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English
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In this potent collage of stories, essays, and testimony, Williams makes a stirring case for the preservation of America’s Redrock Wilderness in the canyon country of southern Utah.
As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert’s power...
As passionate as she is persuasive, Williams, the beloved author of Refuge, is one of the country’s most eloquent and imaginative writers. The desert is her blood. Here she writes lyrically about the desert’s power...
62) Vessel
Author
Publisher
Margaret K. McElderry Books
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
When the goddess Bayla fails to take over Liyana's body, Liyana's people abandon her in the desert to find a more worthy vessel, but she soon meets Korbyn, who says the souls of seven deities have been stolen and he needs Liyana's help to find them.
Author
Publisher
Archaia Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel adaptation of an unproduced feature-length screenplay follows scruffy everyman Mac, who wakes up in an unfamiliar town and is chased across the desert of the American Southwest by all kinds of people and creatures.
Author
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Open the gates of the Wonder Garden to explore five of Earth's most extraordinary habitats, each filled with incredible creatures and epic scenery. Trek through the Amazon Rainforest, travel to the Chihuahuan Desert, dive in the Great Barrier Reef, delve deep into the Black Forest and stand on the roof of the world - the Himalayan Mountains - to see nature at its wildest.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
"For the hermits and communal monks of antiquity, the desert was a place to flee the cacophany of ordinary life in order to hear and contemplate the voice of God. But these monks discovered something surprising: far from empty and silent, the desert is richly reverberant. Sonorous desert shares the stories and sayings of these ancient spiritual seekers, tracing how the ambient sounds of wind, thunder, water, and animals shaped the emergence and development...
Author
Publisher
Kids Can Press Ltd
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
When Ali's aged great-grandmother, with whom he lives, tells him the one thing she wishes for that she never did was to see the sea, two days walk away across the desert, he sets out with a pail to make the journey for her.
69) A far off place
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
A boy, a girl, a bushman, and a dog wander across the desert in order to escape elephant poachers who want them dead.
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Series
Publisher
Torrey House Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
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Description
The late writer and naturalist "Ellen Meloy wrote and recorded a series of audio essays for KUER (NPR Utah) in the 1990s. Every few months, she would travel to their Salt Lake City studios from her red rock home of Bluff to read an essay or two. With understated humor and sharp insight, Meloy would illuminate facets of human connection to nature and challenge listeners to examine the world anew. [This book] is a compilation of these essays, transcribed...
73) Tiger Queen
Author
Publisher
Blink
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
In the mythical desert kingdom of Achra, an ancient law forces sixteen-year-old Princess Kateri to fight in the arena to prove her right to rule. For Kateri, winning also means fulfilling a promise to her late mother that she would protect her people, who are struggling through windstorms and drought. The situation is worsened by the gang of Desert Boys that frequently raids the city wells, forcing the king to ration what little water is left. The...
74) Devils unto dust
Author
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
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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.'
76) Desert nights
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
"Posing as Lord and Lady Stonehill, two diamond thieves hold up the main offices of a South African diamond mine and make off with a fortune in uncut stones, taking with them mine manager Hugh Rand as a hostage. The thieves attempt to make an escape across the desert and become lost in the hot and trackless wastes. They release Hugh from his shackles, and he leads them to safety. The girl reforms, and the man is arrested by the authorities. Hugh and...
77) Oceans of sand
Author
Series
Sand traveler duology volume 1
Publisher
Immortal Works
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
One girl. Her boat. An ocean of sand to cross. Norah's desert world has always been treacherous, with the roiling ocean of sand, giant scorpions, and brutal sandstorms - but now an unnatural famine plagues the desert nations and threatens to destroy all. Despite being the only one in her village without a sand gift, Norah is chosen with her best friend, Zadock, to sail across the ocean of sand in search of the legendary moonstone, an artifact that...
Author
Publisher
Schwartz & Wade Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
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Description
Cody is worried when his family on a New Mexico Navajo reservation runs out of water, but Darlene Arviso, called "The Water Lady," is on the way with her tanker truck. Includes glossary of Navajo terms and notes about Arviso and life on a reservation.
Language
English
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Description
Jack and Joan have their yacht and an easy life. They gradually get bored with each other and their current way of life. Joan accepts an invitation to go trek through the North African desert as a guest of the sheik. Once there, she is abducted and she finds herself involved with the 'jewel.' Jack decides to rescue her with his new partner Ralph. Not even treacherous tribes, deadly dungeons and dangerous villains can stop them from finding, once and...
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