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2) Deserts
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Explores the desert ecology, discusses how some are formed, and explains how people, animals, and plants survive there.
3) Deserts
Author
Publisher
Morrow Junior Books
Pub. Date
[1990]
Language
English
Description
Describes the nature and characteristics of deserts, where they are located, and how they are formed.
4) Deserts
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Presents a general description of deserts and describes specific desert plants, animals, people, and activities.
5) Desert
Author
Series
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Photographs and simple text explore the environment of the desert, including its sand, rocks, cacti, and canyons.
Author
Series
Ultimate Ending volume 1
Publisher
Ultimate Ending Books
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
Three priceless star jewels. A century-old, cryptic journal. Using only the resources left by your grand-uncle, it's up to you to find Atraharsis -- the legendary lost city beneath the sands. But the way won't be easy. Raging sandstorms, sinister traps, and a whole host of mysteries stand between you and your Ultimate goal. Can you solve the riddles, and recover the fabled star gems in time? Or will you -- like so many who've gone before -- become...
9) Odd Thomas
Author
Series
Odd Thomas novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Description
Meet Odd Thomas, the unassuming young hero of Dean Koontz’s dazzling New York Times bestseller, a gallant sentinel at the crossroads of life and death who offers up his heart in these pages and will forever capture yours.
“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent...
“The dead don’t talk. I don’t know why.” But they do try to communicate, with a short-order cook in a small desert town serving as their reluctant confidant. Sometimes the silent...
10) The desert ark
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Romeo and Juliet in the Algerian desert. Amin and Myriam are secretly in love. Their families are rivals and when their relationship is discovered, conflict is inevitable. In the quiet atmosphere of the palm groves, the two communities have long nurtured the seeds of discord and hatred. The persecution is the first signal of inevitable evil.
Author
Publisher
Radius Books
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Historically, landscape photography was used as a means of documenting geographic and scientific exploration. Later it transitioned into a way to record nature and the spectacle of human progress. Rarely has it been employed more abstractly to convey an atavistic or ecstatic experience as it is in the new work of Michael Lundgren. This volume collects the Phoenix-based photographer's images of the Sonoran desert, which he has been shooting since...
12) Hot deserts
Author
Series
Publisher
Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
2002.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Looks at the various kinds of plants and animals, including camels, cactuses, and snakes, that survive in desert ecosystems throughout the world.
Author
Language
English
Description
"In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, and for readers of Ryszard Kapuscinski and Rory Stewart, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in six deserts on five continents that evoke the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places and their inhabitants. One-sixth of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism...
Author
Series
Sun tracks volume 32
Publisher
University of Arizona Press
Pub. Date
[1995]
Language
English
16) Never
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The new must-read epic from master storyteller Ken Follett: more than a thriller, it's an action-packed, globe-spanning drama set in the present day"--
"Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn't get fixed." So says Pauline Green, president of the United States, in Ken Follett's nerve-racking drams of international tension. A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's...
17) Princess of Dune
Author
Series
Dune novels. Heroes of Dune volume 3
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Set two years before Dune: Princess of Dune is the never-before-told story of two key women in the life of Paul Muad'Dib--Princess Irulan, his wife in name only, and Paul's true love, the Fremen Chani. Both women become central to Paul's galaxy-spanning Imperial reign. Raised in the Imperial court and born to be a political bargaining chip, Irulan was sent at an early age to be trained as a Bene Gesserit Sister. As Princess Royal, she also learned...
Author
Series
Wild rescuers volume 2
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 5
Language
English
Description
"Stacy would do anything to protect the Taiga where she lives with the pack of intelligent wolves who raised her. But when humans start to encroach on their forest, their only choice is escape to a place no Arctic wolf has gone before: the desert. The Mesa, with its canyons, snakes, and coyotes, will be like nothing the pack has ever seen. Even in this unfamiliar territory, Stacy is determined to rescue animals in need. But as she and her wolves face...
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