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Arthur Corunna's Story
by Sally Morgan

ISBN 0316582891 (0-316-58289-1)
Softcover, Little, Brown Book Group Limited

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Bliss - the Screenplay
by Peter Carey

ISBN 0679767193 (0-679-76719-3)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Blue Latitudes : Boldly Going Where Captain Cook Has Gone Before
by Tony Horwitz

ISBN 0805065415 (0-8050-6541-5)
Hardcover, Holt & Company, Henry

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Captain James Cook's three epic 18th-century explorations of the Pacific Ocean were the last of their kind, literally completing the map of the world. Yet despite his monumental discoveries, principally in the South Pacific, Cook the man has remained an enigma. In retracing key legs of the circumnavigator's journey, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz chronicles the cultural and environmental havoc wrought by the captain's opening of the unspoiled Pacific to the West, as well as the alternately indifferent and passionate reactions Cook's name evokes during the writer's journeys through Polynesia, Australia, the Aleutians, and the explorer's native England. Horwitz skillfully weaves a biography and travel narrative with warm humor that is natural and human-scale, and his restless inquisitiveness quickly infects the reader. While striking dichotomies abound throughout that journey--Maori toughs who adopt Nazi imagery to symbolize their own fight against white domination, millennia-old Polynesian sexual mores that would shame the Reeperbahn, a sense that Christianity decimated native cultures at least as effectively as Western venereal diseases did--few are more poignant than the ones that abound in Cook's own life. This fine work is an adventurous reminder that answers to historical riddles are elusive at best--and seldom as compelling as the myriad new questions they pose. --Jerry McCulley [via]
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The Commonwealth of Thieves
by Thomas Keneally

ISBN 1740513371 (1-74051-337-1)
Hardcover, Random House Australia

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A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia
by Thomas Keneally

ISBN 038551459X (0-385-51459-X)
Hardcover, Nan a Talese

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Eliot to Derrida: The Poverty of Interpretation
by John Harwood

ISBN 0312125593 (0-312-12559-3)
Softcover, Palgrave Macmillan

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This is a sardonic portrait of the cult of the specialist interpreter, from I.A. Richards and the Cambridge School to Jacques Derrida and his disciples. [via]
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Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence
by Doris Pilkington, Nugi Garimara

ISBN 0702227099 (0-7022-2709-9)
Softcover, Univ of Queensland Pr

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A Fortunate Life
by A.B. Facey

ISBN 0140062254 (0-14-006225-4)
Hardcover, Penguin Books

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The Future Eaters: An Ecological History of the Australian Lands and People
by Tim F. Flannery

ISBN 0802139434 (0-8021-3943-4)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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The Getting of Wisdom
by Henry Handel Richardson

ISBN 1404305610 (1-4043-0561-0)
Softcover, Indypublish.Com

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The Ghost Writer
by John Harwood

ISBN 0156032325 (0-15-603232-5)
Softcover, Harvest Books

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The Cornish prayer: "From ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggety beasties and things that go bump in the night, Good Lord, deliver us!" is an appropriate invocation when reading The Ghost Writer, John Harwoods debut novel. It is a rousing good ghost story, with many twists and turns, rather like taking apart a Russian matryoshka nesting doll.
Gerard Freeman, at age ten, sneaks into his mother's room and unlocks a secret drawer, only to find a picture of a woman he has never seen before, but one that he will find again and again. His mother discovers him and gives him the beating of his life. Why this excessive reaction? She is a worried, paranoid, thin, and fretful type with an "anxious, haunted look." By tale's end, we know why.
Phyllis Freeman, Gerard's mother, was happiest when speaking fondly of Staplefield, her childhood home, where there were things they "didnt have in Mawson [Australia], chaffinches and mayflies and foxgloves and hawthorn, coopers and farriers and old Mr. Bartholomew who delivered fresh milk and eggs to their house with his horse and cart." It's the sort of childhood idyll that the timid and lonely Gerard believes in and longs for. He strikes up a correspondence with an English "penfriend," Alice Jessel, when he is 13 and a half, living in a desolate place with a frantic mother and a silent father. She is his age, her parents were killed in an accident and she has been crippled by it. She now lives in an institution, whose grounds she describes as much the way Staplefield looked. They go through young adulthood together, in letters only, thousands of miles apart, eventuallydeclaring their love for one another.
Interwoven with the narrative of Alice and Gerard's letters are real ghost stories, the creation of Gerard's great-grandmother, Viola. At first, they seem to be scary Victorian tales of the supernatural. Then, we see that they have a spooky way of mirroring, or preceding, events in real life, off the page. Gerard comes upon them, one by one, in mysterious ways, but clearly something, or someone, is leading him. The stories seem to implicate his mother in some nefarious goings-on, but the truth is far worse than Gerard imagines.
Any more would be telling too much. Turn on all the lights in the house when you settle down with this one, and plan to spend a long time reading because you will be lost in the story immediately. --Valerie Ryan [via]
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History of Australia
by F. G. Clarke

ISBN 0522842240 (0-522-84224-0)
Softcover, Melbourne Univ Pr

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A History of Australia: From 1824 to 1888
by Manning Clark

ISBN 0522848982 (0-522-84898-2)
Softcover, Melbourne Univ Pr

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History of Australia: People Make Laws, 1888-1915
by Charles M. Clark

ISBN 0522842232 (0-522-84223-2)
Hardcover, Melbourne Univ Pr

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History of Australia: The Beginning of Australian Civilization
by Charles M. Clark

ISBN 052284054X (0-522-84054-X)
Hardcover, Melbourne Univ Pr

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A History of Australia : Volumes I and II: from Earliest Times To 1838
by Manning Clark

ISBN 0522848974 (0-522-84897-4)
Softcover, Melbourne University Publishing

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1822 - 1838 was a period of struggle and change, from a plantation society using convict labour and governed by army and navy officers to a society with increasing numbers of free settlers, businessmen turned landowners and a small business and professional class in the towns.
Manning Clark deals with the effect on the Aborigines of the coming of Europeans, in which G. A. Robinson played a part in Van Diemen's Land, and continues the record of inland exploration by describing journeys of Hume and Hovell and of Captain Charles Sturt. [via]
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I am The Messenger
by Markus Zusak

ISBN 0375836675 (0-375-83667-5)
Softcover, Alfred a Knopf Inc

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Meet Ed Kennedyunderage cabdriver, pathetic cardplayer, and useless at romance. He lives in a shack with his coffee-addicted dog, the Doorman, and hes hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence, until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery. Thats when the first Ace arrives. Thats when Ed becomes the messenger. . . .

Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary), until only one question remains: Whos behind Eds mission?

Winner of the 2003 Childrens Book Council Book of the Year Award in Australia, I Am the Messenger is a cryptic journey filled with laughter, fists, and love. [via]
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I Am the Messenger
by M. Zusak

ISBN 1417700238 (1-4177-0023-8)
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FOR USE IN SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES ONLY. After capturing a bank robber, 19-year-old cab driver Ed Kennedy begins receiving mysterious messages that direct him to addresses where people need help, and he begins getting over his lifelong feeling of worthlessness. [via]
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The Idea of Perfection
by Kate Grenville

ISBN 0142002852 (0-14-200285-2)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Harley Savage is a plain woman, a part-time museum curator and quilting expert with three failed marriages and a heart condition. Douglas Cheeseman is a shy, gawky engineer with jug-handle ears, one marriage gone sour, and a crippling lack of physical courage. They meet in the little Australian town of Karakarook, where Harley has arrived to help the town build a heritage museum and Douglas to demolish the quaint old Bent Bridge. From the beginning they are on a collision course until the unexpected sets them both free.

Elegantly and compassionately told, The Idea of Perfection is reminiscent of the work of Carol Shields and Annie Proulx and reveals Kate Grenville as "a writer of extraordinary talent" (The New York Times Book Review).

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Illywhacker
by Peter Carey

ISBN 0679767908 (0-679-76790-8)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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In Australian slang, an illywhacker is a country fair con man, an unprincipled seller of fake diamonds and dubious tonics. And Herbert Badgery, the 139-year-old narrator of Peter Carey's uproarious novel, may be the king of them all. Vagabond and charlatan, aviator and car salesman, seducer and patriarch, Badgery is a walking embodiment of the Australian national characterespcially of its proclivity for tall stories and barefaced lies.

As Carey follows this charming scoundrel across a continent and a century, he creates a crazy quilt of outlandish encounters, with characters that include a genteel dowager who fends off madness with an electric belt and a ravishing young girl with a dangerous fondness for rooftop trysts. Boldly inventive, irresistibly odd, Illywhacker is further proof that Peter Carey is one of the most enchanting writers at work in any hemisphere. [via]
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Jack Maggs
by Peter Carey

ISBN 0679760377 (0-679-76037-7)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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"Jack Maggs is a dazzling tale of obsession, and Jack Maggs stands as a remarkable character, a resurrected antipodean lag returned to England for vengeance and reconciliation."
--Thomas Keneally

From the Booker Prize-winning author, a vivid and robust novel of Dickensian London--a place and a story teeming with mystery, science, and passion.

The time, the 1830s. Jack Maggs, a foundling trained in the fine arts of thievery, cruelly betrayed and deported to Australia, has now reversed his fortunes--and seeks to fulfill his well-concealed, innermost desire. Returning "home" under threat of execution, he inveigles his way into a household in Great Queen Street, where he's quickly embroiled in various emotional entanglements--and where he falls under the hypnotic scrutiny of Tobias Oates, a celebrated young writer fascinated by the process of mesmerism and obsessed with the criminal mind.

From this volatile milieu emerges a handful of vividly drawn characters in the dangerous pursuit of love, whether romantic or familial--each of them with secrets, and secret longings, that could spell certain ruin. And as their various schemes converge, the captivating figure at the center is Jack Maggs himself, at once frightening, mystifying, and utterly compelling.

"Imaginative and audacious . . . A twentieth-century, post-colonial Dickens novel . . . This strange, bold, gripping, and wonderful novel is the story of a power struggle, a double love story, a quest story, and a story of trickery and disguise. It's about taking possession--of an inheritance, of another person's soul, of your own destiny--and being taken possession of. Not least, it's the story of one writer's being possessed by another."
--Hermione Lee, The Observer

"Uncommonly exciting and engaging. As much as anyone now writing, Peter Carey is a master of storytelling. His empathy with his characters, combined with his psychological sharp-sightedness, has them almost jumping off the page in full human complexity. An especial bonus is his style . . . Vivid, exact, unexpected images and language match the quick, witty intelligence flickering through this novel, and make it a triumph of ebullient indictment, humane insight, and creative generosity."
--Peter Kemp, Sunday Times (London)

"Writing and philosophical contemplations of the highest order . . . On a par with, and more interesting than, his two earlier masterpieces . . . An absorbing, beautifully written novel finished off with a most satisfactory happy ending, and with incidents, an atmosphere, and ideas that linger in the mind."
--Carmen Callil, The Daily Telegraph [via]
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Ladies of Missalonghi
by Colleen McCullough

ISBN 0380704587 (0-380-70458-7)
Softcover, Avon Books

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Sometimes fairy toles can come true-even for plain,shy spinsters like Missy Wright. Neither as pretty as cousin Alicianor as domineering as mother Drusilla, she seems doomed to aquiet life of near poverty at Missalonghi, her family's pitifullysmall homestead in Australia's Blue Mountains. But It's a brandnew century-the twentieth-a time for new thoughts and boldnew actions. And Missy Wright is about to set every self-righteous tongue in the town of Byron wagging. Because she hasjust set her sights on a mysterious, mistrusted and unsuspectingstranger ... who just might be Prince-Charming in disguise.
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Lonely Planet Australia
by Denis O'Byrne

ISBN 1864500689 (1-86450-068-9)
Softcover, Lonely Planet

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Lonely Planet Australia
by John Chapman, Mark Armstrong, David Collins, Monica Chapman, Hugh Finlay, Jeff Williams, Denis O'Byrne, David Willett, Dani Valent

ISBN 0864423624 (0-86442-362-4)
Softcover, Lonely Planet

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This is the eighth edition of Lonely Planet's "Australia", published as part of their "Travel Survival Kit" series. It covers the whole country from the top end to the tip of Tasmania, including Sydney and Melbourne, the Red Centre, Queensland rainforests and miles of beaches. The guide contains information needed for a visit on any budget: getting there and getting around (by bus, train, plane or four-wheel drive); history and culture; accommodation; local cuisine; places and times to visit; prices to pay; flora and fauna; language tips; health and safety advice; and maps. It includes a full-colour introduction to Aboriginal art and an extensive colour section on Australian flora and fauna. Notes on bush tucker, pub grub and modern cuisine are included, as are listings for surfing, white-water rafting, bushwalking and cycling. This book also contains a guide to Australian vernacular. [via]
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Magic or Madness
by Justine Larbalestier

ISBN 1595140700 (1-59514-070-0)
Softcover, Razorbill

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For fifteen years, Reason Cansino has lived a life on the run. Together with her mother, Sarafina, she has moved from one place to another in the Australian countryside, desperate not to be found by Reason's grandmother Esmeralda, a dangerous woman who believes in magic. But when Sarafina suffers a breakdown, Reason is forced to move in with her grandmother in Sydney. The moment Reason walks through Esmeralda's back door and finds herself on a New York City street, she's confronted by an unavoidable truth-magic is real.
This thrilling novel will bring readers through revelation upon revelation, leading to Reason's ultimate discovery of the price she must pay if she uses her magic.

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Manning Clarks' History of Australia: Special Anniversary Edition
by Michael Cathcart, Michael Cathart, C. M. H. Clark

ISBN 052284779X (0-522-84779-X)
Hardcover, Melbourne Univ Pr

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Morgan's Run
by Colleen McCullough

ISBN 1417617004 (1-4176-1700-4)
Hardcover, Bt Bound

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My Brilliant Career
by Miles Franklin

ISBN 0207186952 (0-207-18695-2)
Softcover, Harpercollins Australia

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Miles Franklin's classic and exuberant tale of a woman's journey toward self expression and freedom.
Miles Franklin was born in 1879 in rural Australia. My Brilliant Career, her first novel, was published to much excitement and acclaim. She moved to Sydney where she became involved in feminist and literary circles and then onto the USA in 1907.
My Brilliant Career was made into an award winning film starring Judy Davis and Sam Neill.
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My Life as a Fake
by Peter Carey

ISBN 1400030889 (1-4000-3088-9)
Softcover, Vintage Books

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My Place
by Sally Morgan

ISBN 1559700548 (1-55970-054-8)
Hardcover, Arcade Pub

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A book for everyone: a book with the form and texture of a novel and the complexity and pace of a mystery not solved until the final pages. It is wonderfully entertaining New York Times Book Review A triumphant story that makes you glad its been told. Times on Sunday In 1982, Sally Morgan travelled back to her grandmothers birthplace. What started as a tentative search for information about her family, turned into an overwhelming emotional and spiritual pilgrimage. My Place is a moving account of a search for truth into which a whole family is gradually drawn, finally freeing the tongues of the authors mother and grandmother, allowing them to tell their own stories. [via]
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One for the Road: An Outback Adventure
by Tony Horwitz

ISBN 0375706135 (0-375-70613-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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After a year working an office job in Sydney, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning newspaperman Tony Horwitz finds himself longing for the open road. Spurred on by a colleague's "Aren't you a little too old for this game?" he sets off on a 7,000-mile adventure around Australia, hitchhiking to Alice Springs and beyond: through desolate mining towns, sheep stations, countless bush pubs (do not attempt to match his beer intake), and the forbidding, Martianesque emptinesses of Australian deserts. On the way he encounters hostile, friendly, and downright strange natives; jumps a train; survives a harrowing accident; and uses his relentless sense of humor to face down a cyclone:
I prop my pack against the fence as a windbreak. Huddled behind it, I pull on two pairs of pants, three shirts, four pairs of socks--my entire wardrobe in fact, except for the dung-covered shirt and five pairs of elastic-waisted underwear. No room for dignity here, at the center of a cyclone. I put the jockey shorts over my head, one pair at a time, fitting the fly over my nose to let a little oxygen in.
A wily melange of tenderness, eye-popping lunacy, and occasional white-knuckled fear, One for the Road will leave you yearning to have the never-ending-blue Oz sky above, the flavor of that red, red dust in your mouth, and a tinnie to wash it all down with. --Jhana Bach [via]
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One for the Road: Hitchhiking Through the Australian Outback
by Tony Horwitz

ISBN 039475817X (0-394-75817-X)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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The Playmaker
by Thomas Keneally

ISBN 0671885111 (0-671-88511-1)
Softcover, Touchstone Books

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Keneally's magnificent story of a young officer in a penal colony during the founding days of Australia transports readers through layer after layer of life in Sydney Cove, Australia. Advertising in New York Review of Books and Village Voice Literary Supplement. [via]
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Pobby and Dingan
by Ben Rice

ISBN 1400031885 (1-4000-3188-5)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Rabbit-Proof Fence
by Doris Pilkington

ISBN 0786887842 (0-7868-8784-2)
Softcover, Hyperion Books

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Red Dog
by Louis De Bernieres

ISBN 0375421556 (0-375-42155-6)
Hardcover, Knopf Publishing Group

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In 1998, Louis de Bernieresacclaimed author of Corellis Mandolincame upon a bronze statue in a town on Australias northwestern coast and was immediately compelled to know more about Red Dog. He did not have to go far: everyone for hundreds of miles in every direction seemed to have a story about Red Dog. He was a Red Cloud Kelpie, a breed of sheepdog known for its energy and cleverness. But Red Dog was a kind of ultra-Kelpie, energetic and clever enough for an entire breed in himself.

Dubbed a professional traveler rather than a stray, Red Dog established his own transportation system, hitchhiking between far-flung towns and female dogs in cars whose engine noises hed memorized and whose drivers hed charmed. The call of the wild was matched by the call of the supper dish; Red Dogs appetite was as legendary as his exploits. Everyone wanted to adopt him (one group of workers made him a member of their union), but Red Dog would be adopted byor, more precisely, he would adoptonly one man: a bus driver whose love life quickly began to suffer and who never quite recovered from Red Dogs relentlessly affectionate presence.

Independent, clever, sly, stubborn, courageous and foolhardy, impatient with boredom and the boring, Red Dog endeared himself to (almost) everyone who crossed his path. These funny, surprising, and touching stories of his life are certain to endear him to every reader. [via]
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Riders in the Chariot
by Patrick White, David Malouf

ISBN 1590170024 (1-59017-002-4)
Softcover, Random House Inc

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Through the crumbling ruins of the once splendid Xanadu Miss Hare wanders, half-mad, yet seeming less alien among the encroaching wildlife than among the inhabitants of Saraparilla. In the wilderness she stumbles firstly upon a half-caste aborigine and then a Jewish refugee. They each place themselves in the care of a local washerwoman. Existing in a world of pervasive evil, all four have been independently damaged and discarded. Now in one shared vision they find themselves bound together, understanding the possibility of redemption. [via]
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Robbery Under Arms
by Rolf Boldrewood

ISBN 141914510X (1-4191-4510-X)
Softcover, Kessinger Pub Co

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Rolf Boldrewood's Story of Life and Adventure in the Bush and in the Goldfields of Australia -- who'd've thought we still title 'em that way? [via]
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The Sound of One Hand Clapping
by Richard Flanagan

ISBN 0802137849 (0-8021-3784-9)
Softcover, Grove Pr

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A sweeping novel of world war, migration, and the search for new beginnings in a new land, The Sound of One Hand Clapping was both critically acclaimed and a best-seller in Australia. It is a virtuoso performance from an Australian who is emerging as one of our most talented new storytellers. It was 1954, in a construction camp for a hydroelectric dam in the remote Tasmanian highlands, where Bojan Buloh had brought his family to start a new life away from Slovenia, the privations of war, and refugee settlements. One night, Bojan's wife walked off into a blizzard, never to return -- leaving Bojan to drink too much to quiet his ghosts, and to care for his three-year-old daughter Sonja alone. Thirty-five years later, Sonja returns to Tasmania and a father haunted by memories of the European war and other, more recent horrors. As the shadows of the past begin to intrude ever more forcefully into the present, Sonja's empty life and her father's living death are to change forever. The Sound of One Hand Clapping is about the barbarism of an old world left behind, about the harshness of a new country, and the destiny of those in a land beyond hope who seek to redeem themselves through love.
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- The Sound of One Hand Clapping: ISBN 0871138026 (0-87113-802-6)
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Timeless Land
by Eleanor Dark

ISBN 0207168024 (0-207-16802-4)
Softcover, Harpercollins

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- Timeless Land: ISBN 0207168024 (0-207-16802-4)
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Tirra Lirra by the River
by Jessica Anderson

ISBN 0140069453 (0-14-006945-3)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Tomorrow, When the War Began
by John Marsden

ISBN 0439829100 (0-439-82910-0)
Softcover, Scholastic Paperbacks

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Returning from a camping trip in the Australian bush, Ellie and her six friends are shocked to learn that their country has been invaded and that everyone in their home town has been taken prisoner. Reprint. AB. H. SLJ. [via]
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Voss
by Patrick White

ISBN 0140186239 (0-14-018623-9)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA

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Set in 19th-century Australia, this is the story of the secret passion between an explorer and a young orphan. Although they have met only a few times, Voss and Laura are joined by overwhelming, obsessive feelings for one another. [via]
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- Voss: ISBN 0140186239 (0-14-018623-9)
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Walkabout
by James Marshall

ISBN 0887410995 (0-88741-099-5)
Softcover, Sundance Pubns

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- Walkabout: ISBN 0887410995 (0-88741-099-5)
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Pobby Y Dingan
by Ben Rice, Justo Navarro

ISBN 8408036297 (84-08-03629-7)
Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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  Hardcover, Planeta Pub Corp

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