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.

Prolonged drought has strained Dusty's ranching family to the breaking point, but she finds consolation with her wild and beautiful horse.

A true-life novel about Lily Casey Smith (the author's grandmother) who at age six helped her father break horses, at age fifteen left home to teach in a frontier town, and later as a wife and mother runs a vast ranch in Arizona where she survived tornadoes, droughts, floods, the Great Depression, and the most heartbreaking personal tragedy--but despite a life of hardscrabble drudgery still remains a woman of indomitable spirit.

In 1954 Perla Long arrives in the sleepy town of Wise, West Virginia, looking for a quiet, safe place for her and her daughter, Sadie, where the mistakes of her past can stay hidden. Then drought brings turmoil, and the town is desperate for a miracle. For resigned bachelor Casewell Phillips, Perla is everything he's sought in a woman. But he senses that she's hiding something. And as the drought worsens, Perla's unique gift divides the town in two....

With more questions than answers about Saint Dane, Bobby travels to the territory of Quillan and is forced to play games where only the winner survives.

"When 14-year-old William Kamkwamba's Malawi village was hit by a drought in 2001, everyone's crops began to fail. His family didn't have enough money for food, let alone school, so William spent his days in the library. He came across a book on windmills and figured out how to build a windmill that could bring electricity to his village. Everyone thought he was crazy but William persevered and managed to create a functioning windmill out of junkyard...

After inheriting her uncle's homesteading claim in Montana, sixteen-year-old orphan Hattie Brooks travels from Iowa in 1917 to make a home for herself and encounters some unexpected problems related to the war being fought in Europe.

Novel about the plight of American farmers who were forced off their farms by drought and foreclosure during the 1930's.

A young Chinese farmer named Wang Lung marries a selfless, loyal slave girl, O-Lan. Wang is initally devoted to the land and rises to prosperity. Later, however, Wang deserts the land, takes a second wife and tragedy threatens to overwhelm him. Eventually Wang realized that the land and O-Lan mean more to him than his wealth.