Orem Library

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...

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.

A Sho in the Kalahari Desert encounters technology for the first time--in the shape of a Coke bottle.

Scotty hopes for a merry Christmas, but when he and his mother are stranded while on a long drive through the desert, those hopes are nearly ruined.

Tom and Elenna travel into the desert, facing extreme heat as they battle Malvel's latest beast, Vipero the snake man.

Having not spoken to each other in a year, three American brothers set off on a train voyage across India to re-forge their brotherly bonds.

Many desert animals witness the race between the slow, but steady, Tortoise and the quick, overconfident Jackrabbit.

Desperate to uncover the Sultan's secrets by spying on his court, gunslinger Amani is taken captive by the forces of the Sultan, whose agenda seems less tyrannical than originally believed.

On a cattle drive in the desert on the night before Cowboy Ned's birthday, his horse Andy goes in search of a birthday cake, which he thinks will make Ned's birthday complete.