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1) Skylark
Author
Series
Sarah plain and tall volume 2
Language
English
Description
When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Faced with a drought that endangers the continuity of their people, Masai elders are convinced that they have been cursed by the Red God -- the God of Vengeance. Following the death of the war chief, a group of adolescents must now cross over to adulthood, forced to quickly form a new generation of inexperienced but brave warriors. The young men must bring back the mane of a legendary lion, which appears at every critical period of Masai history to...
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English
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"From Kristin Hannah, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone, comes an epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras-the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens...
6) Dry
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English
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A lengthy California drought escalates to catastrophic proportions, turning Alyssa's quiet suburban street into a warzone, and she is forced to make impossible choices if she and her brother are to survive. The drought--or the Tap-Out, as everyone calls it--has been going on for a while now. Everyone's lives have become an endless list of don'ts: don't water the lawn, don't fill up your pool, don't take long showers. Until the taps run dry. Suddenly,...
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Series
Magic tree house. Original volume 20
Publisher
Random House
Language
English
Description
The magic tree house whisks Jack and Annie away to Australia where they must save some animals from a wildfire.
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Series
Children of the drought volume 3
Publisher
Solaris
Language
English
Description
As the funeral cortege draws near, the crows begin to gather... The stunning conclusion of this extraordinary trilogy. After trials by fire and thirst, Appaloosa Elim's quest to bring home the body of the crow prince is finally nearing its end. But the coffin is missing, the funeral party is hopelessly scattered, and the fishmen are hell-bent on revenge. Worse yet, the pilgrimage has disturbed an ancient power--and the earth is crumbling in its grip....
Author
Series
Children of the drought volume 2
Publisher
Solaris
Language
English
Description
"Two years ago, the crow-god Marhuk sent his grandson to Sixes. Two nights ago, a stranger picked up his gun and shot him. Two hours ago, the funeral party set out for the holy city of Atali'Krah, braving the wastelands to bring home the body of Dulei Marhuk. Out in the wastes, one more corpse should hardly make a difference. But the blighted landscape has been ravaged by drought, twisted by violence, and warped by magic--and no-one is immune. Vuchak...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Twelve-year-old Della Kelly of Maryville, North Carolina, tries to come to terms with her mother's mental illness while her father struggles to save the farm from a record-breaking drought.
11) The water knife
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Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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Description
Decimated by drought, Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, waiting. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez, who "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority and its boss, Catherine Case, ensuring that her lush, luxurious, "arcology" housing developments can bloom in the desert and that anyone who challenges her is left in the gutted suburban dust. Angel becomes...
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Series
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"In 2017, seventy-year-old Signe sets off on a hazardous voyage across the ocean in a sailboat. On board, a cargo that can change lives. Signe is haunted by the love of her life and how her choices pulled them apart. In 2041, David and his young daughter, Lou, flee from a drought-stricken southern Europe that has been ravaged by thirst and war. Separated from the rest of their family and desperate to find them, David and Lou unexpectedly cross paths...
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English
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In the coming centuries the world's population has exploded. The earth's crowded with cities, animals are nearly all extinct, and drought's so widespread that water is rationed. There are no maps, no borders, no numbered years, and no freedom, except for an elite few. It's a harsh world for an orphan like Nadia Stepan, and she dreams of a green vacation spot called Lighthouse Island, in a place called the Pacific Northwest.
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Series
Gooseberry Park volume 2
Publisher
Beach Lane Books
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Stumpy, Murray, Gwendolyn, and Kona recruit Herman the crow and 200 owls to help with their Master Plan to assist the animals of Gooseberry Park that are in trouble because of a months-long drought.
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Draw near and listen, or else time is at an end. The watering holes of the Plain are drying up, the fearsome fanghorn grow more numerous, and bad omens abound. Wulfgar, a leader of the Altaii people, must contend with twin queens, warlords, prophets, and magic in hopes of protecting his people and securing their future. Elspeth, a visitor from another world, holds the answers, but first Wulfgar must learn to ask the right questions. But what if the...
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions
Edition
Full screen format.
Language
English
Description
Sarah, plain and tall: In this heartwarming, enormously popular family film, a mail-order bride travels to Kansas in 1910 and teaches a lonely family to love again. Skylark: When Sarah's beloved family is tested first by nature and then by a separation, they discover that home is not a piece of land, but a place within the heart. Winter's end: Having abandoned his family decades ago, Palance returns to the farm to reconcile his relationship with his...
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Series
Chisholm Trail volume 2
Publisher
Texas Christian University Press
Language
English
Description
The earth lay dying. Crops dried up, and fertile soil dissolved into clouds of yellow. Ranchers did everything within their power, and federal forces were called in fruitlessly. Only Charlie Flagg, old-time Texas cattleman, saw it as a fight worth continuing--and refused to give up his battle against Nature.
18) Scrublands
Author
Series
Martin Scarsden novels volume 1
Publisher
Atria
Edition
First Atria Books hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Welcome to Riversend, an isolated Australian community afflicted by an endless drought. A young priest kills five parishioners before being taken down himself. The story is that the priest was a pedophile whose imminent exposure was the catalyst for the shooting. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden arrives to describe how the townspeople are coping with the anniversary. When the bodies of...
19) Drought
Author
Publisher
Egmont USA
Language
English
Description
Ruby Prosser wishes to escape where she lives and have freedom.
20) Leah's pony
Author
Publisher
Boyds Mills Press
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Leah sells her pony to help the family save the farm during a difficult drought.
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