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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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Snakehead
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Anthony Horowitz
The Australian Secret Service recruits Alex Rider to infiltrate a ruthless gang known as Snakeheads. Alex accepts the assignment, and it becomes his most dangerous mission yet.
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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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Rabbit-Proof Fence: The True Story of One of the Greatest Escapes of All Time
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Doris Pilkington, Nugi Garimara
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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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On the Beach
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Nevil Shute
After the war is over, a radioactive cloud begins to sweep southwards on the winds, gradually poisoning everything in its path. An American submarine captain is among the survivors left sheltering in Australia, preparing with the locals for the inevitable. Despite his memories of his wife, he becomes close to a young woman struggling to accept the ...
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This Earth of Mankind
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Pramoedya Ananta Toer
Minke is a young Javanese student of great intelligence and ambition. Living equally among the colonists and colonized of 19th-century Java, he battles against the confines of colonial strictures. It is his love for Annelies that enables him to find the strength to embrace his world.
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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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Sound of Waves
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Yukio Mishima
Shinji, a fisherman, falls in love with Hatsue, the daughter of the richest man in his village, and the couple must persevere despite community disapproval.
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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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The Nutmeg of Consolation
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Patrick O'Brian
The 14th novel in O'Brian's highly acclaimed series, the Aubrey/Maturin novels, about a captain in the Royal Navy and his ship's surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars. In this installment, Jack and Stephen must deal with not only a tribe of cannibals but a mysterious and disruptive female convict on board ship.
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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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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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I Am the Messenger
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Markus Zusak
Being deeply, tragically unaccomplished in music, art, or even revolution, at age 19 Ed Kennedy is behind schedule compared to Bob Dylan, Salvador Dali, and Joan of Arc. Living in a cramped riverside hovel, this underage cab driver spends his time reading obsessively; playing cards with his loser friends Marv, Ritchie, and Audrey (also his intense ...
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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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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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Immoveable Feast: A Paris Christmas
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John Baxter
In this irresistible Christmas tale with a Parisian twist, the author of "We'll Always Have Paris" learns how Christmas is celebrated in his adopted city.
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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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Lady of expectations
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Stephanie Laurens
A classic historical romance by the "New York Times" bestselling author is back. If London society discovers his hidden wealth, Jack Lester will never find the right wife. When he meets Sophie Winterton, Jack becomes caught in his own trap. Reissue.
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Dark Torment
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Karen Robards
An Irish rebel and an Australian aristocrat discover passion despite their differences.
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No longer human
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Osamu Dazai
This story tells the poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas.
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