Catalog Search Results
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
The American Southwest has been decimated by drought. Nevada and Arizona skirmish over dwindling shares of the Colorado River, while California watches, deciding if it should just take the whole river all for itself. Into the fray steps Las Vegas water knife Angel Velasquez. Detective, assassin, and spy, Angel "cuts" water for the Southern Nevada Water Authority, ensuring that lush, luxurious arcology developments can bloom in the desert and that...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Formats
Description
"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
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 18
Description
"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...
Author
Series
Mundo de cuentos volume 3
Publisher
Vicens Vives Kids
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
"Durante un verano seco y caluroso la lluvia deja de caer en Zambia, y muy pronto los animales empiezan a tener hambre y sed. Necesitan despertar a un árbol mágico que puede alimentarlos a todos incluso cuando no llueve. Pero, cómo se llama el árbol?"--Page [4] of cover.
Author
Description
"When Hazel Sharp, daughter of Mirror Lake's longtime local detective, unexpectedly inherits her childhood home, she's warily drawn back to the town--and people--she left behind almost a decade earlier. But Hazel's not the only relic of the past to return: a drought has descended on the region, and as the water level in the lake drops, long-hidden secrets begin to emerge . . . including evidence that may help finally explain the mystery of her mother's...
9) Skylark
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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.
Author
Publisher
ECW Press
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
"Sonny and Clara Myers struggle on their Kansas farm in the late 1930s, a time the Lord gave up on: their land's gone dry, barren, and worthless; the bankers are greedy and hungry, trying to squeeze them and other farmers out of their homes; and, on top of that, their marriage is in trouble. The couple can struggle and wither along with the land or surrender to the bankers and hightail it to California like most of the others. Clara is all for leaving,...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tor
Pub. Date
[2019]
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...
Author
Series
A life of faith Kathleen McKenzie volume 4
Publisher
MCP Mission City Press
Pub. Date
2007
Description
A sweltering summer drought threatens the McKenzie farm. And when a faceless enemy launches a scare tactic on a neighboring family, a fiery battle explodes and threatens the lives of those Kathleen holds dear.
Author
Series
Pendragon volume 6
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 18
Description
Taking advantage of a severe drought and the long-standing distrust between two tribes, the demonic Saint Dane attempts to take over Loor's home planet of Zadaa, opposed once again by the teenaged Pendragon and other Travelers.
14) Stirrup brother
Author
Publisher
Center Point Large Print
Pub. Date
2020, 1935
Description
New Mexico is in the middle of a dreaded dry year, and yet an old, blind cowman named Eagle Strange, living in retirement on his range Big Springs with his only daughter, Memory, is unaffected by the drought until sheep threaten to invade his stronghold.
Author
Publisher
D.I. Fine
Pub. Date
1995
Description
A poetic account of life in an English village by a 13-year-old girl. She is Alison Freemantle, the daughter of a prosperous farmer, enjoying a surprise holiday because of a teachers' strike. She uses her free time to describe the people round her and reflect on love, sex, death and class difference.
Author
Series
Publisher
Aladdin
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.7 - AR Pts: 5
Description
In Texas in 1886, Ellen finds her desire to be a cattle rancher discouraged by family members who do not think it a proper choice for a girl, but she proves her worth when drought threatens the ranch.
17) Dry
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 16
Formats
Description
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,...
18) Scrublands
Author
Series
Publisher
Atria
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"In the vein of The Dry and Before the Fall, a town's dark secrets come to light in the aftermath of a young priest's unthinkable last act in this arresting and searing debut thriller. In Riversend, an isolated rural community afflicted by an endless drought, a young priest does the unthinkable, killing five parishioners before being taken down himself. A year later, accompanied by his own demons from war-time reporting, journalist Martin Scarsden...
Author
Series
Dakota volume 2
Publisher
Good Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Hannah, a feisty young Amish woman, lives on her family's farm in North Dakota. After moving halfway across the country and struggling to land on their feet, Hannah's family is finally feeling settled. The cattle business is doing well, and other Amish families have moved into the area. Feeling betrayed by Clay Jenkins and unimpressed with her own father, Hannah is hesitant to trust the men around her. Jerry Riehl, intrigued by her intelligence and...
20) Drylongso
Author
Publisher
Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
Pub. Date
1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3.2 - AR Pts: 1
Description
As a great wall of dust moves across their drought-stricken farm, a family's distress is relieved by a young man called Drylongso, who literally blows into their lives with the storm.
Didn't Find It?
If we don't have what you're looking for, you have 3 options: ask us to bring it in from another library (interlibrary loan), suggest the library purchase it, or call us for assistance.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? You can suggest the library purchase it by submitting a request, or you might find it through our interlibrary loan service. See your options at https://readokaloosa.org/requests. Purchase Suggestion