Rachel Ward
1) Numbers
Author
Series
Numbers volume 1
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Jem knows when she looks at someone the exact date they will die, so she avoids relationships and tries to keep out of the way, but when she meets a boy named Spider and they plan a day out together, they become more involved than either of them had planned.
2) The chaos
Author
Series
Numbers volume 2
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011, c2010
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Like his mother Jem, when sixteen-year-old Adam looks in people's eyes he can see the dates of their deaths and now he sees the same date, six months in the future, in nearly everyone around him in the London of 2026.
3) The drowning
Author
Publisher
Chicken House
Pub. Date
2014.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Carl Adams awakens beside his drowned brother, unable to remember anything about himself, the incident, or the girl who rides with him in the ambulance.
Author
Series
Publisher
Sandstone Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When a young woman is attacked walking home from her local supermarket, Bea Jordan, a smart but unfulfilled checkout girl, is determined to investigate. Colleagues and customers become suspects, secrets are uncovered. While fear stalks the town, Bea finds an unlikely ally in Ant, the seemingly gormless new trainee, but risks losing the people she loves most as death comes close to home.
5) 1nf1n1ty
Author
Series
Numbers volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Adam, Sarah, and Mia are living together, struggling with the fame brought about by their knowing the dates when people will die, but ever since Mia swapped her number for another, her new power makes her a target that puts them all in jeopardy.
Author
Series
Numbers volume 3
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2012
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
Adam, Sarah, and Mia are living together, struggling with the fame brought about by their knowing the dates when people will die, but ever since Mia swapped her number for another, her new power makes her a target that puts them all in jeopardy.
Author
Series
Numbers volume 2
Publisher
Chicken House/Scholastic
Pub. Date
2011
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
Description
Like his mother, Jem, when sixteen-year-old Adam looks in people's eyes he can see the dates of their deaths and now he sees the same date, six months in the future, in nearly everyone around him in the London of 2026.
Author
Series
Publisher
Orenda Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Twenty floors above the shimmering lights of the Hamburg docks, Public Prosecutor Chastity Riley is celebrating a birthday with friends in a hotel bar when twelve heavily armed men pull out guns, and take everyone hostage. Among the hostages is Konrad Hoogsmart, the hotel owner, who is being targeted by a young man whose life - and family - have been destroyed by Hoogsmart's actions. With the police looking on from outside - their colleagues' lives...
10) The thorn birds
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Adaptation of Colleen McCullough's epic novel about an Australian priest torn by personal desires and ambition. This title has been repackaged. Disc one contains episodes 1 and 2; disc two contains episodes 3 and 4; disc three contains extra content.
Author
Publisher
Pushkin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Befriending Josef Gertach, who gives him his teenage diary to read, 16-year-old Daniel is drawn into a real-life thriller in which Josef documents his time with The Edelweiss Pirates who rebelled against Hitler's regime in both a fight for freedom and their lives.
14) Holly's secret
Author
Series
Publisher
Arctis
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Carag is back at school for a new semester. When a study trip takes him into town, he and his friends arrive just after an overnight bank robbery has been discovered, and there has been a series of mysterious burglaries in the area too. It seems impossible for a human to have committed them...so they wonder if a woodwalker is involved. Carag and his friends take it upon themselves to search for the burgular and also help Holly as she hides away....
15) The Thorn birds
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2004
Language
Español
Description
Television epic story of interpersonal drama set against Australia's outback. When a priest does not return the affections of the owner of a large sheep ranch, she vows to influence him-- even from the grave.
16) Rake: Series 1
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A criminal defense lawyer takes on challenging cases which no one else wants.
Publisher
BFS Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Meet Australian criminal barrister Cleaver Greene, reckless, brilliant and self-destructive. To jurors, he is hilarious, to judges an outrage, to a certain brothel owner a legend and to his former cocaine dealer, tragic loss. While his ex-wife may call him unreliable, his son calls him a mate. Despite his personal hopelessness, Cleaver will do whatever it takes to defend and save life's truly lost souls.
19) Against all odds
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Terry Brogan, a cynical ex-football star, is hired to find Jessie Wyler, the runaway mistress of a ruthless L.A. nightclub owner, Jake Wise. According to Jake, Jessie had stabbed him and vanished with $50,000. But Terry's mission is soon forgotten when he tracks down the beautiful Jessie on a Mexican island and falls in love with her.
20) Beautiful Kate
Publisher
eOne
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
An author in his forties returns home to visit his dying father and awakens long-buried family secrets regarding the death of his twin sister and suicide of his older brother.