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The Forgotten Garden
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Kate Morton
A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever. Decades ...
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In a Sunburned Country
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Bill Bryson (Read by)
Bryson, author of A WALK IN THE WOODS and I'M A STRANGER HERE MYSELF, takes on Australia. Bryson's wit and capacity for observation remain in top working condition despite the heat, and his encounters with the locals are engaging in this typical Brysonian look beyond the obvious.
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Mutant Message Down Under
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Marlo Morgan (Read by)
Originally self-published, this account of an American who traveled to Australia and joined a tribe of aborigines on a four-month-long trek in the outback, has sold over 370,000 copies. Marlo Morgan, a health-care professional, traveled barefoot through 1,400 miles of terrain, lived as her hosts lived, ate their food, and learned their methods of ...
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Tales from Outer Suburbia
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Shaun Tan
An exchange student who's really an alien, a secret room that becomes the perfect place for a quick escape, a typical tale of grandfatherly exaggeration that is actually even more bizarre than he says... These are the odd details of everyday life that grow and take on an incredible life of their own in tales and illustrations that Shaun Tan's many ...
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Road from Coorain
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Jill Ker Conway
A memoir of Jill Ker Conway's childhood in Australia and her education in the US, where she became the first woman president of Smith College.
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Pearl Cove
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Elizabeth Lowell
A decade ago, the passionate romance between Archer Donovan and Hannah McGarry was extinguished by Archer's domineering half-brother--and Hannah's fiance--Len. But when Len, who is head of the Donovan family's pearl business, is murdered for his possession of some rare black pearls, Hannah calls on Archer to help her track down the killer. Before ...
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Transit of Venus
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Shirley Hazzard
The life stories of two sisters who leave Australia for England and America as young women. Both have love affairs, marriages, and and families in their new worlds, and it is the history of their domestic and love lives that makes up the greater part of this tale. Considered Hazzard's finest novel, TRANSIT OF VENUS was a winner of the National ...
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Thorn Birds
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Colleen McCullough
Colleen McCullough's wildly popular epic blockbuster, first published in 1977, follows the fortunes of the Cleary family over three generations, but concentrates mainly on Meggie and her passionate, obsessive love for a Catholic priest, Father Ralph. The complex, passionate plot, along with McCullough's vivid descriptions of the Australian outback ...
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Oscar & Lucinda
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Peter Carey, LL.
This whimsical novel, winner of the 1988 Booker Prize, is set in Victorian England and Australia, is the story of two highly unusual people: Oscar Hopkins, rebellious son of a disciplinarian preacher, and Lucinda Leplastrier, an heiress who has just bought a glass factory. The two meet on shipboard, fall in love, and find that they share an ...
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New Zealand
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DK Publishing (Creator)
For travelers who enjoy visual travel guides, this handbook offers expanded hotel and restaurant listings, better maps, enhanced itineraries, and new, easier-to-read print. Full color.
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Whale Rider
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Witi Ihimaera
Though she is a girl, and young, Kahu is designated the Whale Rider in her Maori tribe. But the position also brings with it the honor of chiefdom. Kahu must prove that she is worthy. This novel by a Maori is the basis for a critically acclaimed film.
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Town Like Alice
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Nevil Shute
This title features an introduction by Eric Lomax. Jean Paget is just twenty years old and working in Malaya when the Japanese invasion begins. When she is captured she joins a group of other European women and children whom the Japanese force to march for miles through the jungle - an experience that leads to the deaths of many. Due to her ...
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Mutant Message from Forever: A Novel of Aboriginal Wisom
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Marlo Morgan
On the heels of the worldwide bestselling "Mutant Message Down Under" comes the powerful tale of aboriginal twins separated at birth and how destiny and a search for their roots reunites them halfway around the world.
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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
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Thomas Keneally
Keneally offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard, and administrators arrived in New South Wales.
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Lonely Planet New Zealand
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Charles Rawlings-Way
Includes contributions by food expert Lauraine Jacobs, historian James Belich, Maori publisher John Huria and musician Gareth Shute. Contains loads of information on New Zealand's thriving organic establishments and Maori community-based tourism operators. Expanded chapters on Outdoor Activities & Maori Culture. Inspirational interviews with local ...
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The Case for Mars
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Robert Zubrin, Richard Wagner
In this provocative new vision of the Red Planet, the author explains not only the means to travel to Mars, but how to settle on the surface--and why doing so is vital to our physical and cultural survival.
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The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
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J Maarten Troost
When the author's wife was posted to the small island nation of Kiribati in the South Pacific, their culture shock was extreme. Expecting a Gauguin-esque paradise, they actually found a hot, filthy, polluted, isolated, and forgotten place with almost no amenities. After two years of battling bureaucracy and, often, simply trying to find something ...
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Fatal Shore
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Robert Hughes
This nationwide bestselling account of the founding of Australia is "a brilliant and enduring achievement . . . history of the highest order combining thorough research with vivid narrative and thoughtful assessment".--Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. Two 16-page black-and-white photo inserts.
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Moonfire
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Linda Lael Miller
Beautiful Maggie Chamberlin fell in love with wealthy Reeve McKenna, a man as ruggedly splendid as the Australian wilderness. But Reeve's fierce hunger for Maggie is not yet love, and Maggie demands either the breathless pleasure of his passion and the full surrender of his heart--or nothing at all!
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Ten Degrees of Reckoning: The True Story of a Family's Love and the Will to Survive
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Hester Rumberg
In 1993, Judith and Michael Sleavin and their two children set out to sail around the world. But one night, a freighter off the coast of New Zealand altered its course and changed everything. This is the unbelievable yet true story of one family's love, loss, and a remarkable woman who decided to live against all odds.
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Batavia's Graveyard: The True Story of the Mad Heretic Who Led History's Bloodiest Mutiny
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Mike Dash
"Batavia's Graveyard" is a spellbinding true story of mutiny, shipwreck, mass murder, and rescue in the 17th century East Indies. A Book Sense 76 pick in hardcover and favorite of critics everywhere, this tale to rival "In the Heart of the Sea" and "Mutiny on the Bounty" is now in paperback.
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Tommo & Hawk
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Bryce Courtenay
Evoking a time of struggle and triumph in the young Australian colonies, this is the tale of the enduring bond between two brothers, Tommo and Hawk Solomon. The second book in an epic trilogy from Bryce Courtenay.
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The songlines
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Bruce Chatwin
Chatwin combines his own love for wandering the face of the earth with an examination of Australian aboriginal culture in this highly personal, lyrically written travel book by a master of the form.
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Frommer's New Zealand
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Adrienne Rewi
Experience a place the way the locals do. Enjoy the best it has to offer. And avoid tourist traps. At Frommer's, we use 150 outspoken travel experts around the world to help you make the right choices. Frommer's. Your guide to a world of travel experience. Choose the Only Guide That Gives You: Outspoken opinions on what's worth your time and ...
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True History of the Kelly Gang
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Peter Carey
Peter Carey tells the story of Australia's most famous outlaw, Ned Kelly, who was executed as a murderer and a horse thief in 1880. The facts of Kelly's brief life are revealed in a series of letters, very much in his own quirky vernacular voice, that he writes to the baby daughter he never sees. What is clear from Peter Carey's account is that ...
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