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Boat people

personal stories from the Vietnamese exodus 1975-1996
2013
A photographic exploration of the plight of Vietnamese refugees who left their country on boats from 1975 through 1996 in search of safety and freedom.

Flat Stanley's The Australian boomerang bonanza

2011
When his brother uses him as a boomerang on a beach near the Great Barrier Reef, the wind takes Flat Stanley halfway across Australia to the Outback.

Captain Fact

creepy-crawly adventure
2005
Captain Fact and Knowledge shrink to bug size and use their knowledge of insects to save the prime minister of Australia.

Underdogs

three novels
2013
Presents three novels in which two brothers, Ruben and Cameron Wolfe, strive to overcome the limitations of their family's poverty, taking jobs as fighters, and Cameron, the younger brother, tries to find love with his brother's ex-girlfriend.

Pearl Cove

1999
Young widow Hannah McGarry calls upon Archer Donovan for help when her husband, with whom Donovan was once a partner in a pearl farm business, dies leaving her to face the prospect of bankruptcy and the mystery of a missing three-million dollar fortune in black pearls.

Fiddleback

2001
Twelve-year-old Henni records her account of a camping trip with friends and neighbors.

True history of the Kelly gang

2002
A fictionalized account of the history of the Kelly gang, which traces the adventures of Australian outlaw Ned Kelly.

The Australians

1987
A history of Australia focusing on how Australians really live from the cosmopolitan cities to the rowdy frontier towns.

The Australian way of life

Examines the history, physical and economic geography of Australia. Also studies the cultural and ethnic diversity of the people.

Crocodile Dundee II

2001
Just as Crocodile Dundee is starting to adjust to life in New York City, he is targeted for death by a gang of ruthless drug dealers. To even the odds, Dundee leads the hoods into the treacherous Australian outback.

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