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"Australia "

December 23, 2012

An Ace and a Forced Hand: Markus Zusak’s I Am the Messenger

Nineteen-year-old Ed Kennedy is an ordinary underachiever until he receives mysterious playing cards that compel him to intervene in people's lives, helping or hurting, in Markus Zusak's poignant, funny young adult novel.

November 11, 2011

Bill Bryson Discovers the Beguiling Truths Behind Australia’s Wild Reputation

In the late nineties travel writer and humorist Bill Bryson turned his attention to the land down under with In a Sunburned Country. Determined to look past the vegemite clichés and Paul Hogan Stereotypes, Bryson began an Australian walkabout to experience all that the country had to offer ...