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61) Lighthouse Bay
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
"In 1901, a ship sinks off the coast of Lighthouse Bay in Australia. The only survivor is Isabella Winterbourne--escaping her loveless marriage and the devastating loss of her son--who clutches a priceless gift meant for the Australian Parliament. Suddenly, this gift could be her ticket to a new life, free from the bonds of her husband and his overbearing family. One hundred years later, Libby Slater leaves her life in Paris to return to her hometown...
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 3
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2009, c2006
Language
English
Description
Corinna Chapman, baker extraordinaire and amateur sleuth, returns in another delicious mystery.
Author
Series
Corinna Chapman mysteries volume 5
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
67) Undine
Author
Publisher
Greenwillow Books
Pub. Date
2006
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
Description
Sixteen-year-old Undine, hearing her presumably deceased father calling to her and feeling a strange force growing inside her, travels to the sea to discover the depths of her magical powers.
68) Possum magic
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
c1983
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
When Grandma Poss's magic turns Hush invisible, the two possums take a culinary tour of Australia to find the food that will make her visible once more.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Cordelia Kane has always been a daddy's girl--her father raised her alone after her mother died in a car crash when Cordelia was just two years old. So when he has a serious heart attack, Cordelia is devastated, and the emotion is only intensified by the confusion she feels when he reveals the shocking truth about her mother. Cordelia can't suppress her curiosity about the woman who gave birth to her, and when she discovers the answers to her questions...
70) On fragile waves
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The haunting story of a family of dreamers and tale-tellers looking for home in an unwelcoming world. Traces one girl's migration from war to peace, loss to loss, home to home. Firuzeh and her brother Nour are children of fire, born in an Afghanistan fractured by war. When their parents, their Atay and Abay, decide to leave, they spin fairy tales of their destination, the mythical land and opportunities of Australia. As the family journeys from Pakistan...
73) Amnesty: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Danny--formerly Dhananjaya Rajaratnam--is an illegal immigrant in Sydney, Australia, denied refugee status after he fled from Sri Lanka. Working as a cleaner, living out of a grocery storeroom, for three years he's been trying to create a new identity for himself. And now, with his beloved vegan girlfriend, Sonja, with his hidden accent and highlights in his hair, he is as close as he has ever come to living a normal life. But then one morning, Danny...
76) The night guest
Author
Publisher
Faber and Faber, Inc., an affiliate of Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"An elderly Australian woman lets a mysterious and possibly sinister caretaker into her beach-side home and into her life"--
78) An accusation
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Who to believe - the distressed girl who says she was kidnapped or the middle-aged woman with no alibi and a chequered past? After 17-year-old Ellie Canning is found shivering on a country road, dressed only in ill-fitting pyjamas, her story of kidnap and escape enthrals the nation. A middle-aged woman with a crazy old mother has held her in a basement, chained to a bed with a blue-striped quilt, given her drinks from an old baby's sippy cup. But...
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Coming from a moderately traditional Muslim family, twenty-seven-year-old Samira Abdel-Aziz has endured her fair share of arranged matches--first dates she calls "doorknock appeals," where she and her possible suitors eat snacks in her living room in the company of both sets of parents. Her general rule: no shoes with tassels, no cheesy leather jackets, no mustaches. A girl has to have some standards, right? The truth is, Samira is already experiencing...
80) Every breath
Author
Series
Every series volume 1
Publisher
Tundra Books
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Reluctantly assisting her friend Mycroft's investigation into the murder of a homeless man, Rachel Watts realizes her attraction to her bad-boy partner before finding herself targeted by the killer.
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