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A Commonwealth of Thieves - The Improbable Birth of Australia
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A Commonwealth of Thieves - The Improbable Birth of AustraliaA Commonwealth of Thieves - The Improbable Birth of Australia

Keneally offers a novelistic chronicle of the founding of the colony now known as Australia, focusing on the first five years, 1788 to 1793, when the initial flotillas of boats carrying convicts, their military guard and administrators arrived in New South Wales. At the book's center is the relationship between Arthur Phillip, the pragmatic first governor, and Woolawarre Bennelong, the Aborigine who eventually served as a liaison between the settlers and natives. Keneally describes their first meeting "as fateful and defining as that between Cortés and Montezuma, or Pizarro and Atahualpa."
 
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Office of Innocence
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The Office of InnocenseThe Office of Innocense

Thomas Keneally - Office of Innocence

Keneally steers a young, naive Australian priest through a series of complex moral choices in his latest novel, which takes place early in WWII with the Japanese forces steadily advancing southward. The insular existence of Catholic cleric Frank Darragh is disturbed when he is approached by a beautiful married woman named Kate Heggarty, whose husband has been captured by the Germans in North Africa.

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SCHINDLER'S LIST Thomas Keneally
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SCHINDLER'S LIST Thomas KeneallySCHINDLER'S LIST Thomas Keneally

How the German Oskar Schindler came to save more than one thousand Polish Jews during the Holocaust is one of the most fascinating stories of the century. Although millions are now learning about Schindler through Steven Spielberg's recent Academy AwardR-winning film, his achievement first gained prominence with Keneally's 1982 "facticious" novel (which is also the basis for the film). Keneally's account is less melodramatic than the motion picture...
 
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