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"[A] deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons--a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in a dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Writer and adventurer Craig Childs delves into the primacy of our starkest landscapes and the profound nature of the more-than-human."-- Back cover.
2) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Over the course of two days, Odd Thomas, 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.
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 7
Language
English
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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.
6) Deadzone
Author
Series
Horizon (Scholastic) volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Seven of the eight survivors of the Aero Horizon crash have made it out of the deadly jungle, but the desert into which they have emerged has its own dangers, and they have very little food or water left and no sign of civilization anywhere--meanwhile, one of the survivors is changing, and that may be the greatest threat of all.
Author
Series
Rebel of the sands volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 19
Lexile measure
HL 730L
Language
English
Description
"Mere months ago, gunslinger Amani al'Hiza fled her dead-end hometown on the back of a mythical horse with the mysterious foreigner Jin, seeking only her own freedom. Now she's fighting to liberate the entire desert nation of Miraji from a bloodthirsty sultan who slew his own father to capture the throne. When Amani finds herself thrust into the epicenter of the regime--the Sultan's palace--she's determined to bring the tyrant down"--Amazon.com.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
"[An] account of travels in six deserts on five continents that evoke the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places ... Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, Will Atkins decided to travel in six of the world's driest, hottest places: the Empty Quarter of Oman, the Gobi Desert of North China, the Great Victoria Desert of Australia, the man-made desert of the...
10) Hero at the fall
Author
Series
Rebel of the sands volume 3
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 17
Lexile measure
HL 780L
Language
English
Description
"When gunslinging Amani Al'Hiza escaped her dead-end town, she never imagined she'd join a revolution, let alone lead one. But after the bloodthirsty Sultan of Miraji imprisoned the Rebel Prince Ahmed in the mythical city of Eremot, she doesn't have a choice. Armed with only her revolver, her wits, and her untameable Demdji powers, Amani must rally her skeleton crew of rebels for a rescue mission through the unforgiving desert to a place that, according...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
Language
English
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.
13) Lucky breaks
Author
Series
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Description
Having reached the mature age of eleven in the tiny California town of Hard Pan (population 43), Lucky discovers that there is still much to learn about friendship, parental trust, and the Milky Way galaxy.
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Formats
Description
In wide-ranging personal essays at the crossroads of place and perspective, Phyllis Barber challenges and celebrates her Great Basin roots. From a backwoods church in Arkansas to the disappeared town of St. Thomas, buried beneath the waters of Lake Mead, award-winning essayist Phyllis Barber travels roads both internal and external, reflecting upon place and perspective, ambition and loss in The Precarious Walk. As a child growing up in the Mojave...
Author
Publisher
Jump!, Inc
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Patterns in the Desert introduces emergent readers to patterns in the sandy desert, such as ripples in sand or diamonds on a rattlesnake, while providing them with a supportive first nonfiction reading experience. Carefully crafted text uses high-frequency words, repetitive sentence patterns, and strong visual references to support emergent readers, making sure they aren't facing too many challenges at once. Patterns in the Desert includes tools...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On the 50th anniversary of the publication of Edward Abbey's Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness, author Amy Irvine has produced a clutch of essays in praise of Abbey's work, and also as a correction to some of his dated and offensive attitudes.
Author
Publisher
HarperAudio
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
New from the author of the New York Times beseller and ispiration for the Netflix Movie Bird Box
A chilling novel about a group of musicians conscripted by the US government to track down the source of a strange and debilitating sound
The Danes-the band known as the "Darlings of Detroit"-are washed up and desperate for inspiration, eager to once again have a number one hit. That is, until an agent from the US Army approaches them. Will they travel...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2021.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"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 and evil of the modern world. Their insular existence - controversial, difficult, but Edenic - is upended when the ambitious young developer...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
To save Jack Hare from an outlaw gang, August Naab sends him with Mescal, a half-Navajo beauty, to his sheep camp in an isolated valley, and even though Mescal knows that she is morally bound to marry August's son, Snap, the two fall in love.
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