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Author
Language
English
Description
In 1936, Nancy Wake is a young, free-spirited journalist living in Paris when she falls in love with the wealthy French industrialist Henri Fiocca. No sooner does Henri sweep Nancy off her feet and convince her to become Mrs. Fiocca than the Germans invade France and Nancy must take another name: a code name. Told in interweaving timelines organized around the four names Nancy used during the war, Code Name H�el�ene reveals Nancy's covert transformation...
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity volume 19
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"When a strapping young Australian named Jack MacBride arrives in Finch to wrap up his late uncle's affairs, heads turn in the sleepy English village. But when Lori volunteers to help Jack clear out his uncle's overgrown garden, they discover something even more shocking than a stranger turning up in Finch. After Lori laughingly tosses a coin into the garden's old well and makes a wish, she is baffled to find that the wish seems to have come true....
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 minutes) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
1st United States edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 x 30 cm
Language
English
Description
"Yarra Riverkeeper Andrew Kelly and Aboriginal Elder of the Wurundjeri people Aunty Joy Murphy join to tell the Indigenous and geographical story of Melbourne's beautiful Yarra River -- from its source to its mouth and from its prehistory to the present day"-- www.candlewick.com