NUMBER: 102

Genre:Fiction; Origin: Australia; Pages: 250

Satisfaction rating: 10.0

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A young Aboriginal girl, Mathinna, is adopted by the most celebrated explorer of the age, Sir John Franklin, and his wife, Lady Jane, to show that the savage can be civilised. When Sir John disappears while looking for the fabled Northwest Passage, Lady Jane turns to the great novelist Charles Dickens for help. Wanting is a meditation on love, loss and the way life is finally determined never by reason, but only ever by wanting.

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NUMBER: 101

Genre: Non-fiction; Origin: Italy; Pages: 200

Satisfaction rating: 3.0

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Relating the facts behind the myth, this eyewitness account tells the vivid and accurate story of the horrific 1854 Eureka Stockade, a revolt against police and soldiers involving 120 miners from the Ballart gold mines in Australia that left 35 dead and a legacy of courage and freedom that has shaped ideas of Australian nationhood ever since.

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NUMBER: 100

Genre: Fiction; Origin: Ireland; Pages: 950

Satisfaction rating: 5.0

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An account of several lower class citizens of Dublin. Bound by Leopold Bloom, Stephen Dedalus and Molly Bloom the novel describes their activities and thoughts from 8am June 16 to 3am June 17 1904.

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NUMBER: 99

Genre: Fiction; Origin: Australia; Pages: 300

Satisfaction rating: 4.0

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In 1787 Lieutenant Thomas Rooke sets sail from Portsmouth with the First Fleet and its cargo of convicts, destined for New South Wales. As a young officer and a man of science, the shy and quiet Rooke is full of anticipation about the natural wonders he might discover in this strange land on the other side of the world. After the fleet arrives in Port Jackson, Rooke sets up camp on a rocky and isolated point, and starts his work of astronomy and navigation. It’s not too long before some of the Aboriginal people who live around the harbour pay him a visit. One of them, a girl named Tarunga, starts to teach him her own language. But her lessons and their friendship are interrupted when Rooke is given an order that will change his life forever.

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NUMBER: 97

Genre: Fiction; Origin: Australia; Pages: 300

Satisfaction rating: 4.0

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The Aunt’s Story traces the uncompromisingly independent career of Theodora Goodman from the dusty reality of Australia to to the whirling madhouse of Europe before World War II, and ends calmly, although across the boarders of sanity, in that most practical of countries, the United States of America.

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