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1) Deserts
Author
Pub. Date
c1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 27 cm.
Description
An introduction to the characteristics of deserts and the plants and animals that inhabit them.
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. Most of the Southwest has been evacuated. Luz and Ray are holdouts, squatting in a starlet's abandoned mansion and subsisting on rationed cola and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise, their love somehow blooming in this arid place. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, and the thirst for a better future begins."--
6) Deserts
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 2
Physical Desc
57 p. : col. ill., col. map ; 25 cm.
Description
Looks at how deserts work, how people live in them, the issue of desertification and what we can do to prevent it.
10) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 1
Pub. Date
2004
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
399 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, his soulmate Stormy Llewellyn, and an assortment of allies make their way through a dark, terrifying world in which past and present, and life and death collide as they try to avert a cataclysm.
11) Waking fire
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When her peaceful village of Lagusa is attacked by a Mistress sent to do the bidding of the power-hungry Sothpike and his army of undead monsters, Naira Khoum forms a resistance to stop the Mistress before Lagusa is beyond saving.
"Naira Khoum has only known life in Lagusa, a quiet village at the desert's end. But to the rest of the world, Lagusa is a myth, its location shrouded in secrecy. While war rages to the north led by power-hungry Sothpike...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Formats
Description
While using a public library computer to find help for her mother who is addicted to pain medicine, twelve-year-old Jolene witnesses a friend's livestreamed crash-landing in the Arizona desert and embarks on a journey to rescue her.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
121 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"From Christmas cookies and pecan pie to winter-themed cupcakes and sweet giftable confections, there's a special treat to help celebrate your favorite festive occasion. In these colorful, inspirational pages, you'll find recipes for beloved baked sweets to mark holidays such as Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year's Eve, as well as ideas for entertaining and gift giving. The more than 50 enticing recipes include everything from cookies, candies,...
Author
Series
(John Anthony).Ranger's apprentice volume 7
Pub. Date
p2010
Physical Desc
11 sound discs (12.75 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 11
Physical Desc
viii, 354 pages ; 22 cm.
Description
When his mother, a professional singer, dies, twelve-year-old Harrison moves to the southern Utah desert, where he continues learning card tricks, makes new friends, enters an art contest, and finds a way to pay tribute to his mother.
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Description
In After the Dome Fire, author Ruth Nolan takes readers on an eco-poetic journey through the wilderness of California's Mojave Desert and Southern California, and the work of firefighting and raising a daughter as a single parent in a rough yet nurturing landscape. The poems also evoke a fierce and beautiful "desert" revealed as a vibrant character with its own agency to survive and regenerate from the devastating impacts of wildfires, and remind...
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From the New York Times—bestselling author David Duchovny, an epic adventure that asks how we make sense of right and wrong in a world of extremes
For the past twenty years, Bronson Powers, former Hollywood stuntman and converted Mormon, has been homesteading deep in the uninhabited desert outside Joshua Tree with his three wives and ten children. Bronson and his wives, Yalulah, Mary, and Jackie, have been raising their family away from the corruption...
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