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"New York Times bestselling author Jane Harper is back with a new mystery featuring Aaron Falk, the detective from the bestseller and major motion picture The Dry At a busy festival site on a warm spring night, a baby lies alone in her stroller, her mother vanishing into the crowds. A year on, Kim Gillespie's absence casts a long shadow as her friends and loved ones gather deep in the heart of South Australian wine country to welcome a new addition...
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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) Stolen
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.3 - AR Pts: 12
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English
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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.v
5) Possum magic
Publisher
Weston Woods
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
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When Grandma Poss's magic turns Hush invisible, the two possums take a culinary tour of Australia to find the food that will make her visible once more.
6) The touch
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Pub. Date
2003.
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English
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Not since The Thorn Birds has Colleen McCullough written a novel of such broad appeal about a family and the Australian experience. When Alexander Kinross -- remembered in his native Scotland only as a shiftless boilermaker's apprentice and godless rebel -- summons his bride Elizabeth Drummond to Australia, his Scottish relatives realize that Kinross has made a fortune in the goldfields and is now a man to be reckoned with. The intimacies of marriage...
7) Hush
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Detective Harriet Blue volume 4
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English
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"Top cop. Devoted sister. Now Inmate 3329. But prison bars won't stop Harriet Blue from seeking justice for the murder of her brother. Prison is a dangerous place for a former cop--as Harriet Blue is learning on a daily basis. So, following a fight for her life and a prison-wide lockdown, the last person she wants to see is Deputy Police Commissioner Joe Woods. The man who put her inside. But Woods is not there to gloat. His daughter Tonya and her...
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2017.
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"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 claim that the boys had been together at the time of the...
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"Samuel Payton is a passionate youth pastor in Virginia, but below the surface, he's still recovering from the blow of a failed business and insecurities he can't shake. His coworker, start-up expert Kimberly Foster, is brilliant, fearless, and capable, but years of personal rejection have left her defensive and longing for a family. Two people have never been more at odds -- or more attracted to one another. And every day at work, the sparks sure...
11) Fifty, fifty
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Detective Harriet Blue volume 2
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English
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"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, population 75, where a diary found on the roadside outlines...
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Magic tree house. Original series volume 20
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
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English
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The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 4
Pub. Date
2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
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English
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Josh Tyler fronts a top-selling worship band and is in demand all over the world. But, in the past, his failed romantic relationships almost destroyed both his reputation and his family. He's determined to never risk it happening again. The last thing he needs is some American girl tipping his ordered life upside down. Especially one who despises everything he's ever worked for and manages to push every button he has.
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 6
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.1 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 5
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
17) Lucy and Linh
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 13
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English
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In Australia, Lucy tries to balance her life at home surrounded by her Chinese immigrant family, with her life at a pretentious private school.
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 9
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Author
Series
Conspiracy 365. Original series volume 10
Publisher
Kane Miller
Pub. Date
2010.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
20) Mirror
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Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
In Sydney, Australia, and in Morocco, two boys and their families have a day of shopping. Readers are invited to compare illustrations in two wordless stories that are intended to be read one from left to right and the other from right to left.
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