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Publisher
Reader's Digest Association
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 170 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Three programs on the natural wonders of Australia, covering the Great Barrier Reef, the Australian Alps, Daintree, Lord Howe Island, Shark Bay, King's Canyon, Flinders Ranges, Lake Eyres, Kakadu, the Blue Mountains, and Lamington's primeval rainforest. From ancient, misty forests to canyons that conceal secrets from the age of dinosaurs, from pristine lakes to majestic peaks, and from sophisticated cities to some of the world's greatest wilderness...
5) Southbound
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
On a desolate stretch of desert highway, several travelers have a variety of unsettling and horrific experiences.
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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."--
Author
Publisher
Candlewick Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cm
Description
"While visiting his Grandpa's ranch, a young boy turns down an invitation to explore the area, deciding to play it safe on his tablet, but one of the creatures he fears has other plans for him and opens his eyes to wonders beyond imagining"--
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
417 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
The disappearance of twelve-year-old Newell Ewing and the resulting mystery brings together a group of seemingly unrelated strangers in Las Vegas--including his parents, an illustrator, a stripper, a teenage anarchist, and a group of street runaways.
10) Waking fire
Author
Series
Waking fire volume 1
Publisher
Inkyard Press
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
382 pages : illustration ; 22 cm
Description
Naira Khoum has only known life in Lagusa, a quiet village at the desert’s end. But to the rest of the world, Lagusa is a myth, its location shrouded in secrecy. While war rages to the north led by power-hungry Sothpike and his army of undead monsters called Dambi, Naira’s people live in peace. Until the impossible happens—Lagusa is attacked by a Mistress sent to do Sothpike’s bidding with a hoard of Dambi under her control. The Mistress is...
Author
Series
Publisher
Little Blue House
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
24 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm.
Description
Desde desiertos hasta bosques pluviales, los animales viven en todo el mundo. Esta emocionante serie les ofrece a los lectores jóvenes un vistazo de los muchos animales que viven en los diversos climas de la Tierra.
Text and photographs describe animals found in the desert.
Series
Criterion collection volume 394
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (147 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 DVD with special features.
Description
When an amateur entomologist becomes stranded in the desert, he is persuaded by locals to take shelter for the night with a widow who lives in a hut at the bottom of a large pit where he finds himself trapped, tricked into being her helper in the task of digging sand for the villagers.
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Description
"Cactus and Flower spend their days in the desert, side by side. They grow, slowly but surely. Then one day, Flower loses a petal. Cactus and Flower know what this means. But they know, too, that this is the way life goes: Slowly but surely, petals will fall, and new buds will bloom"--
16) Dust storm!
Author
Series
Survivor diaries volume 4
Formats
Description
Separated from their group during a sixth-graders geocaching trip, Jen Chiu and her mortal enemy, Martin Diaz, are caught in a dust storm in the desert near Las Cruces, New Mexico. Includes survival tips.
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Series
Welcome to Night Vale novels volume 2
Description
From the authors of the New York Times bestselling novel Welcome to Night Vale and the creators of the #1 international podcast of the same name, comes a mystery exploring the intersections of faith and science, the growing relationship between two young people who want desperately to trust each other, and the terrifying, toothy power of the Smiling God. Nilanjana Sikdar is an outsider to the town of Night Vale. Working for Carlos, the town's top...
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
352 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In the classic literary tradition of Bruce Chatwin and Geoff Dyer, a rich and exquisitely written account of travels in six deserts on five continents that evoke the timeless allure of these remote and forbidding places. One-sixth of the earth's surface is classified as desert. Restless, unhappy in love, and intrigued by the Desert Fathers who forged Christian monasticism in the Egyptian desert, Will Atkins decided to travel in six of the world's...
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