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Rocks and Fossils by Arthur B. Busbey 3rd; Robert R. Coenraads; David Roots; Paul Willis; Australian Geographic Staff
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Geograph Ser.
Illustrated guide to the world of geology and paleontology, looking at how the study of rocks and minerals reveals information about the Earth's history, touring some of the world's most notable sites, and offering details on various specimens and collecting.
Ruby and the Country Cousins (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #2) by Penny Matthews
Category: No Category | Series: Our Australian Girl Ruby #2
It's 1931 . . . and Ruby and her family have lost everything in the Great Depression. Leaving behind her dad, her school friends and everything she knows, Ruby must move to Kettle Farm to stay with her cousins. Life in the country is new and strange, and Ruby has never felt like such an outsider. Thankf ...Show more
Shooting Blanks at the Anzac Legend - Australian Women's War Fictions by Donna Coates
Category: No Category | Series: Sydney Studies in Australian Literature Ser.
War is traditionally considered a male experience. By extension, the genre of war literature is a male-dominated field, and the tale of the battlefield remains the privileged (and only canonised) war story. In Australia, although women have written extensively about their wartime experiences, their voic ...Show more
Six Minutes by Petronella McGovern
Category: No Category | Series: Australian
An unputdownable thriller for fans of Liane Moriarty and Caroline Overington. If you were gripped watching The Cry, you'll be hooked on Six Minutes. Impossible to put down and full of twists and turns you won't see coming! I loved this fabulous debut novel.' Liane Moriarty, bestselling author of Nine Pe ...Show more
Six Seconds: The Newcastle Earthquake (My Australian Story) by Alan Sunderland
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
I could hardly see. There was dust and smoke everywhere. I was falling, sliding down into a gap that had opened up between parts of the collapsed building. It was dark and silent. all I could hear was the sound of my own breathing, and my beating heart thumping in my ears. Then I heard the cry again: th ...Show more
Smoke Encrypted Whispers by Samuel Wagan Watson
Category: No Category | Series: UQP Black Australian Writers Ser.
Exhilarating road poems, urban songlines and ancestral ties are the hallmarks of this popular young poet. Smoke Encrypted Whispers contains poems from all of Samuel Wagan Watson's publications, as well as his unpublished new work. This generous collection opens with his 1999 Unaipon-winning volume Of Mu ...Show more
So She Did: The Story of May Wirth (HB) by Simi Genziuk; Renee Treml (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Australian Woman Circus Performer
At a time when girls weren't encouraged to be bold and daring, Australian circus rider May Wirth lived by her own rules. Instead of just looking pretty on a fancy circus pony, she longed to do thrilling stunts that would amaze crowds with her courage and skill... So she did. Here is the story of a girl ...Show more
Songs by Don Walker
Category: No Category | Series: Australian
Don Walker is widely considered one of Australia's greatest songwriters. For over forty years - from Cold Chisel and Tex, Don & Charlie to his solo work - he has written songs that capture what it is to be Australian. Collected here, for the first time, are lyrics from his extensive career- from 'K ...Show more
Songs of a War Boy (Young Readers Edition) by Deng Thiak Adut; Ben Mckelvey
Category: No Category | Series: Australian
Deng Adut was six years old when war came to his village in South Sudan. Taken from his mother, he was conscripted into the Sudan People's Liberation Army. He was taught to use an AK-47 then sent into battle. Shot in the back, dealing with illness and the relentless brutality of war, Deng's future was b ...Show more
Split: True stories of leaving, loss and new beginnings by Peter Bishop; Lee Kofman
Category: No Category | Series: True Stories by Prominent Australian Writers
In this compelling anthology of personal essays, curated by award-winning author Lee Kofman, some of Australia's most beloved writers reveal, for the first time, powerful, occasionally funny and often heartbreaking stories of significant endings and their aftermath. Graeme Simsion, author of The Rosie P ...Show more
Summer Time by Hilary Bell
Category: No Category | Series: Australian
Summer is here. Put your school shoes away, The long, lazy days can begin. Mangoes and magpies, municipal pools… Take a deep breath and dive in. The bestselling creators of Alphabetical Sydney and Numerical Street are back with their new picture book,Summer Time – a stunning tribute to an Australian sum ...Show more
Surviving Sydney Cove (My Australian Story) by Goldie Alexander
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Lizzie Harvey, a convict transported to Sydney Cove, is starved and overworked. She has to fetch water, mend clothes, please her master, care for his china-doll daughter and tiptoe around his moody soldier son. She can barely find time to dream about the way things used to be, let alone write in her dia ...Show more