| Title, Creators, Comments / Reviews | Ages | Date Added | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. Mail for the Back of Beyond (Paperback) Author: John Maddock Publisher: Kangaroo Pr |
N/A |
6/20/2011 Add | |||
| Colleen said: This is one of several books written about the notorious Birdsville track. I find such reading a good way to learn of the outback and the tough environment that intrepid mailmen had to travel to get m...more tags: Tom Kruse | |||||
| 1 Reviews | |||||
| 2. How Children Learn Language (Cambridge Approaches to Linguistics) (Paper... Author: William O'Grady Publisher: Cambridge University Press |
N/A |
6/23/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: A very good piece of work with regards to languge and a hild coming to grips withit as they learn from babyhood onwards. William Delaney O'Grady is a professor welll versed inlinguistics to be able to...more tags: I read | |||||
| 10 Reviews | |||||
| 3. Blast the Bush (Paperback) Author: Len Beadell Illustrator: Len Beadell Publisher: Lansdowne |
All Ages |
6/23/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: When the time came to explore the outback for a weapon's testing programme, Len Beadell was the natural choice of selection. He surveyed and found, and helped to prepare the Atomic bomb range of Maral...more tags: I read | |||||
| 1 Reviews | |||||
| 4. Are You Irish or Normal? (Hardcover) Author: Sean O'Grada Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd |
Adult |
6/6/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: Sean O'Grada was born John Patrick O'Grady inNew South Wales, Australia, 1907. He used the Irish version of hisname to author his book. In English is means John the son of big bum. He is my father and...more tags: I edited , I read | |||||
| 1 Reviews | |||||
| 5. Four Fires (Hardcover) Author: Bryce Courtenay Publisher: Viking Australia |
Adult |
6/6/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: A very interesting fiction tale of a bunch of 'collapsed' Catholics and the lives they led in poverty and familial love. A good yarn tags: I read | |||||
| 40 Reviews | |||||
| 6. Slim Dusty: Walk a country mile (Hardcover) Author: Slim Dusty Publisher: Rigby |
All Ages |
6/6/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: Born Gordon Kirkpatrick in Kempsey, New South Wales, Australia he grew to be Australia's own Slim Dusty recording many popular songs of country and western genre including the famous The Pub With No B...more tags: I read | |||||
| 1 Reviews | |||||
| 7. The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America (Hardcover) Author: James Wilson Publisher: Picador |
Adult |
6/6/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: This is a really magnificent piece of research depiciting the plight of the American Indians tags: I read | |||||
| 21 Reviews | |||||
| 8. Under Enemy Colours (Hardcover) Author: Sean Thomas Russell Publisher: Michael Joseph |
Young Adults |
6/6/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: A great adventure story that could be true in the modern day, where someone is caught between two nations because of their birth, and the nations are fighting each other. In this case it is France and...more tags: I read | |||||
| 8 Reviews | |||||
| 9. To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback) Author: Harper Lee Publisher: Vintage Books |
Young Adults |
6/6/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: How can one comment anymore on this magnificent classic by Harper Lee. A small town lawyer of integrity caught up in a case of an innoent negor versus a poor white girl inthe 1930s when racism in the...more tags: I read | |||||
| 114,109 Reviews | |||||
| 10. No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency (Paperback) Author: Alexander McCall Smith Publisher: Abacus |
Adult |
6/6/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: A terrific story from a great writer and part of our book club reading tags: I read | |||||
| 10,834 Reviews | |||||
| 11. Down under to up over (Unknown Binding) Author: John O'Grady Illustrator: Tony Rafty Publisher: Lansdowne Press |
Adult |
6/6/2010 Add | |||
| Colleen said: Dad's last book he wrote before he died in 1981. Published in 1980 by Landsdowne Press. It tells of the trip he and Molly did to the Western searboard of the United States and the adventures they had tags: I read | |||||
| 1 Reviews | |||||
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