Frank Carlson Library

An uplifting and inspiring book casting a net of ideas and insights as wide and challenging as its subject – the Australian Outback.' James Harker-Mortlock, Australian Rural & Regional News From the majesty of Uluru and its surrounding deserts to the rugged grandeur of the Kimberley and Pilbara landscapes, the Australian Outback inspires a deep connection with the timeless wisdom of the natural world. It is a place where this wisdom reveals itself...

Who can you trust when those you love most let you down?Fifteen-year-old Kate Norton has been living a happy family fantasy. Her mum has been keeping secrets. Now the father Kate never knew she had is coming to Perth. He wants to take Kate back to Brisbane with him because his mother has cancer and wants to get to know her only granddaughter before it's too late. Kate is on an emotional roller coaster. Everything she believed about herself and her...

Alex is Angry! So, what's new-she's always angry! But Alex's life changes forever when she wakes up in a field of grass where nothing is familiar. Has she lost her mind, or has she somehow slipped into another realm? In a strange but beautiful land, people of the nature kingdoms explain how humans think of the Earth as theirs to do with as they wish, but they are destroying their world faster than nature can heal it. In the future, humans will not...

This is the story of Australia's most notorious folk hero, Edward "Ned" Kelly, who was a legend in his own lifetime. In this book you will learn about who Ned was and why he became so infamous. Discover the tragedy at Stringybark Creek and the incredible Glenrowan siege where Ned's gang fought police dressed in home-made bulletproof armour, and everything in between!

Koa is sleeping. He is not awake.Koa is a koala who knows how to sleep. He sleeps deep and he sleeps often. Even while he is sleeping, Koa still manages to have amazing adventures or are they all just crazy dreams?The Bunyip Tree books are a series of stories written and illustrated by R. J. Hampson. Each book focuses on one inhabitant of the Bunyip Tree world. These rhyming books are perfect for children ages 3 and up, and the engaging illustrative...

Deftly weaving together a memorable cast of characters, Lost Kingdom brings to life the clash between a vulnerable Polynesian people and relentlessly expanding capitalist powers. Portraits of royalty and rogues, sugar barons, and missionaries combine into a sweeping tale of the Hawaiian Kingdom's rise and fall. At the center of the story is Lili'uokalani, the last queen of Hawai'i. Born in 1838, she lived through the nearly complete economic transformation...

Funny, tough-minded and tender, this is the story of Matilda and her two sisters growing up in Sydney, Australia, in the early 1950s. Their father is mentally unstable and largely absent, their mother is possibly in the thrall of his brother, and a headline-making Russian spy defection is taking place next door. Punctuated by the headlines of the times, The Red Shoe depicts how the large events of the world can impinge on ordinary lives. This is a...

After defeating the terrible Septus and his demented horde of Fras followers, in Last days of the Koonung, Part 1 of The World Without trilogy, Mason, Adam and Tom return to the World Without only to find that an overwhelming sickness threatens to sink the world of the Marou and Fras into darkness and a slow tormented death. The boys soon realize they have the seven Life Elements that were lost in the Diminishing, a catastrophic event that distorted...

A charming collection of little stories collected over the half-decade ending 2020 about people and happenings involving Sydney buses. Some are humorous and heart-warming, others are salutary lessons about life, and one or two are sad commentaries on the human condition. All are accounts of things the author observed over a period of several years when she was a frequent bus traveler. Most of the stories involve travel from the Eastern suburbs to...

This Asian ecology eBook offers an overview of the plant life of the vast Pacific region. Among the topics covered are the tropical forest and jungles, the grasslands, the primary and secondary forest, and the plants of the seashores. Weeds and cultivated plants are also discussed with overviews of plant distribution and notes on specific islands and island groups. Plant Life of the Pacific World will fill a great need as an important reference source...