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1) Rogue nation
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Historian Michael Cathcart tells the epic story of how the colourful characters of early colonial Australia transformed a penal settlement into a land with rights and opportunity in a mere 40 years. This sweeping two-part dramatised documentary covers formative events in Australia's history, including the Rum Rebellion and early court cases, which established independence and civil rights for all settlers. Rogue Nation explores how a fledgling colony...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 9
Language
English
Description
Mal, Evie, Carlos, and Jay have received threatening messages demanding they return home. They have a sneaking suspicion that their villanous parents are behind the messages, and something Evie sees in her Magic Mirror confirms their fears. Although Maleficent's just a tiny lizard after her confrontation with Mal, could she have found a way to escape? Mal and her friends determine to sneak back to the Isle to get to the bottom of the mystery.
Author
Series
Bitch Planet. Main series volume 1
Publisher
Image Comics
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
In a future just a few years down the road in the wrong direction, a woman's failure to comply with her patriarchal overlords will result in exile to the meanest penal planet in the galaxy. When the newest crop of fresh femmes arrive, can they work together to stay alive or will hidden agendas, crooked guards, and the deadliest sport on (or off!) Earth take them to their maker?
Author
Series
Bitch Planet. Main series volume 2
Publisher
Image Comics Inc
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Author
Series
Temeraire volume 6
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.2 - AR Pts: 20
Lexile measure
1180L
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
Convicted of treason despite their heroic defense against Napoleon's invasion of England, Temeraire the dragon and his friend and rider, Capt. Will Laurence, are transported to the prison colony in Australia. They carry with them three dragon eggs intended to help establish a covert in the colony.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
It was 1786 when Arthur Phillip, an ambitious captain in the Royal Navy, was assigned the formidable task of organizing an expedition to Australia in order to establish a penal colony. The squalid and turbulent prisons of London were overflowing, and crime was on the rise. Even the hulks sifting at anchor in the Thames were packed with malcontent criminals and petty thieves. So the English government decided to undertake the unprecedented move of...
10) Alien 3
Series
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
When Ripley survives a crash landing on Fiorina 161, a bleak prison planet, the convicts soon begin turning up dead and she realizes she wasn't the only survivor.
Author
Series
Alexander Vasin novels volume 3
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The gripping completion of the Alexander Vasin trilogy, a taut thriller about two competing KGB operatives on a race against time to uncover the devastating truth behind the assassination of JFK. 1963. In a desolate Russian penal colony, the radio blares the news of President Kennedy's death. Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vasin's new post as director of a gulag camp in the middle of a frozen tundra is far from a promotion. This is where disgraced...
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