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Holy cow [an Indian adventure by Sarah Macdonald( Sound Recording )
8 editions published between 2003 and 2009 in English and held by 170 libraries worldwide
After backpacking her way around India, Sarah Macdonald decides she hates the country with a passion. When a beggar at the airport reads her palm and insists she will one day return - and for love-she screams 'Never!' and gives the country, and him, the finger. Eleven years later, the prophecy comes true. When the love of Sarah's life is posted to India, she quits her dream job as a national radio presenter to follow him to the most polluted city on earth, New Delhi. It seems like the ultimate sacrifice for love and it almost kills her literally.

Winter by John Marsden( Sound Recording )
9 editions published between 2000 and 2010 in English and held by 105 libraries worldwide
For twelve years Winter has been haunted. Now, at sixteen, the time has come for her to act. If Winter is going to step into the future, she must first step into the past.

Guitar highway Rose by Brigid Lowry( Sound Recording )
6 editions published between 1999 and 2006 in English and held by 92 libraries worldwide
Two fifteen-year-olds, Rosie and Asher, upset over the various unhappy circumstances of their lives in the Australian city of Perth, decide to run away.

The cabbage patch war by Paul Jennings( Sound Recording )
5 editions published between 2000 and 2004 in English and held by 82 libraries worldwide
"A barbecue from hell. Spuds on the roof. A visit from the police. It was war, a fight to the finish between Dad and Whacka. And Chris is right in the middle of it. All because Dad vomited in the cabbage patch.

Peeling the onion by Wendy Orr( Sound Recording )
3 editions published between 1999 and 2009 in English and held by 65 libraries worldwide
After suffering spinal trauma in a car accident, Anna, 17, begins a painful physical and emotional recovery that peels away her old life and strips her down to her very core.

Sleeping dogs by Sonya Hartnett( Sound Recording )
4 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and held by 63 libraries worldwide
The misanthropic, sadistic father of five children, ages 12 to 25, Griffin Willow runs a trailer park on his dilapidated farm in rural Australia. Isolated from all outside influences, even the neighboring small town, the Willow family has created its own oppressive, sheltered, and decaying world. Despite abuse from their father and a silent, withdrawn mother, all five children live at home and help run the trailer park. Twenty-three-year-old Michelle and her younger brother Jordan have found solace in an incestuous relationship, which they carefully conceal from their parents. When Bow Fox, an itinerant artist, comes to stay at the park, their 15-year-old brother, Oliver, accidently reveals their secret. So begins an agonizing, irreversible progression of violence and betrayal.

The cabbage patch fib by Paul Jennings( Sound Recording )
4 editions published between 2000 and 2008 in English and held by 63 libraries worldwide
For ages 6+. 'Get the doctor,''said Dad. 'The poor thing is green.' 'Give it to me,' said Mum and took the baby away from Chris. At once it screwed up its nose, closed its eyes and stopped breathing. It started turning purple again. A father at eight years old? It could only be a Paul Jennings story. And it does.

A river not yet tamed by Nancy Cato( Sound Recording )
2 editions published between 2003 and 2010 in English and held by 55 libraries worldwide
Philadelphia Gordon is an artist, a riverboat skipper, a beautiful and independent woman. Orphaned by a shipwreck, Philadelphia grows up on the banks of her beloved Murray River, seemingly destined for a conventional life. But tragedy leads her first to a successful career as a painter, then to marriage to the dashing captain of the paddle-steamer that bears her name. This epic novel, set against the panoramic countryside and winding rivers of Australia, is her story, as powerful and unforgettable as its heroine.

So much to tell you by John Marsden( Sound Recording )
2 editions published between 2005 and 2009 in English and held by 52 libraries worldwide
Sent to a hospital by her mother, Marina, a disfigured Australian girl who refuses to speak, reveals her thoughts and feelings in a diary.

Gracey by James Moloney( Sound Recording )
7 editions published between 1994 and 2003 in English and Undetermined and held by 50 libraries worldwide
Sequel to Dougy. Gracey's come home to Cunningham on holidays. But now she's a state athletics champion and a private school student, and everything looks different - even frightening. Part history, part mystery, Gracey is a challenging story about the past and the present, murder and compassion, and black and white identity.