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2) Deathwatch
Author
Language
English
Description
Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"Amani is desperate to leave the dead-end town of Dustwalk, and she's counting on her sharpshooting skills to help her escape. But after she meets Jin, the mysterious rebel running from the Sultan's army, she unlocks the powerful truth about the desert nation of Miraji...and herself"--
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Armed with only her revolver, her wits, and the Demdji powers she's struggling to control, Amani must rally a crew of rebels to take on the bloodthirsty sultan of Miraji and free the imprisoned prince Ahmed. But as the rescue mission travels through the unforgiving desert to a place that, according to maps, doesn't exist, Amani questions whether she is leading them all to their deaths.
8) Waking fire
Author
Series
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her peaceful village of Lagusa is attacked by a Mistress sent to do the bidding of the power-hungry Sothpike and his army of undead monsters, Naira Khoum forms a resistance to stop the Mistress before Lagusa is beyond saving.
9) Never
Author
Language
English
Description
A shrinking oasis in the Sahara Desert; a stolen US Army drone; an uninhabited Japanese island; and one country's secret stash of deadly chemical poisons. Pauline Green, the United States's first woman president, navigates terrorist attacks, illegal arms trading, and the smear campaigns of her blustering political opponent with careful and deft diplomacy. She will do everything in her power to avoid starting an unnecessary war. When one act of aggression...
10) Deadzone
Author
Series
Horizon volume 2
Pub. Date
2017.
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.
12) Lunch with Milly
Author
Publisher
BridgeWater
Pub. Date
c1995.
Language
English
Description
Milly and her friend meet a fox, a turtle, and a frog, who give them the ingredients for a splendid dessert.
Author
Series
Beast quest volume 10
Publisher
Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Tom and Elenna travel into the desert, facing extreme heat as they battle Malvel's latest beast, Vipero the snake man.
15) Odd Thomas
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Series
Language
English
Description
Dead people try to communicate with a short-order cook, who serves as a small desert town's reluctant confidant. Odd Thomas thinks of himself as an ordinary guy with a certain measure of talent at the Pico Mundo Grill, and he is rapturously in love with the most beautiful girl in the world, Stormy Llewellyn.
20) Devils unto dust
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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Description
To protect her family, a young woman must brave the desert and a terrifying infected population in this gripping adventure that blends 'True Grit' with '28 Days Later.'
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