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Author
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Called home to care for her grandmother after a fall, Jess, a journalist, discovers a book chronicling the police investigation into an old unsolved murder that has a shocking connection to her family.
"The highly anticipated new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Clockmaker's Daughter, a sweeping novel that begins with a shocking crime, the effects of which echo across continents and generations. Adelaide Hills, Christmas Eve,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Ballantine Books Trade Paperbacks
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Sending her family away at Christmas so she can host guests at the Valley View Motel, mischievous octogenarian Lola Quinlan unveils the reasons her guests are not with their loved ones until drama in her own family threatens her plans.
Author
Publisher
Soho
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Inspector Hal Challis is called to his boyhood home to tend to his dying father, leaving Sergeant Ellen Destry to head an investigation into a ring of pedophiles while Hal conducts his own investigation into his brother-in-law's mysterious disappearance.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"The Sun Walks Down is a sweeping, propulsive epic set in colonial Australia from Fiona McFarlane, the award-winning author of The Night Guest and The High Places"--
In September 1883, the South Australian town of Fairly huddles under strange, vivid sunsets. Six-year-old Denny Wallace has gone missing during a dust storm, and the whole town is intent on finding him. As they search the desert and mountains for the lost child, the residents of Fairly...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
"On a country property a man named Holland lives with his daughter Ellen. Over the years, as she grows into a beautiful young woman, he plants hundreds of different gum trees on his land. When Ellen is nineteen her father announces his decision: she will marry the man who can name all his species of eucalypt, down to the last tree."--Provided by publisher.
6) A dream life
Author
Publisher
Tablo Tales
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When the Armstrong family moves from New York at the dawn of the 1970s, Australia feels, to Alice Armstrong, like the end of the earth. Residing in a grand manor on the glittering Sydney Harbour, her family's life has turned upside down. As she navigates this strange new world, Alice must find a way to weave an existence from its shimmering mirage.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
In 1908, Mary Davidson, tasked with supporting her father's boisterous whaling crews while caring for her five brothers and sisters after the death of their mother, must navigate through sibling rivalries and an all-consuming first love for a new crew member.
Author
Series
Archer and Bennett thrillers volume 3
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
To stop a killer in the making, homicide detective Frank Benner must place his trust in his partner, Eden Archer, a cop who moonlights as a killer, while Eden, who knows the temptation of evil, must confront a fear she cannot escape.
12) Breaker Morant
Publisher
Stax Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2005
Language
English
Description
Following the brutal death of a British captain in the Boer War in South Africa in 1901, Lt. Harry Morant leads his unit in pursuit of the Boers, attacks their camp, and has a captive executed. Other executions and deaths lead to the arrest and trial of Morant and two other lieutenants in this dramatization based on true events.
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"Gritty and darkly hilarious novel quaking with life-winner of Australia's Miles Franklin Award-that follows a queer, First Nations Australian woman as she returns home to face her family and protect the land of their ancestors. Wise-cracking Kerry Salter has spent her adulthood avoiding two things: her hometown and prison. A tough, generous, reckless woman accused of having too much lip, Kerry uses anger to fight the avalanche of bullshit the world...
Series
800 words volume 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
George Turner, a recent widower, quits his job as a popular 800-word columnist for a Sydney newspaper. On an impulse, he buys a house online in a remote seaside town in New Zealand. He then has to break the news to his two teenage kids, Shay and Arlo, who just lost their mom and now face an even more uncertain future. When the family arrives in their new home, the colorful and inquisitive locals ensure Turner's dream of a fresh start does not go according...
Author
Publisher
Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
A woman abandons her city life and marriage to return to the place of her childhood, holing up in a small religious community hidden away on the stark plains of the Monaro. She does not believe in God, doesn't know what prayer is, and finds herself living this strange, reclusive life almost by accident. As she gradually adjusts to the rhythms of monastic life, she finds herself turning again and again to thoughts of her mother, whose early death she...
Author
Series
Lane Holland novel volume 2
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
2024
Language
English
Description
"Gemma Guillory has lived in the Australian Outback enclave of Rainier her entire life. She knows the tiny, red-dust town’s ins and outs by heart, knows the people like they are her family, their quirks as if they were her own. She also knows her once charming town is now remembered for one reason and one reason only: three innocent people died there at the hands of a serial killer. The last stop on the Rainier Ripper’s trail of deaths fifteen...
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