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21) Roo knows blue
Author
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
©2020.
Language
English
Description
Who knows blue? Roo knows blue! But does Roo know other colours too? Sing along with Roo and Possum as they practise their colours.
22) Lost autumn
Author
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Australia, 1920. Seventeen-year-old Maddie Bright embarks on the voyage of a lifetime when she's chosen to serve on the cross-continent tour of His Royal Highness, the dashing Edward, Prince of Wales. Life on the royal train is luxurious beyond her dreams, and the glamorous, good-hearted friends she makes crack open her world. But glamour often hides all manner of sins. Decades later, Maddie lives alone in Brisbane, whiling away the days. When a...
Author
Publisher
Bowker
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Follow Damen, Laurent and the supporting characters of Captive Prince on a series of adventures set in and around the events of the novels - and beyond, to learn what happens after the final page in the trilogy is turned. -- from Amazon.
24) The cute penguin
Author
Publisher
Little Hare
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Once there was a drawing of a penguin. It was the cutest penguin ever. The penguin knew he was cute. And he didn't like it one bit. The penguin doesn't just want to be cute - he wants to look like a REAL penguin. But is there anything a drawing can do to change what they are? Follow this penguin's hilarious journey as he searches for a way to become less cute - giving all the other cute animal drawings in the sketchbook a stern talking to along the...
25) A million things
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A bursting, heartfelt debut following fifty-five days in the life of ten-year-old Rae, who must look after herself and her dog when her mother disappears. For as long as Rae can remember, it's always just been her, Mum, and their dog, Splinter. They don't have a lot, but that's fine, because they like keeping their world small. They have their walks, their cooking routines, and sometimes Mum will disappear for a little while to clear her head, but...
Author
Publisher
Angus & Robertson
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
For the next seven days, the only homework is partying with friends, making new ones and living in the moment. There are no parents or curfews-- and no rules. Zoe, Samira and Dahlia are strangers, but they have something in common: their plans for a dream holiday after their final year of school are flipped upside-down before they even arrive at the beach. From hooking up and heartache, to growing apart, testing friendships and falling in love, anything...
27) The inland sea
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
After her final year in college, a young writer begins working part-time as an emergency dispatch operator in Sydney. Over the course of an eight-hour shift, she is dropped into hundreds of crises, hearing only pieces of each. The work itself becomes monotonous. And yet the stress of listening to far-off disasters seeps into her personal life, and she begins drinking heavily, sleeping with strangers, having an affair with an ex-lover. Interwoven with...
28) Those who perish
Author
Series
Caleb Zelic novels volume 4
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
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Formats
Description
"You should be careful, Mr Zelic. Because the person who killed Peter Taylor will almost certainly kill again." Deaf PI Caleb Zelic has always been an outsider, estranged from family and friends. But when he receives a message that his brother, Anton, is in danger, Caleb sees it as a chance at redemption.He tracks Anton down to a small, wind-punished island, where secrets run deep and resentments deeper. When a sniper starts terrorising the isolated...
29) Slaughter Park
Author
Series
Belltree trilogy volume 3
Publisher
The Text Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In this, the final book of the Belltree Trilogy, DS Harry Belltree has gone bush. His obsessive pursuit of justice has cost him everything - his job, his marriage and his newborn child - but then his estranged wife disappears, leaving their baby daughter behind, and he is dragged back to Sydney. The police think Jenny has murdered a man. Harry thinks she's in danger. When body parts are found maimed and strewn around a suburban park, his former colleagues...
30) Swallow's Dance
Author
Publisher
Pajama Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Leira is about to start her initiation as a priestess when her world is turned upside down. A violent earthquake leaves her home - and her family - in pieces. And the earth goddess hasn't finished with the island yet. With her family, Leira flees across the sea to Crete, expecting sanctuary. But a volcanic eruption throws the entire world into darkness. After the resulting tsunami, society descends into chaos; the status and privilege of being noble-born...
31) Snake Island
Author
Publisher
Arcade CrimeWise
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
" In an isolated town on the coast of southern Australia, Vernon Moore and his wife, Penelope, live in retirement, haunted by an unspeakable act of violence that sent their son, Caleb, to serve time in prison and has driven the couple apart. Ashamed, they refuse to talk about him or visit, but when a close friend warns Vernon that Caleb has been savagely beaten, he has no choice but to act to protect their only child. The perpetrator of the beating...
Author
Series
Publisher
Soho Crime
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Inspector Hal Challis has been summoned to Mawson's Bluff, his childhood home in the Australian Outback, where his father is dying. Sergeant Ellen Destry is left to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles that has descended on the peaceful Mornington Peninsula, a resort community near Melbourne. A little girl has been abducted from the fairgrounds at the annual Waterloo Show; it takes her mother twenty-four hours to report her missing. By...
Author
Publisher
Scribble
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"A pair of pears rocked on a seesaw. A pair of pears played ping-pong. A pair of pears rode their tandem bike. Until one day, someone new wanted to join their fun. Big Pear and Little Pear love playing together. But when Orange joins in, their games don't work and Big Pear feels left out. A relatable, hilarious, and kind-hearted tale about navigating friendship when three definitely starts to feel like a crowd! From the author of much-loved Anemone...
34) Sunflower
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Eleven-year-old Jamila is settling into her new life in Australia, along with Mama, Baba and baby Amir. She still misses her home in Iraq, but she's happy to have her whole family safe and together again. Jamila and her new best friend, Eva, sing side by side in the choir at school, and have picnics together on the weekend. One day, Jamila gets some exciting news-her oldest friend from Iraq, Mina, has been granted a visa to come to Melbourne with...
35) No more boats
Author
Publisher
Europa Editions
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
"A finalist for the Miles Franklin Literary Award in 2018, No More Boats is not only a riveting story of a modern family it directly addresses issues that many nations around the world are grappling with as never before--namely, immigration, xenophobia, protectionism, racism, media manipulation, unchecked urban property development, and the precariousness of the working poor. Set in Sydney's working-class western suburbs, No More Boats tells of a...
36) The survivors
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Kieran Elliott's life changed forever on a single day when a reckless mistake led to devastating consequences. The guilt that haunts him still resurfaces during a visit with his young family to the small coastal town he once called home. Kieran's parents are struggling in a community which is bound, for better or worse, to the sea that is both a lifeline and a threat. Between them all is his absent brother Finn. When a body is discovered on the beach,...
Author
Publisher
Catapult
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Picking up her pace, Frances saw a woman in the leaf-hung depths of the garden. She wore a long pink dress and a wide hat, and her skin was a creamy white. There came upon Frances a sensation that sometimes overtook her when she was looking at a painting: space was foreshortened, time stood still." When Frances met Charlie at a party in Melbourne he was married with a young son. Now she and Charlie live in Sydney with her rescue dog Rod and an unshakeable...
Series
Sun tracks volume 69
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
In this first-ever anthology of Indigenous science fiction, Grace Dillon collects some examples of the craft, with contributions by Native American, First Nations, Aboriginal Australian, and New Zealand Maori authors. The collection includes seminal authors such as Gerald Vizenor, historically important contributions often categorized as "magical realism" by authors like Leslie Marmon Silko and Sherman Alexie, and authors more recognizable to science...
Author
Series
Nanny Piggins volume 6
Publisher
Random House Australia
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Nanny Piggins gets in trouble with the law after some illicit tight rope walking, and is sentenced to 5000 hours community service. But she isn't the type of pig to take her punishment lying down, not when there are old people to rescue, pirates to impersonate and a great big bus to borrow.
Author
Publisher
Text Publishing
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"It is 1788. Twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth is hungry for life but, as the ward of a Devon clergyman, knows she has few prospects. When proud, scarred soldier John Macarthur promises her the earth one midsummer's night, she believes him. But Elizabeth soon realises she has made a terrible mistake. Her new husband is reckless, tormented, driven by some dark rage at the world. He tells her he is to take up a position as Lieutenant in a New South Wales...
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