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[2006] | Infinity Arthouse | 1 videodisc (ca. 105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Where |
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As long as the holy site known as 'where the green ants dream' is safe, the aboriginal natives believe that their culture, and Earth itself, will be safe. When a major corporation plans to mine the site, it sparks a revolt.
2) Walkabout
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[2010], ©1971 | Director-approved special ed., DVD ed. | Criterion Collection | 2 videodiscs (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([24] pages : color illustrations ; 19 cm). | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Walkabout |
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A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
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Mystery Temple, P
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Mystery Temple, P
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Mystery Temple, P
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2007 | 1st American ed. | Farrar, Straus and Giroux | 357 p. ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Mystery Temple, P Main Mystery Temple, P Southside Mystery Temple, P |
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Shaken by a scrape with death, big-city detective Joe Cashin is posted away from the homicide squad to the quiet town on the South Australian coast where he grew up. Carrying physical scars and not a little guilt, he spends his time playing the country cop, walking his dogs, and thinking about how it all was before. When a prominent local person is attacked and left for dead, Cashin is thrust into what becomes a murder investigation. The evidence...
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[2003], c2002 | Widescreen version. | Buena Vista Home Entertainment | 1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
La Farge AV DVD Rabbit Main Media DVD Rabbit Southside AV DVD Rabbit |
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In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
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c1994 | 1st ed. | HarperCollins Publishers | 187 p. ; ill. ; 22 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Fiction Morgan, M Southside Fiction Morgan, M |
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1994 | Thorndike Press | 248 p. (large print) : ill., map ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Large Type Fiction Morgan, M |
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Mutant Message Down Under is the fictional account of an American woman's spiritual odyssey through outback Australia. An underground bestseller in its original self-published edition, Marlo Morgan's powerful tale of challenge and endurance has a message for us all. Summoned by a remote tribe of nomadic Aborigines to accompany them on walkabout, the woman makes a four-month-long journey and learns how they thrive in natural harmony with the plants...
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[2014] | [Publisher not identified] | 1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media has 2 DVD Around |
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It's about breaking cycles and building dreams. Set in a contemporary, tough, inner-city precinct, this is a story of revenge and triumph, as a teenage boy is torn between his unexpected love of theatre and the disintegration of his family. With encouragement from his unconventional American drama teacher, he confronts his past and eventually takes control of his future.
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1962 | Amereon House | 216 p. ; 23 cm. | English |
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It is in a harsh and eerie landscape - the crater formed by the meteor they called "The Stranger" - that another stranger is found... dead. In an area where the presence of every outsider is announced by the bush telegraph, how had this man passed unreported? Who was he? How had he died? No tracks around the crater and no stranger in town. It soon becomes obvious to Bony that both the locals and the Aboriginals are guarding a secret - until the will...
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[1991], 1986, ©1974, [1947] | 1st Scribner crime classic/Collier ed. | Collier Books | 288 pages : map ; 18 cm. | English |
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Napoleon Bonaparte, a half-caste detective, investigates the death of a man in the Australian bush.
Jack Anderson was a big man with a foul temper, a sadist and a drunk. Five months after his horse appeared riderless, no trace of the man has surfaced and no one seems to care. But Bony is determined to follow the cold trail and smoke out some answers.
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1948 | American Reprint | 224 p. ; 23 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Upfield, A |
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A cat... a ping-pong ball... a drunken gardener... With these slight clues to go on Detective-Inspector Bonaparte investigates the mysterious death of famous author, Mervyn Blake, who dies an agonising death late one night in his writing room.
But how did he die? No one knows. No one that is until Bony's acute observation of human nature uncovers the murderer - and the method used to kill Blake. One of the few Bonaparte mysteries not set in the outback,...
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1985, c1948 | 1st Scribner pbk. ed. | Scribner | 191 p. ; 18 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Mystery Upfield, A |
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In the Grampian Mountains, two girl hitch-hikers have disappeared without trace, and the policeman sent to investigate has been murdered. Bonaparte visits the lonely hotel where the girls were last seen, and meets up with the suave proprietor, his strangely terrified father, an ex-US paratrooper with a penchant for knife-throwing, and a talking parrot...
All in all, this is a high suspense drama, and a fine Upfield story. - From The Spirit of Australia...
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[1991] | American Reprint | 207 p. ; 22 cm. | English |
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Sinister stones... On a lonely dirt road in Western Australia a police jeep is found. In it is Constable Stenhouse - shot dead. His Aboriginal tracker has disappeared. Enter Inspector Bonaparte, who soon realizes that he is not alone in his search for the criminal. The local Aboriginal tribe is seeking vengeance too...
Fascinating in its treatment of outback life, and reveals clearly the weakness Bony has for young women and for people in the cattle...
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[2018] | First edition. | Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers | 319 pages ; 24 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Fiction Howarth, P |
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It is 1885, and a crippling drought threatens to ruin the McBride family. Their land is parched, their cattle starving. When the rain finally comes, it is a miracle that renews their hope for survival. But returning home from an afternoon swimming at a remote waterhole filled by the downpour, fourteen-year-old Tommy and sixteen-year-old Billy meet with a shocking tragedy.
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398.2 Wol
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2004 | 1st ed. | HarperCollins | 1 v. [unpaged] : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
Main Childrens Picture Book 398.2 Wol Southside Childrens Picture Book 398.2 Wol |
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An Aboriginal creation story in which the Sun slowly brings life to the Earth.
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[198-?] | American Reprint Co | 190 p. ; 23 cm. | English |
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An intriguing case for Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte begins on a calm October day in an Australian seaside near Bermagui. Three men set out to sea for a day's fishing... and do not return. Despite intensive searches, no trace of the men or their boat is found, until, weeks later, a passing trawler hauls in a gruesome catch - the head of one of the missing fishermen. It is quite clear that its owner was murdered with a pistol shot. But by whom, and...
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1976, c1960 | American Reprint | 192 p. ; 23 cm. | English |
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Tucked away in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales is Cork Valley, inhabited by hard-drinking Irishmen. Here an Excise Officer looking for illicit whiskey 'stills' has been murdered, and it's Bony's job to find the killer. Disguised as a horse-thief, the Aboriginal detective hitch-hikes into the valley to meet a lawless lot...
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1993 | 1st North American ed. | Little, Brown and Co | [24] p. : col. ill. ; 28 cm. | English | On Shelf
Southside Childrens Picture Book 398.2 Mad |
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p2000 | Bolinda Audio | 6 sound discs (6 hr., 25 min.) ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media CD spoken Mystery Upfield, A |
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When two elderly bachelors were poisoned with cyanide, a strange woman was on the scene each time - but now she has disappeared, leaving no trace. Tracking her down in a town of twenty-eight thousand people is a job to tax even Detective Inspector Bonaparte's powers. He will need the unorthodox assistance of burglar Jimmy the Screwsman and a lightning-sketch artist, as well as all the deductive and tracking skills at his command, as he trails a killer...
18) The Sapphires
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[2013] | Anchor Bay Entertainment | 1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. | English | On Shelf
Main Media DVD Sapphires |
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Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
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La Farge Childrens Picture Book
305.89 Mar
Southside Childrens Picture Book
305.89 Mar
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c2004 | Weigl Publishers | 32 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 26 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Childrens Picture Book 305.89 Mar Southside Childrens Picture Book 305.89 Mar |
20) Ready to dream
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Fiction Napoli, D
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Fiction Napoli, D
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2009 | 1st U.S. ed. | Bloomsbury Children's Books : | [32] p. : col. ill. ; 29 cm. | English | On Shelf
La Farge Childrens Picture Book Fiction Napoli, D Main Childrens Picture Book Fiction Napoli, D |
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While drawing pictures of the animals she sees on her trip to Australia, a young girl named Ally meets Pauline, an aborigine woman and fellow artist, from whom Ally learns that art is not always created with just paper and paints, and that mistakes are actually happy accidents.
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