Thomas Keneally
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Based on true events, this beautifully rendered novel from the author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars brilliantly explores a World War II prison camp, where Japanese prisoners resolve to take drastic action to wipe away their shame. Alice is a young woman living on her father-in-law's farm on the edge of an Australian country town, while her husband is held prisoner in Europe. When Giancarlo, an Italian anarchist at the prisoner-of-war...
Author
Publisher
Allen and Unwin
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (464 pages)
Language
English
Description
"The second volume of bestselling author Thomas Keneally's unique trilogy of Australian history in which people are always center stage In the continuation of an impeccably researched, engagingly written people's history, this is the story of Australia through people from all walks of life, from Eureka to Gallipoli. From the 1860s to the great rifts wrought by World War I, an era commenced in which Australian pursued glimmering visions: of equity...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Edward Dickens, the tenth child of author Charles Dickens, has consistently let down his parents. Unable to apply himself at school and adrift in life, the teenaged boy is sent to Australia in the hopes that he can make something of himself - or at least fall out of the public eye. Determined to prove to his parents and more importantly, himself, that he can succeed in this vast and unfamiliar wilderness, Edward works hard at his new life amidst various...
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
ix, 517 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the beloved author of Schindler's List, a magnificent, epic novel of two sisters, both nurses during World War I, that has been hailed as perhaps "the best novel of Keneally's career" (The Spectator)"--
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
423 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the bestselling author of Schindler's List and The Daughters of Mars, a new historical novel set on the remote island of Saint Helena about the remarkable friendship between a young woman and one of history's most intriguing figures, Napoleon Bonaparte, during the final years of his life in exile. In October 1815, after losing the Battle of Waterloo, Napoleon Bonaparte was banished to the island of Saint Helena. There, in one of the most remote...
11) Abraham Lincoln
Author
Series
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Atria Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
x, 334 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
From one of our greatest living writers, a bold and timely novel about sin cloaked in sacrament, shame that enforces silence, and the courage of one priest who dares to speak truth to power. Sent away from his native Australia to Canada due to his radical preaching against the Vietnam War, apartheid, and other hot button issues, Father Frank Docherty made for himself a satisfying career as a psychologist and monk. When he returns to Australia to lecture...
13) Outback
Author
Publisher
Rand McNally
Pub. Date
c1983
Physical Desc
256 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 27 cm.
Language
English
15) The playmaker
Author
Publisher
Simon and Schuster
Pub. Date
c1987
Physical Desc
353 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
16) Schindler's list
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (196 min.) : sd., b&w with color segment ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A re-creation in fictional form of the story of Oskar Schindler, a German Catholic industrialist who, as a munitions manufacturer, saved more than 1,100 Jews from extermination during WWII.