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"[A] deeply felt essay collection focusing upon a vivid series of desert icons--a sheet of virga over Monument Valley, white seashells in a dry desert sand, boulders impossibly balanced. Writer and adventurer Craig Childs delves into the primacy of our starkest landscapes and the profound nature of the more-than-human."-- Back cover.
4) Deathwatch
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English
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Needing money for school, a college boy accepts a job as guide on a desert hunting trip and nearly loses his life.
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Song of Shattered Sands
Song of the shattered sands volume 1
DAW book collectors volume No. 1704
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Song of the shattered sands volume 1
DAW book collectors volume No. 1704
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2015.
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Sharakhai, the great city of the desert, center of commerce and culture, has been ruled from time immemorial by twelve kings--cruel, ruthless, powerful, and immortal. With their army of Silver Spears, their elite company of Blade Maidens and their holy defenders, the terrifying asirim, the Kings uphold their positions as undisputed, invincible lords of the desert. There is no hope of freedom for any under their rule. Or so it seems, until Cʹeda,...
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"Çeda, 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...
11) Gold fame citrus
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2015.
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"Drought has transfigured Southern California into a surreal, phantasmagoric landscape. Most of the Southwest has been evacuated. Luz and Ray are holdouts, squatting in a starlet's abandoned mansion and subsisting on rationed cola and whatever they can loot, scavenge, and improvise, their love somehow blooming in this arid place. But when they cross paths with a mysterious child, and the thirst for a better future begins."--
12) Odd Thomas
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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.
13) Erak's ransom
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English
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On a mission to pay the ransom of a new ally, apprentice Will and his friends find themselves in a desert wasteland awash with enemies.
15) The night flower
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Big Picture Press, an imprint of Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2019.
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English
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"As the summer sun sets over the desert, creatures gather for a very special event. The saguaro cactus is about to bloom. Join pollinating fruit bats, howling mice, and other animals on their journey to visit the flower in this beautiful nature-inspired story."--p. [4] of cover.
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Beast quest volume 10
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Scholastic
Pub. Date
c2009.
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English
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Tom and Elenna travel into the desert, facing extreme heat as they battle Malvel's latest beast, Vipero the snake man.
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