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Kokoda (My Australian Story) by Alan Tucker
Category: No Category | Series: My Australian Story
Its been a disastrous day. The radio news reports that HMAS Canberra has been sunk with the loss of 819 lives and Kokoda has been lost by the Australians. Who knows where Dess lot are? Somewhere on the mountain track between Kokoda and Port Moresby with the Japs hot on their heels. Harold couldnt say to ...Show more
Limno the Pobblebonk Frog by Pauline Reilly; Kaylene Traynor (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Collection of Australian Animals Ser.
Limno the Pobblebonk Frog
Made in Lancashire - A Collective Biography of Assisted Migrants from Lancashire to Victoria 1852-1853 by Richard Turner
Category: No Category | Series: Australian History Ser.
At the height of the Victorian gold rush, between July 1852 and June 1853, hundreds of government-assisted migrants from Lancashire, England, made their way to Australia and disembarked in Victoria. They were part of a huge flood of such migrants who were poured into the new-born colony as the colonial ...Show more
Mallee Country: Land, People, History by Richard Broome, Charles Fahey, Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes
Category: History | Series: Australian History Ser.
Mallee Country tells the powerful history of mallee lands and people across southern Australia from Deep Time to the present. Carefully shaped and managed by Aboriginal people for over 50,000 years, mallee country was dramatically transformed by settlers, first with sheep and rabbits, then by flattening ...Show more
Meet Alice (Our Australian Girl - Alice #1) by Davina Bell
Category: No Category | Series: Our Australian Girl
It's 1918 . . . and Alice lives with her big family by the Swan River in Perth, while on the other side of the world, the Great War rages. Alice's deepest wish is to become a ballerina, and when she auditions for a famous dance teacher from London, it seems as if her dreams might come true. But then the ...Show more
Meet Grace (Our Australian Girl - Grace #1) by Sofie Laguna; Lucia Masciullo (Illustrator)
Category: No Category | Series: Our Australian Girl: 1808 Ser.
It's 1808 . . . and Grace is living with her uncle in London. They have no money, and Grace is always lonely and often hungry. The best part of her day is going to Fleet Street to talk to the horses that she loves so much. One afternoon Grace can't resist taking a shiny red apple from a grocer's cart - ...Show more
Meet Ruby (Our Australian Girl - Ruby #1) by Penny Matthews
Category: No Category | Series: Our Australian Girl
Meet Ruby and join her adventure in the first of four stories about a happy-go-lucky girl in a time of great change. It's 1930 and Ruby Quinlan lives in a big house in Adelaide with her parents and her fox terrier, Baxter. As she gets ready for her twelfth birthday party, Ruby has never been happier. Bu ...Show more
Mia: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones by Dianne Wolfer
Category: No Category | Series: Through My Eyes - Australian Disaster Zones Ser.
A powerful story of one girl's experience of 2019's Cyclone Veronica in Western Australia. Mia is used to cyclone build-ups, but the noise and energy of the wild rain squalls keep her awake half the night. What if the cyclone hits before Mum gets back? As wild winds batter the coast, Mia knows she must ...Show more
Monkey Grip - Penguin Australian Classics by Helen Garner
Category: No Category | Series: Penguin Australian Classics
Inner-suburban Melbourne in the 1970s: a world of communal living, drugs, music and love. Nora falls in love with Javo the junkie, and together they try to make sense of their lives and the choices they have made. But caught in an increasingly ambiguous relationship, they are unable to let go - and the ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
More Great Australian Outback Police Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Yarns and memories that capture the experience of policing in the bush, gathered by the inimitable Bill 'Swampy' Marsh, bestselling author of GREAT AUSTRALIAN FLYING DOCTOR STORIES and GREAT AUSTRALIAN CWA STORIES. 'I tell you, you meet some strange characters in this game ...'Boasting the biggest beats ...Show more
More Great Australian Outback Towns & Pubs Stories by Bill Marsh
Category: Australian Culture | Series: Great Australian Stories Ser.
Bill 'Swampy' Marsh has been on yet another adventure, this time gathering more stories from outback towns and pubs; from the green fields of Tasmania to the vast red sands of Simpson Desert.The unique characters of the outback will touch your heart as Swampy presents all the drama and delight of life i ...Show more