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In this mesmerizing first novel, a young American graduate student abandons her research deep in the Australian rain forest to investigate her professor's mysterious disappearance.
Annabel Mendelssohn has an unusual but oddly satisfying life - studying spectacled fruit bats in the rain forest of Australia. She spends her free time discovering waterfalls and e-mailing her sister, Alice, who has settled for the more domesticated science of grant administration....
4) Ugly
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"Robert Hoge was born with a tumor the size of a tennis ball in the middle of his face and short, twisted legs, but he refused to let what made him different stand in the way of leading a happy, successful life. This is the true story of how he embraced his circumstances and never let his "ugly" stop him from focusing on what truly mattered."--
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The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of this century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station owned by his autocratic and childless older sister; and it ends more than half a century later, when the only survivor of the third generation, the brilliant actress Justine O'Neill, sets a course of life and love halfway...
10) Polar explorer
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Polar Explorer is an inspiring and empowering story by sixteen-year-old Jade Hameister, chronicling her feat of being the youngest person to complete the Polar Hat Trick.
12) Australia
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An introduction to the geography, history, government, economy, people, and culture of the "land down under."
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"Using Photicular® technology that's like a 3-D movie on the page, OUTBACK whisks you to the vast, remote world of wild Australia, where heat waves dance forever and animals, isolated by the vagaries of continental drift, are unlike those found anywhere else on Earth. Each moving image delivers a rich, immersive visual experience--and the result is breathtaking. The kangaroo hops. A wombat waddles. The frilled lizard races on two legs across the...
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The story of Australia through the eyes of a young Irishman in his 1978 Ford Falcon. Paul Martin extended a one-year working holiday visa into thirty months, and lived the colorful, precarious, and occasionally solitary life of a `backpacker' in various locations throughout Australia. He traveled (and slept) in Bertha, alone, encountering many fascinating characters and much of Australia's hidden history and landscape. "In this lighthearted travel...
17) Empower
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It has all come down to this, the final battle between Angels and Exiles, and Violet Eden who is part angel, part human, knows she is the best person to go after Spence, but doing so means facing her past and her soulmate, Lincoln.
20) Sunday Chutney
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Sunday Chutney's family moves often to different countries, so she has found imaginative ways to cope with being the new girl at school.
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