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21) Lucky breaks
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 6
Language
English
Formats
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.
22) In the desert
Author
Series
Andrew lost volume 17
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
1st ed.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
While in the Australian desert, ant-sized Andrew, his cousin Judy, and Thudd the robot are carried away by a dust-devil and face many dangerous creatures, from a flock of wild parakeets to a Perenti lizard, as they try to make their way back to Uncle Al.
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...
25) Erak's ransom
Author
Series
Ranger's apprentice. Main series volume 7
Language
English
Formats
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
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
Language
English
Formats
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...
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
The Carters are an all-American family on their way to California when their car breaks down far from civilization in the remote southwestern desert. But they are not alone. Watching from the hills is a very different kind of clan, a family of marauding inbred cannibals with an unspeakable taste for human flesh and monstrous brutality. In the nightmare that follows, what must the wholesome family endure to survive? And in a primal wasteland ruled...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Solid history and archaeology combines with an understated call to preserve Bears Ears—all of it, not just a sliver."
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
FOREWORD INDIES WINNER, EDITOR'S CHOICE PRIZE NONFICTION
For more than twelve thousand years, the redrock landscape of southeastern Utah has shaped the lives of everyone who calls it home. R. E. Burrillo takes readers on a journey of discovery through the stories and controversies...
—KIRKUS REVIEWS
FOREWORD INDIES WINNER, EDITOR'S CHOICE PRIZE NONFICTION
For more than twelve thousand years, the redrock landscape of southeastern Utah has shaped the lives of everyone who calls it home. R. E. Burrillo takes readers on a journey of discovery through the stories and controversies...
Author
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Water, the most critical fluid on the planet, is seen as savior, benefactor, and Holy Grail in these fifteen essays on natural and faux oases. Fluvial geologist and former Colorado River guide Rebecca Lawton follows species both human and wild to their watery roots--in warming deserts, near rising Pacific tides, on endangered, tapped-out rivers, and in growing urban ecosystems. Lawton thoroughly and eloquently explores human attitudes toward water...
35) Forbidden
Author
Series
Old West series volume 1
Language
English
Description
"Raised as a slave, Rhine Fontaine is building the successful life he's always dreamed of--one that depends upon him passing for White. But for the first time in years, he wishes he could step out from behind the fa�cade when he becomes fascinated with the beautiful black woman he rescued in the desert"--
Publisher
Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Extra frills ed.
Language
English
Description
With a contract to perform a drag show way out in the Australian desert, Tick, Adam and Ralph each has his own reason for wanting to leave the safety of Sydney. Christening their battered, pink tour bus "Priscilla," this wickedly funny and high-drama trio heads for the outback and into crazy adventures in even crazier outfits.
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
The Land of Little Rain (1903) is a collection of essays and short stories by Mary Hunter Austin. Originally published with photographs taken by acclaimed American photographer Ansel Adams, The Land of Little Rain is a classic work of nature writing. Austin is now recognized as an early feminist and conservationist who understood the intricacy and fragility of ecosystems as well as the extent to which human civilization threatens their continued existence.
In...
39) A Perfect Planet
Publisher
[Warner Home Video]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Planet Earth is perfect. It orbits at the perfect distance from the sun; it tilts at just the right angle, and it has a moon just large enough to hold it in place. On top of that, the day-to-day workings of the planet naturally serve to nurture its plants and animals. The five-part series will show how the forces of nature, weather, ocean currents, solar energy, and volcanoes, drive, shape, and support Earth's great diversity of life.
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