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2) Dry
Author
Pub. Date
2018
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Physical Desc
390 pages 22 cm.
Description
A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive.
3) Skylark
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Author
Series
Pendragon series volume 6
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Physical Desc
405 p. ; 22 cm.
Description
Taking advantage of a severe drought and the long-standing distrust between two tribes, the demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and other Travelers.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
262 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Description
New Mexico is in the middle of a dreaded dry year, and yet an old, blind cowman named Eagle Strange, living in retirement on his range Big Springs with his only daughter, Memory, is unaffected by the drought until sheep threaten to invade his stronghold.
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
262 pages (larage print) ; 23 cm
Description
"Jase Jepson returns home to avenge the murder of his father and brother. But first, he'll have to figure out who is responsible for their deaths and keep his younger brother from acting prematurely. A tough, vivid portrayal of desperate men and their embittered women struggling to survive in a drought-stricken land"--
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xvi, 352 pages ; 20 cm
Description
A conflict between a ski resort attempting to expand and environmentalists wanting to preserve a mountain for nature. The setting is Vermont, the protagonist, a lawyer hired by the ski resort to handle their case. As the novel progresses he becomes convinced of the validity of the opposition's cause.
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Series
Formats
Description
"The Ridgeway family faces their greatest challenge when a devastating drought threatens to spark an open range war, forcing them to fight for their ranch, their dream--and their lives . . .It's the summer of 1883. A severe drought threatens to bankrupt the Ridgeway's Rocking R Ranch and every rancher in northwest Texas. The cattle are thirsty and hungry. The ranchers are getting desperate. And a simple new invention called barbed wire--the devil's...
10) Inland: a novel
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman, alone in a house abandoned by the men in her life--her husband, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her two older sons, who have gone in search of their father after his return is delayed. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, a boy with a bad eye who is convinced that a...
11) The four winds
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with a vengeance. In this uncertain and dangerous time, Elsa Martinelli-like so many of her neighbors-must make an agonizing choice: fight...
12) Scrublands
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Description
In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
354 pages ; 23 cm.
Description
"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge ... including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
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