKidd, Jess
Summary: 1629: A newly orphaned young girl named Mayken is bound for the Dutch East Indies on the Batavia, one of the greatest ships of the Dutch Golden Age. Curious and mischievous, Mayken spends the long journey going on misadventures above and below the deck, searching for a mythical monster. But the true monsters might be closer than she thinks. 1989: A lonely boy named Gil is sent to live off the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2022
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KIDCopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction KiddColeman, 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 COLKline, Christina Baker
Summary: Seduced by her employer's son, Evangeline, a naïve 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC KLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KLICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: Fiction Kline 2020Kenwood, Nina
Summary: "From the award-winning author of It Sounded Better in My Head comes a deliciously entertaining enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy about two high school nemeses who end up sharing a house together their first year of college Eighteen-year-old Brooke is the kind of friend who not only remembers everyone's birthdays, but also organizes the group present, pays for it, and politely chases others for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2023
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KENTreml, Renée
Summary: Who knows blue? Roo knows blue! But does Roo know other colours too? Sing along with Roo and Possum as they practise their colours.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Puffin Books 2020
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1 available in JE Concept Crates, Call number: JE TREKwaymullina, Ambelin
Summary: The ghost of a girl who recently died in an accident makes contact with her grieving father to help solve a mystery in a remote Australian town, where a girl who speaks entirely in riddles is the only witness to a fatal fire.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2019
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1 available in Young Adult Fiction, Call number: YA FIC KWAMoyes, Jojo
Summary: "From the New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and One Plus One, in an earlier work available in the U.S. for the first time, a surprising and moving romance set in an old-fashioned seaside town on the verge of unwelcome change Liza McCullen will never fully escape her past. But the unspoiled beaches and tight-knit community of Silver Bay offer the freedom and safety she...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Group USA 2014
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOYLien, Tracey
Summary: A deeply moving and unflinching debut following a young Vietnamese-Australian woman who returns home to her family in the wake of her brother's shocking murder, determined to discover what happened--a dramatic exploration of the intricate bonds and obligations of friendship, family, and community. Just let him go. These are the words Ky Tran will forever regret. The words she spoke when her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2022
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC LIECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LIEHarper, Jane (Jane Elizabeth)
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flatiron Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC HARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: M HARKeneally, Thomas.
Summary: "Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Atria Books 2015