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Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"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 post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures. 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to fulfill the promises made to the men they wed in wartime. In Sydney, Australia, four women join 650 other war brides on an...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
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...
23) The island
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
375 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
After moving from a small country town to Seattle, Heather Baxter marries Tom, a widowed doctor with a young son and teenage daughter. A working vacation overseas seems like the perfect way to bring the new family together, but once they’re deep in the Australian outback, the jet-lagged and exhausted kids are so over their new mom. When they discover remote Dutch Island, off-limits to outside visitors, the family talks their way onto the ferry,...
24) Bob
Author
Publisher
Feiwel and Friends
Pub. Date
2018.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 4
Language
English
Description
Visiting her grandmother in Australia, Livy, ten, is reminded of the promise she made five years before to Bob, a strange, green creature who cannot recall who or what he is.
25) The survivors
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"Coming home dredges up deeply buried secrets in The Survivors, a thrilling mystery by New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper. Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on the day a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that still haunts him resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal community he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a town where fortunes are forged by the sea. Between...
26) Fast track
Author
Series
Buchanan / FBI volume 12
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Family secrets and a hidden past-a woman's search to uncover the truth ignites danger and passion in the latest novel from #1 New York Times-bestselling author Julie Garwood. Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl-her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the emotion is only intensified by the confusion she feels...
Author
Series
Treasure hunters volume 7
Publisher
JIMMY Patterson Books/Little, Brown
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Bick, Beck, Storm, and Tommy have one week to traverse the Australian Outback, locate Charlotte Badger and her pirate cronies, and find evidence to prove their parents innocent of stealing rare opals.
28) In too deep
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Amy and Dan Cahill travel to Australia to figure out what their own parents knew about the object of their quest, but their search brings back terrible memories for Amy and endangers a secret ally.
30) Pie in the sky
Author
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Knowing very little English, eleven-year-old Jingwen feels like an alien when his family immigrates to Australia, but copes with loneliness and the loss of his father by baking elaborate cakes.
31) Radiant heat
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"When a catastrophic wildfire suddenly rips through a woman's hometown, she thinks she is lucky to have survived...until she finds a dead woman in her driveway, clutching a piece of paper with her name on it.... Alison is alive. She rode out the fire on the damp tiles of her bathroom, her entire body swaddled in a wet woolen blanket. The flames crackled around her, the bitter char of eucalyptus settling in the back of her throat. The wildfire devastated...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
401 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"On a famous Australian train between Darwin and Adelaide for the Mystery Writers' Society one of the attendees is murdered for real in the new mystery from the author of Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone"--
Author
Series
Magic tree house volume 20
Publisher
Random House
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.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
340 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Two brothers meet in the remote Australian outback when the third brother is found dead, in this stunning new standalone novel from New York Times bestseller Jane Harper Two brothers meet at the remote fence line separating their cattle ranches in the lonely outback. In an isolated belt of Western Australia, they are each other's nearest neighbor, their homes four hours' drive apart. The third brother lies dead at their feet. Something caused Cam,...
36) 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
Series
The boxcar children great adventure volume 4
Publisher
Albert Whitman & Company
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 3
Physical Desc
145 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Following clues provided by the secretive Reddimus Society, the four Alden siblings travel to a dingo sanctuary in Australia and to Shakleton's hut in Antarctica to deliver the fifth and sixth artifacts, and then they work to unmask the traitor traveling with them.
Author
Series
Butcher's Boy volume 4
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Michael Shaeffer is a retired American businessman, living peacefully in England with his aristocratic wife. But her annual summer party brings strangers to their house, and with them, an attempt on Michael's life. He is immediately thrust into action, luring his lethal pursuers to Australia before venturing into the lion's den-the States-to figure out why the mafia is after him-again-and how to stop them. Eddie's Boy jumps between Michael's current...