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1) Burning
Author
Publisher
Delacorte Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the scorching Nevada desert during the Burning Man festival, a small town boy meets a Gypsy girl, when both are at crossroads in their lives.
4) Never
Author
Language
English
Description
New York Times Bestseller
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.
“A compelling story, and only too realistic.” —Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary
“Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn’t get fixed.” So says Pauline Green, president...
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.
“A compelling story, and only too realistic.” —Lawrence H. Summers, former U.S. Treasury Secretary
“Every catastrophe begins with a little problem that doesn’t get fixed.” So says Pauline Green, president...
5) Tumble
Author
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.1 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 21 x 27 cm
Language
English
Description
The rhyming text follows a lone tumbleweed in its journey across a desert teeming with life.
Author
Series
Relic volume 1
Publisher
The author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
242 pages : map ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Ethan's world turns upside-down when he slips off the edge of red-rock cliffs into a world of twisting canyons, ruthless looters, and midnight murders. Save by a mysterious, moonshining hermit, Ethan must join a whitewater rafting group and make his way back to civilization. But someone in the canyons is killing to protect their illegal dig for ancient treasures. Ethan must learn who he can and connot trust, survive the harsh desert, and unravel the...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Phoebe Siegler first meets Charles Heist in a shabby trailer on the eastern edge of Los Angeles. She's looking for her friend's missing daughter, Arabella, and hires Heist to help. A laconic loner who keeps his pet opossum in a desk drawer, Heist intrigues the sarcastic and garrulous Phoebe. Reluctantly, he agrees to help. The unlikely pair navigate the enclaves of desert-dwelling vagabonds and find that Arabella is in serious trouble -- caught in...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Xochitl is destined to wander the desert alone, speaking her troubled village's stories into its arid winds. Her only companions are the blessed stars above and enigmatic lines of poetry magically strewn across dusty dunes. Her one desire: to share her heart with a kindred spirit. One night, Xo's wish is granted--in the form of Emilia, the cold and beautiful daughter of the town's murderous conqueror. But when the two set out on a magical journey...
Author
Series
Dune saga volume 7
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2001
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.1 - AR Pts: 32
Physical Desc
496 p. : maps, geneal. table ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Emperor Shaddam IV of the Million Worlds intends to gain absolute power by using Ixian slaves to create a synthetic form of melange, the addictive spice that can only be found on the desert world of Dune--but Duke Leto Atreides has a bold plan to save them.
Author
Series
Chet and Bernie mysteries volume 8
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Private Investigator Bernie Little and his canine companion Chet return home to encounter some alarming developments. First off, Bernie’s wall safe — normally hidden behind the waterfall picture in the office — is gone, and with it Bernie’s grandfather’s watch, their most valuable possession. And next door, old Mr. Parsons is under investigation for being in possession of a saguaro cactus illegally transplanted from the desert. Bernie and...
11) Raptor Canyon
Author
Series
Relic volume 2
Publisher
The author
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
316 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An impromptu murder leads a hermit named Relic to an unlikely set of dinosaur petroglyphs and swindlers using the unique rock art to turn a pristine canyon in to a high-end tourist trap. When attorney, Wyatt, and his boss travel to the site to approve the next phase of financing, Wyatt learns the truth about their unorthodox role in the project. A corrupt security chief runs Relic and Wyatt off of the site and the unusual pair must endure each other...
Author
Series
Relic volume 3
Publisher
The author
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
334 pages : map ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
An impromptu murder leads a hermit named Relic to an unlikely set of dinosaur petroglyphs and swindlers using the unique rock art to turn a pristine canyon in to a high-end tourist trap. When attorney, Wyatt, and his boss travel to the site to approve the next phase of financing, Wyatt learns the truth about their unorthodox role in the project. A corrupt security chief runs Relic and Wyatt off of the site and the unusual pair must endure each other...
13) Devils unto dust
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Willie has always survived. No matter what her life in Glory, Texas has thrown at her. The sickness that swept through the state and turned most living creatures into terrifying shakes. Her own mother succumbing to the disease. Her father disappearing into saloons and gambling and liquor. Wille survives. And she'll make sure her younger brothers and sisters do, too. Then her good-for-nothing father steals a fortune from one of the most merciless...
Author
Series
Rebel of the sands volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 12
Language
English
Description
The New York Times bestselling novel by the Goodreads Choice Awards Best Debut Author of 2016, published in 15 countries!
Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female. Amani Al’Hiza is all three....
Mortals rule the desert nation of Miraji, but mythical beasts still roam the wild and remote areas, and rumor has it that somewhere, djinn still perform their magic. For humans, it’s an unforgiving place, especially if you’re poor, orphaned, or female. Amani Al’Hiza is all three....
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Ceda, now a Blade Maiden in service to the kings of Sharakhai, trains as one of their elite warriors, gleaning secrets even as they send her on covert missions to further their rule. She knows the dark history of the asirim--that hundreds of years ago they were enslaved to the kings against their will--but when she bonds with them as a Maiden, chaining them to her, she feels their pain as if her own. They hunger for release, they demand it, but with...
16) The bitter past
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Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In the tradition of Craig Johnson and C.J. Box, Bruce Borgos's The Bitter Past begins a compelling series set in the high desert of Nevada featuring Sheriff Porter Beck... Porter Beck is the sheriff in the high desert of Nevada, north of Las Vegas. Born and raised there, he left to join the Army, where he worked in Intelligence, deep in the shadows in far off places. Now he's back home, doing the same lawman's job his father once did, before his...
17) Same same
Author
Publisher
Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
483 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the shifting sands of the desert, near an unnamed metropolis, there is an institute where various fellows come to undertake projects of great significance. But when our sort-of hero, Percy Frobisher, arrives, surrounded by the simulated environment of the glass-enclosed dome of the Institute, his mind goes completely blank. When he spills something on his uniform--a major faux pas--he learns about a mysterious shop where you can take something,...
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the cramped west end of Sharakhai, the Amber Jewel of the Desert, Ceda fights in the pits to scrape a living. She, like so many in the city, pray for the downfall of the cruel, immortal Kings of Sharakhai, but she's never been able to do anything about it. This all changes when she goes out on the night of Beht Zha'ir, the holy night when all are forbidden from walking the streets. It's the night that the asirim, the powerful yet wretched creatures...
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Series
(Dean Ray),Odd Thomas volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 18
Language
English
Formats
Description
"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. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy, if possessed of a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill and rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn. Maybe he has a gift, maybe it's a curse, Odd has never been sure, but he tries to do his best...
Author
Series
Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
Formats
Description
Located in a nameless desert somewhere in the great American Southwest, Night Vale is a small town where ghosts, angels, aliens, and government conspiracies are all commonplace parts of everyday life. It is here that the lives of two women, with two mysteries, will converge. Nineteen-year-old Night Vale pawn shop owner Jackie Fierro is given a paper marked "KING CITY" by a mysterious man in a tan jacket holding a deer skin suitcase. Everything about...
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